New Orleans

- Severe flooding damage to Gulfport, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana, and areas in between. - Some levees are overtopped in New Orleans, and there is extensive damage to the Superdome roof, where more than 10,000 people sought shelter from the storm.According to FEMA, Katrina is, "the single most catastrophic natural disaster in U.S. history…

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…

2016, speaking about the issues of race that are often glossed over in pop culture. Formation uses both visuals as well as lyrics to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement, and the controversial topic of police brutality in America, the city of New Orleans, post hurricane Katrina, and also touches on body positivity and the representation of people…

"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…

creates land by dumping the sediment that flows down it into the Gulf of Mexico and as the sediment builds up, land is formed. The river has changed course many times over many thousands of years. If the Mississippi River had never gone towards New Orleans and gone through all the changes it has been through, southern Louisiana wouldn’t have been formed. The Mississippi River is so important in the growth of Louisiana because it is the only thing that helps build land in Louisiana. At this…

Katrina and the events that followed heavily influenced the poem. In her statement for the New American Poetry of Engagement, Ford states that “Living in New Orleans before and just after Hurricane Katrina made the American government and its failure to protect and aid its citizens an overwhelming and inescapable fact pressing on my mind” (216). This impactful event clearly seeps into her poem, bringing a new point of view to an already thought-provoking subject. Before I fully understood the…

New Orleans’ police force has long been known to be corrupt by preventing black people from working. In the documentary GRITtv with Laura Flanders, one of the speakers retaliated that police have a pre-existing idea that black life or black rights don’t exist…

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 was described as "one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States" according to Kim Ann Zimmerman on livescience.com (2012). August 29, 2005 would completely change the lives of thousands of individuals and families in New Orleans, Louisiana due to impact of Hurricane Katrina. This tropical storm was categorized as a category 5 Hurricane due to the fact the damaging winds reached up to 175 miles per hour. Many people were able to evacuate before the storm became…

Hurricane Katrina is one of the deadliest hurricanes in the United States. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29,2005. The vulnerable population of New Orleans is the low-income, poor and African-American population with one of the highest uninsured rates. Katrina destroyed the health safety net and changed the city's healthcare landscape. New Orleans faced flooding that caused more than millions of residents to evacuate. Many hospitals were closed a year after Katrina. Charity…