Louisiana is the home of America’s wetlands. Louisiana’s coast can be defined in multiple ways. Gay Gomez‚ a resident of Louisiana‚ describes its coast as a place of interaction among land‚ people‚ and ideas rather than “just a place on the map” (Gomez x). While some view it as a twisting line of the shore‚ others view it as a large triangular coastal zone (Gomez x). The foundation of the wetlands was formed by the Mississippi River Basin sediments clay‚ silt‚ and sand which were carried and accumulated
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Pat Smith is a writing instructor who composed a piece called “Laugh Baby Laugh‚ Cry Baby Cry”. The article is about the 2010 BP oil spill and claims that chanting is what big businesses use to control everyday people. To support this claim‚ Smith writes about the 2008 National Republican Convention‚ and how the leaders like Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani were chanting in support of BP drilling in the Gulf Coast. However‚ this is her only referable evidence she uses. Any other piece of evidence that
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played out the way they did. The three main schools of thought I am going to discuss include; how the federal response to Hurricane Katrina caused a political fallout‚ how Louisiana was not structurally prepared for a storm of this scale‚ and how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina changed the political landscape of Louisiana. Let’s begin with the politics. Typically‚ a big factor that determines a good president is how he or she responds to
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plan. o The U.S. military? The U.S. military had waited too long. o FEMA? FEMA was poorly led. o The Government? The government was indifferent to victims who were mostly poor and black. 2. Why was the Louisiana National Guard unable to help? At the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard‚ located in the lower 9th ward‚ the soldiers were not yet aware that the canal levees were giving way. The Guard’s commander was monitoring the situation from Baton Rouge. He was given misleading
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Brown v. Louisiana During the 1960’s‚ many African-Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded the federal government assist them and help resolve the issues that plagued them. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. Despite the efforts of these groups and Supreme Court rulings that ordered the desegregation
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such a large number of people-lacked assets and lacked communications The Government? Not enough government support for the state and Bush really ignored the state for the first week of the storm. 2. Why was the Louisiana National Guard unable to help? The Louisiana National guard were unable
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“the financial cost [that] may top $100 billion” (O’Neill‚ 2005). The area that we mainly affected was Louisiana in the United States. This is where the hurricane caused the most damage and destruction. The major event was of course the actual hurricane‚ but there were other effects that lasted over a very long extensive period of time and still continue to affect people today Though Louisiana is where most of the destruction occurred‚ this was not the only place that was affected by Hurricane
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storm and eventually a hurricane as it moved west and neared the Florida coast on the evening of 25 August. After crossing southern Florida - where it left some 100‚000 homes without power - it strengthened further before veering inland towards Louisiana‚ eventually making landfall at Grand Isle‚ approximately 90km south of New Orleans. This is a map showing the path of the hurricane going through Florida then heading straight for New Orleans. This diagram shows that when there is green dots the
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Many lives were lost‚ billions of dollars were spent for repair and construction‚ it was one of the most powerful storms in U.S history‚ and it had an effect on the economy. Katrina was a powerful natural disaster that devastated the coasts of Louisiana‚ Cuba‚ New Orleans‚ Florida‚ and the Bahamas. The hurricane overwhelmed these locations on August twenty third through thirty first in 2005. The hurricane claimed many lives during and after the storm. Alabama had two fatalities‚ Florida fourteen
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Demas‚ L.L. Robbins and D.L. Lavoie. Science and the Storms: the USGS Response to the Hurricanes of 2005. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306‚ 283. Eds. 2007. Print. Gagliano‚ Sherwood M. Effects of Geological Faults of Levee Failures in South Louisiana. Washington D.C. U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works. 2005. Print. McGarity‚ Thomas O. and Kysar‚ Douglas A.‚ Did NEPA Drown New Orleans? The Levees‚ The Blame Game‚ and the Hazards of Hindsight (2006). Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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