Levee

For a majority of human existence, man has competed against another with the victor emerging from this struggle. The evolution of warfare ultimately culminated in the carnage of World War I and the tragedy of World War II. The world witnesses firsthand the lethality that humanity was capable of unleashing. As a result the world declared, never again would humanity willing unleash such devastation. Unfortunately, humanity is compelling towards competition, and War is the foremost form of…

What my research aims to examine is whether or not Western North Carolina is abiding by sustainable measures in order to keep a well-kept environment by following the correct procedures of animal agriculture and whether or not this information is readily available for public access. The term animal agriculture is also known as “factory farming” and “animal husbandry”, meaning “a branch of agriculture concerned with the production and care of domestic animals” (Merriam-Webster). The animal…

understood that the key to a strong military were the roots behind it. In France the size of their army grew tremendously from 1756 to 1812/14. With new discoveries in weapons and other technologies, wars began to end faster than they used to. When the Levee en masse was implemented in 1793 and made all of the men in France have to join the countries army. This…

John Demcko P3 Strom Rags to Riches in the Desert: How Yuma County became Agriculturally Superior Ever since the dawn of mankind and the Agricultural Revolution, irrigation has been used to his greatest advantage to grow crops on fertile soil in just almost anywhere from the desert oasis of the Nile River in Egypt to China’s lush Yellow River Valley. The exponential success of the Yuma Valley Irrigation Project is one of these stunning examples of this technological feat that is as old as…

With a vast variety of flourishing tourist attractions, New Orleans was a lively city located in the state of Louisiana, and neighbors Mississippi. Although there had been widespread natural disasters in the past, nothing could compare to the unforgettable tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. This devastating topic was chosen to be written about because of my fascination of such natural disasters, and admiration for people. My aspirations to become involved in the field of psychology in the future…

number of people to be (mainly the young and the elderly) separated from relatives. Some people had a false sense of security as many had lived through Hurricane Betsy and believed that Katrina wouldn’t be any different, but they didn’t realise their levee systems could break which resulted in the major damage eventually caused by…

According to John D. Higby, Jr., P.E., in the article, “Possible Capture of the Mississippi by the Atchafalaya River,” believes that this diversion is one of the biggest engineering problems ever encountered. In his article he is talking about the Mississippi River trying to divert and how humans are trying to stop it. He also believes that congress and the president should give approval for professionals to study these rivers to figure out more of what is going on and what may happen in the…

Huey Pierce Long Jr., also known as The Kingfish, was born in Winnfield, Louisiana on August 30, 1893 (Jeansonne 1). At the age of seventeen, Huey was a traveling salesman from, Louisiana, to Texas, to Tennessee (Simkin 1). At the age of twenty- one, Long went to get his college education from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. In 1918, Huey started practicing his law career in Shreveport, Louisiana. He presented small plaintiffs against large businesses (Life & Times 3). Long made a…

pay. However, for a wealthy man such as Hampden, the amount of the tax was not the issue. The real issue at hand was he felt the tax was both illegal and unfair. Although the King was uneasy with the idea of prosecuting those who refused to pay the levee for fear it would create a platform by which his subjects could debate the legality of the tax, on the other hand, he simply could not tolerate their insolence. Therefore in 1637, the case of Rex v. Hampden went before the twelve judges of the…

MMED 3015-01 Prof. R. Muhlbock ___________________________________________________________________ Craft & Tool: Reverse Engineering Report By: Mat Bennett Introduction: The media work I have chosen to explore is Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven; arguably one of the most requested, referenced, and highly regarded rock ballads in the history of recorded music. The song was created as what was consciously the heart of their fourth studio album; aptly named, Led Zeppelin IV. This songs progeny…