attractive young lady while teaching a choir‚ Katrina Van Tassel. “She would make an outstanding wife” Ichabod thought‚ and he was right. Katrina came from a wealthy family with lots of livestock to provide food and a grand house for living. Now he just needed to talk to her. One early‚ bright morning‚ Ichabod was teaching at the schoolhouse when all of a sudden a man bursts into the room and hands Ichabod a letter. He hastily opens the letter
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Monique Ferguson November 1‚ 2008 Speech Outline Speech Topic: Hurricane Katrina Victims Speech Purpose: To advocate Specific Speech: To inform my audience that the Hurricane Katrina Victims were clearly neglected by the United States Government Thesis: Hurricane Katrina victims were neglected by the United States government after a catastrophic hurricane hit. X. Attention Step A. Attention getter: i.
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the strongest storms to impact the coast of the United States during the last 100 years. Hurricanes all start in tropical waters because they can only start in warm waters. The wind and air conditions must be just right‚ and once a hurricane is started it can be moved around by powerful winds. They are basically a very deadly cyclone of wind and water. They range from category 1 to category 5‚ with 5 being the worst. The most deadly hurricane was on September 8th‚ 1900
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of Katrina in Salvage the Bones to what you saw of the hurricane in the news. Which aspect of the storm’s devastation does this novel bring to life? What does Esch’s perspective add to your understanding of Katrina’s impact? When analyzing the horror of Katrina within Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones and the actual catastrophe that was broadcasted throughout the media‚ readers are able understand its true impact. It seems as though Ward brought to light the realness and severity of Katrina rather
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Kaplan University Professor Tina Mainwaring CJ355-01 Homeland Security June 11‚ 2013 Hurricane Katrina was the largest and third strongest hurricane ever to be recorded to make landfall in the United States (dosomething.org). The final death toll of Hurricane Katrina was a staggering 1‚836‚ mainly from the state of Louisiana and 238 people killed in Mississippi (dosomething.org). Hurricane Katrina caused $81 billion in property damages‚ but is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana
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The argument of Vine Deloria does suggest an explanation for Ari Kelman’s observation that “Segregation—environmental‚ socioeconomic‚ racial—resulted in segregated suffering” in Hurricane Katrina. Deloria stated that the framework of Social Contract that America founded on was very limited in a sense of who gets the right to be considered a “citizen‚” indicating a sign of segregation. Indeed‚ this limited framework resulted in the struggle for those who are not included as a “citizen” of the state
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Introduction 2 What is FEMA? 2 Three Major Divisions of FEMA 3 Three Activities of FEMA 5 Impact of Hurricane Katrina 6 1. Economic effects 6 2. Social effects 7 3. Environmental effects 7 Criticisms 8 The Strength of FEMA 11 1. Reduce the redundancies: 11 2. Disaster assistance 11 3. Various programs 12 The Weakness of FEMA 12 1. Vague role definition 12 2. Staffing problems 13 3. Problem with motivation 14 4. Absorption into DHS 14 5. Problematic strategies 16 6. Poor communication
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that are affected. All of the indicators affect the overall growth of the economy. When a major event occurs the economy can either have a period of contraction or expansion. A major event that negatively affected the economy was Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina caused the US billions in repairs and reconstruction. Hurricanes usually do not have a huge affect on the nation’s GDP. Gross Domestic product‚ or GDP‚ is the measurement of total goods and services produced within a nation’s borders in
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Hurricane Season: A Coach‚ His Team‚ and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a big deal in Louisiana but it didn’t brother John Curtis’s high school football team during the 2005-06 season. In this novel by Neal Thompson‚ Hurricane Season‚ Neal Thompson tells us about how Hurricane Katrina destroyed Louisiana‚ but John Curtis’s football team were full of dumb mistakes. The head coach of the Patriots was J.T. Curtis and the high school players were preparing themselves for
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The death toll‚ however‚ has been given as 820‚000 to 830‚000 deaths. As for the property damage‚ an entire inner region of china had been destroyed by the earthquake. The last one I want to share is Hurricane Katrina. The deadliest hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast in 2005‚ it was marked as the sixth strongest overall to hit the United States. It was one of the most costly disasters as far as property damage of 81 billion dollars. It was also one of the five deadliest
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