In the excerpt “The Hurricane” from Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Jaine refused to leave her husband and town over a storm; assuming it would not be bad and would be easy to repair any damages. To her surprise, much devastation was created by the storm and many racial and class discrepancies in the social system were realized. Similarly, on the 25th of August 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast; leaving behind tremendous damage to multiple cities, specifically New Orleans. Along side infrastructural damage throughout the city, damage within the New Orleans race and class hierarchies was disclosed. In the documentary, directed by Spike Lee, “When the Levees Broke” it reveals that those heavily impacted were low income,…
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 the Zeitoun family could not decide on whether or not to flee or to stay in the city. In the end, Abdulrahman, more commonly known as Zeitoun, stayed behind and Kathy took the children to visit her family in Baton Rouge. What was his justification to stay behind? What happened in his past that gave him the faith to remain during the storm? The book, Zeitoun, answer many of these questions through anecdotes. Dave Eggers uses anachronistic anecdotes to develop characters throughout the story. These stories help describe individual character backgrounds, highlight character traits that will become important later and show the healing process after the storm.…
Operation Ceasefire was composed of two fundamentals. First the operation was established to have a direct attack on gun that are being illegally transported. It wanted to put a stop on the traffickers who were supplying guns to the juveniles. In addition, it wanted the local, federal and state agencies to focus on guns illegally being transported within the states boundaries and not just on guns coming in from adjacent states. This operation brought attention to the types of guns the gang members used more often. Furthermore, Operation Ceasefire wanted to provide help to determine the serial numbers of those guns that had been seized with a demolished code. They hoped that determining these serial numbers investigators have a greater possibility to locate traffickers (National Institution of Justice, 2001, pp. 1-2)…
“The hardest thing was waiting for everything to go back to normal.” Caleb Mulina spoke as he began to explain the tragedies of hurricane Katrina. He was attending college in Hammond, Louisiana in 2005 when he first heard of the Hurricane. He was living in his dorm when he decided the safest place to be was home with his parents in Franklinton.…
D-Day Ever heard of the battle of D-Day? Well it was a major turning point of World War Two. The battle of D-Day was under General Eisenhower who ordered the attack. The Nazis didn’t know they were going to attack because of harsh winds. D-Day was an important battle during World War Two.…
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on the morning of August 29, 2005. The storm produced sustained winds of up 125 mph when it hit that morning. On that same day Katrina caused 53 different levee breaches in greater New Orleans, spilling the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into the city and flooding an overwhelming majority of New Orleans. The floodwaters destroyed countless homes and lives along the way. Some estimates of the cost of Katrina were up in the 200 billions but according to Kimberly Amadeo, “The actual cost of Hurricane Katrina's damage was between $96-$125 billion, with $40-$66 billion in insured losses.” This statistic makes Katrina one of the most expensive natural disasters to ever hit the United States. Money wasn’t the only thing that was lost; the storm killed roughly 1,500 people in Louisiana alone. Floodwaters stayed in New Orleans for weeks leaving many people stranded and fighting for their lives. Post-Katrina New Orleans was a war zone with looting, shootings, robbery, and people desperately needing help from the government. Help was slow to arriving though. People went days and days without food or any kind of help at all. Many people died from all sorts of different causes. Deaths ranged from heat exhaustion in attics to drowning in the street and even in the victims own home. The majority of citizens of New Orleans’ ninth ward feel like the government did not take the right measures in getting help to the victims of the storm and they also feel like the destruction altogether could have been avoided had the levees been built correctly.…
Purpose. The Army needed a vehicle that would help defeat the on-going threat in the new operational battlefield. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom called for a vehicle that would be able to absorb the impact of an Improvise Explosive Device (IED) and the Department of Defense did not have a vehicle in their inventory that would fit the needs of the units on the ground. Since the insurgents relied on these IED, their greatest causality producer, without having to actively engage American Forces. It became a necessity to produce a vehicle that would withstand the blast of an IED and protect the crew inside. The Department of Defense conducted a major rapid acquisition program of the MRAP. This acquisition came with little testing and…
The problem that surrounds my topic is that the group Isis on September 11,2000 on 9/11 they caused an emotional and stressful time to America. That time was so stressful and emotional because people dying from planes that Isis has high jacket. They destroyed two buildings with people on it that later on the building came down causing problems and chaos. What will cause the next World War is if Afghanistan attacks again to America with violence like bombing places or if they threaten America with violence. The purpose to report this situation is to inform about the situation that America and Afghanistan have within each other . There is problem within those two countries which they both use violence to scare each other which this should stop…
It was gray,hazy and raining. This is what is looked like after the horrific storm of hurricane Katrina . Before the storm came Armani was celebrating her 10th birthday. Her family (the Curtis’s ) were eating the cake and then is started pouring down rain and the wind was blowing so hard it busted out some of their windows.The Curtis’s really weren't prepared for the storm . So when it came to their home it hit it hard. When the storm was over they didn’t have much left.Then the went outside to see what was left and suddenly the floodgates busted. Water rushed down their street quickly. When the flood water came. It knocked their house off of the foundation so they started floating down the street into the gulf. The Curtis’s grandmother Memaw dies in the house while they are in the gulf. For Armani’s birthday she got a puppy named Cricket. Cricket fell off the roof…
It is better to have original and authentic ideas, rather than to mirror someone else and hide in their shadow of greatness. Ideas can come from anywhere, they can be about anything and the ideas of The Wednesday Wars is the concept of architecture. Architectural plans in the novel are made for the new school and are treated like an ancient treasure locked away, too important for anyone to see and Mr. Hoodhood makes sure the plans stay in secrecy. But when Mr. Hoodhood’s son, Holling unlocks the treasure and reveals the futuristic blueprints of his father to his friend, who happens to be the daughter of competing architect, Mr. Kowalski. His plans then spread like gooey peanut butter on warm toast and Mr. Kowalski inserts these plans into…
Hurricane Katrina hit the Southeast Gulf Coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2005 as a category 3 hurricane. It was the costliest and one of the top five deadliest storms in United States history. There were approximately 1,800 deaths and this number is disputed to be higher in some reports. Nearly all the deaths resulted because a large segment of the population in the city of New Orleans did not evacuate (Burton and Silver 2006).…
Growing up, the end of October typically meant playing soccer and finding a costume for trick-or-treating, but in 2012, my community became saturated and preoccupied by the anticipation of a coming storm. Although northern New Jersey is not normally where hurricanes violently meet land and its inhabitants, the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29, Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer and candy giving, the days were complete with continued damage from the storm, school cancellations, and gas lines. For my creative project, I decided to investigate the ramifications of Hurricane Sandy to understand and reflect on the occurrences.…
The main question that is asked is how can Canada deal with ISIS? Should the country take an approach such as the previously Conservative government did, enacting Bill C-51? Or should they attempt other courses of action, something that may be more long term? How could they approach this threat of national security while also maintaining civil liberties and privacy rights at the same time? It’s certainly not an easy question to answer, but it’s become certain that Canada needs to, at the very least, take a direction that in the opposite of Bill C-51.…
June 5 1967 Israel delivers a stunning opening blow in the Six-Day war. Within a few hours, the Israeli airstrike devastated the Egyptian air force. Fighting on three different fronts against the combined might of three Arab armies; Israel would win a war within six days. Research on the causes of the Six-Day war, and the military tactics can help one understand how Israel achieved this astonishing victory, and how the results of this war affect Israel today.…
The narrative is set in the USA in 2065. It is a momentous time for the American public as it is the bicentenary of the American Civil War. The celebrations have already been the centre of attention for a long while. The celebration is held on the ninth of April, the time when the American Civil War ended. The weather is clear and beautiful. It seems perfectly fit for celebrations in a festive atmosphere. The bicentennial celebration is broadcast by an American TV Channel. The anchorman has an interview with a nationwide known professor, Mr. Brainard on the grandstand. The US government assigns Professor Brainard the task for supervising the plan as he is an expert on the American Civil War. Brainard is aware that one of the disturbing aspects of the Civil War was its cost and inefficiency,which place a heavy burden on the state. Despite the existing drawbacks , he suggests they still are able to reconstruct a realistic battle by means of modern-day technology. He also explains that the major expenses in any war involve the movement of troops and machinery, medical equipment and personnel and burial expenses. He asserts that it is likely to produce the same impact in a dramatic reconstruction of a battle at a reasonable cost by means of using modern-day technology and cultural development. He thinks out and sketches out an elaborate plan for the celebrations . He says the unique part of the plan is obvious- burying the soldiers right on the battlefield. Therefore, they get rid of a lot of cost and trouble. The battlefield becomes a cemetery! As soon as they agree on the core of the plan, the other details work out pretty well. To implement this plan, they adopt an assembly line procedure, whereby each team is held responsible for a certain part of the plan. First, the computer chooses the soldiers randomly. Next, they hire grave-diggers, masons, gardeners, and florists.…