It unfolds in the sky above the Caribbean Sea and finally strikes the New Orleans. The police headquarters receive numerous phone calls as people are in need of help. As Hurricane Katrina uproots trees, destroys homes, puts down power lines, the floodwaters rise and people are trapped inside cars and buildings. This is one of the most terrifying natural disasters in history. This nonfiction/informational book has an abundant amount of personal experiences, facts and information (p.272).…
Following the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, Chris Rose through his book 1 Dead in Attic discusses the life in New Orleans, and the peoples attitude towards life. Unlike many unfortunate individuals, Rose was one of the lucky ones who's home and belongings were not destroyed, after the hurricane. Unfortunately, not all individuals and families in New Orleans had the same fortune . Many were left homeless, starving, and with the loss of their loved ones. Much of what occurred after Hurricane Katrina in the city of New Orleans as described by Rose is astonishing.…
For those who lived through it the topic can be a hard one to digest. Many people can not only tell you what they were doing that day, but for the entire month after. It was sheer destruction and in The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina-- the Inside Story from one Louisiana Scientist Dr van Heerden dives into a highly controversial topic. While the book is filled with hard hitting truths and honesty, it is at times difficult to process at times.…
The book Mojo workin’: The old African American Hoodoo system was written by Katrina Hazzard-Donald. Hazzard-Donald (2013) is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Rutgers University-Camden. Hazzard-Donald’s book explored the African American cultural tradition of hoodoo. Subsequently, Hazzard-Donald argued that the tradition of hoodoo emerged from a range of different African ethnic cultures brought together as a result of enslavement during the Trans Atlantic slave trade.…
Like Perry, they discuss how race and economic standing factor into the decisions being made in post-Katrina New Orleans, and they focus on how the low-income community Ninth Ward has faced “chronic neglect” from city services and is victimized (Breunlin and Regis 2006: 749). They argue that actions are being taken to make today’s New Orleans population “whiter and wealthier” than it was before the hurricane and destruction (Breunlin and Regis 2006: 758) Furthermore, they explain that majority of the New Orleanian upper-class is mostly white and Republican, and that it strives to reduce the overwhelmingly black-and-constraining underclass by creating policies that intentionally undermine and displace them (Breunlin and Regis 2006: 756). Both Breunlin and Regis are Louisiana natives, and have close ties to the people and land in New Orleans, and they ask the opinions of several former residents of the Desire Public Housing Development that was “torn down in the name of ‘progress’” in the Ninth Ward and find that despite the negative connotations that often get associated with New Orleans and especially the Ninth Ward, these displaced people love the places they lived before Katrina (Breunlin and Regis 2006: 744-745, 750-751). Like Perry,…
Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War would prove to be a challenging endeavor for the United States having to literally re-create an entire portion of the nation. This couldn’t be any closer to the truth in the case of New Orleans, where political reform and overhaul of its past principles, was a change that would come slowly and with a lot of time. One incident during the Reconstruction period that helps underline how hard these changes would be to achieve was the kidnapping of Mollie Digby, it is from the early “facts” about the case that help ignite turmoil in the city, state, and eventually the entire country. Before, and during, the time of the actual kidnapping of Mollie Digby the social structure and the political system…
Katrina and Larry, the two main characters of the story, grew up in a peaceful small town on a farm in Nebraska. In this story you will see how life can go from peace to tragedy, leaving one with great guilt and regret. As children Katrina also known as (Kitty) and Larry had a close bond. Larry an average 10 years old at the time, feared nothing.…
While much work has come out since this text, which is considerably stronger and certainly more complex, the three chapters in the “Urban ‘Wilderness’” section are of particular note for the way that they specifically explore the ideas of “urban” and “wild” in terms of race and racial intersections. These chapters are interesting in context with my explorations of the ways that Katrina allowed New Orleans to be rebuilt in the interests of white property owners (Treme, mostly), and ties in with the sections Klein’s Shock Doctrine about Katrina and disaster…
I survived hurricane Katrina,2005 Kamren R. Hi Im tiger im 13 years old i live in new orleans it was Hurricane Katrina. We were packing to go to houston texas before the hurricane. So tiger and her mom and dad were packing up staires and her baby sister was up stairs too.…
John Taylor, a proud man living in new orleans, wakes up to what appeared a normal day. John had received a voicemail on his wide screen. Familiar with advance technology he quickly realizes it's an emergency alert sent by his uncle. The emergency alert read “ tropical Depression twelve formed a category 1 hurricane over the bahamas at 5:00 pm EDT August 23, 2005.” If John wasn’t so tired from lifting weights last night he would have prevented the worst from happening.…
Katrina was responsible for billions of dollars of physical damage, which made most of the city inhabitable for quite some time. In conjunction with the physical damage, but it also took an emotional toll on its occupants; a common hurt felt around the state, which…
Powerful Effects of Media On the morning of August 29th, 2005 hurricane Katrina was beginning to hit the Gulf Coast. The storm began as a category three on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and it included winds that could range from 100-140 miles per hour and stretched over 400 miles across land. As the storm traveled over land it brought a remarkable amount of disasters over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama yet the aftermath of the storm was the most appalling because the town’s levees were breached by the rain Katrina brought, which then resulted in flooding. Thousands and thousands of people from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama were all evacuated from their homes, and experts claimed that the estimated amount of damage Katrina caused was more than $100 billion.…
Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina has been one the most devastating natural disasters to hit USA ever costing a total of 125 billion dollars, and leaving almost 1000 dead. We need to look at ways of preventing such a disaster. As this is the only problem, we can predict and perceive how dangerous a hurricane can be but preventing one is a different matter entirely. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported on August 23 that Tropical Depression Twelve had formed over the south-eastern Bahamas this was soon to be named hurricane Katrina, it was upgraded to a hurricane on the 25th of august, it hit land the same day lousing its strength while…
It was 2005,Hurricane Katrina was about to hit. My family and I prepared for the storm. It would have been a perfect until we lost a dog. “Lets the dogs out” my Mother ordered,me I did as she requested and let the dogs outside.…
Hurricanes are not uncommon among the coastal regions. Atmospheric and sea-surface conditions were conducted to cyclone’s rapid transformation and resulted in what is known as Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was tearing apart the Gulf of Mexico. It was a Category 5 hurricane and was predicted to create several landfalls within the affected area. The wind was moving in a pattern causing a storm surge toward the city like a high tide.…