Monday morning, 29 August 2005, this is a day most New Orleans residents will never forget. This was the day a category 5 hurricane named Katrina made its catastrophic debut to the Gulf Coast region and killed over 1,300 people. (The White House, 2006, p. 1) After it was all said and done, the nation was shocked at the events that unfolded in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and people were left wondering, “What went wrong?” National Geographic reported that the storm originated about a week
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The Case For New Orleans Cameron Michael Argosy University Dr. Matthew Kuofie Introduction If one could go back in time, it would be fairly easy to avoid any mistakes. The decisions could be made in hindsight which would then make them simple decisions. This could be the case for the city of New Orleans. The city probably should have probably never been built there in the first place. A large portion of the city is at, or below sea level and is very high risk for flooding. There are
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the response by government, NGOs and volunteer groups to Hurricane Katrina. The question for you to answer is whether or not the organizational structure for disaster response for the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and FEMA was adequate to effectively respond to a Cat. 3 - 5 hurricane on August 26th, 2005. As you respond to this question please complete the following: o Review the various reports concerning the Katrina response and relief efforts. Identify an example of a relief effort
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93174/Man 3583 Class Project The Disaster Relief Project of Post- Hurricane Katrina On August 29, 2005 the levees broke and started the flooding of the city with depths of more than 10 feet of water in some places. The category 4 storm had already taken its toll on the city. The head of DHS Michael Chertoff waited a total of 24 hours after receiving knowledge that the levees were breached to make the designation that hurricane Katrina was a "incident of national significance--requiring an extensive
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Ethical Environment of the New Orleans Police Department Melissa Boutte McNeese State University CJUS 630-W Ethics in Criminal Justice Telephone: (337) 888-0633 Email: mboutte@mcneese.edu Instructor: Dr. Wayne Thompson Abstract Society entrusts police officers to protect citizens from harm and to maintain civil order by enforcing laws set before them. The New Orleans Police Department must adhere to a code of conduct which basically means for officers to treat individuals fairly
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certain new reports are getting too much attention. The most important stories are never seen on television or read in the newspaper, or heard on the radio stations, while minor and trivial stories get the most coverage. Hence celebrity engagements, divorce, entrance to rehab centers and DUI cases that are sold to the media. Americans are then left without valuable information contrary to what story is getting 24- hour news coverage. Media bias is a term used to describe prejudice in news and
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Introduction Hurricane Katrina became the New Orleans¡¦ biggest nightmare in year 2005. Even though the city was spared the full impact of the hurricane, the city¡¦s levees were breached and flooded more than 80 percent of the city. At the end of the day, the total death toll has reached 1,836 as of May 2006, and the experts estimated the total cost of Hurricane Katrina at $81.2 billion or more. It was true that Katrina was a natural disaster; therefore, it was unpredictable and unavoidable. Federal
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New Orleans New Orleans (viết tắt NOLA; dân ở đấy dịch là Ngọc Lân; cũng được đọc như "Níu Liên") là thành phố lớn nhất trong tiểu bang Louisiana, Hoa Kỳ. Thành phố này nằm thuộc miền đông nam Louisiana, giữa bờ sông Mississippi và hồ Pontchartrain, khoảng 100 dặm ngược dòng sông từ vịnh Mexico ở 30,07° vĩ độ bắc, 89,93° kinh độ tây. Về mặt luật pháp và hành chính thì thành phố New Orleans với Quận Orleans là một. Thành phố này được đặt tên theo Philippe II, Công tước Orléans, công tước nhiếp chính
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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 head to the Comus Ball at the Marriott
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communicated to the public. (Rose, 2011). In 2005 Mother Nature brought Hurricane Katrina to the coast Lousiana and, she devastated the city of New Orleans. Today our community’s natural disaster is a life-threatening biological agent which has spread in the water supply of several towns. Technology has changed the way a community in a disaserous situation communicates after the Three Mile Island and Hurricane Katrina. Comparing the way an Emergency Management Office communicates with the public and
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