New Orleans

One of the most prominent battles in American history is the battle of New Orleans which occurred during the War of 1812. This battle commonly known as the Miracle on the Mississippi and is often overlooked; but, this battle was the final and major conquest of the war. General Andrew Jackson led the troops to triumph at New Orleans, which ensured the growth and westward expansion of the country. Even though, the United States (U.S.) did not anticipate fighting in the battle, the great victory…

One study done after Hurricane Katrina revealed that children were exposed to new traumas after the natural disaster. Some of these traumas were due to community violence during evacuation is well as overcrowding and difficult living situations as a result of evacuation.( cite) An example of a difficult living situation during evacuation…

What if over 15% of the United States disappeared? By the year 2040, more than a million acres of Louisiana will vanish. This is important that Louisiana’s wetlands protection is ensured since it helps protect the coast from hurricanes and storms, they provide a home for wildlife, and is a part of Louisiana’s culture. Louisiana’s wetlands and coast provide protection from storms and hurricanes. Without the help of the wetlands and coast, storms will cause more storm surge, causing more…

New Orleans is located in an undesirable place for incoming hurricanes, as it is directly next to the Gulf, a warm body of water to fuel the hurricanes. New Orleans is also located at a low elevation, while some of the city reaches as high as 25 feet above elevation, the majority of the city sits below sea level and in some cases even as much as 10 feet below. This is known as the “levee effect”, which allowed the city to put people in more dangerous, low lying areas of New Orleans due to…

create several landfalls within the affected area. The wind was moving in a pattern causing a storm surge toward the city like a high tide. Due to poor construction, the floodwall broke the flood wall and levee and like a tsunami, the water flooded New Orleans. The second and third flood walls also collapsed and result in more than eighty percent of the city in water and thousands of people were banished. The levees and flood water failure led…

Louisiana has had reoccurrence natural disasters. The most predominant and frequent one is hurricane. This is a life threatening disaster that has caused plethora of harm to the inhabitants of Louisiana, in particular New Orleans. George L. Sills, article “Overview of New Orleans Levee Failures” speaks about the protective system that was put in place to stop Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (Sills, 2009, para. 4). On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had struck the southeast of Louisiana. The…

born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong's childhood was extremely hard. His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family after his birth. His mother left him with his maternal grandmother. Armstrong was forced to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working to help provide for his family. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys after an accident occurred on New Year's Eve. He got music lessons on the corners of New Orleans and fell in love with…

CE 335 Engineering Mechanics of Soils Section 001 Stalin Galarza The geographic location of New Orleans and the hydrology profiles nearby have risen the flooding tendency of the area; the city was built on low-lying marshland along the Mississippi River. On October 1965 after Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans and Louisiana, the congress approved the USCE flood protection plan, it was called “the barrier plan” it mainly consisted of a number of barrier complexes. Nevertheless,…

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.…

In fact , the rebuilding process endured by the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city in August 2005. Which the storm caused levees to fail, releasing tens of billions of gallons of water into the city. The levee failure contributed to extensive flooding in New Orleans area and surrounding neighborhooding cities. And over 50 breaches in New Orleans hurricane surge protection were the cause of the majority of deaths and destruction during…