New Orleans

float onto the roads (Green et al. 2007), with more structures requiring demolition due to damage. It was the Ninth Ward district that also experienced the greatest loss of life due to the failures of the levees. Before Katrina, the Ninth Ward in New Orleans was a low to moderate-income African-American residential neighbourhood. Therefore, the neighbourhood was disproportionately impacted by Katrina as it had a large population of poor, elderly and disabled groups who were unable to evacuate…

Katrina demonstrated us that this nation is not ready for a tragedy such as the one it surrounded upon New Orleans. In late August 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused vital destructions in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Of all the cities crashed by this category five hurricane, New Orleans and Louisiana saw the most extensive destruction. An approximate of 20 percent of the society of New Orleans endured in the city when the hurricane made landfall. After when the hurricane strike the…

Imagine a world with no one to help, everyone is only looking to better themselves. After a big hurricane off the coast of New Orleans in 2005, the town was a big mess, without any help it was a disaster and a trainwreck.. With nobody to come to the rescue it was everyone for themselves. The hurricanes name was Katrina and it was a category three hurricane. It devastated the state of Louisiana and was a vicious storm. Over 80% of the larger roads and major areas were flooded by this storm. This…

Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic event that affected many people located in New Orleans, LA and the surrounding states in 2005. Merely hours before the evacuation was announced and enforced, many people, specifically the African American community could not leave and decided to stay. Throughout all the research from the study there are a number of recurring ideas that led the population to stay that included: financial factors, social factors and racial pre-existing conditions within this…

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…

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…

“Storm Warnings” as the narrator prepares herself and her home to withstand a storm. As I read this poem, I recognized the narrator’s sense of powerlessness but determination to press on in the face of adversity as something I have seen in the eyes of New Orleanians since August 29th, 2005. Our city was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and sometimes I think that maybe if we had seen it coming earlier or closed that extra shutter it wouldn’t have been so bad, but the storm was coming no matter…

changed Americans view about how the government is able to respond to emergency situations. With the help of many emergency crew and organizations, New Orleans was able to slowly rebuild. New Orleans was an exceptionally prosperous and unique town before Hurricane Katrina had plummeted through the area. One gentleman named Wynton Marsalis described New Orleans as "a true American melting pot:…

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…

summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert. When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It surprised me to…