Miami

to take a dip in the Gulf of Mexico, lakes, or even rivers again. Of all the individuals infected a variety of symptoms have been reported including chills, diarrhea, fever, also skin lesions, lowered blood pressure, and pain. Howard Cohen of the Miami Herald writes, the Florida Department of Health reported since 2008 this flesh-eating bacteria has infected 346 people and about a third of the individuals who contracted these waterborne bacteria have died (Cohen, 2018). Cohen (2018)…

This flooding caused 25 million dollars in cleanup for Norfolk alone. If the climate warms to 2 degrees the sea level rise will rise and continue for centuries (Sutter, 2015). If sea levels rise cities like Norfolk, Washington D.C., Houston, and Miami will suffer from immense flooding. We already see examples of this from the current events that happened in Houston with Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey dropped 40-52 inches of rainfall in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Leaving cities…

information about VITAS in Palm Beach County, and the description of Palm Beach County. Historical Descriptions VITAS was founded in 1978 as Hospice Care Inc., a one of kind hospice program which is a pioneer in the nations’ hospice programs in Miami, FL. However, the story begins in 1976 with Hugh A. Westbrook, an ordained United Methodist minister, and Esther T. Colliflower, a registered nurse, saw a void in the…

has to consider things such as social class, gender, religion, location (where you were born and currently live), even the generation you were born in and sexuality. To give an example I can apply this belief to my own life. I was born in 1989 in Miami, Florida to a white mother and a Jamaican father of the lower middle class. I don’t remember much about that with…

After I completed high school it was never in my plans to attend college because I always felt like I hated school and it simply just wasn’t for me or wasn’t something that I had planned on doing ever. After graduation, I played around, partied, and didn’t take life seriously. A year passed by and I thought to myself what are you really going to do to show your future children that success comes as long as you put in hard work for it. Fall 2016 I got into to college and it was the best wake up…

packing our suitcases,and getting ready to leave for Statesboro georgia. This year we decided to ride the bus with my moms side of the family,since it would be cheaper than flying to Miami. The drive there was a long, and cold seventeen hours. It was exactly 10:00 pm when we arrived at my grandmothers house. The bus to Miami left at 1:00 am, after they counted to make sure everyone who paid was on the bus. It was very hard for me to go to sleep because of all…

complete disaster; I did not enjoy a second of it. Every single-family member that was with me on the trip was on edge. They had never seen something like that happen to anyone and they were deeply affected. As soon as I got back to Miami, I immediately went to Miami Children’s Hospital where several neurologists checked me for days. On the fourth day, it was very clear to every single specialist that I had Epilepsy. Hearing those words come from my doctor’s mouth meant nothing to me at the…

I never sang in a church choir when I was younger. Never did I stand amidst a group of children and sing fearlessly, knowing that any slight mistake of mine might be masked by a chorus of melodies surrounding me; instead, as is done in my religion, I sang alone. We call them shabads- hymns, sung of the verses written by our gurus many centuries ago. I was classically trained from the age of 5, and by 10 I was the child star of our church. Though I was somewhat introverted, my confidence shined…

Growing up, I would describe my background being placed in the middle class spectrum. I was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida. My parents were migrants from Haiti coming from families that were not impoverished but also not well off. My father came here young in the 80s, being able to adjust and learn how to survive and live in this country. Everything that he has and own was built from the ground up. He was not fortunate to have anything passed on as an inheritance. Life as a child was…

end it. “Design buildings to survive extreme winds. The Miami-Dade County Hurricane Code has done a great deal to lessen storm damage in Florida. This sort of code should be adopted much more widely (not just in hurricane-prone areas) to protect buildings from the more severe storms that are expected. Examples of specific measures that impart good wind resistance to a building include installing impact-resistant windows (compliant with Miami-Dade Protocols PA 201, PA 202, and PA 203) or exterior…