Angola Prison The state penitentiary in Angola Louisiana is the largest and on of the oldest maximum security prison in the United States. A little over 5000 men live within its walls and three quarters of them are black. Eighty five percent of the inmates at Angola will die inside the prison due to being executed or serving a full life sentence. The prison is 18‚000 acres and has its own farm which prisoners work on. Angola’s name is derived from a country in Africa named Angola. The prison
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Franklin wanted to pass the Albany Plan was to make it faster to end conflict with other countries and Natives. It was the first real attempt at uniting all of the colonies. At this point in time the colonies were completely divided. Louisiana and New Orleans: Louisiana was the name of “New France” or the French territory in the middle of North America. The French’s expansion in the middle of North America led to conflict between the French and the English colonies because it prevented the English
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played out the way they did. The three main schools of thought I am going to discuss include; how the federal response to Hurricane Katrina caused a political fallout‚ how Louisiana was not structurally prepared for a storm of this scale‚ and how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina changed the political landscape of Louisiana. Let’s begin with the politics. Typically‚ a big factor that determines a good president is how he or she responds to
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there is a relationship between the rivers and the terrain that is around them‚ which can be seen with any river‚ not just the Mississippi. For the New Orleans River‚ the adjacent terrain is Cajun Country. There is a triangle formed in southern Louisiana from the French Acadian world. Some of the first settlers of the Atchafalaya were the Houma‚ Opelousa‚ Tunica-Biloxi‚ Chitimacha‚ and the Atakapa Tribes (STU). When the Choctaw settled on the Atchafalaya‚ they called it the “hacha falaia‚” meaning
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Tragedy." 1. According to Frontline‚ what problems were caused by the following groups: The Local and state officials? Fail to plan The U.S. military? Waited too long FEMA? Poorly led The Government? Indifferent to victims who were poor 2. Why was the Louisiana National Guard unable to help? 300 soldiers were trapped inside the headquarters. And they were unaware that the canal leaves were giving water off 3. Why were rescue efforts hampered in the first 24 hours? Their backup generator flooded. Communication
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“the financial cost [that] may top $100 billion” (O’Neill‚ 2005). The area that we mainly affected was Louisiana in the United States. This is where the hurricane caused the most damage and destruction. The major event was of course the actual hurricane‚ but there were other effects that lasted over a very long extensive period of time and still continue to affect people today Though Louisiana is where most of the destruction occurred‚ this was not the only place that was affected by Hurricane
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Hurricanes can cause a lot of damage. My hurricane is Hurricane Andrew of 1992. Hurricanes can pop up at any time. They can cause massive amounts of damage. A hurricane starts as mass amounts of wind. What happens is the pressure drops. There is sometimes a storm and usually a mass amount of clouds. The weather would be cloudy and rainy during the storm. The hurricane that this paper is about Andrew of 1992 in Florida. Trees were toppled and agricultural damage was done. Andrew reached hurricane
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Many lives were lost‚ billions of dollars were spent for repair and construction‚ it was one of the most powerful storms in U.S history‚ and it had an effect on the economy. Katrina was a powerful natural disaster that devastated the coasts of Louisiana‚ Cuba‚ New Orleans‚ Florida‚ and the Bahamas. The hurricane overwhelmed these locations on August twenty third through thirty first in 2005. The hurricane claimed many lives during and after the storm. Alabama had two fatalities‚ Florida fourteen
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hurricane over the warm Gulf water‚ but weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the morning of Monday‚ August 29 in southeast Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina was the most costly hurricane in history. This hurricane caused $81 billion in property damages‚ but it is estimated that the total economic impact in Louisiana and Mississippi may exceed $150 billion. Hurricane Katrina earn ed the title of costliest hurricane ever in US history. It flooded 80 percent of New Orleans
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Louisiana and Mississippi activated their emergency plan on 26‚ August‚ 2010‚ trying to evacuate everyone‚ but unfortunately not everyone could leave due to medical reason or had no access to transportation. In Hurricane Katrina there were more than 1‚800 people that died. In Louisiana more than 1‚500 lost their lives and in Mississippi 230 people lost their lives. In Florida 14 people lost
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