Louisiana

When George Washington was the President of the United States in 1787 to 1797, he made decisions that would change America for the future to come. After the revolutionary war, Washington didn’t want any more wars, and wanted to remain strictly neutral. By doing this, he refused to enter any conflicts with Europe. During this time, the French revolution and Napoleon was causing major destruction in Europe, and the French people looked towards America for help. The American people were divided by…

The majority of Kate Chopin's short stories are set in the late nineteenth century in Louisiana, regularly provincial Louisiana. The greater part of the characters, as the vast majority of the general population living in Louisiana at the time, are Creoles, Acadians, Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and individuals of blended race. With the exception of a percentage of the Creoles, the greater part of the characters are appallingly poor, in light of the fact that the zone has yet…

Martinville was still part of the French colony of Louisiana many slaves from the Senegambian region, St. Louis, and Goree Island provided essential knowledge of agricultural technology, which was used to produce crops in the hot summer months. Spanish and French colonial law provided the means for a number…

My senior year could have not started any better. On July 30th, 2015 I get a call from Coach Brock Hayes from Louisiana College offering me a scholarship to play at the college level. Ever since I was small, I always dreamed about playing college football and it finally came to reality. Fall camp was getting ready to start, and I was so excited to get my senior season started. I put in so much work and effort to get into the position I was in, so I was not going to let my team down. But like…

Hurricane Katrina Recovery: Lack of Leadership and Direction Introduction On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southeast Louisiana. The devastation that followed in the city of New Orleans exemplifies how easily poor leadership and lack of organization can translate into significant economic damage and, more importantly, loss of human lives. Despite considerable warnings prior to the incident, key government players failed to make important life-saving decisions both prior…

When Katrina makes landfall as a Category Three storm with wind of 127 mph just between Grand Isle, Louisiana and mouth of the Mississippi River. With serious flooding wrecked the Gulfport, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana. With some levees overtopped in New Orleans, there was extend damage to the New Orleans Superdome roof. (cited) There were more than ten thousand people in search of shelter from Hurricane…

valley, Texas, and Louisiana, for a time, a valuable French possession. As stated by Francis Parkman, and American historian, “the realm of France received a stupendous accession” (BOOK), referring to the fertile plains of Texas, and the region spanning from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountain peaks claimed for France (BOOK), as La Louisiane in honor of king Louis XIV. The Texas claim was never very serious, but it did furnish the United States, after the Louisiana Purchase,…

are more powerful than category three. Many people were evacuated from their home were not provided with proper temporary accommodation. Due to the lack of proper management and with all the confusion of Ex-President’s administration people from Louisiana were shifted to superdome of New Orleans. This rose to a problem in providing facilities by the government. Due to the severe attack of Hurricane Katrina many things have changed in the places affected by Katrina. Thousands of homes were…

Hurricane Harvey was a destructive Atlantic hurricane that became a major hurricane sine Wilma destruct in 2005 in the United States. This hurricane is the wettest tropical hurricane that was ever recorded in the United states and resulting a flood in thousands of houses, made more than 300,000 people to be displaced, 71 people dead and made the economy of the country losses between $70-$200 billion. In August 17, Hurricane Harvey develop through tropical wave to the east of the Lesser Antilles…

catching up to the education of my grade level, and learned subjects such as science, history, computer science, and algebra. I was able to complete four full years at this school with perfect attendance. On August, 2008, Hurricane Gustav stroke Louisiana and forced my family to evacuate. It was my first time experiencing a devastating natural disaster, which heavily impacted my home and school. Despite the trouble with communication, we evacuated safely for a week to Las Vegas, California.…