Criminal Activity Blighted homes have become a breeding ground for criminal mischief and drug activity. Drugs are being sold, hidden, and prepared in the blighted properties across the city. Criminals use the abandoned homes as a hideaway from local law enforcement and the FBI. The sharing of needles by drug users can spread diseases like HIV/AIDS and even hepatitis to the community. A local resident of the 7th ward of New Orleans says that, "It's a problem because me and a neighbor, we get out here and pick up needles and stuff like that off the ground," Watkins says. "We all have children on this block." (Elliott 2015). If blight continues, an outbreak of diseases and illnesses could overtake and purge our beloved city from the good nurturing, …show more content…
Criminal activities such as sexual assaults, murders, arson and the dumping of dead bodies. The homes in the French Quarter and surrounding areas of New Orleans have also been defaced by vandalism and graffiti. Blighted homes are hindering the neighborhood because of the ugly writings and spray painting on the building and even shattered glass from young kids. Many times they can have splattered paint over the property of homeowners. This is very disgraceful and heartbreaking for the homeowners who have invested their time and hard earned money, and they pay taxes for area. Now the homeowners and neighbors are left with the cleanup of trying to restore the beauty of what was once their before the criminals destroyed the beauty of their homes by their uncontrollable …show more content…
For example, if a rat bit a dog and that rat had an infectious disease, that dog could potentially spread the disease to his owner and other individuals that dog came in contact with. Rodents and stray animals (pets that were unwanted or left away from home) carry disease that are detrimental to men, women, and children. The Center for Disease Control states that, “rats and mice spread over 35 diseases…. diseases carried by rodents can also be spread to humans indirectly, through ticks, mites or fleas that have fed on an infected rodent.” Rodents can quickly multiply and take over the area in which they reside. According to Time Magazine, “Other animals such as: fleas, lice, mice, rats, raccoons, possums and [other] swamp [animals] are in the [abandoned homes]” (CDC, 2010). These animals have overtaken some communities and something needs to be done for the safety of the public and the environment. Future generations and the entire globe will be greatly affected if an outbreak were to take place. It is pivotal to keeping the city free and clear for potential outbreaks to protect the local residents. Diseases spreading across the city of New Orleans are in need of being at bottom of the totem pole. An outbreak of coyotes has made their way into the city New Orleans and some surrounding parishes. Coyotes are members of the canine family. They are actually clever animals that can adapt to
Rather than working with nature through multi-tiered flood control with spillways and reservoirs, levees disallowed the river to naturally flood, deteriorated the natural ecosystem, and ultimately weakened the city’s defenses against the hurricane (Kelman). Culture and society further interacted, as beliefs in man’s power over nature and racial discrimination promoted levee expansion and racial segregation, creating a city of racially differentiated risk (Spreyer 4). As a result, inundation mostly impacted the lower land neighborhoods that housed poor people of color. Society and nature interfaced in the application of levees that contained nature’s forces. Ultimately, nature won out: the hurricane overpowered the levees and breached the Industrial Canal, disproportionally flooding the mostly black, low-elevation neighborhoods of New Orleans (Campanella
The plague has always been a shadow overcastting the dawn of mankind; it had hid in the darkness, where the rodents roam and the poor dwell; it had unleashed its terror upon, claiming the souls of nobles and peasants alike. There are a total of five major plague outbreaks, including the infamous Black Death of medieval Europe, which wiped away half of its population. Yersinia pestis, the culprit behind the Black Death, are Gram-negative bacteria that are septicemic and extremely infectious. Though humans are highly susceptible to the microorganism, its main hosts are rodent species such as rats and squirrels, and are only transmitted onto humans when infectious fleas regurgitates animal blood while feeding on us.
New Orleans has always been a hotspot for crimes, historically having one of the highest murder rates in the country. New Orleans prolific crimes can be traced back to the 19th century, when New Orleans was expanding its ports and commerce; groups fought for power to control the revenue streams. Ultimately, organized crime groups and mafia families fought for control - of ports, types of commerce and groups of workers they could control. These fights led to assassinations, murder, and other crimes that continue to this day. The police lost control - they would not step in to interfere with the illegal activities because either they were paid off by the criminals or feared they would be killed by the mafia. The lack of police intervention caused private citizens to step in, creating lynch mobs to tackle crime and take out criminals.
Multiple circumstances within the cities, families, and organizations of societies contributed to the rapid spread of the plague. Rats, ticks and other rodents or insects where one of the reason the plague spread throughout the world and most of Europe. The ticks and fleas where infected with the disease and they bit the rats and other rodents, which infected them with the disease. The ticks and fleas also bit other rodents, livestock and even the attached themselves to humans and transferred the disease to them. The rats or other rodents ran throughout the place they where bit by the tick. Some of the rodents began to go into ship yards and trains. They bread with other rats and begin to produce offspring which created an even bigger problem. The rodents got onto the ships and where transported around the world, along with the now infected materials on board. The rats would drop their feces around the ship and even on the drinking water and food. When the ships docked at ship yards around the world the rats got off and ran around the new country they now belonged to. Some of the supplies that where taken off of the ship included but was not limited to, liquids, foods and livestock. These supplies where shipped around the world and contributed greatly to the spread of the disease.
The book Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Solnit and Snedeker it not an atlas of roads, but a journey through the sights, smells, and heritage of the great city of New Orleans through maps and essays. Within it are the essays “When They Set the Sea on Fire” by Antonia Juhasz about the BP oil spill in the Gulf. As well as “No Sweetness is Light” by Shirley Thompson about the sugarcane industry in New Orleans. The two essays compare greatly in the concepts of deception, greed, and the cause of sickness. The artifice in these essays bring so much false hope and suffering to the people of New Orleans.
To begin with, anybody privy to the events in New Orleans that ensued after Hurricane Katrina struck knows that horrible things that had nothing to do with natural causes happened: there were murders, gunfire directed at a rescue helicopter, assaults and, courtesy of New Orleans’ city police department, a myriad other crimes that most probably went unreported (Katrinacoverage.com).
The population of New Orleans was steadily decreasing, between the years of 2000 and 2005, 30,000 (6%) of the population left New Orleans in search for better lives (4). The declining population shows us that before Hurricane Katrina residence were already considering leaving the city, some push factors leading them away from the city include poverty and unemployment (5). Accord to the U.S 2005 Census Bureau around 23% of the residence lived in poverty, this can be a result of the nearly 12% unemployment rate (5). With an unemployment rate double the national standard and nearly one forth the population living in poverty, the city of New Orleans had many push factors against it resolution in a decline population prier to Hurricane Katrina. At the time of the storm nearly 400,000 residents were displaced from their homes too near by safe areas or other states. The population reming in the city as decreased to a few thousand (6). A month after the disaster when the levee breaches were repaired and the flood water was pumped out of the city, residence were allowed to return to what was left of their homes. The first reliable estimate of the New Orleans population after Hurricane Katrina was an ‘American Community survey’. The survey projected that by the start of 2006 around one third or 158,000 of the population returned. By the middle of f2006 the city
How do you get this disease? When a rat is infected, the flea bites the rat then the
In contrast to the negatives of gentrification, some people view gentrification as a the only effective way to “revitalize” low-income urban communities. In the article, “Gentrification: A Positive Good For Communities” Turman situates the piece around the opinion that gentrification is not as awful as the negative connotation surrounding it. Furthermore, he attempts to dispel the negative aspects of gentrification by pointing out how some of them are nonexistent. To accomplish this, Turman exemplifies how gentrification could positively impact neighborhoods like Third Ward (a ‘dangerous’ neighborhood in Houston, Texas).Throughout the article, Turman provides copious examples of how gentrification can positively change urban communities, expressing that “gentrification can produce desirable effects upon a community such as a reduced crime rate, investment in the infrastructure of an area and increased economic activity in neighborhoods which gentrify”. Furthermore, he opportunistically uses the Third Ward as an example, which he describes as “the 15th most dangerous neighborhood in the country” and “synonymous with crime”, as an example of an area that could “need the change that gentrification provides”. Consequently, he argues with
horrible disease was spread by infected rats and fleas and killed 1/4 to 1/3 of the
It all started when rats were on ships that were going across Europe, but the rats were infested with fleas that were carrying the Bubonic Plague. The city of London was a very poor city that had a large amount of its population lived in shanty towns in very cramped quarters. Since a large number of the population lived in such poor housing that was dirty, it made the town a lot more suitable for rats to live there.
The raccoon still leads as the major carrier and the animal is domestic in the Eastern United States. Skunks are native to the inland states, parts of Texas to Montana and all the way to Wyoming. The fox and the coyote are both native to the Mid Southern US, and the fox is also spotted in Alaska along the coast. Although not heard of lately, bats are a big carrier of the virus. They are common in most of the states except Hawaii (WebMD.com).
insight as to what type of sector of New Orleans the play is set in.
the city is below sea level. The below sea level parts of the city must be keep dry by constantly pumping water into the Mississippi or to the sea, otherwise those areas would flood from groundwater alone. Even the portions of New Orleans that are not below sea level are a part of the vast Mississippi flood plain. Flood plains are places where rivers flood
New Orleans is best known for a lot of things, great food, great atmosphere and who can forget the parties. However, people in the Big Easy were staying out late and rocking for a whole different reason in 1919 as the Axeman of New Orleans had a special request that rocked the Big Easy. Let's start from the beginning, the Axeman was a serial killer who struck New Orleans from March 1918–October 1919. This killer was sickeningly good as he left little to zero evidence at the scenes, he entered the victim's homes using their own tools and injured or killed them with their own ax. He seemingly struck at random which meant that no one was safe from the killer's ax, the only real thing that was consistent was in his victimology. The fact that almost every victim was an Italian grocer or baker made everyone get even more nervous for the