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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…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

started to rise. As the streets of New Orleans were flooding various news stations rushed over to the take note of the disaster stricken area. While the families of New Orleans suffered over their loss the media started to benefit off of the disaster caused from Hurricane Katrina. The media started to gather the attention of millions of viewers across the nation portraying all of the events happening in the city of New Orleans. The media’s portrayal of New Orleans started to influence the…

"A slow-moving Category three hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, October 29, 2004. Hurricanes are natural disasters that cannot be prevented but can be prepared for. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23rd, 2005. Over the last hundred years, hurricane Katrina is one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of United States of America. Hurricane Katrina has…

assistance that FEMA could provide to them due to their inability to be well-prepared for a situation such as this. The poorly prepared Federal Emergency Management Agency also led to many people having to struggle to make it by financially. In New Orleans alone, 134,000 housing units suffered damage from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding (Plyer, 2014). Although the consequences are an important aspect to look at, we cannot forget to discuss the steps taken to address the issues.…

analysis of disasters. In general terms, emergency situations are those in which traditional and existing social arrangements are sufficient to overcome the problems posed by disaster agents. On the other hand, crisis situations are those in which new social arrangements must be forged in order to overcome these problems.” (pg. 299) People began to act out of the ordinary by using force or violence to survive. Blumer mentions the term for this condition is call Mental Unity, which is when people…

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…

Psychology Disaster Concepts Applied to Both Events PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common result from all types of disasters, and the sinking of the Lusitania, and Hurricane Katrina affected many of the survivors in such a stressful way that they suffered and suffer from PTSD. Witnessing destruction along with losing loved ones, and seeing death all around is what survivors of both events endured. The fact that the sinking of the Lusitania happened very quickly may lead some…

As a little boy I always loved going to the festivals with my mama, New Orleans had the best of them. I loved the food, the music, and the mixture of the people from our city. Normally we weren’t allowed to be around the white people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970…

Finally black people were allowed in a white schools. Little Rock Nine: the first black students to enroll to a white school in 1957. Although they faced racial slurs and hate. This was the starting point of new opportunities stretching its horizon of acceptance. One senior out of Little Rock Nine became the first graduate from a white school on May 25, 1948: Ernest Green. Green became the assistant secretary of the Federal Department of Labor for President…