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    Essay On Atchafalaya

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    by day‚ year by year‚ the health of our economy depends on victory (Mcphee‚ 1987).”The narrator of the film said this about the Atchafalaya navigational lock and the complex of associated structures built in an effort to stop the capture of the Mississippi river. The Atchafalaya is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States and contains about one acres of the United States lakes‚ swamps‚ etc. The name Atchafalaya comes from Choctaw for long river‚ from hachcha‚ river‚ and falaya‚ long. The

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    Human Trafficking In Our Wallets By: Kimmie Anderson Honors Forum Kimmie Anderson Dr. West and Ms. Wells Honors Forum 23 April 2015 Human Trafficking In Our Wallets The exploitation and trafficking of women‚ men‚ and children is a humanitarian problem on a global scale in which “worldwide‚ there are between 12 million and 27 million trafficking victims… the International Labor Organization estimates that more than 20 million men‚ women‚ and children are victimized by forced labor and sex

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    its existence‚” (“Quotable Quote” 1). This too can be said about natural disasters in today’s time. A natural disaster is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as‚ “any form of nature that has catastrophic consequence‚ such as an avalanche‚ earthquake‚ flood‚ forest fire‚ hurricane‚ lighting‚ tornado‚ tsunami or volcanic eruption.” Many times the people affected by such an event take a backseat to the actually disaster itself. Why is that? Why is it that certain parts of the world‚ when hit by a natural

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    New Orleans Economics

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    to rebuild the city in a way that justifies it being done. They should invest to rebuild to a level 5 hurricane based of frequency reports of storms. This would greatly reduce flooding to the entire Mississippi flood plain. They would have this opportunity now since many believe New Orleans will flood again and will not relocate to or move back to the

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    The Control on Nature

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    Perez The Control of Nature Response Paper It is an extremely difficult task for engineers to design a “dam” like the Old River Control Structure in southern Louisiana so that they can be sure that it will prevent avulsion of the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya. The flood of 1973 that caused so much damage to the Old River Control Structure was the affect of many things. There were unusually heavy snows in the upper valley. The South of the state received an exceptional amount of rainfall. Eventually

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    together. Each CD contains the following info: William Thomas Narmour‚ fiddle. Shellie Walton Smith‚ guitar. Old Timey‚ String Band‚ Mississippi country fiddle. Informative booklet notes by Harry Bolick. Detailed discography. Abridged notes “Polk Brockman of Okeh records discovered Narmour and Smith at the Winona fiddle contest organized by Doc Bailey in 1927. Their recording‚ “Carroll County Blues‚” with “Charleston #1” as a B-side‚ was “one of the biggest selling records of 1929‚” according

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    Louisiana Wet Land Loss

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    | |2013 | | | | | | | Louisiana Wet Land Loss [pic] The coastal land loss for Louisiana has become a growing concern for the people of Southeast Louisiana over the last decade. “Coastal Louisiana wetlands make up the seventh largest delta on Earth‚ contain about 37 percent of the herbaceous marshes in the United States‚ and

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    are being explained in the passage is how Herbert Hoover became president‚ his responsibilities‚ and how the community thought of him as a president. He helped during the Mississippi flood and helped with 120‚000 Americans in Europe. First Body Paragraph Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch‚Iowa and lived near the Mississippi River. But when he was six years old his father died‚but then when three years went by his mother also died as well. Then he had to move to Oregon with his aunt and uncle

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    Country Music History

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    in Bristol‚ Tennessee on August 1‚ 1927 when Ralph Peer signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to record their music under the label known as Victor Records. Jimmie Rodgers‚ who is known as the father of music was born on September 8‚ 1897 in Meridian‚ Mississippi. He was raised as the youngest of three brothers‚ but experienced a devastating event at a very young age when his mother died. This left him to bounce from relative to relative in Mississippi and Alabama until he returned to live

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    Albany‚ Mississippi in 1897. In 1902 they moved to Oxford

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