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    Norman Jewison's Movie "The Hurricane" The problem of racial discrimination has been portrayed in many films in the last 15 years. However, The Hurricane does a masterful job at addressing this issue, and will leave audience members clenching their fists in anger at the injustice that happened to a man named Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. The movie demonstrates the racial inequity that can be found in our judicial system through the impressive acting by Denzel Washington and the direction of Norman

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    Hurricane By Bob Dylan

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    In the song Hurricane by Bob Dylan it describes their protest about the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. It arranges alleged acts of racism and profiling against Carter. Bob Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction. Rubin Carter and John Artis were charged with a triple murder at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. The next year Carter and Artis were found guilty of the murders, which were reported as racially motivated. In the following years, numerous

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    Rhetorical Analysis of “Hurricane” Martin Luther King once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political, but because it is right.” The song “Hurricane”, written by Bob Dylan takes a stand and ignores what was safe, popular, and politically right during the 1960’s and 1970’s, in order to paint a picture of injustice. Dylan organizes the actual events of a man named Rubin “Hurricane” Carter who was a middleweight boxer

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    that hurricanes are extremely dangerous and cause a significant amount of damage and devastation among many cities and countries. Researchers have studied and found that hurricanes could be classified and categorized into five different areas ranging from least severe to most extreme. Category one being the least severe and Category five would be known to destroy a whole city. Hurricanes are categorized on how much damage one can cause and how strong they are. There have been many hurricanes around

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    Hurricane Katrina Scandal Without doubt, Hurricane Katrina has been the major catastrophe of the century suffered in the United States. The category 5 hurricane which at first was on course to hit Florida drifted into the Gulf of Mexico taking a direct route to New Orleans. On his way, the hurricane left hundreds of dead, affected hundreds of thousands and left billions of dollars in damage. The largest number of deaths occurred in New Orleans where the hurricane hit the hardest and which was flooded

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    Introduction Hurricane Katrina is known for being the most dangerous and murderous hurricane that occurred on August of 2005. It was formed by a tropical wave that moved from the coast of Africa to the Gulf Coast. According to hurricanes they are distinguished by five different categories, the fifth being the strongest. The tropical wave turned into a hurricane under the fifth category that destroyed thousands of homes and killed thousands of people. Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans hardest

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    really did not familiar with such storm like Hurricanes, tropical storms or typhoons. Well I grew up in Florida so from a young age I have had a good deal of understanding of the basics on how a hurricane functions and how they are created. Typhoons and Hurricanes are the same thing it just depends on where in the world you are located on what they are referred to as. Tropical Storm is one of the stages prior to forming into the hurricane. All hurricanes have to start somewhere. The storm in the nutshell

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    Hurricane Andrew, some may say it was the worst hurricane ever to make landfall on US soil. In my research I have found that andrew was the worst for the 90’s time period. In the 90’s the people had very poor storm shelters for such a horrific storm a lot of people died because of this. In my research I found that this hurricane was the worst hurricane ever to to make landfall on US soil. But it is not the worst, Andrew is the third worst tropical storm to make landfall. Hurricane charley is 2nd

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    The Hurricane is a film by Norman Jewison. It is about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a black boxer wrongfully convicted for the murders of three people in 1966. Two black men in a white car shot and killed three people in the Lafayette Bar & Grill. Carter and his black friend, John Artis, were arrested for driving a white car and being black. The police assumed that Carter and Artis were guilty. The police then asked two witnesses – Bello and Bradley – if Carter and Artis had shot at them. Both witnesses

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    dictate an outcome in any given situation, which holds no difference in the the results of Hurricane Katrina, the response between organizations that contributed to one of the greatest natural devastations to occur in the United States, outcome of recovery efforts and obstacles if any, lessons learned, and recommendations and/or improvements to be made to prevent such a disaster from occurring again. Hurricane Katrina was a storm that took us by surprise, impacting Mississippi and Louisiana where damages

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