New Orleans Saints

Powerful Effects of Media On the morning of August 29th, 2005 hurricane Katrina was beginning to hit the Gulf Coast. The storm began as a category three on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and it included winds that could range from 100-140 miles per hour and stretched over 400 miles across land. As the storm traveled over land it brought a remarkable amount of disasters over Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama yet the aftermath of the storm was the most appalling because the town’s levees…

Hurricane Katrina came through and devastated the city of New Orleans. The Hurricane Katrina aftermath left 80% of the city underwater and 25,000 thousands of people displaced, stranded and in despair seeking refuge inside the Louisiana Super Dome. More than 1500 people died after the levees broke letting water from the Mississippi River flood most of the city. Nearly seventy-one billion dollars in funds has been spent to help the people of New Orleans with the recovery process. My stance is in…

put Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a rather sink or swim locus to lead through difficult circumstances (Alvarez). This essay will examine the exchange of Governor Abbott’s leadership style with the effected Texan residents through analyzing numerous New York Times articles and placing the governor on Hersey and Blanchard’s Leadership II model. To begin, the National Hurricane Center saw that Harvey was quickly approaching hurricane status the morning of Thursday, August 24, gaining power quickly…

On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was hit by an EF5 tornado. A News-Leader article written by Thomas Gounley, “Five years after the devastating Joplin tornado, here's what the city looks like,” written five years after the disaster, explains the lasting effects of the tornado on the city. The article explains where the tornado touched down, how much damage it did, and what the lasting effects are on the community. The focus of the article is to give readers an inside-view of how specific…

Throughout the film, music is also used as a populist trope that unites Southerners, with the popular genre of folk music appearing in nearly every scene. In the South during the 1900s, folk music was the main source of musical entertainment, both for individuals and at large gatherings. At his rally in the town square, Homer Stokes had a folk band play “Keep on the Sunny Side,” uniting the crowd under their mutual love for folk music. At the end of the movie, when both gubernatorial candidates…

New Orleans State had limited emergency evacuations plans. The governor of the city did not expect the Katrina Hurricanes disaster would be reach to that level. The government has used different approaches to addressing the Hurricane challenges. The federal…

1. Does the Hurricane Katrina story exhibit the distinguishing features of a crisis, as defined in the introductory essay you read from the Howitt and Leonard text this week? A crisis as the World Health Organization (WHO) defines is a situation that is perceived as difficult and a time of danger or greater difficulty. Hurricane Katrina was absolutely a crisis that has all the feature of crisis and it is of national proportion and a devastating catastrophe; it was natural catastrophe, a human…

Of those, fifty-three were in New York City, thirty-four in New Jersey and the remaining were in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Connecticut. Forty people drowned (thirty-two in New York) and another nineteen were killed by trauma from being crushed, cut or struck. Thirty-eight deaths were categorized as indirect. Of those, the most common cause was…

crew of forty solders, boatmen, hunters and a large dog. This expedition was later more commonly known as the Corps of Discovery. Lewis was the president's personal assistant at the time. President Jefferson's basic wants were to "assess the new lands' commercial possibilities, military prospects, and regional flora…

• 1890’s - Ragtime o West African (folk music/rhythms) European influence • African slaves went to America however at first their style of dance wasn’t received well. Some of the slaves later on went to Europe where their dancing was recognized. African jazz with European influences then made its way back to America. African Slaves→America→Europe Jazz→ Europe→America • Ragtime • Syncopated rhythms (marches, waltzes, other classic rhythms…) o Tommy Turpin (piano) Harlem Rag → the first…