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(Name) (Instructors' name) (Course) (Date) new orleans Jazz Bands One aspect that emerges as quite distinguishable in the new orleans culture is jazz funeral.... Among all American cities, jazz funerals in new orleans were only peculiar to new orleans, as noted by Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1819.... With the passing of time, the same concepts that had deep roots in African ideology evolved into one of the basic principles that formed the social as well as pleasure clubs in new orleans....
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As described in films, songs, and literary works, new orleans is perhaps most commonly associated with carnival or Mardi Gras, a festival that signifies the city's celebration of life's joys whilst revealing hidden struggles over social class and racial issues.... hellip; Mardi Gras in new orleans: Reconciling Commercialisation and Local Culture
Despite the destruction brought about by Hurricane Katrina, numerous parades, carnivals, and marching groups invaded the boulevards of new orleans in 2006 (Gotham 2007b, 825)....
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According to President Bush the failure of the police to maintain law and order in the state of new orleans after Hurricane Katrina was due to the deep, persistent poverty in the region.... In 2003, the official murder incidents and atrocities in new orleans was eight times more than the average of the cases reported all over the country.... Poverty is considered to be the major reason behind the involvement of the police into corrupt practices, the official poverty rate of the state is 28%, more than 25% of the residents of new orleans, which include large number of police officials, earn less than $20,000....
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In the paper “Obesity in new orleans” the author focuses on one of the vital problems in the USA.... new orleans is the city that loves to eat.... The estimated quantity of overweight people in new orleans is 60% percent.... The officials say it is obesity that is the cause for most diseases the new orleans dwellers suffer from.... (Sell)In 2005 Men's Fitness ranked new orleans the seventh fattest city in the country....
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new orleans, Lusiana, is a large metropolitan area with its population estimated at 1,189,981 in 2000 according to national statistical records (Colten 43).... The city is situated in… new orleans, as a matter of fact has been vulnerable to hurricanes from the very time it was established during the pre-colonial period.
The city's design was much impacted by the 1965 Owing to the enactment of the legislation, the United States Army Corps of Engineers were charged with the responsibility of building artificial levees and floodwalls around the city so as to protect its residents and property from possible destruction by hurricanes and strong winds....
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Although it was not a big metropolis, new orleans always impressed its guests with the diversity of cultures, peoples, languages, traditions, architecture,… new orleans literature is absolutely peculiar and does not resemble any other literary school of the US.... Of course, one can wonder why literary new orleans happened to be so unique.... The answer is most likely to lie in the city's geographic It is worthy to cite Grace King, an American author who was born in new orleans, ‘there follows for the smaller metropolis a freedom of development'....
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After the purchase of American state of Louisiana, these individuals out rightly became American citizens, therefore, the Geographical aspect of both Louisiana and new orleans are contributor to the rise of Jazz music (Jazz In The International Sphere: Glocal Jazz Dialects And Poly-Idiomatic Creative Music).... This paper reviews the new orleans as the birthplace of Jazz music and this claims are backed up by the revelation of the Black American's history that this was the only place in the new world where the slaves were at liberty to own drums....
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… The paper "new orleans after Hurricane Katrina" is a delightful example of a case study on environmental studies.... A well-known evangelist has gone as far as to make a public statement, accusing the residents of new orleans of bringing the hurricane as God's wrath for sin.... This is just one of the realities pointed out in the Letter from new orleans by John Lee Anderson, entitled Leaving Desire: The Ninth Ward after the hurricane....
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