persuasive? Least persuasive? Setting aside the philosophical and legal issues this case raises‚ what are the management or efficiency arguments for and against a more centralized response to large national disasters like Hurricane Katrina? Why would we not want to have a federal fire department? If the federal government tells the states and cities they will receive no assistance in the event of a disaster‚ what do you think will happen? personal responsibility and
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Joshua Darnell Hillard Composition I 17 April 2008 Dr. MacVaugh A Much Needed Change: FEMA & Hurricane Katrina It has been almost three years since the catastrophic hurricane winds and water of Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast. New Orleans was the most damaged city and media coverage showed the outcries of the neglected people. Many feel that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to blame and‚ rightfully so. FEMA is a very disorganized and dysfunctional agency;
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New Orleans Levee Improvement after Hurricane Katrina ------------------------------------------------- Course Project Elizabeth Sarmento Project Risk Management May 28‚ 2013 Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 New Orleans: A Perilous Future 3 Fault Tree One 6 Figure 1.1 6 Fault Tree Two 8 Figure 1.2 8 Conclusion 8 A bibliography 9 Introduction New Orleans: A Perilous Future The levees and floodwalls protecting New Orleans from hurricane’s and floods were designed
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top twenty deadliest. The numbers are incredibly difficult to verify when trying to account for a cumulative total and become especially staggering if taking into consideration the more than sixteen-hundred lives lost just last year in Hurricane Katrina‚ which was the second deadliest hurricane known to the United States. (source 5) While death tolls are obviously the worst figures to think about in conjunction with nature’s fury‚ devastating totals of economic hardship are sad reality and sad when
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A natural disaster such as a hurricane can be one of the most devastating events in someone’s life. I have watched many hurricanes on television such as Katerina and it never crossed my mind that I would ever experience one until it happened on a cold‚ fall day in October. Now you can’t compare hurricane Katerina to Sandy‚ however it still caused great damage to homes‚ businesses‚ and neighborhoods. It was a horrifying experience and drastically affected peoples lives as well as my own. Warnings
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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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Hurricane Katrina On the early morning of August 29th‚ 2005 on the Gulf Shore near New Orleans a treacherous hurricane struck with one hundred and 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
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Features to consider in all 4 texts: - plotline and structure - elements: earth/air/water/fire - animals - narrative perspective (and time) - sight and blindness (delayed decoding) - sound and silence - settings - character foils - women (i.e. roles - conventional vs. unconventional) -artifacts!!....? The Wars and Lispector - Animals Lispector and Findley use animals to develop the theme: by becoming civilized and raising social expectations we in turn degrade ourselves to things that
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The Katrina Breakdown. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina may be remarked as a very important aspect to understand the relationship between federal‚ state‚ and local governments when it comes to major catastrophe. In Katrina’s case‚ federalism is seen as central to what was largely a government-created disaster. Numerous scientific articles are trying to offer various interpretations of what went wrong and why; however‚ out of all perspectives‚ I find Stephen Griffin’s argument most persuasive.
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Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster waiting to happen to the state of Louisiana. Katrina formed from the interaction of tropical waves and tropical depression. What was the most severe impact about Hurricane Katrina? It had one of the worst oil spills in history from Louisiana to Alabama. Katrina caused a long-term environmental and health impact. What effects were caused in state of Louisiana? In John Levine research about Hurricane Katrina (2005) he stated‚ “in the city of New Orleans‚ pollution
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