Kathleen Blanco

Why bullying should never be acceptable? Their are so many different ways of Bullying. Also how bullies can effect and individual and shows through their actions and emotions. The way bullies make feel people low and depressed, so i am here to prevent this act of negativity. Bullying involves aggressive, negative behavior in a orginized manner over time toward someone of weaker power. “Physical, such as hitting, pushing, kicking, or spitting. Verbal, such as negative name-calling, derogatory…

Blanco did not run for re-election in 2007. Mayor Nagin left office in 2010. In 2014, he was convicted of bribery, fraud and money laundering that was committed while in office before and after Katrina and he is serving a 10 year sentence for his crimes…

Federalism and Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest National disasters we have see in twenty years was an ordeal that exposed some of the problems with our federal system of response to national disasters. The idea of federalism in the United States is that the power is shared and divided into many different branches and governments. This system provides democracy and makes a totalitarian takeover almost impossible. However, this system also so has downfalls, the system of…

There are some problems which unifies the whole world. The problems which refer to all of us, not just one person or one family or even nation. One of them is poverty. As Kathleen Blanco said: “Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are all touched by poverty.” Everyone tries to solve it, but how will we solve the problem if we don’t know what it is exactly?…

responsibility to provide food, shelter, and other resources to those in need, but instead they delayed. The former FEMA head, Michael Brown, stated that FEMA should not be blamed for the lack of resources and aid. According to Brown, Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin are to be blamed for the disaster due to them being indecisive. These are some of the reasons why I believe Federal Government played a huge role in the deaths of innocent…

2005, one year after the new President of the United States (POTUS), George W. Bush, was elected into office. The country was still recovering from the trauma of the dreadful attacks on the World Trade Center and Operation Iraqi Freedom was just beginning. While everyone was focused on National Security and fighting Al Qaida, Tropical Depression Ten was moving over the Bahamas and moving towards a tropical wave resting in the Gulf of Mexico. Catching everyone off guard, these two collided and…

"The water 's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I 'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live," said Chris Robinson during the duration of Hurricane Katrina. The horrendous and catastrophic Hurricane Katrina changed Americans view about how the government is able to respond to emergency situations. With the help of many emergency crew and organizations, New Orleans was able to slowly rebuild…

In the early hours of August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas of the United States. Whilst moving towards land in the form of Florida on the 25th of August 2005, Katrina started of as a tropical storm then slowly turned into a category one hurricane. After passing Florida, the hurricane gradually increased to category two and then three and then, when around 300 or so miles out from New Orleans(8), it reached a category five level when winds amounted to…

Under certain conditions the government cannot always do so, but it can take precautions in order to make sure that its citizens are alright if an issue arises. According to Debarshi Chaudhuri (2010), “The Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco decided to declare a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005.” The next day, on the federal level, Bush who was president at the time complied. After this, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) began to take action in Louisiana…

per hour putting the hurricane into a category five(" Hurricane Katrina...") . Hence, Ray Nagin announced the first ever mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, while President George Bush spoke with FEMA director Michael Brown, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Alabama Governor Bob Riley to " order mandatory evaluations for those in threatened zones." (Ouellette 28; Brinkley 25). Finally on August 29, the foreseen atrocious…