Need some help

[inotherwords]

id say im average, but you bet i will ask you for help on things, i notice you take your own time to inform others on this board and its people like you that make this board(and world) great, i have to go ....but thanks again!!

Enthusiasm and passion for a subject are never average traits. If you put this kind of energy behind whatever you do, you'll do great.

It's cool for me, probably your mom's age, to see young people like you and Kevin Cho and a few others who I can really tell will have a bright future ahead. Keep up the great work!

[Windy]

You should try using Google News. Or taking a trip to your library and looking through the papers. Something tells me the point of your assignment was not to have everyone else do it for you!

ummm, did i ask for anybody to do my paper, im gathering info right now, and im pretty sure the mississippi and new orleans folks know about their evacuations, and the info im asking for is a VERY small part of my paper....and last time i checked getting first hand info is perfectly fine but hey , if you dont want to help , its cool

Posting a "everyone tell me what you know" query in on a web board is not "gathering info". Usually, an assignment like this is designed to teach you what you need to do to write papers in real classes later on in your collegiate career. If you skip the steps that it is trying to teach you to utilize, you will find yourself handicapped later on, when professors really don't care about you any more or why you don't have the skillset required. For example, if, as you say, you wanted the requested info (when Mayfield alerted the local authorities) first hand, you'd need to call Max Mayfield or Blanco or Nagin. That's what a professor in a real class will expect, if you're going to claim it as "first hand". Best you can do is through reporting. And I assure you, your professor won't take "some guy on the internet" as a source. What you're doing is trying to get other people to do your research for you. To tell you what you need to know so that you don't have to go too far out of your way to find out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, English 102, it won't matter if your paper is a logical trainwreck with "research" that would be laughed out of a real class. Still, you're in college, you should try harder. If you don't, you're just wasting your money.

[CajunMama]

There was a timeline article in the Baton Rouge Advocate this past Sunday that i posted in the hurricane recovery forum

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=77480

[inotherwords]

You should try using Google News. Or taking a trip to your library and looking through the papers. Something tells me the point of your assignment was not to have everyone else do it for you!

ummm, did i ask for anybody to do my paper, im gathering info right now, and im pretty sure the mississippi and new orleans folks know about their evacuations, and the info im asking for is a VERY small part of my paper....and last time i checked getting first hand info is perfectly fine but hey , if you dont want to help , its cool

Posting a "everyone tell me what you know" query in on a web board is not "gathering info". Usually, an assignment like this is designed to teach you what you need to do to write papers in real classes later on in your collegiate career. If you skip the steps that it is trying to teach you to utilize, you will find yourself handicapped later on, when professors really don't care about you any more or why you don't have the skillset required. For example, if, as you say, you wanted the requested info (when Mayfield alerted the local authorities) first hand, you'd need to call Max Mayfield or Blanco or Nagin. That's what a professor in a real class will expect, if you're going to claim it as "first hand". Best you can do is through reporting. And I assure you, your professor won't take "some guy on the internet" as a source. What you're doing is trying to get other people to do your research for you. To tell you what you need to know so that you don't have to go too far out of your way to find out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, English 102, it won't matter if your paper is a logical trainwreck with "research" that would be laughed out of a real class. Still, you're in college, you should try harder. If you don't, you're just wasting your money.

If you're misinterpreting his request for a starting point as "everyone tell me everything you know" so he can use it in his paper verbatim, then I think maybe you are the one who should have paid closer attention in school, particularly in reading comprehension.

[Windy]

If you're misinterpreting his request for a starting point as "everyone tell me everything you know" so he can use it in his paper verbatim, then I think maybe you are the one who should have paid closer attention in school, particularly in reading comprehension.

Hmm. Let's see what he wrote (emphasis mine):

hey fellow storm2k members....im writing an english paper for english 102, and im writing on the evacuation of new orleans for katrina, im gonna put when max mayfield called mayor nagan on the phone and when he started to evacuate....my side is the local governemnt should have been better prepared and i need to know the time between the call and when he started to evacuate, and when mississippi started evacuating, im putting more in about the florida evacuations in 2004 and this year and comparing it, so if there is any new orleans or mississppi folks on , the info would be great...thanks!

Not sure how you get your interpretation, but perhaps you know the poster better than I do and aren't relying on plain-English understanding of his words.

I'm not going to debate this any more; the original poster either gets the point by now or doesn't, and one way or another will sort himself out or be sorted as he makes his way through the next year or two of college.

[Ivanhater]

If you're misinterpreting his request for a starting point as "everyone tell me everything you know" so he can use it in his paper verbatim, then I think maybe you are the one who should have paid closer attention in school, particularly in reading comprehension.

Hmm. Let's see what he wrote (emphasis mine):

hey fellow storm2k members....im writing an english paper for english 102, and im writing on the evacuation of new orleans for katrina, im gonna put when max mayfield called mayor nagan on the phone and when he started to evacuate....my side is the local governemnt should have been better prepared and i need to know the time between the call and when he started to evacuate, and when mississippi started evacuating, im putting more in about the florida evacuations in 2004 and this year and comparing it, so if there is any new orleans or mississppi folks on , the info would be great...thanks!

Not sure how you get your interpretation, but perhaps you know the poster better than I do and aren't relying on plain-English understanding of his words.

I'm not going to debate this any more; the original poster either gets the point by now or doesn't, and one way or another will sort himself out or be sorted as he makes his way through the next year or two of college.

omg, i think you just want to get into an argument with someone, obviously YOU are the only one that has a problem sharing info, so as i said before, if you didnt want to help thats fine..dont come to this thread then! i simply asked if the people from that area knew when they evacuated and when max called, as i said that is a VERY small part of my paper so im not asking "everyone tell me what you know" as there is A LOT more to my paper than the info i asked for and i appreciate all the other people who helped me, but again you obviously only wanted to get into an argument otherwise you wouldnt continue to enter this thread

[Windy]

omg, i think you just want to get into an argument with someone, obviously YOU are the only one that has a problem sharing info, so as i said before, if you didnt want to help thats fine..dont come to this thread then! i simply asked if the people from that area knew when they evacuated and when max called, as i said that is a VERY small part of my paper so im not asking "everyone tell me what you know" as there is A LOT more to my paper than the info i asked for and i appreciate all the other people who helped me, but again you obviously only wanted to get into an argument otherwise you wouldnt continue to enter this thread

I wish ya the best of luck, but I assure you you've got a lotta learnin' to do. Hopefully you do it before you get to your sophomore year, or you're in for a real bumpy ride. I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm trying to help you. Take it from someone who's already been there and done that. When you take shortcuts in college, the only thing you cut short is yourself.