educational forums. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8‚ 1954‚ in Tylertown‚ Mississippi‚ and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When she was 4 years old‚ her parents‚ Abon and Lucille Bridges‚ moved to New Orleans‚ hoping for a better life in a bigger city. Her father got a job as a gas station attendant and her mother took night jobs to help support their growing family. Soon‚ young Ruby had two younger brothers and a younger sister. The fact that Ruby Bridges
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scenes‚ told Catlett to paint what she knew best. For Catlett‚ this meant African Americans. After receiving her degree‚ Catlett taught at various high schools and colleges‚ serving for a time as head of the art department at Dillard University in New Orleans. In the mid-1940s Catlett was awarded a Julius Rosenwald Foundation fellowship and used part of it to go to Mexico. In Mexico Catlett became involved with a printmaking workshop‚ Taller de Grafica Popular‚ which through its posters and illustrated
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive storms to ever hit the United States and left behind much devastation to the south coast‚ particularly New Orleans‚ Louisiana. However‚ there were many ways that some of this physical and emotional damage could have been prevented‚ particularly by the government systems and engineers. When the Levees Broke‚ a movie directed by Spike Lee‚ clearly showed this and the interviews of those who lived through the storm were truly heart wrenching. However
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long-lasting. However‚ could the question been plausibly raised whether or not to rebuild New Orleans? Evidently it was. Lance Winslow‚ freelance writer‚ from California did just that in an article titled: Why did God Destroy New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina? Winslow states “Many people believe that God was real angry at mankind and got a wild hair up his butt and sent Hurricane Katrina into the Gulf Shore and New Orleans to teach people a lesson…and if it was a lesson did the little human learn anything
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Mississippi may exceed $150 billion. Hurricane Katrina earn ed the title of costliest hurricane ever in US history. It flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and destroyed more than 100‚000 homes. An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water and up to 20 feet deep in some places. Hurricane Katrina was so powerful that it impacted about 90‚000 square miles. In New Orleans‚ the levees were designed for Category 3‚ but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane‚ with winds up to 175 miles per hour. Nearly
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000 people left New Orleans [New orleans was the major city that was hit during the Hurricane] to go to northern cities to escape the storm. Then on August 29th‚ 2005 Katrina hit New Orleans at about 6 o’clock in the morning. Streets‚ houses‚ buildings and everything else was under 15 feet of water and ⅔ of the city was destroyed within the first 3 hours of the category 5 hurricane. All of this happened before approximately 3 o’clock that’s when Katrina passed the city.
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It hit a couple of cities‚ but it hit the city of New Orleans‚ Louisiana the hardest. New Orleans was very popular for tourists before Katrina hit‚ and still is (Jervis‚ 2015). After it hit New Orleans‚ it left many people devastated; killing an estimated amount of 1‚833 people. Many of people were left homeless. There are still places in New Orleans that hasn’t been restored (Adler‚ 2015). Some of the places that hasn’t been restored in New Orleans are wetlands‚ homes‚ schools‚ factories‚ Six flags
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(2005) he stated‚ “in the city of New Orleans‚ pollution and diseases were the most compounded effects that happened to the city.” John Levine also stated that‚ “the water that inundated New Orleans contains sewage‚ the bodies of humans‚ animals‚ oil‚ gasoline‚ various industrial‚ and toxic household chemicals.” Katrina’s biggest impact was with surge and water. Hurricane Katrina had one of the worst oil spills in history from Louisiana to Alabama. In New Orleans it spilled about 1 million gallons
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Katrina”‚ 2012). However‚ due to inadequate design of the levees and floodwalls protecting Louisiana‚ the hurricane caused over fifty failures in the levees. Tens of billions of gallons of water emerged from these breaches‚ flooding eighty percent of New Orleans and one hundred percent of Saint Bernard Parish (“2005 Levee Failures”‚ 2012). Over eighteen hundred people‚ with the large majority of them from Louisiana‚ were killed because of this disaster‚ making Katrina the deadliest United States hurricane
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congratulate them as well! This class was dubbed the "Katrina Class" for being survivors of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Katrina was named one of the deadliest Hurricanes‚ causing more than 1‚836 deaths. Tulane University is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ where the most significant amount of deaths took place and 80 percent of the city was destroyed. These graduates have survived a lot ‚ and Ellen wants to congratulate them on their achievements. In Ellen’s commencement speech to the
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