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    Since Hurricane Katrina‚ the recovery work faced many challenges. After the storm with few days and because of the flooding which prevents the access to many parts of New Orleans it was very difficult to start the rescue missions. Financial‚ emotional and health elements made each Katrina survivor’s recuperation story diverse and every component made remarkable issues for those people and their families. Protection tricks and temporary worker extortion made numerous individuals watchful and wary

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    It struck on August 23rd‚ 2005 and was listed as a Category 5 hurricane. Much damage was made in New Orleans partly due to the fact that the levee’s broke because of the poor quality work done by the engineer. Not able to sustain any impact from the water bursting through in a matter of hours the city began to flood

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    CANCUN‚ Mexico - Hurricane Wilma is long gone‚ but those it left stranded on Mexico’s Caribbean coast are fed up and ready to go home after spending the better part of a week in foul-smelling shelters. President Vicente Fox said getting tourists home — and getting others back by the start of the high season in December — was one of Mexico’s highest national priorities‚ given that Cancun attracts so many visitors. On Monday‚ buses began ferrying hundreds of tourists out of Cancun to Merida‚ about

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    Shanequa Miller Weather and climate are two similar but different things. Weather is the short term properties of the troposphere at a given place and time. We see everyday how weather works. Climate is the average long term weather of an area. The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled since long before we came onto the scene. Climate lasts longer then weather. Weather can come and go quickly when climate will only change a little at a time. Does weather impact our climate and environment? That’s

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    In my opinion‚ one word to describe Eileen Pollack’s journey through life is resiliency. Honestly‚ I wasn’t looking forward to attending the lecture at first because I assumed she was going to bash on males and promote feminism for an hour. I also believed that I would be the only guy there. Nonetheless‚ my assumption was completely wrong‚ and I was immature to even think that for a minute. Within the first moments of listening to her talk‚ I was moved and inspired. She grew up in New York in the

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    A devastating flood hit Key West Florida on October 24‚ 2005 that was caused by hurricane Wilma. The flood caused about twenty-nine billion dollars in damage‚ killed twenty-five people‚ and flooded all of Key West. Although the flood caused a lot of damage to the houses‚ buildings and landscape of Florida it could have been worse. Since Florida has such high risk for flooding they have prevention methods in place. One of the bigger and more effective methods are seawalls which are built in the

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    Divraj Gill T. Chaudhry CLU3M0-B Monday‚ November 3rd‚ 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Many rights and freedoms of Rubin Carter were violated due to the wrongful conviction‚ which he spent 20 years of his life in prison. Rubin was convicted twice for the triple homicide. The levels of government that were presented in the film and the case are both federal and provincial. The New Jersey Supreme Court declared Rubin guilty twice‚ a provincial function. The federal function in the movie

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    Why is Katrina living from paycheck to paycheck? Here you should address the social structural (societal) factors (i.e.‚ legal‚ economic‚ health care‚ etc.) that influence her life. To what extent‚ if any‚ does/did her own behavior and personal choices affect her life? Throughout the documentary‚ it is clear that Katrina has been through a lot of hardships in the past few years. Her husband of many years was addicted to prescription pain killers. She had to support him and their three children‚ but

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    The media portrayal of African Americans during hurricane Katrina was quite biased. While the people of Louisiana were fighting to survive‚ and trying to flee dangerous flood waters they were spoke of in a very negative connotation on certain media outlets. The disparaging remarks were so egregious that

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