Battle of New Orleans

Throughout the film, music is also used as a populist trope that unites Southerners, with the popular genre of folk music appearing in nearly every scene. In the South during the 1900s, folk music was the main source of musical entertainment, both for individuals and at large gatherings. At his rally in the town square, Homer Stokes had a folk band play “Keep on the Sunny Side,” uniting the crowd under their mutual love for folk music. At the end of the movie, when both gubernatorial candidates…

New Orleans State had limited emergency evacuations plans. The governor of the city did not expect the Katrina Hurricanes disaster would be reach to that level. The government has used different approaches to addressing the Hurricane challenges. The federal…

1. Does the Hurricane Katrina story exhibit the distinguishing features of a crisis, as defined in the introductory essay you read from the Howitt and Leonard text this week? A crisis as the World Health Organization (WHO) defines is a situation that is perceived as difficult and a time of danger or greater difficulty. Hurricane Katrina was absolutely a crisis that has all the feature of crisis and it is of national proportion and a devastating catastrophe; it was natural catastrophe, a human…

Of those, fifty-three were in New York City, thirty-four in New Jersey and the remaining were in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Connecticut. Forty people drowned (thirty-two in New York) and another nineteen were killed by trauma from being crushed, cut or struck. Thirty-eight deaths were categorized as indirect. Of those, the most common cause was…

crew of forty solders, boatmen, hunters and a large dog. This expedition was later more commonly known as the Corps of Discovery. Lewis was the president's personal assistant at the time. President Jefferson's basic wants were to "assess the new lands' commercial possibilities, military prospects, and regional flora…

• 1890’s - Ragtime o West African (folk music/rhythms) European influence • African slaves went to America however at first their style of dance wasn’t received well. Some of the slaves later on went to Europe where their dancing was recognized. African jazz with European influences then made its way back to America. African Slaves→America→Europe Jazz→ Europe→America • Ragtime • Syncopated rhythms (marches, waltzes, other classic rhythms…) o Tommy Turpin (piano) Harlem Rag → the first…

New Orleans Attraction New Orleans is a unique city, quite possibly the most unique in all the US. New Orleans is a very beautiful place. It has a lot of historical places to visit and learn about. When someone comes to New Orleans for vacation, they should go to the Bourbon Street, New Orleans cemeteries, and Voodoo Museum. First, no trip to the New Orleans is complete without a stop at Bourbon Street. This street is located right in the heart of the French…

over would sit by their radios and listen to this new style of music. Ragtime is a style of music that dominated american culture from 1895 to 1918. The genre has its origins in…

Jazz Ensemble. Unfortunately, since I didn’t get the chance to listen to it live, I made sure to wear my beats headphones so I can hear every last instrument clearly. Instantaneously when the band started to play, I felt like I was in a 1920’s New Orleans club. The harmony was very upbeat and dance like, I began to tap my foot to the three beat tempo. The band was full of woodwind instruments and one percussion instrument, but my favorite instrument was the saxophone. The sound of the instrument…

Jazz is a music type that began from African American groups of New Orleans in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It emerged as independent conventional music style connected by common bonds of European American and African American musical parentage with an execution introduction. Jazz traverses a time of over a hundred years, incorporating an extensive variety of music, making it hard to characterize. Jazz makes substantial utilization of improvisation,…