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As “the single most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history,” Hurricane Katrina wracked New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast region during and after 2005 and is virtually without parallel in recent U.S. history. The tremendous storm surge after the hurricane paralyzed the city of New Orleans because not only the city’s natural geographic features made it vulnerable to flooding, but also the built protective system failed and worsened the impact of flooding. The flooding ensued after…

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, African American women were limited with equal employment. An area of business that became common for African American women to make profit off was prostitution. This was controversial during the late nineteenth and early twentieth, as it is today. Prostitution not only deeply effects women, but it also has an impact on black America both past and present. Black women prostituting impacts the black community through the greater risks for diseases,…

Introduction: On April 23, 2016, the visual album Lemonade was released as an hour long special on HBO. For that hour, the world sat transfixed as they saw a film that was quite unlike anything they had come to expect from the artist, Beyonce. Many people struggled to characterize the fim in modern terms. Some pointed to the iconography in the film such as the many signifiers of the struggles of the black community. While others focused on the archetype of the film. An argument was made for the…

ALCAPONE A child from an Italian immigrant family, Al Capone, also known as "Scarface," rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago mafia during the Prohibition era. Who Was Al Capone? Alphonse Capone, also known as "Scarface" (January 17, 1899 to January 25, 1947) was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal…

How has the death of Walter Payton affected many of people he has helped throughout his career? Born on July 25, 1954, in Columbia, Mississippi into a family of three. He grew up with his sister and older brother Eddie Payton who would help him get his football career started. Walter Payton would be given the nickname of “sweetness” that he would live up to until the day of his death. He was a star football player who played for the Chicago Bears as running back from 1975-1987. Walter Payton…

As thick black smoke swirls heavily over a young light-skinned slave girl, she squats in a smoldering, charred canebrake giving birth to a child she never wanted to conceive. And, with no eyes upon her, other than those of an unjust God and the night creatures that have stopped to watch the nativity, mother and child become separate beings. » I was born in a canebrake in the Bayous of Southern Louisiana during a pre-harvest burn; it was the fall of 1814. My mother was a Quadroon slave named…

The Atchafalaya River The Atchafalaya River is a distributary of the Red River and Mississippi River section in part of the southern portion in central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya is a one hundred and thirty seven mile long distributary of the Mississippi and Red Rivers. The name "Atchafalaya" comes from the Choctaw language and translates to long river from hachcha, “river" and falaya, "long.” During the fifteenth century the Mississippi River and the Red River were separated. These two rivers…

Growing up in DeBill, Kansas, I always wanted to move, or I’d try running away every other week. DeBill was known to about four thousand people and a 2A State Championship win from 1966 that is still the talk of the town. I always nicknamed us, “Ghost Town, USA”. I absolutely hated and often wondered why we couldn’t just move the 45 miles down south to Kansas City, but Mom was adamant that we were not going to move away from the town she was from. Then she’d us the excuse of being a teacher and…

Dwight Eisenhower b. Herbert Hoover c. Franklin D. Roosevelt d. Harry Truman _____343) Laissez-faire policies of the U. S. government helped bring about the depression by a. Overextending trade agreements. b. Giving businesses too many loans. c. Encouraging people to invest in the stock market. d. Not doing anything to help solve the country’s economic problems. _____344) Georgians did not feel the impact of the stock market crash because a. the state was already in a depression.…