Battle of New Orleans

Rights Movement. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old, her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans, hoping for a better life in a bigger city.The fact that Ruby Bridges was born the same year that the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision desegregated the…

people can learn a very valuable lesson from Hurricane Katrina and can learn from better planning and strategizing. After causing about $110 billon dollars in damages, Hurricane Katrina killed about 1,800 people, and 1.2 million other people had to find new homes and that is where the Louisiana’s Coastal Protection Restoration Authority came into play. Barbier was able supervise the scientific…

Hurricane Andrew It is August 16, 1992 and a tropical wave is beginning to form off the west coast of Africa. The scene looks safe and not something to worry about until hours and days have passed. Twelve days later, it the 28th of August and the wave has not died off, but has grown into something stronger, something greater, something we today call a category 5 hurricane. This powerful hurricane was given the name Hurricane Andrew. In the Greek language the name Andrew means “strong”…

this day, and the impact it had on our country. In the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, it focused on what led up to this natural disaster, what the people needed to do to stay safe, how it changed these peoples lives, and how it changed the city of New Orleans forever. I believe that Hurricane Katrina was just as gruesome as September 11, but for some reason it does not seem…

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet was an exceptionally fascinating occasion. My purpose for my statement is that I have never really been to a live jazz performance and it was a new experience for me. My immediate thought upon entry was that the presentation was going be exhausting and long. In spite of the fact that it lasted quite a while it was justified regardless of my while in light of the fact that I really wound up liking the performance. I think the Brubeck Brothers Quartet was amazing and I…

This article started out about the catastrophe the Rio games could have been. Despite the Zika virus and the unclean water, it would take for a lot to make these games into the top five worst games. It goes on to top about the top five worst Olympics. Number five is Atlanta in 1996, where there was a bombing injuring more than 100 people. Four, was the Athens games in 2004, the games itself were successful but the aftermath damaged Greece significantly financially. Three, Moscow in 1980, was a…

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. This storm was a natural disaster especially for New Orleans. The hurricane caused flooding, death, displaced residents, damages and a decrease in the population. Hurricane Katrina and the levee’s failure increased the stress levels for the individuals living New Orleans. In the documentary “Troubled the Water”, it appeared disturbing, chaotic and there was doubt and anger. These individual experienced something that would probably bring repeated…

In the article Water is swallowing us up: Catastrophic floods hit houston by Michael Graczyk, he talks about the most powerful Texas hurricane on record. Different counties of texas received an average of 8 to 15 inches. Harvey was the strongest hurricane to strike down Texas since 1961’s Hurricane Carla and a lot of people were killed or injured that’s why we call the flood catastrophic. The last thing I heard about the hurricane was that Harvey has so far killed 70 people who drowned in…

New Orleans, LA is not just known for the famous tourist attraction, it is also known for the music lover people of this area. The traditions of various types of music are practiced for generations here. New Orleans is famous for its traditional love for jazz music. In fact, this is the birthplace of jazz music. The original music evolves and creates some different kind of jazz, which just the tribute for the original creators. Today, we discuss that. A Little history: New Orleans music has…

Army crossed the German border” (“Dyas”). By 1946 New York hosted Billie Holiday at Town Hall. Then in 1947 Carnegie Hall hosts Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Sadly later on in 1947 “Billie Holiday was convicted for possession of heroin”…