efforts were executed by Coast Guard‚ FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (FEMA US&R)‚ the Department of Defense‚ and other Federal agencies. The Coast Guard managed to rescue and evacuate over 33‚000 people. This earned them the name the “New Orleans Saints”. FEMA US&R teams also saved 6‚500 lives (Chapter Four: A week of Crisis). Furthermore‚ FEMA was one of the first organizations to provide housing assistance to over 700‚000 citizens after the hurricane. They also paid the hotel costs for
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leaders and residents who remained in New Orleans without water‚ food or shelter‚ and the deaths of several citizens by thirst‚ exhaustion‚ and violence days after the storm itself had passed. The criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina primarily consisted of accusations of mismanagement and lack of leadership in the relief effort in response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath‚ specifically in the delayed response to the flooding of New Orleans. Although
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wiped out people homes and dreams. When Hurricane Katrina finally hit Louisiana‚ a lot people thought it was going be ok to stay‚ but the outcome was more then what they expect. Summary Twelve year old Lanesha lives in tight-knit community in New Orleans Ninth Ward. She doesn’t have a fancy house. She live with mama Ya-Ya. She can see ghost and is very special. Mama Ya-Ya saw Katrina in her dreams. So Lanesha and she prepared for the hurricane like everyone else. Sadly‚ Mama Ya-Ya die during the
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bringing winds sustained at 100-140 miles per hour‚ but when landfall was made it peaked at a Category 5 hurricane with winds up to 175 miles per hour and was measured about 400 miles across (history.com). On August 29‚ 2005 the New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issues the New Orleans its first mandatory evacuation order and evacuations began for residents; they were sadly informed that the area of the Gulf Coast would be virtually inhabitable for weeks or longer. Hurricane Katrina
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“European harmonies and American instruments” (Barber 53) and particularly the “music of African- Americans who were determined to keep their own traditions alive” (Barber 53) during slavery times around the 1820s. The music of the slaves began in New Orleans at a place called the Congo Square (Today known as Louis Armstrong Park) where they played spirituals‚ blues‚ and ragtime music and chanted and danced in circular patterns to the music. Then they mixed that music with “European-based military
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music have influenced the rest of the country immensely. Tennessee Williams explored the cultural and spiritual experience of the South‚ to which he belonged and in Streetcar he dramatizes a brutal culture clash between New Orleans industrial worker‚ Stan Kowalski‚ representing the new America and his aristocratic‚ intellectual rival‚ Blanche Dubois‚ representing the old. The dramatic effects of Streetcar are obvious in the settings
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What happened before the hurricane? The tropical misery which transformed into Hurricane Katrina‚ constructed over Bahamas on August 23‚2005‚ and the weather predictors soon had the ability to warned people living amongst the Gulf Coast region‚ that a large storm is on its way. By the time August the 28th had hit evacuations were under way through out the Gulf of the United States. That same day National Weather predictors predicted after the storm the majority of the Gulf Coast would be unsafe
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Considered as one of the top five deadliest storms in America‚ Hurricane Katrina was a tropical cyclone that engulfed the United States and killed close to 2000 people. It also destroyed property and goods worth billions of dollars. Though it began far in the Bahamas‚ the storm left a trail of devastation along the Gulf Coast‚ Florida‚ and Texas‚ but most of the damage occurred in Louisiana (Hartman and Gregory 24). Katrina traveled along the coastal region of Mississippi leading to massive flooding
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wrote a book (“Great Gatsby) which was based on the Jazz Age. Nowadays Jazz seems to have become a question. Many articles have been written such as “Is Jazz Entering a New Golden Age” and “Jazz has become the Least Popular genre in America” which is leading to conflict and question about the music that once started in New Orleans but has spread across the globe causing love between different races‚ something people come together to dance and sing. Jazz is still being performed by Gregory Porter and
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Hurricane Katrina carries a great impact on the lives of American as well as the view of infrastructure and engineering in the public mindset. If you ask the general public what lead to the demise of New Orleans back in 2005 many will say it was the failed levees that left Louisiana and the 9th District underwater and cost the lives of innocent people who believed they were safe. But why did these levees fail? What could have been done from an engineering standpoint to fix these levees and perhaps
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