Battle of New Orleans

Due 11/20/15 New Hanover County: When Disaster Strikes Natural disasters happen all the time. Most of the natural disasters that occur do not have a direct impact on our specific location. Many times, people do not prepare for natural disasters when warned, and are not prepared with the necessary tools in case one strikes without prior knowledge. The knowledge of what to have, or what to do, can go a long way in helping determine the impact of a natural disaster in your life. In New Hanover…

CE 335 Engineering Mechanics of Soils Section 001 Stalin Galarza The geographic location of New Orleans and the hydrology profiles nearby have risen the flooding tendency of the area; the city was built on low-lying marshland along the Mississippi River. On October 1965 after Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans and Louisiana, the congress approved the USCE flood protection plan, it was called “the barrier plan” it mainly consisted of a number of barrier complexes. Nevertheless,…

The History of Jazz Music. What I Already Knew / What I Wanted to Know I Have always liked jazz music. When I got older, I realized there were plenty of different kinds of jazz. Last year in music, I was briefly able to research the topic. I wasn't able to find very much in that small amount of time, so I thought it would be a good idea to do it now. I know there are many different types of jazz music. I also know that there are many artist that influenced the evolution of jazz. Now I want…

Flooding due to climate change will affect and has affected the Great Lake Regions. The Chequamegon Bay area is located in Lake Superior. Ashland and Bayfield counties in the State of Wisconsin surround the bay. This area takes in large amounts of rainwater run off from streams, rivers and towns. Ashland, Iron and Bayfield Counties all have waters that shed to the Chequamegon Bay. My father and his family came from Ashland, Wisconsin. I currently have a brother and family relatives living in the…

Puerto Rico is an island part of US territory which was recently stricken with a massive hurricane that washed over it completely, leaving Puerto Rico in ruins and having to work from the ground up. Puerto Rico’s road to recovery is very different than any other hurricane stricken area because they were already in massive debt, they weren’t prepared, and other disasters happening around elsewhere were taking up all of the resources. The conditions of hurricane Maria were very prime for a strong…

New Orleans’ police force has long been known to be corrupt by preventing black people from working. In the documentary GRITtv with Laura Flanders, one of the speakers retaliated that police have a pre-existing idea that black life or black rights don’t exist…

Hurricane Katrina was devastating to some, but to others, it was just a bad storm. Why? In a Natural Disaster people of all wealth should be treated to the same priority, is shown in two different ways by the political cartoon, Helicopters by State Journal and the poem “After the Hurricane” by Rita Williams-Garcia. Both of the artifacts include a theme that is similar to each other. The artifact “After the Hurricane” by Rita Williams-Garcia shows the theme by using sad, devastating and…

purely embarrassing. Officials ranking from New Orleans mayor, all of the way up to president bush were simply finger pointing and would not accept responsibility and accountability of what happened. In my essay, I will be taking a look at how biases from government individuals could have impeded rather than supported efforts of survivors based on their perceptions of their jurisdictions and…

Racism in New Orleans, Louisiana has historically been reflected in settlement patterns throughout the city, dating back to its founding in the early 1700’s. The first settlers favored well-drained uplands and shunned the swamps and marshes as dangerous, instead relegating African American slaves and native Creole people to these areas. Post-civil war, these settlement patterns were only exaggerated as the racial geography of the city shifted toward what is now considered a “classic southern”…

by three different hurricanes that left a devastating effect on the entire country. FEMA was forced into action, and it was shown how unprepared the agency was, and this was recognized by not only the majority of Americans, but was picked up by the news media, and FEMA became a joke across the government. It was noticed that FEMA needed to be completely restructured, and this restructuring effort was started by President Bill Clinton.(6). Prior to the restructuring, it was noticed that what…