http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php life issues, events and solutions en Copyright 2006 2006-08-29T12:14:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806chimesoffreedom_lakeview_9thward_aug_06/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806chimesoffreedom_lakeview_9thward_aug_06/#When:13:14:00Z Lakeview is the New Orleans neighborhood closest to the 17th Street canal, which broke wide open that day and flooded a large percentage of the city. Lakeview sustained tremendous damage from the force of the rushing floodwaters. Entire blocks of homes were wiped off their foundations. - Photo Essay Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Americas, NorthAmerica, UnitedStates, Louisiana, NewOrleans, SocialIssues 2006-08-29T13:14:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806quigley_new_orleans_trying_to_make_it_home/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806quigley_new_orleans_trying_to_make_it_home/#When:13:13:01Z Thousands of people like Ms. Mosely are back in their houses on the Gulf Coast. They are living in houses that most people would consider, at best, still under construction, or, at worst, uninhabitable. Like Ms. Mosely, they are trying to make their damaged houses into homes. Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Americas, NorthAmerica, UnitedStates, Louisiana, NewOrleans, SocialIssues 2006-08-29T13:13:01-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806bradberry_buchanan_home_seizure_katrina_anniversary/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806bradberry_buchanan_home_seizure_katrina_anniversary/#When:13:13:00Z Despite these obstacles, New Orleans will begin seizing not just houses�but also the hopes of returning home�from devastated communities on the anniversary of our nation�s greatest tragedy. Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, SocialIssues 2006-08-29T13:13:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806clammyc_no_way_to_treat_fellow_americans/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf806clammyc_no_way_to_treat_fellow_americans/#When:13:13:00Z And now we hear that there are trailers that are sitting on people’s home sites but are locked and the families have been unable to get FEMA to help.  This is a full year after the mass devastation and FEMA is still giving excuses as opposed to assistance. Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Americas, NorthAmerica, UnitedStates, Louisiana, NewOrleans, SocialIssues 2006-08-29T13:13:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf406rosow_only_in_new_orleans/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf406rosow_only_in_new_orleans/#When:19:38:00Z When I walked through, I felt like the Ronald Coleman character in the movie “Lost Horizon” when he stepped through the crack in the mountains and first laid eyes on Shangri-la. Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Americas, NorthAmerica, UnitedStates, Louisiana, NewOrleans, SocialIssues 2006-04-11T19:38:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf306mguzman_una_identidad/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf306mguzman_una_identidad/#When:23:56:00Z My generation of Xicanos is at great risk of snuffing out the flame that burns within. Far too many of us have lost one of the greatest gifts that unite us to our past: the Spanish language. I am one of them, but I am trying to reclaim that lost education by study and practice. Guzman_Manuel, Life At Large, Articles&Commentary 2006-03-22T23:56:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf306briscoe_venezuela_revolution/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf306briscoe_venezuela_revolution/#When:21:32:00Z Like almost all the other fifteen impoverished families who fanned across the unoccupied land a year ago, Gonz�lez was emboldened by the words of his country’s leader, Hugo Ch�vez. “We’re not really the invaders”, he explains. “We’re Venezuelans, and we’re only looking for a more comfortable way to live.” Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Americas, SouthAmerica, Venezuela 2006-03-22T21:32:00-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf1105rfe_rl_afghanistanmusic/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf1105rfe_rl_afghanistanmusic/#When:15:52:01Z As an oral tradition, young Afghan musicians are meant to take tutelage for years under a single master—an “ustad,” whose pupils become their legacy. RFE-RL, Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Asia, Afghanistan, Arts&Entertainment, Music 2005-11-21T15:52:01-08:00 http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf705kelley_shadesofafrica/ http://lifeatlarge.humanbeams.com/index.php/lifeatlarge/comments/lf705kelley_shadesofafrica/#When:12:00:00Z When your history stops at the waters edge, sometimes all you are left with is faintly heard echoes of times past.  Kelley_Nanette, Life At Large, Articles&Commentary, Africa 2005-07-04T12:00:00-08:00