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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Hurricane Katrina"”.
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Hurricane Katrina and the Television News Industry
This thesis is about the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and the television news industry. My goal was to record the experiences of my fellow co-workers at WWL-TV, which was the only local television station to remain on the air throughout the hurricane. I also wanted to perform a review of …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
… and emotional resources on recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Despite this major investment in the recovery on the U.S. Gulf Coast, there is little understanding of what actually affects a housing unit or community's ability to recover from a disaster or what determines the rate of recovery …
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Longitudinal predictors of school problems in youth affected by Hurricane Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, youth faced significant disruption to their lives due to the storm damage and, for many, long-term evacuation. One domain of functioning that faced significant threat because of this disruption was student engagement. The purpose of this study was to examine …
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Chemical, Toxicological, and Microbial Characterization of New Orleans Sediments Following Hurricane Katrina
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and storm surges breached levees flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana. One month after the storm, sediment was collected and toxicity was tested using Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) embryos. Sediments with the highest contaminant …
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A Meta-Synthesis of Emergency Network Management Strategies and Analysis of Hurricane Katrina
… then, turned to an analysis of reports of the Hurricane Katrina response using the meta-synthesis results. Qualitative content analysis was used as a method for the analysis. Reports from the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate are the target documents of the analysis. …
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Race & Crime on the Evening News: New Orleans in the Days after Hurricane Katrina
… of evening news programs in the days after hurricane Katrina. A qualitative content analysis of television news transcripts and select audio-visual footage reveals how the media framed crime, the perpetrators of crime and "looting." Media perpetuation of myths such as residents shooting at …
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Socio-Cultural Differences In Coping From Stressful Events As A Result of Hurricane Katrina
<p>Hurricane Katrina caused a devastating amount of damage to the Gulf Coast region, but the psychological toll this category 5 storm exacted from the region has received less attention. This study explored how gender, race, SES status and resilience may have influenced the clinical outcomes that …
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An investigation of maternal psychopathology as a moderator of child response following Hurricane Katrina
… who were displaced from New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina in the late summer of 2005. Child participants completed the Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition-Self Report of Personality, the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index, and the Child Hurricane-Related Traumatic Experiences, …
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… disasters in the nation's history: Category 4 Hurricane Katrina. In its aftermath, Katrina became known as "one of the worst mishandled disasters ever." Utilizing Kenneth Burke's pentad, this study analyzes the president's rhetorical response and the primetime network news coverage following …
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The military and domestic disaster response lead role revealed through the eye of Hurricane Katrina?
… been overwhelmed. During and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, however, the slow and perceived inept response to the massive disaster prompted a national debate on the appropriate role of the military in response to major domestic disasters. Many concerned with the federal response to Katrina …
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The Closure of New Orleans' Charity Hospital After Hurricane Katrina: A Case of Disaster Capitalism
… of New Orleans’ populace in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in an attempt to abandon Charity Hospital’s iconic but neglected facility and to supplant its original safety net mission serving the poor and uninsured for its neoliberal transformation to favor LSU’s academic medical …
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The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Public School Counselors and their Delivery of Responsive Services
… to schools in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Eight professional school counselors participated in the study. The primary research question was: How did Hurricane Katrina impact public school counselors in their delivery of personal counseling services (responsive services) …
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The Role of Trust in Neighborhood Recovery: Examinations from New Orleans’ Recovery from Hurricane Katrina
… recovery in the Greater New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. These analyses provide insights into the effects of neighborhood levels of social capital, organizational capacity, particularized racial trust and generalized trust on the mean level of household recovery in Orleans and St. …
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When Education Ceases to be Public: The Privatization of the New Orleans School System After Hurricane Katrina
… examines the privatization movement in the post-Katrina New Orleans education system. Less than a month after Katrina, a well-financed charter school movement was moving swiftly through the ravaged city. Nationally, a network of right-wing think tanks and school choice advocates descended on New …
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Motivational Factors Underlying College Students' Decisions to Resume Their Educational Pursuits in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… at a historically Black university ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Given the devastation caused by the storm, this study examined college students' decisions for continuing their educational pursuits at the historically Black university which is a temporary trailer campus created by the Federal …
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When the saints go marching in: an ethnography of volunteer tourism in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans
… a new phenomenon in New Orleans tourism. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August 2005, droves of individuals and groups have come to New Orleans to help rebuild the city. Through conducting fifty interviews with these individuals from 2008-2009, the author traces the steps of volunteer …
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The response to Hurricane Katrina : a study of the Coast Guard's culture, organizational design & leadership in crisis
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the United States Gulf Coast early on August 28, 2005 killing almost 2,000 people and causing $81 billion in damages making Katrina the costliest natural disaster in United States history. The sheer magnitude of the devastation and destruction in New Orleans and the …
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Hurricane Katrina and Youth Anxiety: The Role of Parental Anxiety, Parental and Youth Attachment Beliefs, and Parenting Behaviors
… current study was to investigate the effects of Hurricane Katrina on youth anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms (PTSD symptoms) by examining the roles of pre Katrina youth anxiety, parental anxiety, parental and youth attachment beliefs, and parenting behaviors. Seventy-four youth …
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“Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” The use of popular music after Hurricane Katrina
… in response to the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. Using research in sociology of disaster and uses and gratifications theory in mass communication, data collected included original music written in response to the hurricane, major benefit concerts that aired in …
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