forty mph winds. Hundreds of thousands of residents near the area evacuated days before the storm was supposed to hit. Katrina was one of the most powerful storms to ever form in the Atlantic Ocean and affected the Bahamas‚ Florida‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi and many other areas. Nearly six months after the hurricane‚ more than 1‚300 bodies were found and hundreds are still unaccounted for. This hurricane was a level five and affected many lives in the south. Once this all happened reporters were quick
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Danny Glover once stated‚ “When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf and the floodwaters rose and tore through New Orleans‚ it did not turn the region into a Third World country…it revealed one” (Glover). As the winds reached speeds of 100 to 140 miles per hour‚ water crashed against the levees‚ breaking them‚ and flooding 80% of Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina’s peaked at a category five‚ but disintegrated into a category three. The third deadliest hurricane is what Hurricane Katrina achieved. In the
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Mississippi rag is a piano piece we can link to ragtime‚ a variation on jazz which appeared in the very early 1900s. Mississippi rag was published by a white man named William Krell‚ however the first ragtime piano piece to be published by an African American was Harlem rag‚ composed by Tom Turpin. Many other popular
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of their lives forever. On Friday morning Craig Donaldson saw on the news that Hurricane Katrina had moved into the Gulf‚ heading in their direction. Craig and Alice‚ his wife contemplated leaving the following day or the day after for Oxford‚ Mississippi. Saturday morning started out rocky. Malcolm‚ their son‚ woke up with a burning fever. With all of this going on Craig prepared for their evacuation by getting the house in order before Katrina hit on Sunday. Around mid-day they decided to get
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The classical principles of arguments are described as an argument synthesis which is a claim that reasonable people could disagree with. According to our textbooks synthesis is defined as something that‚ “Brings two or more arguments together‚ allowing for comparison/contrast‚ rebuttal‚ or accumulation of mutually supporting points” (Lamm‚ p. 79).It adheres to an individual’s capability to be able to write syntheses relies on your ability to derive a relationship amid your sources like writing documents
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Oprah Winfrey The individuals Pathway to Leadership- Born into a broken home in rural Mississippi on January 9‚ 1954 Oprah Winfreys troubled adolescence and life experiences made her the amazingly influential woman she is today. Testing her circumstances and blossoming into an inspirational young actress‚ producer and highly powerful host of the popular ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’‚ the power of media enabled her to enlighten millions of viewers and develop into a “global media leader‚” while her
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Hurricane Katrina On August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and Morgan City‚ Louisiana‚ Biloxi‚ Mississippi‚ and Mobile‚ Alabama. At landfall it was a category 3‚ and it increased to a category 5. This was one of the strongest and most destructive storms to ever hit the US. It left thousands dead‚ homes and buildings destroyed‚ and the cities underwater leaving a negative impact on America socially‚ economically and politically. Socially‚ America was impacted because of how much damage
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Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody Questions: 1. What did the murder of Samuel O’Quinn do to Anne Moody? 2. What were the causes of Anne Moody’s relationship with her mother changing when she went to college at Tougaloo? 3. During the movement‚ why was organizing in Canton‚ Mississippi so much more difficult than in Jackson‚ Mississippi? Introduction Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiographical book written by Anne Moody. The book entails the struggles throughout an African
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Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus Mississippi in 1911. He started writing plays in 1945. Ten years later he released Cat on a Hot Tin Roof‚ which embodied much of Mr. Williams’s experiences during his life. As his father drank and gambled‚ Williams’s family had to continue moving and struggle with money (SparkNotes Editors). This drama is written about a family which is lying and scheming in order to receive a larger portion of a fortune when the character Big Daddy dies. Though numerous people
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Mississippi Appendectomy By: Kevin Cortez February 10th‚ 2015 Perhaps what is most disturbing about the "Mississippi appendectomy" is that there are very few documents that have recorded these events which were indicative of unethical human rights violations. However‚ the few documents that have been found are disturbingly descriptive. Fannie Lou Hamer is often regarded as the individual who coined the term Mississippi appendectomy after she went into the Sunflower City Hospital to have a small
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