House of the Setting Sun: New Orleans, Katrina, and The Role of Historic Preservation Laws in Emergency Circumstances

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while various government bodies scrambled to address the myriad tragedies and emergencies that arose from the disaster, one critical question went largely unanswered and ignored: What was to become of the historic homes damaged in the storm and ensuing flood? Obviously this question was of secondary concern at the time—where human life and safety are imperiled, the primary focus of government officials should be on restoring order and ensuring their constituents are protected. Precisely because of the existence of more pressing issues in a time of emergency, therefore, it is important to have a prepared plan addressing how best to incorporate historic preservation law into recovery and rebuilding efforts. In many areas, and in New Orleans in particular, historic architecture and ambience play a large role in forming the identity of the community; if a community is rebuilt without its identity in mind, its residents will not truly be able to return home. In this paper I will discuss in more detail why a system for addressing historic preservation concerns in a time of emergency is necessary and what that system should entail. Part I includes a description of New Orleans, how the New Orleans historic preservation statute functions, and what the results were in historic districts affected by Hurricane Katrina. Part II is a brief description of other areas that have experienced large-scale disasters, with an exploration into how the various responses affected the goals of historic preservation. Part III details a proposed solution -- that emergency provisions be written into local historic preservation statutes to govern how the statute will function in a time of emergency, and what those provisions should look like. Although the typical procedure put in place by the historic preservation ordinance may not be feasible in a time of emergency, a modified or alternative version of that process would best protect the interests of preservation while allowing local government to sufficiently respond to the needs of the community

SELF AWARENESSTHAT LEADS TOEDNA PONTELLIER’S EGOISTIC SUICIDE IN KATE CHOPIN’S THE AWAKENING NOVEL

Ada beberapa faktor yang menyebabkan seseorang berakhir dengan keputusan untuk bunuh diri. Novel The Awakening karya Kate Chopin bercerita tentang Edna Pontellier, istri dari seorang Creole yang hidup tertekan karena suaminya dan standar sosial Creole hingga ia kehilangan jati dirinya.Penulis menggunakan metode studi pustaka guna mencari data data relevan yang berkaitan dengan topik yang dibahas. Penulis menggunakan pendekatan eksponensial untuk menjelaskan unsur intrinsik novel tersebut untuk memberikan informasi yang jelas tentang karakter, setting, dan konflik yang ada didalam novel. Pendekatan psikologi sosial digunakan untuk memahami seberapa besar dampak lingkungan sekitar terhadap cara berpikir dan bertindak suatu individu. Penulis menemukan korelasi antara cara Edna berpikir dan bertindak dengan standar sosial Creole saat itu. Sedangkan untuk menganalisis proses kesadaran diri tokoh Edna Pontellier, penulis menggunakan teori self awareness guna mengkaji proses kesadaran diri yang dilalui Edna satu per satu. Penulis juga menggunakan teori suicide oleh Emile Durkheim untuk menganalisis aksi bunuh diri yang Edna lakukan di akhir cerita novel. Penulis kemudian mengkategorikan aksi bunuh diri tersebut kedalam tipe egoistic suicide sesuai dengan faktor-faktor penyebabnya

What’s in a Name? How Toponyms Connect Language and Society through Place

This is a study of place, meaning, society, and language, all of which interact through names. Although names are an essential part of human language, they remain on the periphery of linguistic studies. This study situates names in linguistics through an analysis of the meaning in a toponym, or place name. According to lexical theory words are arbitrary. Yet we bestow names based on how they sound or what they have already come to represent; names are not arbitrary. Furthermore, a name becomes opaque when we can no longer see through its form to understand its meaning. Then it picks up new meanings based on the community it presently references. This paper builds on these two main theoretical differences between words and names. Scholars have studied toponyms from the angles of many different academic disciplines. Philosophical literature asks to what a name actually refers. Anthropological literature questions how toponyms function as integral parts of specific cultures. Political literature looks at how governments have changed toponyms to further their own political aims: to build community or break down enemies. Through this inquiry into toponymic literature, we see that scholars address toponyms through a variety of disciplines with a common link: a name’s significance is connected to a society. I support this discussion with an example of a specific toponym that exemplifies many of the themes that surface in the toponymic literature. Far from an arbitrary pairing of form and meaning, at the outset “New Orleans” denoted an image of European grandeur that the founders wanted to connect with their city. Over time the name took on a myriad of other meanings relating to the people and the culture of the place: Mardi Gras, jazz, Cajun culture, and theMississippi River. In the wake of hurricane Katrina the meaning of “New Orleans” changed yet again. “New Orleans” demonstrates concretely that far from being arbitrary, names reflect the experience of the people who use them. I argue that because the significance of names is in the society that uses them, linguistics can incorporate names through the sub-discipline of sociolinguistics, how language functions in society. Although linguistics has historically avoided the study of names because they add nothing to the genera of structural linguistics, names have meaning in relation to society that other words lack. While this meaning does not contribute to an understanding of the structure of language, it does contribute to an understanding of language, so there needs to be a place in linguistics for names. Names are language and society amalgamated. Their meaning comes from how they connect these two areas. Names therefore constitute a rarely studied type of sociolinguistics, where we see how society gives words meaning beyond their function as referents, and where language gives society an image of itself. This study looks at an aspect of language that has been sidelined by linguistics, and through the use of other disciplines, finds a way to study it as language

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SERVING CURRENT AND EMERGING BUSINESS STRATEGIES: PORT OF HOUSTON

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Ona Smith Cookbook Collection

Memorabilia and cookbooks from local organizations and churches collected during 1950-1970 while living in South Louisiana.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/manuscript-finding-aids/1333/thumbnail.jp

You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2003)

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun! This first issue of You’ve Gotta Read This was published in May 2003 and featured fabulous clip-art for the cover and recommendations from 37 faculty members. The most popular title for this year? The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1010/thumbnail.jp

The Cowl - v.22 - n.16 - Mar 19, 1960

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 22, Number 16 - March 19, 1960. 8 pages