Gulf Coast of the United States

is between August and October on both the Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific coasts. The two most memorable hurricanes—Katrina and Harvey—made their landfall in the United States in August. In addition to this, the two hurricanes share many other similarities and differences. These similarities and differences vary in measurement, costs of damages, and deaths. On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, or more specifically, in New Orleans. A day before the storm came, a…

Winter getaway to Florida’s best beaches If you’re looking to escape the cold weather climate, it’s not too late to book a vacation to Florida’s beaches. Over 1,000 miles of shoreline awaits vacationers to Florida’s pristine beaches. No other state offers as much diversity. In the northeastern part of Florida are Amelia Island and the beaches of Ponte Vedra and St. Augustine offering visitors a luxurious blend of hotels situated among dunes and white sand. Visitors looking for a little more…

The Gulf Oil spill, otherwise known as the Deep Horizon/BP spill, is the largest spill in all of american history. Throughout the 87 days that the well stood open it leaked over 200 million gallons of crude oil, and damaging about 16,000 miles of coastline, despite the collective efforts of around 30,000 people and the use of over 5.5 million feet of boom, a floating barrier used in an attempt to stop oil from spreading. (Smithsonian, “Gulf Oil Spill”) It has affected the wildlife and habitats…

Near the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, which led to this giving some researchers the opportunity to examine whether there is a relationship between PTSD and Hurricane Katrina. All across the United States, people watched as the citizens of the Gulf Coast attempted to cope with this natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina caused a tremendous amount of physical damage. Entire communities were destroyed. But what about its psychological effects…

Two of the United States worst natural disasters in money lost and life lost has been form hurricanes. The to hurricanes that steps up from the rest have been hurricane Sandy in 2012 that hit the northern east coast and hurricane Katrina that hit the southern east coast in 2005. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that is rotating low pressure system that has organized thunder storms with no front boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with sustained surface…

transporting oil from Canada to the United States but with many negative impacts. Coincidentally, there is a proposed 1,179 mile and 36-inch diameter pipeline which will bring crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, known as the Keystone XL Pipeline (“Keystone XL Pipeline Project”). If the Keystone XL Pipeline was built, it would have the capacity to transport approximately 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day to refineries in Oklahoma, Illinois and the Gulf Coast of Texas…

between 1861 and 1865, the United States was divided between the Confederate States and the Union of the United States. According to Department of the Army, (2005) “1861 the Navy made the most important contribution toward an ultimate Union victory” (p.211). President Lincoln ordered the Union Navy to build blockades up the Atlantic seaboard around the Confederated States as well as parts of the Gulf Coast (Carroll, 2010). These blockades were to prevent the Confederate States from obtaining…

bothersome in multiple ways. For one, pirates are allowing large drug rings along the border of the United States and Mexico to be reopened. The largest being a former wing of the Gulf Cartel, called Zeta. Zeta seems to have good control over this area and their trade, selling dope and robbing fishermen of everything valuable, because the boats they use are faster than the boats used by the coast guard, “Border Patrol agents tried to follow a Mexican boat filled with men wearing ski masks, but…

Ghana was a very great country in 1957 when our first president was still alive . mr. nkrumah traveled to the united states of america when he was 24 to study and observe the american society. Nkrumah had many great plans to help make ghana a great nation. he was the person that gave our nation independence day and made ghana free forever. Nkrumah was one of the big six who fought to gain ghana independence in 1957. The names of the big six was j.b danquah, nkrumah, ebenezer ako adjei,edward…

Katrina had many factors such as the hurricane itself, the federal government involvement and how they warned the people, and the aftermath of the hurricane Hurricane Katrina had a great impact to the places that it hit. Hurricane Katrina destroyed gulf coast cities and 150 miles of coastline were flattened all in the span of five violent hours, on August 29th, 2005. The storm caused lots of damage to the areas that it hit. Before Katrina even hit on August 27th, the National Hurricane Center…