This dissertation is a history of black life in the wake of forced migration to the lower Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth century. It is a history of bought and brought enslaved people, of the local material and environmental conditions that drove their forced migration…
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During the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in 2010, approximately 0.5 billion liters (3.1 million barrels) of oil were released into the northern Gulf of Mexico during the largest marine oil spill in history . A significant portion of the released oil was weathered into residu…
This research explains how healthcare reform produces both microeconomic, macroeconomic, and socioeconomic effects. First, this analysis considers past healthcare reforms from Medicaid to the most recent era of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, followed by an analy…
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become words. Keep your words positive because your words become behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values …
Zooplankton play an important trophic role in estuarine ecosystems by transferring energy from phytoplankton and other primary producers to higher levels of the food web. Changes in prey assemblage and environmental factors, such as temperature and salinity, can influence zoopla…
New Orleans has a complicated history that spans several centuries. Its racial composition and diverse populations have made it a truly unique place. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 would dramatically change the course of the United States’ history as well as New Orleans’ history…
For over two hundred years, a community of Louisianans has spoken a dialect derived from the language known as Louisiana Cajun French (LCF). LCF refers to French spoken by southern Louisiana inhabitants as adapted from the expulsion of French-speaking Acadians from the area know…
A use of narrative and biographical history to describe how economic creolization developed French Louisiana.
"I never held a public office in my life during which I was not under some kind of threat of removal or impeachment from the day I went into politics until the present day. I have never held one, and I do not expect to hold one." Huey P Long, American Progress, 8 February 1934. …
In 1919, in the face of mounting drug addiction, the United States Department of the Treasury attempted to control this epidemic by opening treatment clinics across the country. Most of them failed miserably, but Dr. Willis Butler, who served as Caddo Parish Coroner for almost f…
Hibiscus sabdariffa goes by many common names worldwide, but in the United States of America, it is called Roselle. Roselle is an annual erect, herbaceous shrub. This plant in its entirety can be utilized for food and nutrition for human benefits. The objective of this study was…
The importance of gubernatorial discretion in managing major disasters cannot be overstated. The role of the state governor, as the state government's chief elected official, is central to effective disaster response and recovery operations. More importantly, the latitude of dis…
Average annual daily traffic (AADT) is important in transportation engineering and planning, and although the State of Louisiana collects AADT on a regular basis on state-maintained highways, most parishes and smaller municipalities do not have the resources to collect AADT freq…
The Wax Lake Delta (WLD) is located at the downstream end of the Wax Lake outlet, approximately 13 miles upstream from Morgan City, Louisiana. In 1942 the United States Army Corps of Engineer (USACE) dredged Wax Lake Outlet channel from the lower Atchafalaya River to reduce floo…
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the earth that overwhelm local response and affect the social and economic development of the affected region. Natural disasters have been seen as situations that create challenges and difficulties m…
The Isles Dernieres Barrier Island Refuge (IDBIR) represents an ecologically sensitive area that is historically important habitat for wintering and breeding waterbirds, and is currently threatened by habitat loss, disturbance, and climate change. The northern Gulf of Mexico coa…
One of the fundamental changes in the modern era was the coming of the “dying of death” throughout the Western World. Coined by historian James Farrell, this term is used to explain how mourners moved away from sentimental death mores that domesticated the dead body and encourag…
Statistically downscaled CMIP5 precipitation data are available at higher spatial resolution compared to global climate models. The downscaled climate models have been used in many hydrological applications. However, limited numbers of studies focused on downscaled CMIP5 precipi…
In the last twenty years, recent scholarship has opened up fresh inquiry into several aspects of New Orleans society during the late nineteenth century. Much work has been done to reassess the political and cultural involvement, as well as perspective of, the black Creoles of th…