Everglades

During one time or another one will go about trying to find their one and true love. Similarly, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie searches to gain unconditional and true love like that between the pear tree and its surroundings in Nanny 's backyard. As a result of her quest for this love Janie realizes that although her marriage with Tea Cake was far from perfect, it worked for her as she found and realized that true love does exist. Hurston by no way wants us to aspire to be like them but…

The First Seminole War happened in the years of 1817 to 1818 between the United States and the Seminoles of Florida. The first Seminole War was a punitive journey led by Andrew Jackson into the La Florida, which was a Spanish colony in 1818. Many are under the impression that the United States were responsible for the cause of the war and everything that happened in the war, when in fact both sides were responsible for the war, and both were equally to blame for the consequences of the war.…

HABITAT DESCRIPTIONS Sand Scrub: “By definition, scrubs are xeric communities growing on well-drained infertile sand formations of marine origin in both coastal and interior Florida. Evergreen or nearly evergreen scrub oaks or rosemary shrubs or both predominate in some scrubs, while in others, sand or slash pines are present, sparsely or abundantly. The scrubs in Jonathan Dickinson State Park are coastal scrubs, which grow along today’s coastal sand and are influenced by salt spray.” (Means,…

Andrew Jackson was a very controversial President. There are multiple positives and negatives to Andrew Jackson. Andrew is America’s great worst President. I am going to discuss and tell you if you he was a good or bad President is his term from March 4, 1829- March 4, 1837. Before Andrew Jackson was President, he had nine slaves. By the time he was a President he had nearly 150 slaves. He was given the title of an Elite Planter. Andrew Jackson had many negatives in his life. One of the most…

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes were Watching God. New York: Harper & Row, 1937. Print. In Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston explores the life of a southern black woman, Janie Crawford whose three marriages of domineering control of men make her acknowledge her independence and self-satisfaction as an African-American woman. Set in the early 1900s, Hurston reveals the dominant role of men in southern society and…

"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches"(Hurston 8). Who is Janie? A lady of mixed white and black heritage, Janie is the result of a poor, black lady raped by a nameless white teacher and the upbringing of her granny who lacked sturdy emotional ties. Her sensualness and romantic quest after love make her a target for men of all ages. She experiences 3 totally different marriages, all of…

Every state in the U.S. are broken into congressional districts. The people of that certain district vote for a congressman to represent them in congress. Not all states have the same amount of districts, states are in different shapes and sizes, based on population that’s how many districts there are in that state. Mario Diaz-Balart effectively represents the needs, opinions and diversity of his constituents of the Florida 25th District. He’s a cuban-inherit, so he supports helping illegal…

Independent Women Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leaders of Harlem Renaissance, influenced a lot of women in the late 1930s by writing Their Eyes Were Watching God. In traditional perspective, it had been a common thought that women need men to live and are only about who they end up with. However, Hurston encouraged many women to raise their voice by letting them know that women and romance do not always go together. The novel demonstrates how modernism has built the new structure of women’s…

It’s thought-provoking how everything is interconnected when you look back on it historically. My family, my hometown, and my State can be viewed like a Venn diagram with logical connections between them. Taking a snapshot of 1998 was interesting. I never considered where my family was or what they were doing the year I was born. The city and state where I grew up were dealing with some exciting and some difficult problems such as corruption, an archeological find, severe weather, and historic…

Terms • 'favorite son ' – name given to the different candidate the new Whig party sent to run against Van Buren; each favorite son appealed to certain region in the nation and the Whigs did not hope to win outright with one candidate, but to reduce the chance of a candidate with a majority with these many sons • nullification – the decision of a state to not reinforce a federal law; the South Carolinians did not the effect the tariffs were having on their economy and thus tried to nullify the…