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over a hundred twenty-mile winds between Grand Isle, Louisiana and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Katrina went down in United States history as the single most catastrophic natural disaster. The damage caused by Katrina were estimated at $108 billion. The most costly hurricane in U.S. history. Fatalities in Louisiana alone were 1,577 people. There were fatalities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi had 1,833 fatalities resulting from hurricane Katrina (CNN, 2015). The…

One of the most current natural disasters is known as hurricane Maria. It started as a category 4 storm, and progressively Maria left catastrophic damage all around Puerto Rico. . Many people are stuck on the island because the transportation facilities are still closed. On the same note Dozens of cities remain inhabitable, and the people have abounding needs for help. So all across the map there are complications throughout the Puerto Rican territory. On September 30, the Cruise line The…

Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize with two works, those works were a streetcar named desire and Cat in a Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams was born in the year 1911, in Mississippi. His name was Thomas Lanier Williams when he was born, He later changed his name after moving to New Orleans at age 28. Williams’s childhood was hard because although he was a happy boy, his life changed after his family moved to St. Louis Missouri. As a result of the urban life he now had, Williams turned…

Common App Essay Halfway down the Mississippi River, between St Louis and Cape Girardeau, lies a sleepy town called Sainte Genevieve. Proudly labeled the “Oldest settlement West of the Mississippi,” it is rich with heritage. The town of roughly 4,200 people feels like it has been frozen in the eighteenth century, but not only by architecture and culture; Sainte Genevieve lacks modern ethnical and racial diversity. According to United States Census data, Sainte Genevieve is 96.2% Caucasian as…

1) What programs and services are available in the community to advance the health condition of Ta’esha? Name at least two and explain how such service can promote her health. Bringing Help, Bringing hope by American Red Cross will be able to help those devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Some of the unprecedented generosity of the American Red Cross will help Ta’esha’s family including alleviation of stress and most importantly is to improve their health conditions. To begin with, the Physical…

process at times. South African born Ivor van Heerden holds a doctorate degree in Marine Science he received from LSU in 1983. Twenty years later he will find himself back at Louisiana State University serving as the deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center from July 1999 until April 2009.…

This poster will show Hurricane Andrew’s track, NOAA’s satellite image, and the National Hurricane Center’s last radar image of the strongest hurricane in 30 years to hit the state of Florida. Hurricane Andrew made landfall during the early morning hours along the southeastern tip of Florida at the city of Homestead on August 24, 1992. Classified as a Category 5 Hurricane, Andrew changed the face of South Florida forever; the area looked like it had been hit with a nuclear weapon. Hurricane…

Next, along the Gulf Coast of New Orleans in 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused a lot of damage. All this damaged was due to the protection of the levees in New Orleans, it had broken and caused all the flooding to the towns and homes of these people (Palser, 2007, p.14). Therefore, Hurricane Katrina was not only the most destructive natural disasters, but the most accurately predicted (Palser, 2007, p.16). However, a hurricane warning is usually expected within 24 hours or less (Hurricane, n,d.).…

A manifold of symbolic connotations can be made in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty’s explanation of symbolism basically says how the Character Phoenix Jackson goes out of her way to do all that she can for her grandson because he is sick and can’t take care of him-self. She is a good grandmother by going out of her to take the whole day to walk all the way into town to get him his medicine. During her excursion she talks aloud to herself coaxing before, but this one seems…

more a screech. As the rain came pouring down over coastal Texas at the end of last month, mother nature surely produced the most ideal conditions for a leadership situation. Hurricane Harvey, the wettest tropical storm to hit the contiguous United States, inundated cities like Houston and Beaumont and put Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a rather sink or swim locus to lead through difficult circumstances (Alvarez). This essay will examine the exchange of Governor Abbott’s leadership style with the…