New Orleans Mardi Gras

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 back up by Katrina. About 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. An estimated amount of 1.2 million people left New Orleans. Their population declined from 484,674 to 230,172. There wasn’t fresh water to drink nor was there enough food because…

New Orleans, a city founded in the middle of nowhere, is a city that has had to work to exist. New Orleans was doomed from its conception to be a place like no other, considering that the person it was named after had a reputation all his own. The Duke of Orleans was a man that lived by his own standards, completely apart from society, so much so that John Law predicted his death by saying that, “he was going to die of pleasure.” American, but not quite American, the city continues to stand out…

attracted to the romance of it, and in my studies I learned of New Orleans. At first, I presumed that, today, most of the inhabitants spoke the language but after some research I realized I was wrong. Still, the more I read the more intrigued I became. It was just last July that I took a trip unlike any others I had taken before. My boyfriend of one year took me to Louisiana to discover the historic French Quarter in the famous city of New Orleans, and I was not disappointed. The farthest I…

American culture and the popular norm view New Orleans as a wild, uncultured, vivacious, and eccentric; a city without rules, and where you can party and drink till the sun rises. A city where the lines are blurred, and you can find people and characters like no other. In many respects, media and popular culture portray New Orleans accurately, capturing some unique events and people on film or bringing the culture to life in movies. “The Princess and the Frog” showed a lot of the bayou, which…

Katrina made its second and third landfalls in the Gulf Coast area on August 29, 2005 as a Category three hurricane. A neighborhood TV channel reported New Orleans was encountering broad flooding due to a few levee breaks, the city was without electricity, and there were a few cases of massive damage in the area. In brief timing, whole neighborhoods were engulfed in water. Due the rapid flooding, numerous residents became stranded, long after Hurricane Katrina had passed, and could be seen on…

New Orleans is a major United States port and largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723. It was established by French colonists and strongly influence by their European culture. Before the mid-20th century, New Orleans was one of the largest port in the nation, with continued expanding in population (“Wikipedia”). It is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole…

In fact , the rebuilding process endured by the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city in August 2005. Which the storm caused levees to fail, releasing tens of billions of gallons of water into the city. The levee failure contributed to extensive flooding in New Orleans area and surrounding neighborhooding cities. And over 50 breaches in New Orleans hurricane surge protection were the cause of the majority of deaths and destruction during…

Rights Movement. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old, her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, moved to New Orleans, hoping for a better life in a bigger city.The fact that Ruby Bridges was born the same year that the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision desegregated the…

Army crossed the German border” (“Dyas”). By 1946 New York hosted Billie Holiday at Town Hall. Then in 1947 Carnegie Hall hosts Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Sadly later on in 1947 “Billie Holiday was convicted for possession of heroin”…

With a vast variety of flourishing tourist attractions, New Orleans was a lively city located in the state of Louisiana, and neighbors Mississippi. Although there had been widespread natural disasters in the past, nothing could compare to the unforgettable tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. This devastating topic was chosen to be written about because of my fascination of such natural disasters, and admiration for people. My aspirations to become involved in the field of psychology in the future…