Written by: Ryan Terrell and Jake Carter Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast on August 25th, 2017. Many people were affected by the storm, and many people were left homeless. 70 or more people lost their lives during the storm. Houston had flooded within days after the storm hit the Texas coast. We interviewed Mrs. Jett, and we found out that her brother had been affected during the storm. Her brother lives in Taft, north of Rockport. The storm took a so called “bite” out of the side of his…
The question of whether or not we should abandon Louisiana has been recently brought up due to the flooding in Baton Rouge killing at least 13 people and evacuating tens of thousands of people. This question has people on both sides of it that feel strongly either way. Louisiana has many reasons why it should and should not be abandoned. There are many people say that Louisiana should be abandoned. The storm should have never happened. According to the National Weather Service the chance of…
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a crazy thing. Anyone can end up with PTSD at any given moment of time, and it is all because they had to go through something tragic and traumatic. A soldier goes to war with a healthy state of mind and comes home with a disorder. A little girl is raped, and now she must live in a constant fear of men and she goes through all the effects of rape. Every case of PTSD is sad and deserves help, for example the issues Haiti is having right now. In 2010, Haiti had an…
Vinyl/EP Antenna, a fully experimental mix of Latin rhythms, electronic vibes, and avant-garde jazz. His roots and devouring appetence for experimentation becomes decisive again in Gnosis, meaning an intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, his new CD and the second on the reputable ECM label. Lacking the electronic maneuvers that once worked in his favor, the album consists of 18 short compositions (the longest has about six minutes while the shortest 40 seconds) that attempt to transform…
In South Florida, refugees are being pushed away from South Florida due to a hurricane which is destroying their homes and are being pulled toward Georgia because they have the resources, shelter, and safety they need. On August 30,2017- September 15,2017 there was a category 4 hurricane that was 80 miles wide and had 155 miles per hour winds that hit South Florida. There was major flooding, homes were being destroyed as well as their land, and people were even dieing. This is causing the…
Katrina was complicated by our federal system of government in so many ways. They were trying to get the situation under control. Of course, before the hurricane hit, the mayor was attempting to evacuate everyone, to no avail. A lot of people in New Orleans are in poverty and were not informed about the evacuation or did not have the means of transportation. The levees flooded and the damage afterwards was made to look minimal. Citizens were stranded in their homes, on their roofs, etc. Some…
It started out as a low-class, urban, African-American genre that was mostly centered in New Orleans. By the time Armstrong was out of his prime, Jazz was shaped into a middle-class music genre, and the people who made it were truly artists. Armstrong was able to make the genre truly something different as Bergreen states, “Jazz was now a distinct…
New Orleans is a melting pot of varying music, cultures, and atmospheres; and is by far, my favorite place to visit. New Orleans music is a mix of Jazz, Gypsy, and Cajun music, which seems to uplift your soul and make you want to dance. The culture there is a true melting pot of international backgrounds that mix together, like a good bowl of Jambalaya. And the atmosphere is like magic, with its café’s and street performers. There is almost never a dull moment in New Orleans, and the energy…
Ah, The Great Hurricane of 1938. Ever heard of it or know anything about it? Well this will be about the hurricanes surprise, weather conditions and the impacts that this had on people. This hurricane was a surprise to everyone. No one saw it coming except for one junior forecaster that tracked the exact storm. No one listened to him but if they did then the storm might not have been such a big surprise. People were not prepared for this storm at all. There were no warnings and if the other…
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