Super Storm Sandy Many hurricane’s has occurred all across the United States‚ some worse than others. Hurricane Sandy is one that we will never forget about. Super Storm Sandy‚ a Category 3 storm‚ as known as Hurricane Sandy was a dramatic event that happened in October 2012. Sandy was a post-tropical cyclone that swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Sandy begun as a tropical wave but it quickly aroused into a tropical storm in just 6 hours. It upgraded
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For my midterm book review I chose‚ Diary From The Dome: Reflections on Fear and Privilege during Katrina‚ by Paul A. Harris. Paul Harris is currently the manager of a library information desk at the University of California‚ San Diego. In his book‚ Mr. Harris begins by recounting his first visit to New Orleans 28 years prior to Hurricane Katrina. He falls in love with the city even though he only spends a few days there. He later makes several more trips. On his fateful trip to trip to the city
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Communication between the people of New Orleans and the city government was a reason why there was so many casualties. During any natural disaster‚ winds can harm any communication systems‚ especially a storm like Hurricane Katrina. Most of modern day communication tools rely on obstacles that are built on land‚ such as radio antennas and cellphone towers. Katrina’s fast winds knocked down a 400 foot antenna that was built to last through winds that would blow up to 150 mile-per-hour. Weakening communication
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over by European control. Hernando de Soto was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River‚ but French explorers‚ Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were the first to explore the river while searching for a water route to the Pacific Ocean. Although the two explorers did not discover all there was to the river‚ Sieur de La Salle was the first to sail and complete the journey of the entire Mississippi River. La Salle declared that the river belonged to the King of France (Lecture Notes
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The tribes were Creek‚ Choctaw‚ Creek‚ Chicksaw and the Muskogee tribes. Choctaw tribe contain many of people. Their territory was now modern day Alabama‚ Mississippi and Louisiana. George Gain was responsible for moving this tribe out of the Southwest. It took the years 1831 to 1833 to remove them. The Choctaw tribe were not very violent‚ unlike the Seminoles. In 1832 the seminoles were called for a meeting
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The Atchafalaya River is a 137 mile long distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south‚ just west of the Mississippi River and is the fifth largest river in North America‚ by discharge. (From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia) The Atchafalaya River is navigable and provides a significant industrial shipping channel for the state of Louisiana‚ as well as the cultural heart of the Cajun Country. Fun fact it’s been closed
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in 1909‚ in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ grew up in a prosperous home with her two younger brothers. Her parent was an Ohio-born insurance man and a strong-minded West Virginian schoolteacher‚ who settled in Jackson in 1904 after their marriage. Eudora’s school life began attending a white-only school. As born and brought up under strict supervision and influence‚ at the age of sixteen she somehow convinced her parents to attend college far enough from home‚ to Columbus‚ Mississippi and then to Madison‚
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Albany‚ Mississippi in 1897. In 1902 they moved to Oxford
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didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career‚ he began to study accountancy1 at Mississippi State University. After graduating at the University in Mississippi School of Law in 1981‚ he went on to practise law for nearly a decade in Southaven‚ specializing in criminal law and civil law. In 1983‚ he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990. Now he lives with his family in Virginia‚ Mississippi. Since first publishing "A Time to Kill" in 1989‚ Grisham has written one
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Black people homes looked more like shacks‚ but for white people houses were better‚ but don’t look like our homes today. The climate is warm‚ summers are hot and winters cool. My opinion on the adults in Prom Night in Mississippi‚ the white parents like to stick to tradition‚ if they ever saw a coloured person with their child or near their property‚ they would be in big danger. Jessica’s friend who was black dropped her home in the same car as her. But‚ when her step-dad
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