Levee

The social problem I will discuss is the lack of mandatory evacuations resources in New Orleans Louisiana and the population African American. Further, discussions for the reason that o Hurricane Katrina people were force to leave the city. Also, how the social problem impacts the African American children and elderly population people in New Orleans that resided in poverty and did not have the mandatory evacuation resources to leave. Lastly, the political idealology is conservative than…

civilized humans. On the contrary, the Bathtub depicted in The Beasts of the Southern Wild represents humanity separate from society. The people of the bathtub, including Wink, Hushpuppy, and their friends, are cut off from the rest of the world by a levee and are thereby detached from all laws. Due to these unique conditions, people of the Bathtub live in an animal-like state where they are free to behave…

- Hushpuppy pulls the rope and blasts the levee. This is a hard decision for Hushpuppy to make since she has to take responsibility for whatever damage her action would bring to Bathtub afterwards. Her action allows her to later pass from Bathtub to the city refugee center. It turns out that the explosion and the decrease of the water level doesn’t help the village to get better and it even causes city people to find Bathtub and brings Bathtub people to the refugee center. Hushpuppy now…

saving them from the personal poor choices. Assistance was not available for an extended period of time and arrived too late for others, many people had already perished; help never came for those who were most vulnerable. “Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures resulted in the deaths of at least 986 Louisiana residents” (Plyer). The resulting story could have played out quite differently if the American people that were in the affected area were more prepared for this type of natural…

Not many people in the nation knew about the Ninth Ward in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina caused levee failure and catastrophic flooding. Just weeks before the hurricane in 2005, Waukesha Jackson celebrated the publishing of her book with the Neighborhood Story Project. The Neighborhood Story Project is a nonprofit organization in partnership with the University of New Orleans. Over the years they have sold about 50,000 books written by a wide selection of New Orleans voices. What Would…

influx and backup of traffic coming into and out of St. Louis (Bartholomew 1917, 6). A decline in river traffic caused Bartholomew to create a plan to renovate the riverfront in St. Louis. Renovation of the riverfront included: fixing the unstable levee, creating river terminals and clearing “aged warehouses and other buildings, saloons and remnants of bygone days” (Cultural Resources Office and Bartholomew 1917,…

The Yellow River estuary has rich biological resources. It represents the spawning area for many fish species of the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, and an important fishing ground in the northern China Sea (Shan et al., 2013). Laizhou Bay is an estuary of the Yellow River, and has high primary productivity. It represents an essential nursing and feeding area for many species (2et al., 2013). There is low biomass in the river, but the presence of few and unique indigenous fish make the conservation of…

over the ward. The gusty wind roared like an angry beast. All the trees were toppled over, almost as if they were to shoot out of the ground. In the distance, the bayous overflowing the banks and making its way up to the streets that were nearby. The levee walls looked as if they could bust open at any give time. I knew if I were to open up the front door, I would have been taken by the…

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…

Throughout all of history water and culture have been incredibly interlinked. Since the beginning of settled life, humans have almost always recognized that settling by a body of clean usable water is necessary. Over time this need began to give birth to a deep respect for rivers, lakes and streams. Because water is such a critical element of life it was worshipped and appreciated for thousands of years by almost all cultures of the past. It has been a source of power and inspiration for…