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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"Katrina"”.
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Re-visioning Katrina: Exploring Gender in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans
… the gender dynamics of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the storm's aftermath, one must interrogate the cultural conflation of the black female body and the city's legacy to explore what it means and how it situates real black women in social, cultural, and physical landscapes. Using a …
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An arena production of Andreyev's Katrina
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Dept. of Speech, 1955
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Hurricane Katrina and the Television News Industry
… 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 the …
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Interpreting Disaster: New Orleans Museums Respond to Katrina
… Orleans museums in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this work will explore the role of museums in the early process of disaster recovery. The responses of The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
… of the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina. Many groups have sprung up across the city to create communal and private spaces aimed at growing food. Urban agriculture in New Orleans has been looked to as a panacea for a myriad of issues. Activists around the city tout the importance …
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God Talk: Shifting Religious Rhetoric in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… are applicable in a modern case study of post-Katrina New Orleans concerning the way words in the New Orleans community have taken on new meanings among both secular and religious institutions. Likewise, this case study will raise serious questions about why the language changed and what the …
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Post-Katrina Student Resilience: Perspectives of Nunez Community College Students
… of St. Bernard Parish following Hurricane Katrina. Nunez Community College is located in Chalmette, Louisiana, fifteen miles east of the City of New Orleans. The community is adjacent to the Lower Ninth Ward. This study seeks to answer the questions of why the students returned to a …
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Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans
… shortage in affordable housing since hurricane Katrina and compares the model ordinance, passed in 2007, to ordinances in San Francisco, Denver, and San Diego. These large city ordinances offer an assessment of older versus newer ordinances as well as strict versus lenient provisions within a …
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Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… resistance are applied by public editors in post-Katrina New Orleans in hopes of reordering the city's ruptured narrative. Using qualitative methods and grounded theory, the textual analysis of local newspaper editorials and letters to the editor, collected from the six month period between August …
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WITH SLABS, BONES, AND POLES: DE/CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES OF HURRICANE KATRINA IN JESMYN WARD’S SALVAGE THE BONES, NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S BEYOND KATRINA, AND SELAH SATERSTROM’S SLAB
… in an examination of three texts about Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011), Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina (2010), and Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (2015). The texts are arranged by form, beginning with Ward’s novel, followed by Trethewey’s hybrid memoir, and finally, …
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Spatial Mismatch for Low-Wage Workers in post-Katrina New Orleans
… Orleans literature by providing a pre- and post-Katrina snapshot of spatial mismatch. The analysis addresses research questions aimed at gauging the extent to which mismatch and job-isolation have changed for poor workers in the New Orleans metro area since Hurricane Katrina.
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Opposing Viewpoints for Addressing Public Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… projects in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina was a highly contentious issue for people throughout the city and even the nation. This thesis investigates the tensions between those who supported and opposed public housing demolition by highlighting the work and history of two people on …
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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: Perspectives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… involved in efforts for social change in post-Katrina New Orleans to develop a richer understanding of their roles within social movements and how they conceive of and negotiate the core tensions in their work. I investigate the lawyers' roles within social movements situated in legal, …
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Facing the Storm: An Oral History of Elderly Survivors of Katrina
… elderly residents who survived the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. The aged faced similar challenges as their younger counterparts in the evacuation, aftermath, and rebuilding phases of the storm; however, their responses are limited by a number of factors that make the impact on their …
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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina
… political, and cultural contexts of a post-Katrina Southeastern Louisiana, administrators and instructors at the University of New Orleans must begin to question how our freshmen writing program can best serve our students as they enter into the future of a "new" New Orleans. Implementing a …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
… 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 in time. …
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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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Planning Tremé : the community development field in a post-Katrina world
… and nationwide collectively framed Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as the result of willful government failure to protect an original American city and its most vulnerable residents. They saw their efforts to equitably redevelop the city as seeding a renewed social movement for economic and racial …
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Feet don't fail me now: brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans
… study is to examine brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans. Told primarily in the words of the musicians themselves, this study analyzes the intersection of the city's recovery efforts and the complex web of formal and informal sociocultural relationships that exist in the brass band …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… New Orleans. The damages inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent citywide flooding on the local food system reduced the numerical count of operational full-service supermarkets and grocery stores throughout the city. The result has been a widespread presence of food deserts and grocery …
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