(i) Description of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina is said to have been the most costly and deadliest hurricanes in U.S history, resulting in $81.2 billion dollars in damage and 1836 casualties6. The hurricane made landfall in New Orleans in the early morning of August 29th, 2005 as a Category 3 or 4 storm. The heavy rains that were produced as the hurricane moved inland, along with the poorly designed levees, caused all 56 levees in New Orleans to fail, resulting in freshwater flooding of 80% of the city15. Hurricane Katrina devastated an area over 160 km from the storm’s eye, which included parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and most importantly, Louisiana6. It originally formed off the Bahamas, on August 23rd, as a Tropical Depression and strengthened to a Category 1 storm once it made landfall in Florida on August 25th.
Tenement houses within these cities became incredibly crowded and crammed along narrow paths or streets. Whole families were living in attics, cellars, or single rooms, with one house holding up to 60 people in multiple rooms. Sanitation was not common in a lot of cities even making clean water for the rich a luxury. Sewers ran down streets, wide-open, carrying water fouled with industrial and human waste. Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands.
for the better. At the start of his presidency he mainly focused on bigger businesses to stimulate the economy, but as time went on he found himself being driven to the center of need, the working class. The New Deal had many upsides but it had many failures too, with programs being unconstitutional and an absolute waste of American time. FDR’s presidency with always be noteworthy and held on a pedestal for all of the effort he put into changing the U.S.. The New Deal also changed the way the U.S. was took upon the role of president.
Not before he zealously prepared the coming battle as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. Roosevelt had always taken an interest in the Navy, as he suggested every good American ought to, and perhaps this is where he made his greatest impact. On the brink of the Spanish-American war, Roosevelt understood he possessed a ramshackle Navy incompetent of combating the Spanish – or any other naval power for that matter. Frustrated that upon completion of the Civil war the American people had began to sink all their energy into business and money making related matters, he felt as if society had grown short sighted and selfish. Although these men were not weak, short-sightedness had led to the popular belief that another major war would fail to transpire once again.
In 1930 President Roosevelt won election and started the New deal in hopes of turning American strife around. With millions unemployed nationally, it would be a tough job. The banks were dry, as well as, farmer’s lands across America. It seemed that trade had come to a dead end and that everything was going in circles, creating an echo effect internationally. It would be years before America was back on its feet economically, and another great war lied ahead, but somehow Americans were able to keep their hopes and dreams alive and come out on the other
The American Dream Corruption The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald contains many themes, but the one that stands out above all the rest is the corruption of the American Dream. The American Dream is the dream the each and everyone person can become successful in their own through his/her hard work. The Great Gatsby is about the 1920’s and what that time period did for the corruption of the American Dream. Fitzgerald shows this by showing Gatsby’s hard work, when values and goals are in the wrong place the dream get corrupted, and that after this corruption people are left with empty goals. Firstly, motivation was one of the things that made the American Dream pure.
Bradford Platt English S102 Dr. Anderson Sept. 28, 09 Katrina’s (Evacuation) Chaos American citizens were caught in the major crisis known to the United States as a category 3 hurricane named Katrina. Many U.S. citizens: young, old, sick, healthy, black, white, and other nationalities in the path of danger were expendable in the sight of government. Most of these citizens were poor, the people who mainly live from paycheck to paycheck, The Mayor of this great city left without the assurance that his citizens were in safe havens. On August 27, the Mayor of New Orleans gave the first voluntary evacuation order, because Hurricane Katrina would be a threat to the city and to the lives of its citizens. However, some believe that the
Businesses were flooded along the Texas coast and lost all of their vital technology such as computers, telephones, and other office equipment. This caused a huge burden on many businesses and some businesses were totally destroyed, which left many workers unemployed. Many homes were flooded from the storm surge that got as high as twenty feet. In one city alone, 3,382 out of 3,400 homes were totally destroyed due to flooding. This causes thousands of people to become homeless and displaced.
She said, “everybody started screaming, because they could see people jumping out of the building. I actually couldn’t see anybody leaving a window, because it’s too high up, you know, it’s a quarter mile up, but as they came down you would start to see –you would see that something dark was coming down, and then you’d suddenly realize it was a person. One person, in particular, fell more toward our side, and you know, I just have a really vivid memory of this person, this man, very tall and thin, with a three-piece dark- dark three piece suit on, and seemed to be clearly
I left my belongings behind. People began shouting “earthquake, earthquake…” I was sure the building was going to topple over. Tables, chairs, doors, computers, etc… all started to open and close, fall off tables and shake uncontrollably. I watched many people attempt and try to run to the stairs and thought to myself: “Do not panic! Don’t move yet.