Abstract
The paper explores the history of hurricane protection for New Orleans and examines advances in technology that have resulted in billions of dollars worth of construction designed to protect New Orleans from hurricanes and floods. The paper shows, however, how short-term solutions to control flooding in New Orleans have led to longer-term problems. New Orleans has become increasingly vulnerable to damage from hurricanes. The paper demonstrates how the government is still struggling today to determine how it will continue to aid New Orleans. The paper concludes that it is hard to imagine how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies will cope if the United States should suffer another hit from a major hurricane.

History of New Orleans and Hurricanes
Technology
Communication During the Katrina Crisis
Discussions Contributing To Problems
Consequences of Decisions
The Future of the Region

From the Paper
"New Orleans was first settled by Jean Baptiste le Moyne, about 300 years ago. He picked the land between the marshes on the edge of Lake Ponchartrain and the Mississippi because the spot was so favorable for trade. However, the location was prone to both floods and hurricanes. Both hurricanes and floods have been a recurring problem ever since. One particularly severe flood occurred in 1927 with a death toll of somewhere between 250 and 1,000. In addition, nearly 700,000 lost their homes, triggering the first major federal effort to control Mississippi River floods (McQuaid & Schleifstein, 2002). Over the short term, flood control seemed to work well. Weather forecasting improved, local authorities developed effective evacuation plans, and building techniques helped protect the citizens (McQuaid & Schleifstein, 2002)."

Tags:Katrina, floods, evacuation

Abstract
The paper explores the various options available to the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane that devastated the city. The paper argues that it is not enough to rebuild the city as it was before with simply better flood controls. It is not enough to relocate the damaged or almost destroyed neighborhoods of New Orleans elsewhere simply because this will not change the underlying malaise that contributes to New Orleans' moribund economy and to its faltering status as a major American city.

From the Paper
"In the days between August 29 and September 4, 2005, the city of New Orleans was devastated by a powerful Category Four Hurricane that tore the proverbial lid off of the city's festering racial and social problems. The massive flooding of low-lying (and too-often black) areas of the city, the wide-spread suffering and destruction in the impoverished communities of the Louisiana metropolis and the accusations by some, however unfair, that racism played a role in the disproportionate infliction of damage upon the city's African-American neighbourhoods, all spoke to an urban situation wherein social and racial divides were deep and impressive and where the socio-economic reifications of society were ugly and invidious."

Tags:new, orleans, rebuilding

Abstract
This paper explains that one of the reasons that the Mafia developed in New Orleans because the city was an early center of Sicilian immigration. The author points out the cultural conditions that favored the rise of the Mafia and subsequent developments. The paper includes theories of the New Orleans' Mafia's role in the Kennedy assassination.

From the Paper
"In popular imagination, the Mafia is primarily associated with the large cities of the Northeast and industrial Midwest particularly New York City and Chicago. These cities, especially New York, experienced the greatest influx of immigrants."

Tags:new, orleans, mafia, organized, crime, marcello, sylvestro, prostitution, marijuana, corruption

Abstract
This paper offers three reasons for loving New Orleans--its food, its architecture, and its unsolved murders.

From the Paper
"New Orleans is my favorite place because it offers splendid food, interesting and unusual architecture, and a host of fascinating unsolved murder cases. While many areas of the country have great food, New Orleans has a mix of spicy dishes that are difficult to find anywhere else with that authentic New Orleans flavor. Much of the city's original architecture was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, but I still remember the wrought iron unique building designs and above-ground graves. New Orleans is known for being..."

Tags:New Orleans, Mafia, New Orleans Crime Family, Cities of the Dead, tombs, food, Emeril, Justin Wilson, Paul Prudhomme, architecture, wrought iron

Abstract
This paper examines the issue of New Orleans' exceptionally high crime rate, attributing it to corrupt and fearful police, fearful residents and gang activity.

From the Paper
"New Orleans is a city that stands out from other large Southern cities and in fact from other cities all over America, by virtue of thefact that it has an unusually high violent crime rate. For example, robbery occurs in New Orleans at ... times the national average, car theft at ... times the national average and murder at a whopping ... times the national average. Of the types of violent crime measured, there is only one type in which New Orleans has a lower rate than..."

Tags:New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, crime, police corruption, fear, citizen, gangs

Abstract
General Butler was the occupying commander of New Orleans from May 1, 1862 to December 1862-seven months. The paper describes how Butler was vilified in New Orleans, the Confederate States and in some foreign countries, while being honored as a civil war hero, political mediator between the races and brilliant administrator in the North. The paper examines how one man, in just seven months, could create such an enduring negative legacy among the people of New Orleans. It examines his convergence of social, economic, culture and personality traits which resulted in the creation of Benjamin Franklin Butler, "The Beast of New Orleans." The paper shows that Butler's behavior throughout the Civil War, particularly during his occupation of New Orleans, Louisiana, was a direct affront to the beliefs of the Southern mentality. His political haranguing, traitorous behavior and harsh treatment of southerners are legendary.

Table of Contents
Louisiana's Background--Emphasis on New Orleans
Benjamin F. Butler's Background
Outbreak of the Civil War
The Siege of New Orleans
The Occupation of New Orleans
Butler the Extremist
New Orleans Women's Resistance Movement
The Women's Order
Official Southern Reaction to the Women's Order
Butler the Opportunist
President Jefferson Davis' Proclamation
Lasting Effects of Butler's Occupation Butler's Continued Attack of the People of New Orleans after the Civil War
Effect on the People of New Orleans Before and After the Civil War

From the Paper
"Order No. 28 deserves to be explained in layman's terms. Butler is in effect stating that if the women of New Orleans did not cease and desist with their resistance agenda they would be treated as prostitutes and dealt with accordingly. Meaning, "any woman who didn't want to be raped by Yankee soldiers, now kept her silence on the streets."
To truly understand the impact of this Order it is important to realize the social climate in which it was given. The world at large was still a chivalric place. Men were brought up to defend the honor of a woman's virtue. The people of the southern United States took this practice with the utmost seriousness. With war raging on their home soil, the defense of the women took on a new importance.

Butler was saying that the women who were trying to thwart the Union occupation were no better than a common trollop was. This riled up the fervor of the Confederate men, and brought outrage from abroad as well. "The Beast" was born."

Tags:Massachusetts, Fort, Monroe, Farragut, Lincoln, Republican

Abstract
The paper discusses what needs to be done in order to revive the port of New Orleans. The paper further discusses the specific actions needed for New Orleans to lure more shipping business into its port. The paper examines how technological education and training must be provided, in order for the flow-of-goods to occur to the ports located along the nation's coast. The paper concludes that the potential exists in the area for the creation of more jobs than were available prior to the devastation created by Hurricane Katrina.

Outline:
Statement of Thesis
Introduction
I. Historical, Present And Future Importance Of The Port In The U.S. Supply Chain
Planned Improvements
Regulations And Requirements To Consider
Port Of New Orleans: Security, Education & Technology
Incorporating An Efficient Supply Chain For Shippers
Federal Government Funding For The Effort
Summary And Conclusion
Bibliography

From the Paper
"The part that New Orleans Port plays in the U.S. supply chain is a critical one, so critical that the disaster that took place due to Hurricane Katrina is stated to be "likely to drag down U.S. economic growth in the months ahead." (Helman, 2005) Economists believe that the effects "may be more lasting than those that usually follow big storms due to the "severity of the damage" (Helman, 2005) as well as the "unique geography of the New Orleans region." (Helman, 2005)"

Tags:levees, harbor, ships, canal, Alabama, Bush, funding

Abstract
This essay discusses the development of New Orleans through the linguistic influences of three different cultures. The author reviews the three dominant languages that form the dialects of New Orleans: French, Cajun, and Creole. The paper traces these three languages to their cultural origins of the French colonizers, the Acadian exiles, and the American slave trade of Africans.

Abstract
An examination of the history of cities and their developments with focus on the city of New Orleans. The author describes the city from the point of view of two writers: Louis Armstrong and Buddy Bolde and their two novels "Satchmo" and "Coming Through Slaughter." These two novels help us understand the lives of these two men as well as the city that was an essential part of their lives and their heritage as well as the city's violence, an inseparable part of New Orleans.

From the Paper
""Some cities you might not even know that you were in them, so little there is there. You could be kidnapped and dropped down in scores of American cities and unless you happened to see a sign announcing your location or had a native handy to ask where you might be you might never know where you had landed, so interchangeable are so many of the towns and cities and especially suburbs in the United States. "

Tags:armstrong, bolde, city, crime, urban, Buddy, Bolde, Satchmo, Coming, Through, Slaughter

Abstract
In this essay, the writer notes that the Hurricane Katrina disaster will be discussed and debated for years, perhaps for a hundred years and more; and it can safely be assumed that an important part of the discussion will embrace the concepts of race and class. The writer maintains that one can easily imagine a sociology professor in the year 2025 pointing out that had a storm of such colossal intensity been approaching a city of mostly white, middle class and wealthy citizens, a different set of preparations and a wholly different outcome could be expected. This paper reviews and analyzes the social realities of New Orleans before and after Katrina's wrath, from several perspectives, including the theories of Karl Marx.

Outline:
Karl Marx
Katrina

From the Paper
"When considering the fact that the Army Corps of Engineers reported years ago that the levees around New Orleans - much of which is below sea level - were not structurally safe, one has to also consider the class issues within the political structure of the United States; in other words, is New Orleans a place that would have a high priority in the ruling class of Washington D.C.? The answer is no. And so, the Army Corps of Engineers would be (and was) more committed to working on the Florida Everglades' multi-billion dollar project (the president's brother being the governor of Florida) than retrofitting the levees in a city that traditionally votes Democratic, and is largely African American. These points are raised because Marx doesn't specifically talk a lot about "race" per se, but he does make it clear that class struggles have to do with issues that in the case of New Orleans, are largely ethnic."

Tags:disaster, Karl, Marx, black, New, Orleans