Loran Ubriaco Professor Samuel Nicolosi English 110 December 4th‚ 2012 The New Orleans Saints: Taking Their City Back February 7th‚ 2010. Super Bowl XLIV. Four years post Hurricane Katrina. As smoke cleared from “The Who” halftime concert‚ Thomas Morstead‚ the kicker for the New Orleans Saints‚ set to kick the ball off to the Indianapolis Colts to start the third quarter. With the Saints down 10 to 6‚ and Indianapolis’s Chad Simpson standing in his own end zone ready to return the kick
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It never fails around this time of morning. This happens every single time we come to New Orleans. Either a float tried to squeeze into traffic‚ or someone wasn’t paying attention. Either way I felt like I would miss out on the main thing on my mind and that was barbequed ribs. My alarm went off‚ and I slowly woke up with crust filled eyes. Turning on the light while my vision tried to adjust through half dead eyes‚ I looked for the clothes I laid out the night before. It’s normally five in the
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The French Quarter The French Quarter of New Orleans was one of many parts along the Mississippi river area affected by the French Empire. The French Quarter‚ also known as Vieux Carre (Old Square in French) ‚ is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. It was founded by naval officer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville in 1721. It was originally founded as a military style grid. The neighborhood is not very big‚ with only an area of 0.66 square miles. Bienville was the governor
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Jazz came from nineteenth century in New Orleans‚ In fact‚ this music genre came for African American underclass. Since the early times of seventeenth century‚ many native born Africans had been brought to America. They were unwilling to immigrate‚ and they hoped they can take away the elements of the their culture. Thus‚ they remained music and folktales. Most of these people were illiterate‚ they did not have entertaining activities‚ so they could only sing their songs. When the time passes by
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that caused major damage to New Orleans. The Hurricane destroyed the city. “The storm also exposed historic tensions of race and class‚ and it produced deep mistrust of public officials and institutions” (Lukensmeyer‚ 2007). The whole city was flooded. The policy makers already had their minds made up on how they were going to rebuild Katrina. One of the first things was education. “New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin recognized that rebuilding the city of New Orleans would be a daunting task;
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag "They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into a crowded dive at 1:00 AM‚ where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite‚ and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There’s a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot‚ you
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Louisiana – a waterfront city north of New Orleans – my whole life. Mandeville and New Orleans rest on opposing sides of Lake Pontchartrain‚ a brackish body of water known for its brown-grey hues and occasional corpse. Bisecting the lake is a 24 mile long bridge that once held the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge over water‚ dubbed the Causeway‚ which provides a 40-minute drive from one city to the other. Mandevillians will tell you they are from New Orleans. In fact they will insist upon it
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people in the Gulf Coast States that a major storm was on its way. New Orleans was the main impact of Hurricane Katrina. On August 28th‚ 2005 the mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation. Major Nagin also declared that the Superdome‚ a stadium located on relatively high ground near downtown‚ would serve as “shelter of last resort” for people who could not leave the city. For example‚ a lot of the New Orleans community did not even have access to a vehicle.
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Published March 13‚ 1919. By Angela Kong New Orleans: Has the killer come back? Over a rough period of 10 months‚ a man who identified himself as the “Axeman” appeared. He is believed to be responsible for 11 attacks and 5 deaths. News spread throughout New Orleans‚ placing fear in its citizens. The killer attacked people in their sleep‚ using weapons only from the victims households‚ primarily an ax. The first attack happened on May 2‚ 1918. Victims Catherine and Joseph Maggi had been attacked
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this in the past weeks with hurricane Harvey flooding Houston and displacing people who never in their life thought that their houses and neighborhoods might be underwater one day and left with nothing. Similar to current events‚ this image shows New Orleans‚ one of the largest cities in the world being put to its knees at the mercy of Mother Nature. As buildings are shrouded in the heavy rain and trees sagging in torrential winds. Being faced with such astounding force it’s easy to remember
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