New Orleans: A Unique Part Of America

During our week in New Orleans, we will have excellent opportunities to learn about different cultures, the effects of natural disasters, and reasons as to why New Orleans is facing poverty and economic distress through our volunteer work with Project Homecoming, 1 in 5 homes in New Orleans is still blighted, 10 years after Katrina. New Orleans still has a high rate of blighted (abandoned) homes. We will be helping to rebuild homes, but we will also be helping to improve the surrounding community spaces such as there local gardens.

Mardi Gras City. Crescent City. The Big Easy. Jazz City. The Party City. The only city that can be identify by its history and people still know the name, New Orleans. New Orleans is the kind of city that can be toured 100 times and learn something new. New Orleans is not a tourist area because of entertainment it bring to people, but the rich history. New Orleans is a city that was own by the French and the Spanish. The various culture that can from immigrants brought New Orleans to where it is today.

New Orleans is a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. Nicknamed the "Big Easy," it's known for its round-the-clock nightlife, vibrant live-music scene and spicy, singular cuisine reflecting its history as a melting pot of French, African and American cultures. Embodying its festive spirit is Mardi Gras, the late-winter carnival famed for raucous costumed parades and street parties.

After much debate, France offers to sell the U.S. not only New Orleans, but the entire Louisiana Territory for a price of only $15 million dollars! Stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, what will our nation do with all of this extra land?

It was late August 2005 when New Orleans, Louisiana was hit by the category 5 Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was the fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and the eleventh storm named. It’s currently ranked as the third most intense United States hurricane, behind only 1900’s Galveston hurricane and 1928’s Okeechobee hurricane. It was the most costly disaster of natural means, while also being one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the United States of America. This storm affected America in many aspects including socially, economically, and politically.

So the story has to do with me my dad and some beignets in New Orleans also a drunk guy. Alright the story begin at the end of the school year last year. My parents to me and my sister took us on a two week vacation. Where we went from New Orleans for a four days, to Anna Maria for a day then to the Keys for three(more like 1 ¾ ish because of a storm) and then back up to Anna Maria for the rest of it. When we got to New Orleans it was late and we got to our hotel and slept.

But it is an American city — just a very different place with a very strange history. New Orleans is a place where Africans, both slave and free, and American Indians shared their cultures and

New Orleans is almost a new city thirteen years later. It has been cleaned up for the most part. After many deaths and lots of citizens starting over their lives elsewhere, statistics and rates have completely changed. It seems to have a bigger wealth status, and the jail population has decreased. That indicates progress. There’s obviously still someway to go, but the city as well as other states that were affected are still well known attractions around the U.S. In next time of an emergency, I think things will be taken care of in a better

Hurricane Katrina was a category five hurricane that hit New Orleans on August 25, 2005. The poorest citizens of the city were forced to the tops of their homes for survival, left for days without electricity or clean water, were subjected to the sight of dead bodies floating in the street, and were portrayed to the rest of the world as looting refugees. Race, class, news media coverage, as well as other factors aided in the substandard assistance given to the residents affected by Hurricane Katrina. Taking a moment to look at the bigger picture, the fate of New Orleans citizens was set in stone before the hurricane even began. Choice of geography is partially to blame for the misfortune of many of the hurricane’s victims.

The first Europeans that are known to go past the big city of New Orleans were followers of a Spanish soldier named Hernando Cortez. He died on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1543. Later, a French explorer named Robert Cavelier de La Salle had led an expedition from Canada going through the Mississippi state. To make a larger population in new settlement, France had to send prisoners, bonded servants, and slaves, and slaves. Back then in New Orleans French is one of the most popular languages. Also, the history of New Orleans around 1718 defined “Creole” as “a child born in the Spanish Colonies.” New Orleans has a lot of history to it, very exciting too.

Then the next day the phone blared throughout the Gibson’s home. My father went downstairs to answer the phone and on the other line was the principal of Mount Caramel Academy. My dad’s interview was Monday morning at 8:30 sharp. However, their plane would be taking off at noon later that day. If my dad secured the job my parents would go home retrieve their items and fly back to New Orleans permanently.

The country looked towards New Orleans in pity and disgust. The city was falling apart simply because disaster response organizations (namely FEMA) were not adequately responding to the disaster.

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With the tremendous loss of life and destruction of property that resulted from Hurricane Katrina, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began redesigning and implementing new hurricane prevention system guidelines. Through extensive studies, it was evident that the structures for the levees were constructed on weak and compressible soil. “Although the geology of the area was relatively well known and borings taken were reasonably adequate for characterizing the variety of conditions in the area, the spacing could have missed local anomalies in soil type and strength” (USACE I-119). As a result, geotechnical engineers suggested a

The weather was not too cold, and it was not too hot. A light jacket maybe, but it’s not really necessary. Family trips were exciting to me. My younger naive mind thought it would be all fun: no worries, no stress. I wasn’t terribly wrong though. I had a great mini vacation with everyone crunched up in a car: New Orleans. What a great place to be. The people, environment, noise, weather. Mardi Gras was our destination. I was so excited. People throwing beads at me, catching them, possibly getting hit. I think it’s worth it though. The traffic in New Orleans is absolutely ridiculous. I don’t understand it . Why is there so many cars: everywhere. It was not normal to me. I was more use to light to medium traffic. My little 7 year old self couldn’t