Mississippi Goddam

The main purpose of Jehlen’s article “Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Society” is to discuss how Faulkner viewed the South and how it affected his writing, particularly in the stories set in Yoknapatawpha. It states that these stories are “tense with extreme, unresolvable contradictions,” and contends that these are “neither temperamental nor linguistic in origin but expressed [Faulkner’s] profoundly discordant view of Southern life.” It opens with a quote from Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust…

Every store you could think of whipped out of food and water due to the massive hurricane on its way. August 23, 2005 - August 31, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit which affected several states mainly New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of Houston was affected as well as Galveston. It left many people in Louisiana without shelter, clothing, food and water due to the massive flooding throughout the city. Everyone evacuated before it got worse. Majority of the people came to Houston, Texas. Everyone in the…

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 devastated the south with a massive wipeout of New Orleans. Ten years later what has been left in ruins 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 Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that took the lives of many and affected millions across the nation. The government failed the people of New Orleans by giving faulty information about Katrina , taking too long to deliver supplies, and giving money to people who did not need it. The people of New Orleans were not expecting hurricane Katrina to be as fatal or relentless as it was. The “key federal officials were not proactive, they gave faulty information to the public, and…

Federalism and Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest National disasters we have see in twenty years was an ordeal that exposed some of the problems with our federal system of response to national disasters. The idea of federalism in the United States is that the power is shared and divided into many different branches and governments. This system provides democracy and makes a totalitarian takeover almost impossible. However, this system also so has downfalls, the system of…

I have recently experienced Hurricane Harvey. I learned that we had a hurricane heading for us the wednesday before it hit on friday. I was at fish camp as a counselor for my school. We ended up having to cut it short so we could get back to our houses before the hurricane hit on friday. That friday and saturday I could have never imagined what would happen in the following days. The hurricane would not move away from us. We were pummeled with rain. My street was filling up then draining…

The National Guard plays many roles in keeping our country safe from protecting the United States to assisting in helping civilians during natural disasters. The National Guard has played quite an enormous role in the past when Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina hit the coast of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina had arrived on August 23, 2005 and disappeared on August 31, 2005. Hurricane Sandy came into effect October 22, 2012 and the storm died out on October 31, 2012. The storms…

First of all, the location of New Orleans is a very distinctive state in the United States Of America. New Orleans sits on the southeastern side of Louisiana where the Mississippi River 's mouth leads into. North of New Orleans is Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans used to hold more than 450,000 people, with an additional 1.3 million located in the metropolitan area(Ouellette 22). The region is responsible for twenty five percent…

The end of August 2005 is a period of time that many along the entire Gulf Coast area will never forget. Hurricane Katrina, even ten years later, is one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in United States history. Despite the awareness and preparation that is afforded when anticipating a hurricane, the Gulf Coast was severely devastated when the storm made landfall on August 29, 2005. Although there was widespread destruction, the region most decimated by the hurricane was New Orleans.…

August 29, 2005 was a tragic day for the residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. It was a day that would change their lives. On August 25, Hurricane Katrina hit land in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 40 mph. On August 28, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina became a Category 5 with winds of 175 mph. At 6:10 on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. When it finally reached Louisiana on August 29, it had weakened to a Category 3 with…