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continues to impact the rest of Louisiana. Being from a minute school certainly had the advantages a student would enjoy going to. Small classrooms along with small class sizes made teaching and learning possible. With that came achievement and recognition; the school was given the “Award of Excellence.” These two events have influenced one massive issue. After the hurricane many people left New Orleans to find new homes thus being mainly on the North Shore of Louisiana: minor flooding, close to…

Timeline The Louisiana Purchase 1803 The Louisiana Purchase was a land purchase made by the United States in 1803. President Thomas Jefferson bought the territory from France, which was led by Napoleon Bonaparte. The purchase was made for fifteen million dollars. The first men sent to negotiate the deal were only meant to spend ten million, but the French government said that for five million more they would sell all of the Louisiana territory. Jefferson agreed to the deal, and used his…

miles southeast of the Bahamas on august 23rd, 2005, as a tropical depression. (Complex) as Katrina progressed it struck the gulf coast with devastating force at daybreak on august 29,It 2005. (Complex) It hit five southern states: Mississippi,Louisiana,Georgia, alabama, and Florida.Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 with 127 mph winds. The experts who studied it said it was like four storms, but in one big storm. It storm surge produced a 29 ft. wall of water and was the highest ever measured…

The storm was stronger than many people expected. Siding came off houses, and wind scattered debris. Sheets of rain flooded the streets, Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Governor Katrine Babineaux Blanco declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on August 26, 2005, and asked President Bush to do the same at the federal level the next day, a request with which he complied. This authorized FEMA to organize and mobilize resources as it saw fit to help the residents…

largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the U.S.(dosomething.org) This hurricane was so costly that it also became the costliest hurricane ever in history reaching a number at $150 billion dollars. This number includes Louisiana and Mississippi alone. It was a devastating time for those living in the southern states hit by the hurricane, especially those in New Orleans. This topic became very difficult for people in the south to cope on, but it was also a learning…

Hurricane Camille Overview: Hurricane Camille was the third and most powerful tropical cyclone of the twentieth century. On August 5, 1969, the forecast recognized a typical tropical storm off the coast of Africa. The storm started on August 14, 1969 and continued through August 22, 1969. This storm took many by surprise when the winds began to kick in and destroy everything in sight. This storm started off as a tropical storm; yet, when the winds reached 97 km, they declared it a hurricane.…

States. Once the hurricane finally dissipated The coast guards went to work. They rescued over 34,000 people just in New Orleans. Although over 1,800 people lost there life. There were 2 deaths in Alabama, 14 in Florida, 2 in Georgia, 1,577 in Louisiana and 238 in Mississippi. Out of all of these deaths most of them were older people. 71 percent of deaths were 60 years old or older and half of those were over 75 years old. 770,000 people who lived in New Orleans were displaced as well as…

Throughout history, many wars have been recognized such as the Civil War, French and Indian War, and the Cold War. One war has been considered the forgotten or unnecessary war because it was a war nobody wanted; this war was called the War of 1812, also known as the Second War of Independence. Two weeks after the War of 1812 ended with the signing of a peace treaty called the Treaty of Ghent, the Battle of New Orleans began. The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814, and restored the…

At only 7 years old, in August of 2005, I received the most devastating news anyone my age could have received. I was told by my family that a hurricane was coming to my city; New Orleans, Louisiana. Because of this storm, Hurricane Katrina, I was told that I would most likely have to move away for a long time; which meant the rest of my life. The hurricane ended up destroying the entire city completely. This was heartbreaking to me for a plethora of reasons, the main one being that I was so…

March 2, 2016 Carnival of Fury Book Review Tragedy, such is the case of Robert Charles. In the book Carnival of Fury, even though it is primarily about the shooter Robert Charles, we learn about the history of a number of towns in Mississippi and Louisiana. From the history of an independent political group composed of mostly republicans to a criminal group that harassed blacks and Jews all the way to the drug problem that ran all over New Orleans in the 1890s to 1900s this book fulfills not…