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surface”(science daily). Levees protected millions and their homes. They were built to sustain against a category four hurricane. However they were not prepared for Katrina and failed to outlast the monster of a storm.“We have built levees up and down the Mississippi. We feel like we now are completely protected” (Governor John McKiethen-1965). People depended on these levees. They were the one thing that made people feel secure when a storm blew into town threatening to destroy everything…

people through television, movies, publications, and her philanthropic efforts despite her own challenges and struggles. Not every celebrity is born a star. Oprah Winfrey, born January 29th, 1954, was one of these people. She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi “(Monkeyshines)” to an unwed mother. The first six years of Winfrey’s life was spent with her grandmother. Winfrey had a good life living with her grandmother on a family farm, here she was taught to read and write at a young age. By the…

The storm had caused a lot of damage. Harvey had affected 13 million people from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. September 6, 2017, 60 people have died from the storm. The Hurricane had landfall three separate times in six days. Harvey was the third- costliest Atlantic hurricane and it lasted 8 days. When the storm was over there 71…

Brewin, 2007). The current barriers were supported by steel beams extending to about 19.8 meters below the sea levels thereby making them much stronger (McKay, 2006). Before the hurricane disaster, most of the agency of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi lacked a proper hurricane plan, and most of the officers in the towns did not have any formal…

This Mississippi history book by John K. Bettersworth of 1959, show the premeditated idea of secession from the southern states to withdrawal from the Union if Lincoln is elected as president. The differences in History books within the United States during different periods, many Historians, powerful individuals, and groups had a slanted viewpoint on slavery and the South. Some used their influence to persuade others, one such group was the UDC. The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an…

The New Orleans is a Louisiana city beside the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. The Nickname for New Orleans is Big Easy. New Orleans is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. Beginning of the Morrison's administration, and for the entirety of Schiro's, the city was a center of the Civil Rights Movement. In 2005 New Orleans was catastrophically hit by the Hurricane Katrina like other places of USA. In this sad event more than 1,500…

William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. Faulkner’s career consisted of many brilliant novels and short stories throughout the 1930’s that highlighted his career. In 1939 Faulkner wrote the short story Barn Burning, which was about a father’s power and his son’s loyalty. Abner, the father and head of the family, likes to have control of every situation, but despises those who has power and control over him, so he takes the action of burning down the barns to…

I. Meet the author: Tennessee Williams 1. Tennessee Williams, birth name Thomas Lanier Williams, was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second three children. 2. Williams was raised by his mother, his father was absent during most of his life a his salemnas who was more interested in money than his children and his truant lead to complex relationship with his son. Williams often described his childhood as pleasurable and joyful. But his carefree and boyish childhood…

1965 Atlantic hurricane season, causing enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I moved to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans,…

When it comes to understanding yourself and your personality on a deeper level than normally, you must take personal stories into perspective that have shaped your life while growing up. According to McAdams, “defining oneself through a personal story is an act of psychological and social responsibility” (Engler 2009). Psychological and social responsibility relate to how you act onto actions around you and how you tie society into your viewpoint of the world. In other words, explaining yourself…