August 25, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in New Orleans Louisiana, killing 1,836 people third deadliest hurricane in the United States history. A town that sits below sea level never stands a chance of levee embankment not able to withstand the overflow of a flood from a river. When New Orleans Louisiana was founded in construction of the levee along the river began, and more extensive levee was built as the city grew. The barriers were erected to prevent seasonal flooding. Katrina was
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“The Big Uneasy” by Harry Shearer is a documentary about the disastrous flooding of New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina in a different viewpoint. While mass media describes the flood as well as the hurricane as a natural disaster, Shearer claims that the flooding was actually a man-made disaster, not a natural one; and the film contains comprehensive investigations with scientific data to support the claim. “The Big Uneasy” emphasize on the ineffective design and maintenance of the flood-protection
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Final Paper: Leadership & Katrina PART 1 A) Learning about the different leadership models in this class has taught me about how to be a better leader. It has also made me see leadership skills in myself that I wasn’t fully aware of and made them come to the surface and develop. I learned that leadership doesn’t fit into one thought process; there are many models and many ways to exhibit and act on leadership. I learned why I do what I do when we decided on what we value. I knew what I valued
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towards a ‘more important’ war for oil in Iraq. The above are just two issues focused on, of many, which have attributed to the cause and effects of ‘natural’ disasters. Image 1. Example of Racial Discrimination outside of the superdome in New Orleans. Bibliography Boyle, Mark (2014) - 'At Risk: Society and Natural
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cities and states caught wind of the news from the National Weather Services, several mandatory evacuation protocols were placed into effect for the first time ever. Hurricane Katrina affected the United States politically, economically, and socially due to the ill advised decision making and faults within local
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Wesleyan University. Crisis Communication Critique Paper Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 25, 2005. It was a category 2 tropical typhoon that devastated vast parts of the city. The canals that were in New Orleans were not built to withstand the typhoon. This typhoon caused canal breaches and pumping-station failures. This caused a great deal of flooding of about 80 percent of the areas in New Orleans. Hurricane Katina caused a great deal of damage and displacement of many residents
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Over seven years ago, one of the deadliest hurricanes struck the United States on the early morning of August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina was an extraordinary powerful hurricane that took the lives of several people, and it is considered the third deadliest hurricane to ever strike the country on top of being the costliest. Devastation spread throughout the central Gulf Coast as people from the affected areas evacuated their cities in hopes that they would have a home and a place to work when they
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Super-dome in New Orleans, a public facility which was made for situations such as the hurricane and flooding only had limited supplies to begin with that had only accepted 15,000 refugees leaving the rest with no where to go.77 There were no other plan for anyone else which left thousands of people to panic, desperate for food , water and most importantly for protection. This caused them to break into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center complex that later just created more chaos.79 If New Orleans had
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released a report that listed three most likely catastrophic events. Among the three listed was a catastrophic hurricane hitting New Orleans. There were many more warnings for the city of New Orleans to upgrade the levee systems. They were also told that citizens should evacuate if there was a category three storm expected. The concern was due to the fact that New Orleans is seven to ten feet below sea level and looks like a gigantic soup bowl
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occurred. One of the most damaged areas was the city of New Orleans. Eighty percent of the city flooded due to breaches of the levee system; because of the tragedies of this storm, America became a “new” America (Raven, Berg, & Hassenzahl, 2010)! The Mississippi River formed as a result of sediments depositing at the mouth of the river. Since New Orleans was a profitable area for importing and exporting goods a system of canals and levees were built so that navigation would be easier and flooding
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