New Orleans Saints

the history of a number of towns in Mississippi and Louisiana. From the history of an independent political group composed of mostly republicans to a criminal group that harassed blacks and Jews all the way to the drug problem that ran all over New Orleans in the 1890s to 1900s this book fulfills not only a history of Charles but a history of South America after the Reconstruction period. Grotesque scenes excluded, this book is a wonderful depiction that uses documentation to give issues from…

Analysis of Good Morning America When I was watching Good Morning America, they showed many disastrous images with interesting commentary of what is going on. From the nor’easter storm terrorizing the northeast, to Jared Kushner and the theories surrounding him and his conflicts of interest, GMA really lets you in on all the details. The first thing they talked about was of a nor’easter blowing wave after wave of water in the northeast with a high ninety-three mph wind speed shredding…

On records Sandy holds the second place in the worst hurricanes in history after Hurricane Katrina. Sandy affected 12 states, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia, with its destruction causing about sixty-eight billion dollars in damage. These states evacuated due to the fact that the tropical storm was moving in to attack the…

first reached land in Florida and was classified as a category 4 hurricane. As it moved along toward Louisiana, it became slightly less powerful, but was still a major threat (Elliot & Pais, 2006, p. 303). Richey (2011) explained that the people of New Orleans were warned to prepare for a hurricane and as the storm moved closer they were suggested to evacuate. However, being in an area that saw storms fairly often, some people opted to stay home and board up their windows to ride out the storm.…

awareness and preparation that is afforded when anticipating a hurricane, the Gulf Coast was severely devastated when the storm made landfall on August 29, 2005. Although there was widespread destruction, the region most decimated by the hurricane was New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina not only left the entire city underwater, it left thousands of people homeless, displaced, or dead. As I sat alone in my room watching the documentary, America’s Deadliest Storm, I could not help but think of how…

On August 25, Hurricane Katrina hit land in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 40 mph. On August 28, in the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina became a Category 5 with winds of 175 mph. At 6:10 on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana. When it finally reached Louisiana on August 29, it had weakened to a Category 3 with sustained winds of 120 mph. Hurricanes receive all of their strength from warm ocean waters. When storms travel over land they weaken in power.…

conditions in New Orleans on social media. However, two posts by two different news agencies, which were by the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, became controversial after both posted similar pictures but with different contentious captions. The picture posted by the Associated Press was about a young black New Orleans resident pulling a bag of food in the flood. In the caption of this picture it said: “A young man walks through a chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in…

Race and Its Conspicuous Consumption in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” as he explores the refashioning of post-Katrina New Orleans vis-à-vis clashing racialized methods of exploitation and exile, explains race in the city as a socio-economic issue, and describes the certain forms of commercially acceptable and unacceptable blackness…

Due to these factors, poverty has continued on for decades. Approximately, 16.3 percent of the Delta population is living in poverty, alone. High volume of poverty is devastating the great fertile land of the Delta. As we all know, poverty is still alive even in the 21st century. Just as the Mississippi Delta is known as the land of the rich and abundant, it can also be characterized as poor and abandoned. Just like reminiscing on the soft music and sweet words from the authors of this…

practices. There was this black code that stated that free color people couldn’t conceive themselves to be as equal to whites. There was this widespread religious turmoil in the turn of the century sometimes it was called the second great awakening. The new demands for personal liberty was focused on religion. Federalist often viewed this religious upheaval as a sign of the deterioration of…