valley, Texas, and Louisiana, for a time, a valuable French possession. As stated by Francis Parkman, and American historian, “the realm of France received a stupendous accession” (BOOK), referring to the fertile plains of Texas, and the region spanning from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountain peaks claimed for France (BOOK), as La Louisiane in honor of king Louis XIV. The Texas claim was never very serious, but it did furnish the United States, after the Louisiana Purchase,…
Asian Indians, East Indians and Indo-Americans are all the same culture, they are Indians. They have an interesting economic history with the United States. Asian Indians have attained some of the highest educational levels of all ethnic groups of Asian descent. Their family and religion have a desire to maintain traditional values of Hinduism. They are one of the oldest civilizations that continue to flourish in the present day. Social History in the US Asian Indians have been migrating to…
3.6. Root causes in the Bourbon Dolphin accident The critical events in the Bourbon Dolphin accident are identified with the help of reviewing the official report of Bourbon dolphin accident (2008) and experts opinions. These are initial heel angle and drift of vessel. 3.6.1. Root causes in vessel capsizing The stability of an AHV during anchor deployment or recovery is a complex subject. The stability is primarily dependent on vessel’s design, environmental conditions and forces acting on it.…
for hurricane. Katrina brought forth very strong arguments in Louisiana about the levees and other flood prevention and reaction equipment that needed to be taken much more seriously and brought up to more recent code. The levees that Katrina broke were not built properly, they were not designed to be overtopped and they failed before even being overtopped most of the time. The most alarming issues with how the geography of Louisiana was taken was how shallow the levees are, they did not even go…
Julienne Enge Discussion 1: In the article “Hurricane Harvey Showcases government at its best, worst” written by Gromer Jeffers Jr., it talks about the recent hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, that happened in Texas and how the government handled it. They had to decide what to do, how to help, and how much money they would spend helping the victims that were affected during this time. “Good government matters, and it sometimes costs money” but sometimes the government is stingy and doesn’t help…
She was about 25, when she first received an writing assignment. Now, she was 27 years old. What she wasn't expecting was that she had to write about the 726 people that went missing years ago. Eliza walked into her boss’s office with a wide smile and received her assignment. Her boss giving her a worry glance but looking down right away before she could look at him. Edward Ramirez, the creator of a powerful…
The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place in the late nineteenth century and revolves around a woman named Edna Pontellier who cannot conform to the society in which she lives in. Throughout the novel, Edna slowly breaks free of the reigns in which society holds her to by rebelling against the ideas and morals of motherhood and femininity and chooses love and solitude instead. Early on in the novel, however, Chopin alludes to the existence of Edna's dual life through the following quote, "At a…
Grenada Lake is a reservoir on the Yalobusha River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of the four flood control lakes in North Mississippi constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It was constructed to help control flooding along the Yazoo River Basin. The dam is located on the Yalobusha River. The operation began in 1954 costing 32 million to construct. I am originally from Greenville, MS. Where my older sister and I spent our childhood. Grenada Lake was a place where we…
(Hurricane Galveston, nicknamed the “Oleander City”). As a result of the damaging winds and major flooding, many people to lost their lives. The 38,000 residents of Galveston were unaware of the disastrous hurricane coming there way. It was extremely horrible that it took more than 8,000 of their fellow citizens. At the time of the 1900 hurricane, Galveston, was filled with people on vacation and tourists from all over the world. Weather prediction technology didn’t exist at the time. A…
Approximately 10 years after the disaster that was Katrina, people still mourn the existence of their serene lives before the storm. Katrina’s powers left millions homeless and close to a thousand dead. Though most of houses were rebuilt and business is back to normal, the cities and towns affected by this tragedy will never be the same. In late August 2005, a tropical storm, soon to be known as one of the biggest hurricanes in American history, formed over the Bahamas.…