Saturday nights. We will have $5 dollar lunch specials, which will be offered 7 days a week. The atmosphere will be that of being at your house sitting down at a meal, a real down home southern style meal. The décor will be contemporary with old and new influences. I will also have a little gift shop that offers souvenirs of your visit to Louisiana, if you are an out of state visitor. Now all proceeds will go to a local charity, minus what needs to be taken out to sustain the restaurant, plus donations
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mentions Simon Cowell helping to donate over $200 million to homelessness and poverty. Jay makes note of how powerful and influential Cowell and the show’s creator, Sam Fuller, have become. He even mentions how American Idol as a show helped aid New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. These points are all accurate, and indeed important. However, the only thing Jay says regarding the music industry is that its reputation is boosted when its celebrities do charitable things. He neglects to
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Montel Richardson Sr. Historical Books July 15, 2014 A Sign of Togetherness Whenever our country faces a time of turmoil, it is evident because this is mainly the time you see people coming together. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of mission workers, construction gurus, and people from all walks of life headed south. The gulf coast was in a season of despair after the horror of the damage Katrina caused had been revealed. The water had evaporated, the smell
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Today is July 14th. It has been really sunny and hot since I arrived a week ago. I am in Mexico for another month. I hope that this nice weather will last until the end of my trip. On this photo that I send you I am with Rodrigez. He is my supervisor here. He is the one who taught me how to build the “abrigo” like he would says. Since I arrived we built three shelter for the ones who lost their homes after the terrible storm. It ravager all the south of Mexico. From what I heard it was the biggest
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think Bienivlle put New Orleans in a bad location. Who is Bienville? He is a person who put New Orleans in a bad location if you ask me but is just my options. The reason I say this is because of Hurricane Katrina and some of the wars that happened that was very bad and very bloody. The first topic I will talk about will be Hurricane Katrina.The storm hit New Orleans in 2005.It totally wiped away the whole city by costing the United States billions of dollars to help New Orleans get back up on their
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helped to transform the traditional New Orleans style into a completely different form of jazz. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana in a very poor neighborhood. His father, a laborer, abandoned the family when he was young, and his mother was an irresponsible single parent. She left Armstrong and his sister in the care of their grandmother(Source C). Armstrong was taken out of school in fifth grade to begin working. On New Year's Eve in 1912, Armstrong fired
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New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods. It is within these neighborhoods where New Orleans’ cultural seeds are sown and community identity is established. The neighborhoods are where cultural traditions have been invented and preserved: cuisine, architecture, second-line parades, and jazz funerals. The cultural constituency of New Orleans’ neighborhoods have been instrumental in shaping the city’s old and new histories, social interactions, and the international affair the world has with the “Big
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The second hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall along the coasts of Mississippi and Louisiana shortly before midnight on August 17th. Named Hurricane Camille, the tropical cyclone was one of the strongest to strike mainland in the United States during the twentieth century. Hurricane Camille was also the second most intense and the third deadliest hurricane recorded in the United States. The Category 5 weather event caused approximately 250 deaths and billions of dollars
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Where is the Light? Tennessee Williams uses light, and the absence of light in A Streetcar Named Desire to show the relationship between truths and hidden realities. The role of the absence of light is best seen in the relationship between Mitch and Blanche and how Blanche shies away from light in order to hide her age from Mitch, and in a more subtle attempt to hide her past and the reality of what actually happened in Laurel. The most literal “hiding” that occurs is Blanche’s hiding of her real
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A Street Car Named Desire Tennessee Williams suggests that Blanche represents the faded American past in a few different ways. One way is her difficulty fitting in with life in New Orleans. New Orleans is a modern urbanized city unlike Laurel, which is a small rural town where Blanche comes from. Blanche's life is crumbling just like the old south is crumbling. Blanche and Stanley were in two completely separate and different worlds, which caused major conflicts between the two. The biggest
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