Mardi Gras

Katrina’s Tantrum Introduction Hurricane Katrina, one of the world’s strongest hurricane, tore through the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything through its path. Towns were destroyed. People lost their homes, families, and dignity. The people weren’t just affected by one natural disaster, but multiple that occurred because of the hurricane. Places Destroyed The powerful storm rampaged through different towns. In Louisiana, New Orleans was bitten off, chewed, swallowed then spit…

Examples of personal events are birthday parties, weddings, baby showers, cocktail parties, family reunion dinners, pool parties, retirement parties and so much more. Examples of cultural events are such as the New Orleans Mardi Gras event (a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California (an annual music and arts festival featuring different genres of music), the Rio Carnival in Brazil (one of the biggest and famous…

vessel to be built in navy yards. Since it was the new showpiece for the nation and the US navy, the USS Maine was often acknowledged and celebrated in popular festivities and national events. For example, in1897 it participated in the New Orleans Mardi Gras ceremony. Between June and December, the Maine moved from Virginia to Connecticut and to Florida, which was the final…

Chano Pozo a cuban drummer from Gillespie’s band was shot to death in Harlem. Billie Holiday came back and broke the box-office records twice at Carnegie Hall (“Dyas”).On Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz Club was founded. Which was later formed into a Jazz Museum which was forced to change locations 4 times by 1977 (“History of the Jazz”). In 1949 the first Jazz Festival was held in Paris which included…

Morgan Spurlock and Corby Kummer’s position on consumerism, consumption and marketing vary in different ways. Consumerism, consumption and marketing can be viewed several different ways. The authors have some vivid and valid points for each of these categories in a good way and in a bad way. The effects each of these points have on the authors and the different outcomes within their lifestyles differ dramatically. Spurlock contends that consumerism is an outcry for people to buy…

In analyzing Ellen DeGeneres’ 2009 Tulane University commencement speech, in my opinion, was a combination of persuasive and informative. It starts off as informative and then towards the end it is almost like she is trying to persuade them that they will be okay out in the world after graduation. When Ellen begins her speech, she proceeds to tell the audience about her life before stardom, letting everyone know that she worked several different jobs that paid about minimum wage. Almost…

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, tells the story of Stella and Stanley Kowalski and the dramatic turmoil that overtakes their relationship upon the arrival of Stella’s sister Blanche DuBois. In the first half of the play, Williams introduces both the setting and the primary characters almost immediately using vivid imagery, appealing to both the visual and olfactory senses of his readers; “"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river…

The physical exercise satisfies the emptiness that was once filled by the long, exhausting hours marching in Mardi Gras parades, the Saturday afternoon festival, and nevertheless every week’s Friday night lights. As he recalls his glorious days under the shinning spotlight of the crowded, freshly cut field in which they performed, Tito smiles with his big, round…

“The FCC Won’t Let Sarah Be:” A Research paper on Sarah Jones Vs. The FCC Sarah Jones is an American Playwright, actress, and poet. In 2001 she wrote and preformed her first song “Your Revolution,” which is a critique of Hip-Hop pop culture by parodying famous artists’ offensive lyrics; however, the FCC pulled her song because they felt it was “indecent.” My research is on the reason why the FCC denied Jones’ song to be play, and how their reasoning is the point that she was trying to make,…

Title: The Poetic World of Vievee Francis – Analysis of Forest Primeval The poet, Vievee Francis, opens her book, Forest Primeval, with two short poems, “Another Antipastoral” and “White Mountain”. These two poems show broader thoughts of Francis such as how she sees and feels the world surrounding her as she introduces her new book of poems. A book of poems may have a number of different thoughts in each poem, but the different thoughts actually comes from one writer so the main notion behind…