New Orleans Narrative

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.

New Orleans is known for being a culturally rich city; from its food to its music to its celebrations it is full of spirit and unique traditions. It is not hard to pick up on this, it is what you hear across the country when someone mentions New Orleans, it is what the New Orleans tourism board features in all its material, it part of how institutions such as Tulane market themselves. Everyone may know about jazz music and second lines but many of us visitors to the city lack knowledge about their historical, political, and social/cultural context. A crucial element of New Orleans culture and history that provides a lot of this context, that every visitor should take the time educate themselves about, is social aid and pleasure clubs and benevolent

At church, in addition to my participation in the worship services, I volunteered at our church’s soup kitchen, medical camps and elementary school for underprivileged children. These experiences opened my eyes to the deprivation of love and care in the world and a dire need of God’s grace for people at large so they could receive forgiveness, healing and restoration in their lives.

“The Voices of Hurricane Katrina” is an article published by Abe Louise Young (MFA in poetry), in the summer of 2010. Young is a New Orleans native and considers herself to be a social justice activist and poet. She became familiar with many of Hurricane Katrina’s victims during one of her early projects only a week after the storm. Years later, Young found herself outraged after stumbling upon the published work of author Raymond McDaniel. McDaniel stole testimonials from the same victims she had met and altered their true statements. Young informed a woman named Antoinette (one of the famous voices of Katrina) that her words had been published by McDaniel. Antoinette expressed how hurt she was, confirming the words published were her

New Orleans has a rich history that can be marveled at, as well as be frowned upon. As a constituent of the greater Louisiana, New Orleans was at the heart of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Slaves were imported from West Africa, as well as India and then tasked with working in the robust cotton farms that characterized New Orleans at the time (Blassingame 5). Women slaves were mostly assigned to households where they worked as house helps, as well as babysitters. To this end, women developed close ties with most of their slave owners. In the image, New Orleans woman and the child she held in slavery, it is apparent that the girl worked for the woman and there was a lot of

Graphic novels have the ability to portray multiple perspectives and can cleverly represent as many groups an author believes is needed. What becomes the decision of the author is which perspective deems more important or more fascinating. Depending on which the author decides to portray, there tends to be different effects on the readers. Neufeld uses Scott’s Mccloud’s ideas from Understanding Comics, such as adding detail to a character to differentiate them from the reader in order to induce certain emotions. The perspective taken from the primary source may receive more empathy or distaste depending on who the author chooses to represent. Through detailing certain character, this focus is made clear to be on the victims. However, graphic novels are sometimes subject to biases and misinterpretations, which can belittle the authenticity of the accounts being given. Different accounts of the events hold different biases. They could either represent those who have undergone the specific event or that of someone who has speculated from the outside. In A.D. New Orleans after the Deluge, Josh Neufeld represents a perspective not commonly exemplified, as he assigns different perspectives to his character and juxtaposes them using the dialogue from their interactions. A different view of the story is told, and reasons to the questionable, or unethical actions of the victims are brought into focus and analyzed through a perspective that sides with the victims.

Mayor, Mitch Landrieu, of New Orleans signed an ordinance in 2015 calling for the removal of four monuments related to the Confederacy and its aftermath. It seems that New Orleans seems to be demonstrating the Confederacy’s enduring power to divide Americans more than 150 years after the war was lost. Protestors of the ordinance have been standing near the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis waving Confederate flags and showing their disdain for the idea of removing it. The first monument to be taken down was an obelisk honoring the violent uprising in 1874 by white New Orleanians who rejected Reconstruction. Dates have not been publicised for when the other three monuments to be removed. Some defenders of the statues have even

Hey, Baby! Welcome to the city of New Orleans, Louisiana! New Orleans is one of the most popular cities in the boot. This wonderful, distinctive place is the home of plenty of unknown "special" activities instead of what most know which is Mardi Gras. Believe it or not, New Orleans, is a go-to city for most events that many, if not most Northern Louisianan may not existence. In other states, people can come to a conclusion that all Louisiana natives are the same, but we vary around the state. New Orleans is different from all other cities in Louisiana for the exquisite taste of food and music, the collection of festivals, and the unfamiliar, out of space language.

This essay is meant to illustrate briefly the hardships of the New Orleans citizens from the point of view of a new teacher, David Ramsey who is just starting to understand how they view the world and why. We are meant to develop an understanding just as this new teacher did in this essay of how the New Orleans citizens specifically these students he teaches act and view the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina along with their daily lives. Most of David Ramsey’s students relate to Little Wayne’s music so much because he sings about his experiences throughout his life and he grew up in New Orleans as well.

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.

The city of New Orleans lies below sea level in a bowl bordered by levees which prevent the high waters of the Mississippi River from flooding the city. These levees were put to the test on August 29, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit, causing severe destruction along the Gulf coast. Three concrete floodwalls protecting the city of New Orleans fractured and burst under the weight of surging waters from the hurricane, killing hundreds and resulting in an estimated $100 to $150 billion worth of damage (Luegenbiehl, 2007). In the aftermath of the storm, society placed part of the blame on design flaws that compromised the safety of the levees and endangered the public. Under the Flood Control Act of 1965, Congress had mandated the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to protect the city from a Category 3 storm, yet the floodwalls were unable to withstand the force of Hurricane Katrina, which was eventually classified as Category 3 (Grunwalk & Warrick, 2005). The Corps pointed towards a massive surge that exceeded the height of the floodwalls, but investigations by civil engineers and other experts pointed towards the inadequate design and construction by the Corps of Engineers as the cause of the failure (Englehardt et al., 2013). The Corps acted in a manner contradicting ethical engineering behavior by being less than forthcoming about deficiencies that were accumulating in the overall system. In order to prevent future disasters involving human life, the government should require

Upon returned to the United States Oswald moves around quite frequently, eventually ending up in New Orleans. This is where the most mysterious and perplexing chapter of his life took place. In 1963, Oswald is employed at the Reily Coffee Company, where he is fired from only months later. He also starts a one-man chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and began pro-Castro propaganda in New Orleans. Oddly enough, the return address on Oswald’s pro-Castro leaflets was 544 Camp Street, New Orleans. This happened to be the same building where Guy Banister, a former FBI agent, was working to overthrow Castro. A close comrade to Banister was the familiar David Ferrie. Both Banister and Ferrie did investigative work for Carlos Marcello, the mafia chieftain in New Orleans and the prime target of the Kennedys’ war on organized crime. Was Oswald playing a kind of double game in New Orleans? His actions raise important questions about his true attitude toward Cuba and whose side he was really on. In September of 1963, Oswald was seen on a bus heading from Houston to Mexico City, where he tries to defect once more. He plans to fight for Castro and return to Russia. He attempts to obtain a visa to Cuba, and he was told that he could only enter Cuba under a temporary visa, and only in transit to the Soviet Union. Oswald is later informed by KBG officers that it would take several months to obtain a Soviet visa and that without one he would not be able to go to Cuba.

The city is dead. Without a single person out in the street, and without the bright summer sunshine that wakes people up for another Monday morning. The city was completely gone; the city that used to burst with people and streets that were filled with energy is now empty but filled with filthy water. It was August 29, 2005, when the hurricane entered the warm water of the Gulf and grew to be a monstrous storm. So monstrous, that it destroyed anything in its path. The hurricane that we now call Katrina had swept away the entire city of New Orleans. Many people lost family members and the storm caused an abundance of property damage. It was reported that the hurricane killed about 1,800. The number of damages totaled $108 billion dollars. Just imagine seeing your neighbor, your family members, your loved one and even yourself suffering to survive in the water that swipes away so many of your memories and what you valued. What would you have done the day before the hurricane knowing that it will hit the city? This also questions the characters in the story “A.D: New Orleans After the Deluge”, by Josh Neufeld, a comic book that depicts the moments before, during and after the big disaster. Illustrating different characters within the different status of ranking going through the event differently. Demonstrating how very contrasting the “high up” and “low down” society face the consumer society even in the hurricane. Just as how Bauman describe that there are

The current problem which the city of New Orleans is experiencing is flooding which is caused by heavy storms as well as hurricane Katrina. For instance, August this year, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards acknowledged a state of emergency since city’s failure of water pumping system exposes the residents of the city to the greater menace of tainted –weather flooding. This was less than a week where a flash flood had completely overwhelmed the city's water pumping system, and the city officials were struggling to make some repairs to the fire-damaged equipment which are at a power station plant and also shore up its drainage system. Therefore several residents were inundated by this incident. However, hundreds of homes as well as businesses

New Orleans was home to many proud people who loved their roots. It was well known that the night life never stopped there along with the vibrant music. The nightlife and music were the two lonesome things that Kol actually enjoyed about the town in Louisiana. Everything else in the French Quarter brought back unwelcome memories for him. Many family feuds occurred there in the past. If it wasn’t for Rebekah, he would be lounging in Milan instead of driving up to his family’s home. The house happened to have a swimming which made the house more bearable for him.