The two essays I chose for my final portfolio were Maira Kalman’s “Back to the Land” interpretive essay and Josh Neufled “A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge” interpretive essay. I found it quite easy when it came to deciding which two interpretive essays I would have to choose for evaluation because I was able to analyze both the purpose and audience clearly in the two essays. Also‚ with both Kalman and Neufeld’s essays I received positive responses‚ and felt that I could confidently write about both
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Lunch was over and students were filing into the classroom. As soon as we got inside the atmosphere felt really uncomfortable. I looked to the second row of desks and saw Katrina‚ a long-time friend‚ digging through her desk‚ Mrs. Nakigawa‚ our homeroom teacher‚ looking over her shoulder with concern. “…but‚ it was here before P.E hour‚ I know it was. My mom reminded me to take it off before I left this morning!” It had been a minute or so since everyone had realized something was genuinely wrong
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BEACH RESORT DISASTERS‚ AN ECONOMIC HAZARD Many areas alongside the coastline of the USA are very prone to large scale and highly destructive natural disasters‚ such is the case of Dauphin Islands‚ Ala.‚ whereon severe storms and massive hurricanes can decimate whole towns. Often such regions are inhabited by well-off communities who simply choose to live in a beach resort knowing so well about the risk and its magnitude. Such communities then rely on the fact that the federal government put
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Word Count: 989 Paper #1 Federal Governments Role in the Dust Bowl The infamous Dust Bowl of the 1930s was one of the most horrific and devastating environmental crises to hit twentieth century North America. The Dust Bowl was a period of unyielding dust storms which inevitably caused major agricultural‚ ecological and irreversible damage to the American and Canadian prairie lands. The Dust Bowl lasted from 1930 to 1936‚ in some areas the drought lasted until 1940. The Dust Bowl
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shelters with enough food and water and to mobilize city and school buses for evacuation. Five hundred were flooded when the levees broke. 5. Where were state and local officials during the aftermath of Katrina? Why was this a problem? 80 miles away at the state capital during the aftermath of Katrina. This was a problem because they did not know about the extent of the damage and were unable to help. 6. What were the critics pointing out as trouble with the governor of Louisiana? They said the
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to more than 150 miles. The winds in a hurricane usually exceed 74mph. 2. one of the worst hurricanes was Katrina on August 23rd‚ 2005 the storm begins to form and it technically didn’t end until August 30th‚ 2005. on auguast 23rd katrina hit between Miami and Fort Lauderdale‚ Flodia as a category 1 hurricane. having winds of 70mph and 5 inches of rain fall. then on the 27th Katrina strengthened to a category 3 hurricane‚ with top winds exceeding 115; later that day the winds started to exceed
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Natural Disasters and on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Table of Contents Introduction Why Study the Impacts of Natural Disasters on the Tourism Industry? Taiwan Earthquake of 1991 Japan Earthquake of 2011 Market Rebuilding/Hurricane Katrina Works Cited page 1 page 2 pages 3-4 page 5 page 6-7 page 8 2|Page THM 1311 Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality Management The Impacts of Natural Disasters and on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Introduction The purpose of this
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becomes a positive influence throughout life. To illustrate this idea‚ the 3 texts that I have chosen are a wordless picture book called ‘Belonging’ by Jeannie Baker‚ the memoir ‘Romulus‚ My Father’ by Raimond Gaita and a poem by Bruce Dawe called Katrina. Throughout my speech I will be explaining how these texts use their own techniques to express their ideas about belonging. Belonging‚ the picture book by Jeannie baker is a wordless picture book that uses illustrations and symbols to convey the
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budgets‚ and social and political desensitization helped to bring this nation to the flooded rooftops of the Lower Ninth Ward." (Valentine‚ 2015) Not to mention‚ pre and post-Katrina were also fueled by a lack of procedural justice‚ seeing as the community was neither involved in either stage. A scurry of rumors among Katrina victims‚ that the levees were intentionally broken in order to sacrifice those areas most affected by the storm for more economically advantageous locations in the city and poor
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associated with the trauma. This theory states that after a traumatic event‚ people often search for meaning‚ ascribe cause or blame‚ to resolve conflicts between the events and their beliefs (Resick‚ 2001). Many of the people impacted by Hurricane Katrina may feel this way after such a traumatic event. They may think “why did this happen to us?” According to this idea‚ these people might alter their memory of the event to accommodate the new information. Another impact is the re-experiencing the emotions
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