Levee

My friends and I had just gotten off our bus to walk home. Our bus stop was in the cul-de-sac at the beginning of the neighborhood and we all lived either right in the middle or in the far back. It was a three-day weekend so we were all trying to figure what to do. Our choices were to either go fishing off the docks in the back of the neighborhood or go swimming from our small bit of sandy, muddy beach that has murky water coming up on it. I lived off the Lake Pontchartrain at the time. My…

business is off 50 percent this year because of the algae blooms” (Guest 2015). The sugar fields are discarding waste in the surrounding freshwater watercourses and the contaminated water flows into the saltwater canals throughout south Florida from the levee runoffs. The rest of the waste is thrust into canals joined to both the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers, sending numerous of hundred billion gallons a year of phosphorous laden fresh water to the saltwater sounds at the mouths of both…

No Man’s Land Several works of the twentieth century explore the concept of misplacement due to misguidance amongst the citizens of America. James Baldwin’s We Can Change the Country examines the state of African Americans in modern society due to the realization that the African American history being taught is false. Jacqueline Jones Royster’s When Your Voice is You Hear is Not Your Own explores the effects of a majority population expressing the experiences, emotions and opinions of a…

politically during this time period it happened until now. Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly category 5 hurricane that cause catastrophic damage along the gulf coast from central Florida to Texas. Much due to the storm surge and levee failure. In addition, severe property damage occurred in coastal areas such as Mississippi beachfront towns where boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and house islands which the water reached 6 to 12 miles from the beach.…

Everyone deserves protection during a democratic revolution, not just revolutionaries. During the French Revolution, in 1789, revolutionaries wanted to make a new government based on freedom of the people. In 1793, Maximilien Robespierre; National Convention; Committee of public safety wanted to scare people into supporting the new Republic. The revolutionaries killed the counter revolutionaries with the guillotine, about 35,000-40,000 people were murdered this way. The Reign of Terror was not…

limitations. An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. Indeed the discipline is self evident in the painstaking details of the lines in his landscape painting, Levee…

dislocation of a city since the Great Depression. Research shows that over one million people where displaced in the Golf Cost region. The federal, state, and local officials blamed each other for the disaster. The blame was put on aging and unkempt levee systems, and slow responses from the local and state following the disaster for the high death toll and damages. Many people in these areas did not listen to initial evacuation warnings, this put terrible struggles on the rescue teams…

In this world there are different types of people. There are people that either have a made a bad influence on people or an influence that changes people forever. It is rare to find the people that are one of a kind and like no other. This type of person is who is kind, funny, generous, hard-working, caring, and loving. Everyone needs one of these people to use as a map to guide his or her life, and my papaw will always be mine. My grandfather is the reason my life is the way it is today.…

Natural disasters come in all shapes and forms. Some are small and some quite large and very effective. One of the strongest natural disaster that attacked the United states was hurricane Katrina. In August of 2005 a very strong and effective natural disaster touched the grounds of New Orleans. The storm caused winds 100+ mph, flooding, and deaths. The storm affected the lives of many individuals who lived in New Orleans. 80% of the people who lived in the city managed to escape but the…

Hushpuppy’s experience of meeting her mother takes place in a surreal environment that she’d only ever imagined. When she realizes that her mother has settled for the apathy of a kind of life in limbo, with neither stability nor commitment, Hushpuppy finds her own sense of place and purpose and returns with clarity and in urgency to her father. There is an apparent awareness of loyalty for her father, who took care of her, to be sure in his own nontraditional and not entirely effective ways, yet…