Hurricane Katrina

This article is important because it shows the psychology of response to social justice events especially pertaining to Hurricane Katrina. Green, Rodney D., Marie Kouassi, and Belinda Mambo. "Housing, Race, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina." The Review of Black Political Economy 40.2 (2013): 145-63. Web. This article discusses how Hurricane Katrina caused more destruction of housing in New Orleans for African Americans because of their historic settlement patterns. Correlation analysis was…

SUBJECT: Hurricane Katrina: Failing to Plan led to Plan to Fail 1. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide major lessons learned concerning Hurricane Katrina’s response efforts. 2. Importance of the Issue: The lessons learned are important because Hurricane Katrina was not the first hurricane to threatened New Orleans and will not be the last. Given the well-known risk that New Orleans’ topography poses to its citizens, these lessons need to be incorporated into future plans in order…

Hurricane Katrina: not only a natural disaster I: Introduction: A. Brief introduction of Hurricane Katrina. This part gives a brief introduction of Hurricane Katrina to provide a basic background information of this event at the very beginning, also to relate this event to the topic of this paper. Hurricane Katrina was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States, it brought a huge damage to New Orleans, both ecologically and socially. Though it happened naturally,…

Hurricane Katrina was a huge part of American History. It caused a lot of people to be out of homes and work. The people affected by Katrina had to be dependent on the government for almost everything. Hurricane 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…

The year was 2005, it seems like it wasn’t that long ago , but it has been nearly 11 years since the natural disaster named Hurricane Katrina came through and devastated the city of New Orleans. The Hurricane Katrina aftermath left 80% of the city underwater and 25,000 thousands of people displaced, stranded and in despair seeking refuge inside the Louisiana Super Dome. More than 1500 people died after the levees broke letting water from the Mississippi River flood most of the city. Nearly…

On August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina was first recognized as the twelfth tropical depression and has formed over the Bahamas. The weather system or tropical depression was about 350 miles east of Miami. On the following day, the weather system gained strength and was given the name of tropical storm Katrina. Still off the east coast of Florida the winds begins to blow at about 40 miles per hour. On August 25, 2005, Katrina is now classified as a hurricane (category one) and winds are…

Hurricane Katrina Storms, they are one of many natural disasters that occur on our earth. Going deeper we see one of the storms known as" Hurricanes ". These are a much more intense and violent version of a storm. Hurricanes occur rarely but when they do occur it is devastating. The more commonly know storms like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Patrica are some of the more deadly and crazy known storms. As we go over what hurricanes are and a certain disaster be thoughtful that hurricanes…

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…

BEFORE THE STORM: On August 23, meteorologists examined hurricane Katrina on a radar and realized that a major storm was nearing. Quickly after finding this out, they informed many people in the gulf states about what was coming there way. New Orleans knew that they were at great risk for the most damage. Even though, some of the city rests above sea level, the normal elevation is six feet below sea level. Plus, to add to the lists of downfalls, New Orleans is almost fully locked in by…

Maura Ploesser #14 7R Hurricane Katrina February 18, 2015 One of the deadliest hurricanes in history Billions of dollars in damage a hurricane that killed thousands. They call it Hurricane Katrina. Katrina initially formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 205 as a tropical depression .on the North side of the storm circulating in the center early in the morning of August 24 , 2005 , forty to sixty five miles wide , the storm now name a tropical storm , a tropical storm called Katrina . On August…