Louisiana State Capitol

Greetings everyone. Today 8 lucky people will have the opportunity to accompany me Abdulla Hassan The president of the student for philanthropy organization this summer to Haiti on a mission to help rebuild their nation after the January 12, 2010 earthquake (Taft-Morales). Our main job will be to help those fellow human beings to rebuild their nation after the earthquake struck. As we may be aware, it has been more than five years now since the tragedy. Despite this fact, it has been difficult…

It seems that you cannot watch television or turn on your computer without seeing floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or terrorist attacks happening all across the world. These threats can take devastating tolls on communities. In everyday life you don’t think something like that can happen to you or your community. Just look at what happened in 1998, a category five hurricane devastated Central America. Within hours, minutes, and even seconds, everything a person has and knows…

in 2005, the town was a big mess, without any help it was a disaster and a trainwreck.. With nobody to come to the rescue it was everyone for themselves. The hurricanes name was Katrina and it was a category three hurricane. It devastated the state of Louisiana and was a vicious storm. Over 80% of the larger roads and major areas were flooded by this storm. This lasted for weeks and the outcome was not only painful to think about but horrible to witness. In 2005 during the coastal hurricane…

A 7.1 earthquake hit Alaska on Sunday Jan. 24, 2016. The earthquake caused a road closure when the natural gas line broke and burned four homes to the ground. The Kenai Fire department announced Monday that the Lilac Lane has been reopened. However, they are still continuing repairs. Residents have returned home after the tremor. More repairs have to be done to make sure there are no concentrations of natural gas in the area, as explained by Natural Gas Utility Enstar Spokesperson Lindsay…

struck the US as a 600-mile wide putting Hurricane Ike in category 2, causing floods, damage to cities and hitting areas still damaged by Hurricane Gustav and 2005’s Rita. Before moving to Hispaniola, Cayman Islands, Mississippi, Florida Keys, Cuba, Louisiana, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominican Republic, Eastern Canada, Haiti and Great Lakes region, but not before reaching its highest peak a category 4 hurricane. “I am a storm chaser from Leicestershire, I travel the world chasing…

Lakewood Church, the Houston megachurch led by Pastor Joel Osteen, has opened its doors to more than 400 victims of Hurricane Harvey this week and started operating as a donation center after the nearby American Red Cross shelter had reached its limit. Speaking to The Christian Post on Aug. 30, Lakewood Church spokesperson Don Iloff announced that they are already housing around 400 people and are receiving relief items that will be distributed to shelters. The announcement comes after the…

In 2005 New Orleans experienced one of the toughest hurricanes in US history Hurricane Katrina. Memorial Medical Center personnel went several days without water, food, power, and limited or no medical supplies. . Temperatures were unbearable reaching 100 degrees. There were more than 200 patients some of which were on life support, ventilators, and oxygen all that operated electronically. Medical personnel had to operate bagged valve masks by hand when the Life support monitors drained the…

Lakeview Middle School is located in Parkville, Missouri. Lakeview attends 7th and 8th graders only and the students are separated by pods. Lakeview has a 1:1 laptop program, which means giving students their own laptops to work with. They also reward their students for numerous things like having good grades, being respectful, and not bullying with incentive parties. Here at Lakeview, the teachers, staff, and most of the students don’t prohibit bullying. We have our 4 rules we follow by which…

There major reason as to why New Orleans was so vulnerable to a Category 5 Hurricane is because the city is 7 feet below sea level. It creates a perfect area for the sea water to rush in and but it’s not so easy for that water to leave. The U.S. Gulf Coast on the other hand was vulnerable due to the warm water that surrounds it. Warm water allows for hurricanes to maintain themselves and travel in towards the coast. Hurricanes are a natural disaster, and have been happening for centuries and…

near Opelousas. As he was growing up, he spent a lot of time in the kitchen with his mother and it was from her that he learned all about cooking and the blending spices to make the meal taste delicious. Paul was a talented chef who loved cooking Louisiana food and didn’t have years of culinary school or other formal training, but he had a desire and the love to cook the best food around. Until the early 1970s Paul traveled around the country cooking in bars, diners, resorts or hotel…