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| Author | : A. Danielle Hidalgo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-09 |
| Genre | : Disaster victims |
| ISBN | : 9781443832007 |
For those interested in learning more about the personal impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Narrating the Storm serves as an essential read. This important and timeless volume is a compilation of sixteen narratives that address the experiences of Gulf Coast residents, faculty, and graduate students who were caught up in the largest (not so) natural disaster in United States history. Each contributor deploys storytelling sociology as a methodological approach in order to illustrate how â oepersonalâ experiences with disaster are not so personal, but rather reflect and are informed by larger social phenomena related to issues including race, class, gender, age, bureaucracy, risk, collective memory, the blasÃ(c), and more. The narratives in this volume exemplify how inequality and injustice are unveiled, exacerbated, and created by the occurrence of disaster; and reveal the sociological in everyday and not-so-everyday experiences.
| Author | : Lucy Baker Wheelden |
| Publisher | : Xlibris |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781425776725 |
Introducing a collection of short stories, a poem and Internet exchanges describing individual views of the history-making storm, Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. I chose the title because these were the stories I particularly would like for people to hear. The book deals with stories of real people, and what they did to survive. Some are short and cute, some are long and tense. Each one deals with something which these folks would never have experienced if not for the monster storm. The cover of my book is a picture which circulated on the internet. It is Highway 603 S(exit 13) as seen from the I-10 overpass. The Exxon Station is up and running again, and still the Greyhound Bus stop. All you can see of it is the frame of the sign and the roofs of the service station, restaurant and two-story hotel. The Gulf Coast faces many dragons, such as insurance hikes, FEMA, county and city building codes and post traumatic depression (also called survivor's guilt). With help and perseverance we can overcome these hurdles and go forward with the reconstruction of our homes, businesses, public facilities and our lives. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you read the book.
| Author | : Chris Rose |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2015-08-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501125370 |
"The columns in this book were previously published in The Times-picayune"--Title page verso.
| Author | : Josh Neufeld |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 0307378144 |
Presents the stories of seven survivors of Hurricane Katrina who tried to evacuate, protect their possessions, and save loved ones before, during, and after the flood.
| Author | : Institute of Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2007-06-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309179890 |
Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population. Beyond this, public health today is challenged in a way that it has never been before. Starting with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, public health officers have had to spend significant amounts of time addressing the threat of terrorism to human health. Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented disaster for the United States. During the first weeks, the enormity of the event and the sheer response needs for public health became apparent. The tragic loss of human life overshadowed the ongoing social and economic disruption in a region that was already economically depressed. Hurricane Katrina reemphasized to the public and to policy makers the importance of addressing long-term needs after a disaster. On October 20, 2005, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop which convened members of the scientific community to highlight the status of the recovery effort, consider the ongoing challenges in the midst of a disaster, and facilitate scientific dialogue about the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on people's health. Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina is the summary of this workshop. This report will inform the public health, first responder, and scientific communities on how the affected community can be helped in both the midterm and the near future. In addition, the report can provide guidance on how to use the information gathered about environmental health during a disaster to prepare for future events.
| Author | : Don Brown |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 054415777X |
Sibert Honor Medalist ∙ Kirkus' Best of 2015 list ∙ School Library Journal Best of 2015 ∙ Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list ∙ Horn Book Fanfare Book ∙ Booklist Editor's Choice On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage--and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. A portion of the proceeds from this book has been donated to Habitat for Humanity New Orleans.
| Author | : Jeremy I. Levitt |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 080322463X |
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina: America s Unnatural Disaster questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina s central victims, African Americans. This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina. Such an engaged study of this tragic event forces us to acknowledge that the ways in which we view our history and life have serious ramifications on modern human relations, public policy, and quality of life.
| Author | : Jeanne Marie Ford |
| Publisher | : Momentum |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Disasters |
| ISBN | : 9781634074216 |
Hear stories from survivors of the devastating hurricane that struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, a fast-fact section, fact-filled captions, a timeline of the disaster, infographics, a glossary, a listing of source notes, sources for further research, and an introduction to the author.
| Author | : James Patterson Smith |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2012-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1617030244 |
This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty-five-thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that followed. Along the way the narrative treats us to inspiring episodes of neighborly compassion and creative responses to the greatest natural disaster in American history. The heroes of this saga are the local people and local officials. In often moving accounts, the book addresses the Mississippi Gulf Coast's long struggle to remove a record-setting volume of debris and get on with the rebuilding of homes, schools, jobs, and public infrastructure. Along the way readers are offered insights into the politics of recovery funding and the bureaucratic bungling and hubris that afflicted the storm response and complicated and delayed the work of recovery. Still, there are ample accounts of things done well, and a moving chapter gives us a feel for the psychological, spiritual, and material impact of the eight hundred thousand people from across the nation who gave of themselves as volunteers in the Mississippi recovery effort.
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| Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The Dallas Morning News had more staff photographers on the scene when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast at the end of August. These Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers caught every aspect of the storm and its aftermath on film and many of those photos will be seen for the first time in this excellent work of photojournalism.
