Kathleen Blanco

to listen. There are various ways in which the speaker would gain the right to be heard. Former Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, uses various forms to obtain attention from her audience as she addresses the Louisiana Legislator on Hurricane Katrina where she not only discusses the effects of the hurricane but also acknowledges the people who have helped out so far. Blanco does an exceptional job gaining attention through her audience through pathos, or emotions. She gets to people’s emotion

Not even having detailed specific amounts of personnel and supplies just a number she pulled out of her head, (40,000 troops). Governor Blanco said, “We Need Everything You’ve Got” (Starling, 2010, p. 153). Governor Blanco who had the power to ask earlier when Mayor Nagin was requesting failed and also failed her city. CASE STUDY 3.1 QUESTION 2 During a National catastrophe and short amount of time for properness the federal

During Katrina there were many times that the local, state, and federal governments did not cooperate effectively. For example, the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, addressed the issue her state faced and asked for “everything” the federal government had, as in disaster relief and aid, but the ambiguity of the statement caused the federal government to withhold resources until the governor addressed more

Hurricane Katrina can be described as the worst tropical storm to touch the United States. This catastrophic disaster occurred August 29, 2005 killing over 1800 people and causing billions of dollars in damages. Most of the damages were to homes, buildings, schools, and city infrastructure. The vulnerable populations in this disaster were the elderly, the disabled, and lower income households. These people were very vulnerable due to the lack of resources like finances and automobiles, which would

In August of 2005, the massive hurricane named Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi. Katrina began as a Category 5 hurricane and then dropped to a category 3 before making landfall with winds of 100-140 miles per hour. This was one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes to have ever strike the United States. The White House received multiple warnings 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina was to hit the Gulf Coast from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Infrastructure

and the way that Katrina was a microcosm of the nation’s faulty priorities. To begin examining the complexities of the Katrina aftermath, it’s important to lay out some key actors of the relief effort. Mayor Ray Nagin, former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, and former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown were amongst those who had the responsibility of working together to set in motion a plan to deal with Katrina’s devastating effects. Others who were appointed to work

The death toll was estimated at 1,245 people and an estimated $105 billion dollars in damage occured (Knabb 2011). During Katrina, command relationships failed because of political differences between President Bush and Louisiana Governor, Kathleen Blanco as to who should command the National Guard, delays at the National Guard Bureau (NGB) in deploying troops and equipment, and failing to create a unity of effort between National Guard and Active Duty forces. National Guard The aftermath of Hurricane

Kathleen Blanco Hurricane Katrina Speech The speech by Kathleen Blanco is about Hurricane Katrina. The speech is about how they are planning to fix it and trying to motivate them to not give up and rebuild. Kathleen Blanco's speech about Hurricane Katrina uses pathos and ethos to inform the people of Louisiana so they know what they will do about the hurricane. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest hurricane ever, killing over 2000 people and causing over $125 billion in damage. Hurricane Katrina

During Hurricane Katrina, efforts of the local, state and federal government were made using servant leadership to help the people of New Orleans, Louisiana; it made a failure of the said governments to keep them protected. If servant leadership of the local, state, and the federal government was used to help the people of New Orleans, Louisiana during hurricane Katrina than taking them to safety. Failure of the local government The failure of the local government to respond to Hurricane Katrina

Jameer Outsey Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina first struck New Orleans, Louisiana on November 22, 2005. It is regarded as being one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the United States history. It was a category 5 hurricane that resulted in 1,833 deaths in total. Hurricane Katrina also has a lot of controversy revolving around it in terms of how the government handled the relief process. I think the two biggest things that went wrong was the planning for the hurricane and probably more importantly