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Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Opinion: New Orleans’ Levees

Katrina and New Orleans is the Spike Lee Film "When The Levees Broke." In this film there the viewer can find the opinions and exp...

Media Response to Katrina

writes that the National Guard was called out to "help restore order and put a stop to the looting, carjackings and gunfire that h...

New Orleans Police Department Corruption

murdered on October 13 of that year (Good Bad and Corrupt, 2006). Federal agents had Davis under surveillance for suspected drug-d...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Funding for Disaster Relief and the Federal Government's Role

has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexande...

Emergency Response Katrina

This paper discusses Hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans in August 2005. The essay discusses specifically search and rescue ope...

Blackwater: America’s Disgraceful Shadow Army

bankroller not only of President Bushs campaigns but of the broader Christian right agenda" (Scahill, 2007). In his book Blackwate...

New Orleans: Race, Ethnicity, and a "Sense of Place" After Katrina

nationalist mentality throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, cultural identity has gradually become more intimately associated wi...

The Devastation of Katrina

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...

Recovery Process/Mississippi & New Orleans

devastated and lifeless as they were in the immediate aftermath of Katrina. This compares sharply with Mississippi where 89 percen...

April 1862 New Orleans Blockade by Union Captain David G. Farragut During the US Civil War

In ten pages this paper examines this Civil War blockade and what it strategically represented to Northern troops. Eight sources ...

Los Angeles' and New Orleans' Tensions

product of their heritage in many ways, for they are from the Old South, a place where women looked good, if they were wealthy, an...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival

also makes the point that there was, in the 1900s, a strict divide between Creole and Black culture in New Orleans, maintained as ...

Living Comparision Between New Orleans and Chicago

urban professionals because in Chicago, business reigns supreme. There are numerous transportation, commerce, and financial congl...

William Ivy Hair's Carnival of Fury Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...

Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans' Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper discusses the theme of women's subjugation and how it impacts upon the relationships portrayed in The Awak...

New York and Hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics

in Colorado Springs lobbying for New York City (Brennan, 2002). Olympian Bob Beamon, who broke the long-jump record in the 1969 G...

The Use of a New Math Program

articles in professional and popular media has placed a renewed concern about math performance of American students at the forefro...

Business Plan; Groovy Rags

Groovy Rags has the aim of filling the gap with a highly differentiated, but fashionable, range of clothes and accessories for me...

The Battle Of Gettysburg

as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

Gettysburg: Battlefield and Terrain and General Johnston Pettigrew, CSA

farm, for our purposes, is the two ridges that run through it, "perpendicular to the Chambersburg Pike" (McPhersons Ridge). Union...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

Battle of Little Bighorn

This essay looks at the battle of the Little Bighorn, which is famous as the location of Custer's defeat by Native Americans, and ...

The Battle of Britain

they would be unable to prepare the embarkation ports, assemble the transports, sweep mines from the sea, or lay new mines (Church...

The Takeover Battle Between RBS and Barclays to Acquire ABN Amro

and mergers in the past. The offer made by Barclays was worth ?45 billion (US $91 billion) at the time (Investment Dealers Digest,...

The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg

During the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was very important. Yet, each day, different events would occur and the focus of th...

Free Speech and J.S. Mill

According to Mills adversaries, if utilitarianism is, indeed, wrapped around the concept of emotion instead of common sense, then ...

The Face of Battle by John Keegan

In five pages this paper discusses combat in the Somme, Waterloo, and Agincourt and considers what these battles reveal about huma...

The Battle Of Nomanhan

This battle that takes place in Mongolia is the subject of attention in this paper that highlights a border dispute. What happened...