When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 the Zeitoun family could not decide on whether or not to flee or to stay in the city. In the end‚ Abdulrahman‚ more commonly known as Zeitoun‚ stayed behind and Kathy took the children to visit her family in Baton Rouge. What was his justification to stay behind? What happened in his past that gave him the faith to remain during the storm? The book‚ Zeitoun‚ answer many of these questions through anecdotes. Dave Eggers uses anachronistic anecdotes to
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Ideas/Background: Bob Dylan is an American folk rock musician who influentially utilised poetry and current social themes in his music to create an impact. The song ‘Hurricane’‚ released in 1976‚ is one of his most famous songs. It discusses racism‚ racial injustice and corruption through the incorrect trial and murder conviction of African-American male Rubin Carter‚ an issue relevant to its time of release. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He delivered
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Black Hurricane This is the story of the infamous black hurricane.He was called this because he had the power to make a black hole over himself transporting him to anywhere he wanted and getting there in no time at all (literally). This also meant he could put black holes over anyone he chose and transporting them to any jail based on the seriousness of the crime. He gained his power from how his parents genes mixed creating a human looking mutant and his responsibilities were the usual keep the
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Effect of hurricane katrina on insurance industry stock prices Abstract This study tests the efficient market theory by measuring the effects of Hurricane Katrina‚ one of the most deadly and destructive natural disasters to occur in the United States‚ on stock prices in insurance industry. It hypothesizes that insurance providers who offer services in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina should incur a loss in the market-price of their stock following the natural disaster. This event
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating events that has ever happened in the U.S History. Katrina started out in the Atlantic Ocean as a small rotation at the beginning of August 20th and in 4 days crossed over the southern tip of Florida. At this point it was considered a category 1 hurricane‚ but it didn’t do to much damage and took approximately 20 lives. Four days later the U.S Government issued an evacuation of the city because the hurricane had grown to a category 3 and predicted
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research I have been able to find out what it was like for the people of New Orleans when it was hit by a strong hurricane‚ called Katrina. The hurricane lasted 7 days‚ in between the dates of the 23rd of august and the 30th of august‚ 2005. There were an estimated value of 1833 causalities between those dates and wind pressures managed to hit up to 280 km/h‚ making it a category five hurricane‚ the highest you can go. The official city‚ state and the federal plan was basically a RLH plan‚ which stood
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Hurricane Katrina was a man-made and natural disaster. The hurricane‚ of course‚ was a natural disaster. The after effects like the levees breaching‚ people starving and dieing in the streets‚ how the government handle the situation were all man made. The reason being a man made were ‚ The man-made part of the disaster is that the government knew the levees wouldn’t hold up in a Category 3 hurricane‚ and they didn’t shore them up anyway. What was also man-made was the fact that the government
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Unit 10 - Assist in preparing and maintaining the learning environment Element 010.1: - Help prepare the learning environment Knowledge base 1: - Your role and responsibility for helping to prepare the learning environment My roles and responsibility for helping to prepare the learning environment is: - • Make sure that the class is Safe and clean • Make sure that there is enough materials and equipment if not then I need to let the class teacher
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metropolitan areas that I have selected are New Orleans my hometown where I was born and raised before hurricane Katrina and Corpus Christi‚ Texas my new hometown where I have resided at since hurricane Katrina. The Criminal Offense for New Orleans and for Corpus Christi‚ Texas is Property Crime. In 2005 the city of New Orleans held 463‚072 people. And now its five years after hurricane Katrina and there are 343‚829 people living in the still-recovering city. In racial breakdown of New Orleans
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Impact of Hurricane‚ Earthquake and volcanoes on named Caribbean territories. The Caribbean territories are at the mercy of hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcanoes. The region have a history of devastating geographical phenomena such as hurricane Gilbert in 1988 which kill 45 persons in Jamaica‚ 30 in Haiti and 5 in the Dominican republic‚ but the most devastating period for any one country in territories was in 2008‚ where in a three week span Haiti was hit by tropical storm Fay‚ hurricane Gustav
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