Everglades

For my honors enrichment project, I have choose to do a photo contest. The photo contest I entered in was the Zeiss. The picture I entered in the contest was a marsh which I took when I visited Pinckney Island. Marshes are usually found on the edge of a stream, pond, or lake. They often flood and if the surrounding area gets too dry, they feed the water from the flood back to stream, pond, or lake. A marsh is a type of wetland, an area of land where water covers ground for long periods of time.…

Next is Florida Keys, a strand of tropical islands off the coast of Florida and span about 100 miles out all together. Third is The Everglades, a big swamp off the coast of Florida, spanning about 1.5 million acres, mostly being a swamp by big lizard nopes and other things that no one would want to run into at any time of day. Finally there is South Beach, located in Miami, this beach…

the zoo brings in more people and makes it even more family friendly. The zoo also offers over two-thousand animals and fifty different species. They have a great place called the Everglades where they have tours. The author states, “There are even alligators that roam free in the “Everglades” (Gomez page 2). The Everglades are a famous attraction inside the Zoo of Miami because it is a large area filled with trees and wildlife that people can go on tours to see. In conclusion, The Zoo of Miami…

What is the significance of the title Their eyes were watching God? Their eyes were watching God is the story of Janie Crawford on a journey to finding true love. Along the way she develops her emotional growth and maturity through her different marriages. She experiences different kinds of love as well. Janie 's first marriage was with an older man who she didn 't really know and of course didn 't love. Janie 's second marriage was with Mayor Jody Starks. They marry and both work together to…

Eastern Air Lines aircraft crashed into the Everglades around 11:42 pm Eastern Standard time. This occurred on December 29, 1972 and missed its landing airfield by 18 miles to the Northwest. The Aircraft was spread across the swampy terrain and was a complete lost. Due to accident, 94 passengers of the 163 lost their lives as well as five of the 13 crew. All passenger were injured with varying degrees of injuries. The flight started from John F. Kennedy Airport and was generally uneventful…

There are many motifs in the book “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, by Zora Neale Hurston. One motif is the community. Community plays a vast role in the story, as Janie is exposed to new communities in her life. In this essay, I will be writing about one of the motifs in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” First of all, one motif that is related to community in the dark of opening book is the community where she lived with the Washburns, when she was a child. This community represents how she went…

at least 100 small eggs per a breeding. These Pythons are hurting the fragile ecosystem of the everglades, and are the king of it. If the Pythons keep breeding they may spread to other parts of america. Invasive species are in all countries like In Australia hunters imported foxes as game. The foxes started eating the penguins…

A women who was yet any other ordinary women, Zora Neale Hurston, made a difference throughout the world. Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Notusulg, Alabama. Shortly after she was born, she moved to a small town called Eatonville, which was the town she explains in the story. Many of the people she knew growing up were similar to the people she characterized in the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Eatonville was home to her because the black people could live there as they pleased.…

Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, south of Miami. The park preserves Biscayne Bay and its offshore barrier reefs. Ninety-five percent of the park is water, and the shore of the bay is the location of an extensive mangrove forest. The park covers 172,971 acres (69,999 ha) and includes Elliott Key, the park's largest island and first of the true Florida Keys, formed from fossilized coral reef. The islands farther north in the park are transitional islands…

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is a novel about Janie Crawford, an African American girl with white heritage, recalling her life since she left Eatonville, Florida. The book begins with Janie telling her story to her friend Phoebe. Starting at her childhood, Janie explains how she was raised by her grandmother and fills Phoebe in on the most defining events during that time. She explains how she found out she was not white like the other children she was around and recalls…