Abstract Hurricane Katrina was one of the most deadliest hurricanes to affect the United States. The hurricane killed at least one thousand people and caused at least one hundred billion dollars in damage. The physical damage and the countless number of lives lost are typically all that is reflected upon when discussing Hurricane Katrina but the mental health effects of this devastating hurricane are also important to consider. In addition to its devastating physical affects‚ Hurricane Katrina has
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A Category 5 hurricanes with devastate the state that your in because of how powerful the winds are and being the fact that it’s a category 5.To prepare for a category 5 hurricane a person should come up with an evacuation plan ‚ protect your house ‚ and prepare your car. These three facts are the most important keys to surviving a category 5 hurricane. First if the media says that the hurricane is a category 5‚ your automatically going to have to evacuate. In the article “This is what a category
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and citizens of the world alike have so many more opportunities than back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As Addie W. Hunton‚ Kathryn M. Johnson explain in‚ Two Colored Women With The American Expeditionary Forces‚ and Eric Foner in An American History: Give me Liberty! African Americans were being segregated and given less than optimal living conditions than white citizens
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will identify two major historical turning points in the period from 1865-1900. I will analyze the impact that these turning had on America’s current society‚ economy‚ politics‚ and culture. I will describe two ways the Reconstitution period may have been affected if President Lincoln had not been assassinated. Finally‚ I will give examples of how the federal and/or state courts and legislature passed down laws between 1865-1900 that served to discriminate against non-white citizens and immigrants.
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Hurricanes bring a lot of destruction and death. a specific hurricane event that took place was hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy was a powerful hurricane that took place in 2012 along the east coast. Hurricanes can cause destruction to cities‚ and death to many people. First‚ hurricanes form in warm air‚ and low air pressure. Usually it is storming and or also raining. The warm ocean water heats the cooler surface low pressure air above the ocean. The Hot air rises till it cools down‚ after that
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Hurricane Katrina Have you heard of a Hurricane? They are a type of three tropical storms. The word hurricane is from the Mayan storm god Hurakan was famous for helping create humanity and for being like wind and storms. Hurricanes like Katrina‚ Andrew‚ Sandy‚ and Inged and lots of others. Could be able to reach a diameter of 100 km-1500 km ‚and would be whirling around so I would stay a satisfactory distance away. Also it could have a chance to reach a rotation speed of 350km/hour isn’t that
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The Hurricane. The poem ‘The Hurricane’ creates a tense and fearful atmosphere to such an extent that the reader is made to feel as though they have lived through the hurricane themselves. The poet also uses many poetic devices to express this feeling‚ as well as almost exaggerating the aftermath. All of this creates the vivid atmosphere of the ‘roaring‚ screaming and returning‚’ that was so relentless in the poet’s eyes on the day of the hurricane. The scene of the poem is set in the first line
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probably imagining and thinking how fast that is. One of the largest hurricanes was hurricane Katrina‚ who in some parts or New Orleans‚ sunk up to 8 feet of land in water. Tornadoes and hurricanes are two of the most violent and destructive natural disasters that can happen. People and animals die‚ homes are destroyed‚ and the repair process takes much longer than the actual disaster. With all of this knowledge‚ I believe that hurricanes are the worst natural disaster‚ because of the evidence I found
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Case Study: Hurricane Katrina Ashford University April 29th‚ 2013 Case Study: Hurricane Katrina On day 23 of August tropical storm Katrina formed of the coast of the Bahamas. During which time residences throughout the east coast of Florida were already preparing. During the next six days Katrina made a turn to the south west and when it crossed under the Florida Keys it quickly veered north as it gained strength and turning from a category one hurricane to a category 5 in a matter of
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Hurricane Irene was a massive‚ and destructive hurricane‚ traveling many miles from the coast of Africa‚ reaching the eastern shores of the United States and northern Canada. The hurricane destroyed houses‚ and nearly injured several innocent people‚ creating mass tornados following in and around its path. The major dates of Irene’s occurrence span from August 20th to August 29th 2011. Precipitation solely from the storm reached over 17 inches in some places where the storm was at its height‚ with
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