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With so much loss associated with Hurricane Katrina, the events leading up to the devastation should have allowed the city of New Orleans to be better prepared to undergo a category five storm. What caused the destruction, wind or water? What came first, the wind or the water? On August 29, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana was caught in the eye of the unforgettable Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of innocent lives were lost, along with homes and businesses as a result of the rushing flood waters.…

and kicks him out of the band. In the end, the fourth chair wasn’t even out of tune, but in Fletcher's words,” He didn’t know, and that’s even worse.” Another example of his intensity is the first time Andrew plays Whiplash. Being that Andrew is a new player, he hasn’t fully grasped the chart yet and messes up a little bit. Fletcher starts to pick on Andrew for not being exact on the tempo. Try after try Andrew cannot get the tempo correct. Fletcher throws a chair at Andrew’s head, almost…

Martin Luther King Jr delivered a speech on August 1963 called “I Have Dream” on the March unto Washington D.C. As a result of the Jim Crow law, communities were segregated. One man changed that, Martin Luther King Jr. He started a movement that led up to his “I Have A Dream” speech. This speech impacted over 250,000 people, that brought unity and liberty. Dr King’s speech impacted many due to the cause that the whole movement was approached in a nonviolent manner. Dr. King’s speech solved…

informative; giving factual and educational information to his readers. Therefore, this was presented with a research from a pair of sociologist, Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek. During the years after Katrina the two sociologists made regular trips to New Orleans, interviewing the hundreds of people who were affected majorly by the storm. During the course of seven years, they discovered that some children had not yet recovered, losing years of schooling, to later become unemployed. While others…

Louis Armstrong used jazz to change the music world and left a lasting effect on the entertainment industry. Armstrong was born in New Orleans to fifteen year old Mary Ann and twenty year old Willie. His whole life, Armstrong identified his birthday as July 4, 1900. It is now know his actual birth date was August 4, 1901. Armstrong’s young parents were not ready for a child so Josephine, Willie’s mother, raised him until he was five. Over those five years, Armstrong did not see much of his…

spending their money and going to nightclubs” (History of Jazz). In effort to save the jazz music and its popularity, “symbolic relationships” arose between agents and musicians during the creation of the “music business”. Working together with the new music business” came many musicians that influenced the beginning of the “Swing Era”. Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday…

The hurricane I did my project on was named hurricane Carol. Hurricane Carol affected all aspects of the life of people in New England. This hurricane was a category 3 hurricane. It developed from a tropical wave near the Bahamas on August 25, 1954, and slowly strengthened as it moved northwestward with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h). This happened on August 27, but weakened as its motion turned to a northwest drift. A strong trough of low pressure turned the hurricane northeastward, and Carol…

Whoosh! As my car just flew away, hurricanes and tornados are one of the most dangerous kind of storm to be in. A few reasons that they are a terrible thing to be in is that they cause really strong dangerous winds that can rip your house off the ground! They can also cost lots of money to repair both of there damage they cause. Another fact is that they are both cyclonic. They are also really strong storms. Tornadoes and hurricanes are extremely expensive to repair the damage it…

broadcasted on the news. Hurricane Sandy impacted my life when I saw it on the news. I It shined a light on how humanity comes together in times of need. Hurricane Sandy was a large tropical storm that spread over the Atlantic ocean and drifted to the eastern United States of America. It was the largest hurricane of the 2012 hurricane season. It began on October 22, 2012 and ended on November 2, 2012. The Hurricane’s terror lasted eleven days and was broadcasted on the news…

Poverty In New Orleans Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, once stated, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” Nowadays, poverty exists all over the world. There are people living under bridges, people willing to do anything to provide for their families, and people constantly dying because no one will help. Many people don’t realize that there are causes and solutions to poverty. In New Orleans, African Americans suffer the most from poverty. New Orleans has a high rate of poverty because…