balls. The large curtain would be drawn back initiating the Meeting of the Courts, making the tradition very simple and open to everyone (Hémard). Unfortunately, the Municipal Auditorium suffered severe damage from the levees breaking during Hurricane Katrina forcing the two old-line organizations to change venues to two hotels on Canal Street (Hémard). The change of venue brought about a new tradition of rolling out a red carpet on Canal Street making a pathway for Rex, his Queen, and the court to
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represent, in her book Beyond Katrina the story of Joe's attempt to rebuild his life and the simple tragic act that leads to his incarceration. Before Katrina, Joe's life and business is on track. “He was a hard worker – efficient and likeable” (46). After Katrina, the misery of natural disaster and the injustice in the government reforms forced him to yield to the temptation of a lucrative drug deal, leading to his imprisonment. Without a doubt, it is the hurricane Katrina that made him end up in prison;
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In Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing”, he said, “I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear”(Whitman 12). The rest of this poem shows how everyone in America is different, but still the same by saying, “The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The woodcutter’s song, the plowboys on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown. The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing
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THE OTHER AMERICA by Jonathan Alter uses the Hurricane Katrina as an example of one of these circumstances. Katrina devastated New Orleans and other cities in Louisiana when it came out of the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Katrina caused devastating floods and property damage to those in the affected areas. As the article by Alter says, this devastation lead to many in the New Orleans region
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Monitoring Our Home Planet Michael Davis Argosy University Abstract This paper is being submitted in details the effect that natural disaster has on the planet Earth. Analyzing the impact of potential natural disasters on: geography, resources, politics, economics, and disaster preparedness and how to monitor the future natural disasters. Monitoring Our Home Planet Natural Disaster has a major impact on the inhabitants that live on the planet Earth. A natural disaster is a major
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During a disaster, communication is extremely important in order to protect property and as many lives as possible. Katrina was able to cause a tremendous amount of damage to the city of New Orleans. The situation was made much worse by the failure in communications. The failure was not limited to just the state government, multiple entities were affected by the unsuccessful communications. The communication failures that contributed to the overall disaster occurred during and after the storm. As
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information in each section, by demonstrating how you might begin each section. In these examples section I and II present questions that the Preliminary Report would answer. For example, the first paper would explain who was affected by Katrina, what Katrina was, and so on. Section III presents questions that the Preliminary Report would not answer but would describe. For example, the first paper would point out that experts are still debating whether the Army Corps of Engineers was negligent.
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strengthening the community’s preparedness efforts. This will enhance a community’s ability to handle and or manage hazards/disasters. History has shown us that when a disaster occurs there is often a lack of manpower to respond community members. Hurricane
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accused of being so concerned about the possibility of a terrorist attack that it failed to prepare properly for a much more inevitable natural disaster” (The Guardian Web, 2005). Both FEMA and the National Guard failed to make preparation for Hurricane Katrina victims even though there were multiple warnings of what could happen or could go wrong doing a tumultuous storm around the Gulf Coast of the United States. Instead of FEMA focusing most of their attention trying to catch a terrorist on an airplane
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I am writing in response to Laura Colarusso’s published online article, “The Five most outrageous Obama Care analogies” published on November 9th, 2013. Laura Colarusso believed that the topic of healthcare reform has inspired some decidedly heated rhetoric. This is why she has listed 5 examples of the most outrageous analogies. The focus of this article is to compare and contrast the negatives of Obama Care to negative events in world history such as slavery, and World War II. In my opinion, the
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