Louisiana Voodoo

enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I moved to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1949 and bought my lot for $200.…

A Century of Dishonor is a outcry for justice by Helen hunt written in 1881.”One of the most prolific women writers of her time, Helen Hunt Jackson hoped to be remembered mainly for A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government 's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881)”(Briscoe). Helen raises the question at the beginning of her book by posing the question to the reader, has the American government really been honorable in their dealings with native americans. Helen…

As a child on August 29th, 2005, I didn’t fully grasp the situation that what was at hand. I was just an everyday 5th grader who thought that I was going on an extended vacation to Houston, Texas. The thousands of people who survived Katrina’s wrath will forever remember the destructive path it laid. Little did I know that one of the most destructive hurricanes in American History was about to make landfall; the events I was involved in will forever be burned into my mind. In my lifetime, we’ve…

Butler Cemetery Little is known of Butler Cemetery except its location on Country Drive in Bourg on the left descending bank of Bayou Terrebonne. It is believed to hold about 10 old graves in a heavily wooded area. Dugas Cemetery Dugas Cemetery, on the former grounds of St. John the Baptist Chapel in lower Montegut, was once property owned by the widow of Jean Baptiste Dugas, Reynalda Naquin, and her son Eusebee. They donated the property in 1859 to the Roman Catholic Church for the…

Prior to the European colonization of the New World, there had thrived American-Indian tribes aplenty amidst the expanse, including those along the present-day Mississippi river, and the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca tribes associated with their respective empires. There exist numerous commonalities and differences between each of these two groups of native tribes, many of which are built upon the same or variant conceptions with regard to a specific aspect. Namely, the tribes had largely partaken in…

are more powerful than category three. Many people were evacuated from their home were not provided with proper temporary accommodation. Due to the lack of proper management and with all the confusion of Ex-President’s administration people from Louisiana were shifted to superdome of New Orleans. This rose to a problem in providing facilities by the government. Due to the severe attack of Hurricane Katrina many things have changed in the places affected by Katrina. Thousands of homes were…

Data Collection Procedure: In order to conduct this study, each student was provided a consent form to be signed by their parents and a demographic questionnaire (Appendices A&B ), which revealed that they had no prior exposure to the French language, and that all “of them had lived and studied Spanish in a Spanish-speaking country for a period ranging from” (Achard & Niemer, 2004, p.21), five to ten years. Additionally, the questionnaire revealed that the participants have been in the United…

There are several of people in our society that have undergone some sort of tough time during their lifetime and have had to rely on the government and their partners for assistance. Over the past couple of decades there have been a number of incidents occur that have led to citizens in dire need of assistance, while some people in our society arguing that the government isn’t doing enough for these individuals and others claiming that it takes time to see results when handling incidents these…

of its time. America during the nineteenth century was a tumultuous time, especially for the brave people who volunteered to go to an unknown wilderness and explore; with the common goal of finding new inhabitable land that they could work. The Louisiana Purchase granted almost 530 million acres of land to the American government after it was purchased from France. This might seem like a great achievement, which it was, but it required many people to go out and work…

In the early nineteenth century the United States started to expand. Many areas in the expansion wanted to become territories to later become states. Arkansas was no different. As part of the Missouri territory, Arkansas wanted to break off and become its own territory. Being in the southern part of the United States, Arkansas was great for agriculture and slavery. Slavery and its legality in the United States was an issue that started when the country was being formed. It became an even larger…