It all started on August 29, 2005 when hurricane Katrina released hell on New Orleans. Most of New Orleans was destroyed by flood waters. This caused the New Orleans Hornets to temporarily relocate to Oklahoma City. They played in Oklahoma City for two seasons before New Orleans was able to host them again. These two seasons created national attention toward Oklahoma City for the great fan base and prospective city for a new team. A group of Oklahoma City investors led by Clay Bennett buy the Sonics
The Knicks and the Pacers have had a rivalry for a little more than two decades now . Being rivals since the Reggie Miller ara (the former point guard for the Indiana Pacers), they have many great games, battles and highlights. Being in the same conference, they play each other quite often and meet up in the playoffs frequently, being very well known teams and great competitors, make a good matchup to see. Belonging to different divisions ,the Knicks in the Atlantic and the Pacers in the Central
Resilience, Alonzo talks about his struggles and obstacles that he faced and still faces today. After graduating Georgetown, Alonzo had a promising future and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) and chosen by the Charlotte Hornets. There, in his rookie year, he managed to help the team advance to their very first playoff game. He also came in second place for Rookie of the Year, won gold at the World Basketball Championships, and participated in the All-Star team. Alonzo
Chandler Reeves Ms. Ward Integrated Science I T TH 4th February 9, 2017 Russell Westbrook Who is Russell Westbrook? How did he get his fame? How old is Russell Westbrook? These are many questions people will ask.. and yes I’m about to answer them! Russell Westbrook is one of the most dominant players in the basketball league today. He is ranked #1 for the best NBA player this year. Russell Westbrook had a good high school and college career, he is having a great NBA career putting up massive
know about the city of New Orleans. This is the biggest city in the state of Louisiana. It is also known for jazz music. It has a basketball team called the New Orleans Hornet and a football team called New Orleans Saints. New Orleans has lots of things to see and to do. Like Mardi Gras it is a parade that’s held in New Orleans. I will be talking about New Orleans early settlement, traditions, culture, weather, lifestyle, closing, and works cited. Early settlement New Orleans was founded May 7, 1718
sulphur and oil were unearthed in 1869 and 1901, Louisiana became a part of the major industry of America that produces oil and natural gas which is what Louisiana is still a part of to this day. Many people assume that the capital of Louisiana is New Orleans because it is the most populated and one of the most popular cities, but the capital is actually Baton Rouge. Louisiana also has a motto that states “Union, Justice, Confidence.” (“About Louisiana”). Louisiana is filled with a great number of diversified
Blanche gets raped by Stanley, the scene could start with the space room sized and then as he becomes more dominating over her it shrinks to show how trapped she feels. The scenery in the play needs to be relevant to the era and surroundings of New Orleans, realistic enough so that the audience know where they are and are interesting but not so much that it takes the focus of the play away from the actors, the scenery should be life like, for example the flat, if it is flat like then the audience
definition explains why I know what hip-hop really is and also why I'm bothered when someone thinks hip-hop is the same as rap. I grew up and have lived my entire life in New York City, perhaps the most urban and diverse place to live in on Earth. It's not possible for a teenager to be more exposed to hip-hop than he is in New York City. I'm also a youth, and people in my age group are more exposed to the culture than those of any other age group. Hip-hop is simply more appealing to young people
named Blanche Dubois. Blanche was a fragile and neurotic woman, desperate for a place to call her own. She had been exiled from her hometown Laurel, Mississippi after seducing a seventeen year old boy. After this incident, she decided to move to New Orleans with her sister Stella. She claimed she had to move, in result of a series of financial calamities which have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve. Her sisters husband, Stanley Kowalski is very suspicious seeing that Blanche seems
by a sort of spontaneous combustion of Negro’s genius” (125). This mixture of hymns and instrumental instruction took form into one of the most versatile genres known to date, Jazz. 2. Marching Bands: Brass Bands spread through out the area of New Orleans making this the birthplace of this original sound. Many would gather just to hear the smooth melodies that these bands had to play. Many bands were composed of such talented artist that eventually went on to make their own music. These musicians
seven-eighths white and one-eighth black and had the appearance of a white man. Under Louisiana law Plessy was classified as black, and required to sit in the colored car. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy purchased a first-class ticket on a train from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana and sat in an empty seat in the white-only section. He was then asked to move but refused and got arrested for violating the Separate Car Act. Homer Plessy was convicted of and sentenced to pay a $25 fine. During Plessy’s
influential woman in the world In 1954 September 8th Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi to the parents of Lucille and Abon Bridges. At the age of 4 Ruby Bridges and her family relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960 Ruby parents volunteer her to participate in the NAACP New Orleans Color System program. The Program was to have blacks integrated into an all-white elementary school which is called William Frantz Elementary school. Ruby father Abon was very hesitant of his daughter
people with different races? This is what I think that “If you don’t know me don’t judge me”. My character is Ruby Nell Bridges she was born in Tyler, Mississippi in 9-8-1954 she is still alive for real she is alive her age is 54. Her school was in New, Orleans Louisianan. She was the only black girl who went to a white school but she had 4 more girls who also went to a white school but my character had a lot to do she was bullied and she was treated wrong. That is not good because she wanted to be treated
the western coast of Africa where men, women and children were captured and sold into slavery and brought to America as slave laborers to work in Southern plantations. The Mississippi Delta is considered to be the birthplace of the Blues, with the new music coming out of the Blues-Rock and Roll. The earliest blues musicians came from the Mississippi Delta region, where the uniquely form of music was born. These early musicians in turn inspired blues greats like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bobby “Blue”
disproportionally African-American. August 29th marks the day where North America’s costliest natural disaster veered its way towards the Gulf Coast and New Orleans area. By that time, it had already become a category four hurricane that would eventually claim the lives of 1,833 United States citizens as well as cause $108 billion worth of damage to the city of New Orleans and its residents. Most of the deaths and damages were caused to African-American families. Many died during the hurricane, as well as more
named storm, named Hurricane Katrina, hit the Gulf Coast on the 29th of August and led to the death of 1,836 and millions of dollars’ worth of damage (Waple 2005). The majority of the damage occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana. Waple writes in her article that winds “gusted over 100 mph in New Orleans, just west of the eye” (Waple 2005). Not only was the majority of the damage due to the direct catastrophes of the storm but also city’s levees could no longer hold thus breaking and releasing great masses
country that would lead one to the same conclusion it was the disproportionate suffering and devastation experienced by African Americans in New Orleans not only during Hurricane Katrina but long after the storm had passed that leads many to conclude that the United States does not care for its African American citizens. Long before the storm hit New Orleans there was already a divide in the city. The city seemed to be divided by race with affluent whites living in the cities nicer neighborhoods which
levee design could have been different and that the changes in design could have possibly prevented some, or most of the damage caused by Katrina in 2005. Works Cited http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0902_050902_katrina_levees_2.html http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/levee1.htm
Environmental Effects of Hurricane Katrina: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with winds up to one-hundred and forty miles per hour. Katrina was one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States. One-thousand eight hundred deaths, seven hundred missing and one-million displaced is evidence of the human toll that Katrina caused and $84 billion in cost makes Katrina the most expensive natural
” Jazz was seen as immoral and worried the older generation that their kids would lose interest in classical music. It was also seen as against society because it came about from the African- American culture, but despite all of that, jazz led to a new era of music that still prevails today. Louis Armstrong, “known to be the greatest influence in 1920’s and the first vital jazz soloist to attain worldwide influence as a trumpeter,” led a musical revolution. He was a strong force in spreading the influence