Ike was a huge economic burden to the U.S. and “estimates suggest Ike may become one of the costliest hurricanes on record” (FEMA 10). Hurricanes are known for causing severe structural damage to houses, but also have an effect on many businesses as well. Many people had to evacuate and be out of work for up to two weeks due to power outage and debris. Also, some businesses were damaged by flooding and wind, which caused the loss of crucial business equipment. Businesses were flooded along the Texas coast and lost all of their vital technology such as computers, telephones, and other office equipment.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
Arrie A. Bateman, III 4 February 2013 English 102/014 Essay #1 The rhythmic construction noises outside your home prevent you from getting those extra five minutes of sleep. The noise is a result of the deteriorating houses on your street being renovated for the wealthier residents to move in replacing the previous low-class owners. This is the idea of gentrification. Over the years the descriptions of gentrification have encompassed racial overtones as a result of the certain neighborhoods being redeveloped. These neighborhoods are predominately black with other minorities in the mix while he majority of the new neighbors are white.
Though the Red Cross established the orphanages, nuns where the people that maintained it. Nuns also ran orphanages during the storm and did their best to keep the children safe though many had failed and died along with children. Even though a lot of progress has been made on recovering the city never recovered from this. 115 years have passed and the population has only grown by about 20,000 and this is a city that was once named the Wall Street of the South and former capitol of Texas. Sadly nowadays the city is one big ghetto and few ancient neighborhoods still stand but this city is haunted with the eerie memory of this
Residents of New Orleans have been urged to leave the city, but its evacuation routes were so congested, the authorities acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of residents would not get out in time. Leslie Phillips January 31, 2006 stated from the government’s point of view, “in the days leading up to Katrina’s landfall, 85 percent of the city evacuated successfully the 85 percent that were ambulatory and had, found, or could afford transportation, and had a place to stay. That is the one bright spot in this tale. However, many of the city’s most vulnerable populations – the poor, the sick, and the aged – were left behind. The city opened the Superdome as a refuge of last resort, but the Dome was ill equipped to accommodate the tens of thousands who would flock there in desperation to escape the rising floodwaters.
He also needed to rebuild a staff that had extensive holes in the ranks, to find a way to raise fares 70 percent, but also scale back bus service within Dallas and the suburban cities (October 5, 1986). Mayor Starke Taylor worried as some of his most experienced city administrators left for DART. This created a large hole in the city and assistant city manager spots (October 14, 1986). The problem for Dallas would be that it would have to find elsewhere to fill its administrator ranks rather than trying to promote within. Another problem would be that it would be harder to find one since most city managers left when the city was in excellent financial health, but the new one would be entering in a time of cutbacks and a soft
Some of the individuals in the story use to have jobs and own their own homes. However, due to the economic crises that faced the nation back in 2008, many found themselves out of jobs, which then in turn caused them to lose their homes finding themselves homeless with no place to go. Therefore, tent “communities” started popping up. A lot of the men and women that were found in the tent city in Sacramento were at one time middle-class citizens. They were living their American dream.
My dad was friends with just about everybody and so we had such a great diverse upbringing. When my dad passed away and we moved from the city I was surprised by how little diversity was in my second middle school. Most people were white, a few minorities and they were targeted every day for harassment. The differences from city to suburbs is troubling. Sure our cities are diverse mostly, but the rest of the country remains very
The count here is 15 from northern cities, 8 from southern cities and 2 from western cities. So the “Southern subculture of violence” accounts of less than one third of the top 25 most violent cities in this country. And the two worst cities are very near where Dr. Sloan obtained his education. And when you peel back the facades that the politically correct crowd attempts to maintain, black on black crime is sadly the prime cause in many of the southern cities. Judge Marvin Arrington, a black judge in Atlanta, confirms that in Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary.
Hispanic cultures in the United States Hispanics in America are a huge influence on American culture. Each year more are immigrating to America and the Spanish language is becoming even more popular. In the future it is going to be important for people to become more bilingual so as a society we can all communicate well with each other. With each group there are many similarities and differences. Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Spanish Americans are four of these groups that have expanded throughout the United States.