Carter House By Hurricane Ike

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What is the purpose or goal of your video?
The purpose of this video trailer was to show how three women set aside their differences to come together to save the people in their town from a natural disaster. The Carter House is historical fiction, but its events and characters have lessons for real life. For example, this storm, Hurricane Ike was a real life disaster that impacted thousands of lives, but the characters in this trailer were fictional. This book serves as an example of what can happen if you plan accordingly and have a sense of leadership. In the beginning of the book they struggle with their differences and school rivalries but in the end do what's best for the community and work as a team. This movie trailer is meant to show young people that they can impact the political policies around them if they care enough to go out and make a change. The main characters were all relatively young and had no political power but they found a way to round up the community to a safe place to escape the storm.
How exactly does the video meet your stated purpose or goal?
Our video opens up stating that Hurricane Ike is about to strike the town of Galveston and they need to do something fast if they want to survive the storm. We learned in class about how the lack of leadership was the key to the …show more content…

We decided to meet on the days that wasn't during the regular class time and it was hard to get us all together because we all had different schedules. We solved the problem by working online but the project could have gone a lot smoother if we met up in person as a whole more often. Also, we would advise that they create a group message so that there was a strong communication on what needs to be done for the project. We were able to successfully input everybody's ideas into the project by sending out a quick text asking for the opinion of the

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