“Battered Haiti, Land of the Little, Now Has Less”

A great man once said that "To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature." (Max Beerbohm). The Article “Battered Haiti, Land of the Little, Now Has Less” that was published on Thursday, September 11, 2008 shows us, the reader, that this quote is an accurate statement. The article discusses that after four furious storms in less than a mouth, the little that many people, in the nation of Haiti, had been turned into nothing at all. As a result of this death and destruction many Haitians want to make a new life in the United States of America, to escape the Haiti government unpreparedness and response to the four furious storms in less than a mouth. But many Haitians are still unwilling to immigrate to the United States. As a result of slow response by the federal government to Hurricane Katrina, United States citizens’ criticism of the federal government response was widespread in the media, as reports continued to show hunger, deaths, and lack of aid. They stated that this level of unpreparedness and response should never take place in a first-world nation like the United States. I absolutely agree with their statement. I feel that if the greatest nation in the world can’t protect its own citizens from natural disasters, how would the Haitians that decide to immigrate to the United States of America feel any safer from future natural disasters.





Article written by: Marc Lacey
The New York Times
Tuesday, September 11, 2008
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