The Mississippi River Flood in 1927

下面为大家整理一篇 的essay代写范文 -- The Mississippi River Flood in 1927，文章讲述当我 次获得任务时，我 次被“ 1915年在示威游行中被捕的妇女选举权主义者”这一话题所吸引。但是，当我开始在线搜索有关该主题的媒体报道时，并没有太多了解，我认为可以对其进行很好的分析。作为一个每年都会目睹洪水的 的人，我转向在图书馆中搜索这个话题。根据我以前搜索 个主题的经验，我首先去了国会图书馆，在搜索栏中输入了“ 1927年密西西比洪水”的关键词，然后我选择了前三张照片作为论文。

 

The Mississippi River Flood in 1927

I was first attracted to the topic of “Women Suffragists Arrested for Picketing the White House in 1917” when I first got the assignment. But when I began to search media coverage for the topic online, there were not much about it, which I thought could be well analyzed. As a person from the country which would witness flood every year, I turned to search this topic in the libraries. Based on my former experience of searching the first topic, I first went to the Library of Congress and typed the key words of “Mississippi Flood 1927” in the search column, and then I chose the first three photographs for my essay. The next step I did was to find another two media forms in UW Library. First I chose “E-Newspapers, Media, Maps&More”, hoping to find some films or newsreels by clicking on “Audio & Video”, however it turned out to be a failure, so I began to focus on journals and newspapers, which offered me bunch of choices. For newspaper, I clicked on “E-Newspapers and News” and picked “New York Times”, which seemed a big publisher and familiar to me than others. When I was watching TV news about flood back in my own country, what impressed me most was always the victims’ sad face and misery situation after their home were ruined, so I didn’t hesitate choosing the article VICTIMS OF FLOOD STILL PLEAD FOR AID when I saw the title. The last media form I targeted was periodical, I clicked on “American Periodicals” after opening the collection “Articles & Research Databases”. When I typed the key words, the first article “Mississippi-on She Flows” was the first popping in my sight. After opening the article, I found the way it was written was very interesting in terms of its personification of Mississippi River and other usage of metaphor, so I decided to take it for my analysis.

Mississippi River Flood first began in the summer of 1926 with heavy rains in Mississippi’s central basin and then deteriorated into big flood in 1927. By June, the flood began to recede and subsided from July. Levee systems in hundreds of places were broke out by the Mississippi River and twenty-seven thousand square miles were inundated, which was the size of several American states. The Most hard-hit area was the Mississippi Delta, which was also most fertile land in the country and Kansas was affected most with 14% of its land being flooded. The flood killed 246 people in seven states and the loss was about 400 million dollars. It is so far the biggest flood disaster and still keeping its record in American history. The consequence of the flood was tremendous. There were much study on the aftermath of the flood and one of the most heated discussions was about the immigration of African-American to the North and the racial discrimination showed in the rescue and also how the plantation owners prevented the black people’s escape from the devastated area.

The first picture is showing the flood forming into a waterfall and the next two pictures are about damages the flood has caused on the houses. Some houses’ roof collapsed and some houses’ foundation was moved. By looking at the three pictures, we know how big the flood is and how much the damage it can bring. Though the photographing technology back then was no compare to what we are able to do today, but they still clearly tell us the information of the flood in a very vivid way. The period has proved its capability to report just by pictures. They have shown us indirectly the difficulty of the time by grasping the wreckage of the disaster. Unlike the pictures during the Civil War period, the photos at this time were much more authentic and intended to tell the public the facts.

The periodical Mississippi-on She Flows is mainly about persuading the government to build reservoir by listing the numbers and how devil the flood can be if there is nothing to be done as well as the value reservoir might bring. From the title throughout the body of the article, it tries to attract the readers by its unique way of reporting. Here personification of the river can be seen in many places. The periodical has its target readers, religious people. Religious tone is adopted in many parts of the article. “To deal with so supreme an expression of physical energy is one of the mightiest tasks ever envisioned by man”. Many black people were the victims of the disaster and also most the American people were religious. So the writer intended to attract more readers by speaking with some religious tone.

The report from New York Times, Victims of Flood Still Plead for Aid is recruiting for fund for the relief work. It states that famine would happen if there is not continual aid from the society after the Red Cross runs out of the fund. The article shows the readers the bad situation by citing Wade Negus’s remarks. Although it says about victims’ health condition in the last paragraph, we can still know that the biggest concern of the newspaper is the banks’ interest. Business interest is skillfully permeated in the article, which is another way of advertising.

The above three media forms report flood with their own characteristics. The photos describe the disaster in a simple but vivid way. The periodical and the newspaper indirectly tell us the information by focusing on certain aspects. The media form with pictures and the other two with words embody the event in totally different ways. The forms of periodical and newspaper have very distinctive objective while the pictures only show us what the truth is. The forms with words both show their skill in attracting and persuading the readers with their own way. However, the periodical and the newspaper also carry their uniqueness. Periodical is often published weekly, monthly or annually while newspapers are mostly daily, so periodical contains more emotion while newspapers mainly focus on the time effectiveness. Both Mississippi-on She Flows and Victims of Flood Still Plead for Aid aim at the future, but the first one aims at a longer future, building reservoir and the second one aims at a near future, satisfying the need of the victims.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bibliography

1. Mississippi-on She Flows; The Independent (1922-1928), May 7, 1927; Pg. 481, American Periodicals; 6 November, 2014.

URL:http://search.proquest.com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/americanperiodicals/docview/90604859/8AEDEC7D45C44668PQ/2?accountid=14784

2. Victims of Flood Still Plead for Aid, 3 July, 1927; New York Times, N.Y.; Pg. E1 ; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2010); 6 November, 2014.

URL:http://search.proquest.com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/104122211/BD805A5736B248C6PQ/406?accountid=14784

3. “Mississippi flood”, 1927; Prints and Photographs Online Catalog; 6 November, 2014.

 URL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/20026/

4. “Large house moved off its foundation, part of roof collapsed following the Mississippi flood of 1927”, 18 July 1927; Ewing, Inc.; Prints and Photographs Online Catalog; 6 November, 2014.

   URL: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699302/

5. “Two houses, damaged during the Mississippi flood of 1927, moved off their foundations to the edge of an unpaved road” , 24 August 1927; Ewing, Inc.; Prints and Photographs Online Catalog; 6 November, 2014.

URL:http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002699309/