Hurricane Katrina

ABSTRACT Never before in the history of the United States, had this nation witnessed and suffered from such a costly and severe hurricane like Katrina, which occurred in August, 2005. This paper, based on secondary research, discusses the influences of Katrina on the American life. In particular, the findings explore and answer three questions of…

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Even thirteen years later, New Orleans still bears the visible scars of Hurricane Katrina. These scars are evident in the streets and the communities that were impacted. The uniqueness of this natural disaster, the sheer magnitude of the event, and the mental and psychological scars still linger on today (Reardon, 2015). A large portion of…

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Many theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky have agreed that human development takes place in different stages of life. They have supported their findings by analyzing a person’s individual growth in terms of biological, social, cognitive, environmental and psychosocial theories. The researcher will analyze a hypothetical person, named Patrick, aged 13 years old and who…

With Hurricane Harvey of two thousand and seventeen tying with Hurricane Katrina of two thousand and five as the most costly tropical storm on record, Harvey used catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas which ended up causing twenty five billion United States dollars in damage. Hurricane Harvey was also the…

            Each year, countries around the world experience natural calamities such as flooding, fires, typhoons, earthquakes and many others. For a country like the United States of America, it seems that it can recover immediately from any destructive events. But when Hurricane Katrina hit the American territory, the whole country was taken by surprise. Damages…

Introduction. In the history of American natural disasters, the Hurricane Katrina is notorious for being one of the worst. Its origins lay is an August 2005, tropical storm that became more and more virulent in its sojourn and crashed onto the United States coast line. On the 29th of August, 2005 this hurricane smashed onto…

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina resulted in one of the major natural disasters in the history of the United States. It wais both the costliest and one of the five deadliest hurricanes recorded in America. Experts estimate the overall cost of damages from Katrina to be at $105 billion and at total of 1,833 confirmed…