Gulf Coast of the United States

proven by a mechanism, it did not exist, but this is not the case. Dan Kahan, stated that “declaring a position on the issue can become more a statement of cultural identity than one of scientific understanding” (PBS). Kahan believes that one only states their position of global warming to fit in with the rest of their community, that there is no scientific evidence behind it. However, there is scientific evidence that proves the rising atmospheric temperature leading to the warming of the Earth…

La Nina is a climatic pattern that distinguishes the cooling of sea surface temperature along the tropical coast of South America. La-Nina is described as the opposite to El-Niño which distinguished by warm sea surface temperature in the equatorial region of the Pacific ocean. The Southern Oscillation (SO) is a change in air pressure between the western and central tropical Pacific. The pressure variability changes the strength of the trade winds, that results in affecting the surface ocean…

Colonization in the early American south was developed through a deeply rooted and complex system of cultural relations. Although often thought of as simple, the colonization of what would eventually become the United States south, was an elaborate and intricate process like that of any other region. The true impact of many of the cultures involved have gone unrecognized. However, it was these unrecognized groups whose societies, choices, and interactions laid the ground work for economic and…

Media is now one of the most popular ways of receiving news and enjoying our favorite television shows. Media has been used to help unify the nation by allowing people on the West Coast and people from the East Coast to listen to the same baseball game on the radio. This help to build the vast American culture to unify all the people as one. Media has also helped alert people of disasters and allowed families to move apart from each other and still keep constant contact with each other. Although…

Tornado?). An estimated 1,000 tornadoes are reported every year in the United States. The U.S. is know as the most active area on earth for severe weather. Tornado Alley is the name made by the media for the broad area of relatively high tornado occurrence, but tornadoes can occur all over the world (Severe Weather 101). Places like Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and even New Zealand report tornadoes every year. No state is immune from tornadoes, but most occur in the deep south…

hit the gulf coast where Haas had the firsthand experience of the effects. He thinks highly of the mayor’s quick responses and how he handled the situation, which most likely leads to his passion for local politics. Haas then went to earn his Ph.D., in 1972 from the University of Maryland at College Park in Ohio. Haas writes heavily over twentieth century New Orleans politics and also Louisiana government. Haas served as director of the Louisiana Historical Center, and Louisiana State Museum…

Rush Juncus effusus Native Range and Habitat An extremely common plant, Rush is located in much of the United States, with the exception of a few dry, arid Great Plains states. It inhabits fresh and brackish marshes, swamps, ditches, moist wetlands and meadows. It is tolerant of diverse site conditions, but thrives in direct sun, finely textured soils, and shallow fresh water. Wildlife Uses Stands of Rush form deep, fibrous root systems. These provide shoreline protection, filter pollutants,…

n 1910 Citrus Canker was introduced to the United States on trifoliate rootstock seedlings that were imported Japan. The disease spread rapidly around the Gulf Coast. Starting in Texas, it made it’s way east to Florida, then north to South Carolina. The pathogen, Xanthomonas axonopodis has two pathovars known to cause Canker; one being citri, and the other being aurantifolii. These can affect all citrus cultivars and even some citrus relatives. This bacterium is not known to be harmful to humans…

reported Mazzeno (2015). It headed to the Gulf of Mexico the same day, and made a landfall on New Orleans many days after but precisely on August 29, 2005. Although it was downgraded category 3 hurricane before hitting New Orleans, it inflicted many hundred of casualties and inestimable damages to properties and goods in the city. The magnitude of the damages brought the appellation of one of the deadliest, but the costliest catastrophe in the United States (US) History wrote many specialists…

Imagine going to eat to your favorite Mexican restaurant, and ask for a jalapenos sauce that a few days later would make you feel nauseous, fatigued, and dizzy, not only that but it will cause one of the largest botulism outbreak in the U.S. This really happened in 1977, when in March 28 of that same year, several illnesses were linked to an improperly canned jalapenos peppers hot sauce served at a Mexican restaurant. Canning is a necessary method invented in 1809 by Nicolas Appert of…