1. Atlantis
The river and lake ultimately feed into the Gulf of Mexico, which lies approximately 100 miles from New Orleans. ... Jack Shafer, a reporter for the Washington Post said that New Orleans puts the "D" in dysfunctional. He reports that New Orleans is a poor place with 27% of its population living under poverty and it's a black place with 67% are African American.In this New Orleans community the public schools are 93% black and have failed their citizens. ... New Orleans was a city of almost 500,000 people, two-thirds of whom were African American. In New Orleans, "poor"...
Plate tectonics is a relatively new scientific concept, introduced some 30 years ago, but it has revolutionized our understanding of the dynamic planet upon which we live. ... However, by the mid-19th century, catastrophism gave way to "uniformitarianism," a new way of thinking centered on the "Uniformitarian Principle" proposed in 1785 by James Hutton, a Scottish geologist. ... The theory of continental drift would become the spark that ignited a new way of viewing the Earth. ... However, after his death, new evidence from ocean floor exploration and other studies rekindled interest in Wegene...
"Galveston became Atlantis- (198). ... The United States had emerged from the Spanish American War as world powers, a new role to our citizens, which caused widespread pomposity (66). ... No one thought anything more of the storm than a good story to tell to friends and relatives once they arrived in New York. ...