Battle of New Orleans

"A slow-moving Category three hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004. Hurricanes are natural disasters that cannot be prevented but can be prepared for. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd, 2005. Over the last hundred years, hurricane Katrina is one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of United States of America. Hurricane Katrina has…

assistance that FEMA could provide to them due to their inability to be well-prepared for a situation such as this. The poorly prepared Federal Emergency Management Agency also led to many people having to struggle to make it by financially. In New Orleans alone, 134,000 housing units suffered damage from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding (Plyer, 2014). Although the consequences are an important aspect to look at, we cannot forget to discuss the steps taken to address the issues.…

analysis of disasters. In general terms, emergency situations are those in which traditional and existing social arrangements are sufficient to overcome the problems posed by disaster agents. On the other hand, crisis situations are those in which new social arrangements must be forged in order to overcome these problems.” (pg. 299) People began to act out of the ordinary by using force or violence to survive. Blumer mentions the term for this condition is call Mental Unity, which is when people…

Psychology Disaster Concepts Applied to Both Events PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common result from all types of disasters, and the sinking of the Lusitania, and Hurricane Katrina affected many of the survivors in such a stressful way that they suffered and suffer from PTSD. Witnessing destruction along with losing loved ones, and seeing death all around is what survivors of both events endured. The fact that the sinking of the Lusitania happened very quickly may lead some…

As a little boy I always loved going to the festivals with my mama, New Orleans had the best of them. I loved the food, the music, and the mixture of the people from our city. Normally we weren’t allowed to be around the white people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970…

Finally black people were allowed in a white schools. Little Rock Nine: the first black students to enroll to a white school in 1957. Although they faced racial slurs and hate. This was the starting point of new opportunities stretching its horizon of acceptance. One senior out of Little Rock Nine became the first graduate from a white school on May 25, 1948: Ernest Green. Green became the assistant secretary of the Federal Department of Labor for President…

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…

Hurricane Katrina came through and devastated the city of New Orleans. The Hurricane Katrina aftermath left 80% of the city underwater and 25,000 thousands of people displaced, stranded and in despair seeking refuge inside the Louisiana Super Dome. More than 1500 people died after the levees broke letting water from the Mississippi River flood most of the city. Nearly seventy-one billion dollars in funds has been spent to help the people of New Orleans with the recovery process. My stance is in…

put Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a rather sink or swim locus to lead through difficult circumstances (Alvarez). This essay will examine the exchange of Governor Abbott’s leadership style with the effected Texan residents through analyzing numerous New York Times articles and placing the governor on Hersey and Blanchard’s Leadership II model. To begin, the National Hurricane Center saw that Harvey was quickly approaching hurricane status the morning of Thursday, August 24, gaining power quickly…

On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was hit by an EF5 tornado. A News-Leader article written by Thomas Gounley, “Five years after the devastating Joplin tornado, here's what the city looks like,” written five years after the disaster, explains the lasting effects of the tornado on the city. The article explains where the tornado touched down, how much damage it did, and what the lasting effects are on the community. The focus of the article is to give readers an inside-view of how specific…