Mississippi

The heavy damage in New Orleans and towns on the Mississippi coast in Hurricane Katrina was of a catastrophic nature with 80% of the city being flooded. (Quarantelli, 2005). Those who arrived at the scene where not prepared for what they were about to encounter. This process works sequentially from the bottom up: It starts at the local level, works through the states, and passes on to the federal government. In the case of Katrina, the response began slowly, with a general feeling of…

Mississippi’s Certificate of Need (CON) process plays a central role in planning for the state’s health facilities, based on need for services, location, size and other factors (Mississippi State Department of Health, n.d.). Mississippi is one of many states to have utilized a CON program throughout the years and in some instances the program is comparable to the CON programs in other states. Certificate of need regulations were originally developed to encourage growth of health care…

What is civil forfeiture? This law is a nationwide procedure; however, Mississippi is considered the worst for encouraging this abuse called policing for profit. It’s a law where police and prosecutors confiscate the private property of an individual who is allegedly suspected of an illegal drug activity but has never been convicted. “What (doth it) profit, my brethren, through a man say he hath faith, and have not works?” (James 2:14 KJV). The state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws,…

formed about 200 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…

in Kosciusko, Mississippi (Networks, 2014). She had a troubled adolescence in a small farming town, where male relative and some friends of her mother, Vernita, continually sexually abused her. She moved to Nashville with her father, Vernon, a businessman. She enrolled in the Tennessee State University in 1972 and began working in radio and television (Networks, 2014). She was the very first African-American billionaire in U.S. history who rose from poverty in country Mississippi to “become…

First off Corinth is a city in Mississippi was part of the Confederacy. The Confederacy was the 11 southern states that were not apart of the Union from 1860 – 61. The Confederacy would need the railroads for a lot of different things. They needed to ship troops, arms, food, ordnance all…

stationed in Europe during World War II. Upon returning to the states, he attended Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College where he graduated with a business degree. At the end of his schooling career, Medgar and his wife moved to another town in Mississippi where he began to work as an insurance agent. Alongside his career, he organized many NAACP events (Evers, Medgar Wiley). He and his brother, Charles Evers, started to contribute to the activists’ efforts. As stated in “Medgar Evers”,…

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 animals. This hurricane…

her sense of independence, Welty kept a sense of humbleness and invited many to her house for a conversation. While she is known for her deep sense of empathy, Welty’s childhood was actually one of peace and civility. In her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, Welty was born on April 13, 1909 to Christian and Chestina Welty. She was the youngest of three children and the only girl. Although Eudora…

hundred and thirty six deaths were the toll. New Orleans experience the highest death toll in the U.S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and sixty four deaths , in Mississippi two hundred and eighty three deaths , fourteen deaths in Florida and two deaths in Georgia . After getting the death toll of over all there were two hundred unclaimed bodies and in Louisiana in August 8, 2006 there were still one hundred thirty…