When the Levees Broke, the lock holding back the truth about racism in America broke and left many questioning their status: human or animal. The four-part documentary captures the struggles of mostly black citizens in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina hit. One of the most noticeable differences between Katrina’s black and white victims is that the white citizens were able to escape or ended up better off than their black counterparts in general. For example, a white woman and a white boy with
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Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was one of the worst devastating storms in U.S. history. The storm was unavoidable; the loss of life was. The Golf Coast was hit with category three winds from Louisiana to Alabama causing the water level to rise and flood over 80% of New Orleans and nearby neighborhoods (Raven, Berg, & Hassenzahl, p. 110, 2010). The levees simply could not hold the water and because New Orleans sits below sea level in most places, the city was submerged. Many people were asking how a tragedy
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Hurricane Katrina was the priciest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the coast of the United States in recorded history. The category three natural disaster is the sixth most severe storm on record, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history, and it’s responsible for about 150 billion dollars in damage and the loss of over 1,800 people. It was the evening before Wednesday, August 23, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina had raised from the oceans near Louisiana. In the beginning, its wind
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Hurricane Katrina was a devastating storm, but not a lot of people know how it was born, how it turned into a hurricane, and how its life ended. Hurricane Katrina was first born over the waters of the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 (“Hurricane Katrina”¬¬¬¬). On the next day, it was officially declared a tropical storm and was given the name Tropical Storm Katrina (Caravantes 5). Soon after it was named, it went towards Florida and turned into a Category 1 hurricane on August 26 (Caravantes 7). By August
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Washington Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. The storm is currently ranked as the third most intense United States land falling tropical cyclone, behind only the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969 (Shah, 2005). In this paper I will tell you about some majors things hurricane Katrina effected
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On August 29th 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States of America. Hurricane Katrina had been forming over the Bahamas as early as August 23rd 2005. It had a category 3 rating when it hit land and stretched for about 400 miles. Experts estimate that $100 billion in damages was caused by Katrina. New Orleans was at particular risk since the city is approximately six feet below sea level. The Army Corps of Engineers had built a system of levees and seawalls to prevent flooding
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Yesterday, on August 29,2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. This hurricane mostly hit the Gulf of Mexico and the southern part of the United States. Hurricane Katrina started in the Bahamas as a tropical storm on August 23, 2005. There were many strong winds that got up to 140 miles per hour in Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina costed up to over 80,000 dollars in total. There was about 1,500 deaths from this hurricane. After the hurricane hit, the population of Louisiana went down by a quarter
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deaths caused by the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The key word is preventable. In natural disasters, death tends to be inevitable, however the death toll of hurricane Katrina was not supposed to be as drastic as it was. Between the major levees falling after being neglected and not updated after continuous warning, to the lack of action to prepare even with knowledge a year prior to the hurricane, the event that took place after hurricane katrina were clearly
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Evacuations and Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . On September 1, 2005, with only twelve hours’ notice, various colleagues established a medical facility—the Katrina Clinic—at the Astrodome/Reliant Center Complex in Houston. By the time the resource facility closed about two weeks later, the Katrina Clinic medical staff had seen over 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who sought shelter in the Complex. Herein, we designate the scope of this medical response, citing our major
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Hurricanes Hurricanes are one of the deadliest and most expensive natural disasters around. They are more common in areas of humid and moist weather so they are very foreign to certain places, Areas such as Louisiana has plenty. But to the places where hurricanes are normal,people take them extremely seriously because they kill people and ruin countless amounts of property. This is one of the reason the damage was so expensive in Texas. Many people didnt believe a hurricane could be that bad in
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