Effect of Hurricane Katrina According to dosomething.org‚ Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people in different ways varying from having to evacuate their homes‚ rising gas prices‚ and the economy suffering. Citizens in Louisiana and New Orleans suffered the most from this disaster because the levees were designed for Category 3 Hurricanes while Hurricane Katrina was much stronger. Not only the levee system failed in this disaster‚ but also the US government failed the people of Louisiana
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Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin‚ 2008) Did Hurricane Katrina Expose Racism in America? Adolph Reed is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Stephen Steinberg is a professor of sociology at Queens College in New York City. Both Reed and Steinberg challenge the tendency of policy makers and other commentators to focus on African-Americans as the source of the problems faced by New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and emphasize the need to address race and
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States. It took place on August 23‚ 2005-August 31‚ 2005. 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
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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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Why Was Hurricane Katrina So Destructive? Introduction The geographical theme I have cosen to write about is Hurricanes as this is a topic we have been studying in class and has intrested me to learn more about this natural hazard. The geographical location I will be studying is New Orleans and Florida where hurricane Katrina was most destructive. Katrina struck the state of Louisianna at 10am on the 29th of August 2005. What I have learned in Class In class I have learned how the National
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In August 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated thousands of families in New Orleans and contributed to the social issue of class division and race within the communities of this city. When this storm hit many people didn’t think that it would be as dangerous or harmful like Hurricane Andrew‚ so just to be on the safe side‚ most did take precaution and prepared for the storm responsibly. Hurricane Katrina caused a lot more damage than expected. Homes and buildings were destroyed and flooded out‚ people
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failure. To a lot of people‚ it was amazing that despite all the efforts supposedly occurring in the aftermath of September 11th‚ that a response to Hurricane Katrina was even fathomable. People were still fearful that another terrorist attack could be forthcoming any day and how the local and federal governments would respond. Hurricane Katrina made people question just how adequate their government was in responding to disasters‚ whether caused by terrorist or manmade. Americans were brought
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What went right? I knew that this would be a challenging task for a majority of students‚ since many students are still learning their letter-sound correspondence; however‚ I was able to successfully complete this strategy with the class’s highest student. I displayed an image on my screen of a little boy throwing a frisbee to his dog. I asked the student to write a sentence describing the image. The student was able to write‚ “The dog is running.” After the student explained what she wrote‚ we cut
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Katrina Evacuation Influences i Hurricane Katrina Evacuations Risk Communication Influences: Inconsistent and Confusing Messages‚ Lack of Trust in Information Sources‚ Selective Reporting by Media and Psychological and Social Factors February 25‚ 2009 Risk Communications EDMG612 B002 Win 09 Dr. Erich W. Randall Katrina Evacuation Influences ii Table of Contents
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raining. This is what is looked like after the horrific storm of hurricane Katrina . Before the storm came Armani was celebrating her 10th birthday. Her family (the Curtis’s ) were eating the cake and then is started pouring down rain and the wind was blowing so hard it busted out some of their windows.The Curtis’s really weren’t prepared for the storm . So when it came to their home it hit it hard. When the storm was over they didn’t have much left.Then the went outside to see what was left and suddenly
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