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As of today, “There are currently about 4.4 million registered Republicans and nearly 4.6 million Democrats. But the voters both campaigns want are the nearly 3 million independents who give this swing state its swing.” (Savidge). According to the Miami Herald, factoring in Florida’s Hispanic population, “Florida is the biggest swing state in the country” (Klas). Not only Hispanics are represented through Florida however, “Contrary to the stereotype, Florida is no longer a wheezy haven of…

Facts In 1967, Charles Katz used a public telephone in Los Angeles, California in order to place illegal gambling bets. Not only was he placing bets over the phone, he was placing the wages to individuals in Boston and Miami. While he was placing the bets over the phone, Katz was unaware that the Federal Government, also known as FBI, was conducting an investigation through the electronic collection data. After the conversation, Katz was arrested and apprehended by the FBI. Katz cited that the…

the event, making it similar to a natural experiment, permitted David Card, a Canadian labor economist, to set up an innovative pre/post test design using a difference in difference estimator in his paper “The impact of the Mariel boatlift on the Miami labor market”. The latter study would have a substantial legacy in the economic field for its methodological approach. More than three decades after the event, immigration is once again a highly debated political subject. Accused of being…

planting trees and plants. By doing even just one of these things, it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the effect of climate change. In Surviving Progress, the main topic is not only about how climate change is affecting the environment, but rather how society’s “progress” is making climate change worse. This film is inspired by Ronald Wright in which many other interviewers, including Ronald Wright, give their opinions on today’s society and how humanity is making climate…

them, should they be in schools? Well, according to the article “Dress for Success: Public Uniforms” By Tamar Lewin a journalist for The New York Times. “In Miami 196 out of 328 public schools are required to wear uniforms.” 196 public schools! Now I don’t know about you, but to me that’s a huge number. There are 328 public schools in Miami, but 196 is about ⅓ of 328 and this article was published in 2016 so in 2 years how much could it have gone up? According to, Denise-Marie Ordway, a…

The Man April 21, 1998, my mother gave birth to a newborn girl that she named Alishai Dominique Bryan. I was loved by the most important person in my life and that was enough for me at the time. It was only three months later that I was hospitalized for a fever that showed no signs of declining. My mother was frantically pacing the room back and forth with worry on her chest. The door to my hospital room swung open, and in walks the man with the hood. He peered down at my baby body,…

Known for his notorious drug trades, violent attitude, drug influenced mood swings, and vigorous urge for revenge, Antonio Raimundo was a lonely leader of the American drug trafficking industry. Relatively recognized for his clever drug trades that lead him from being once poor to being one of the most wealthiest men in New York City. Antonio Raimundo was the gateway for the up coming drug dealers like El Chapo after he was killed and exposed for the large amount of money and drugs he had…

In dance, you learn quickly that without pure dedication and drive you will never be successful. While talent can come naturally, skill and technique only come with hard work. I spent countless hours in dance studios growing up, working tirelessly to hone these skills and perfect technique. A lifetime of dance taught me what it means to have discipline and dedication to a craft, values which I have also seen reflected in my clinical experiences. Medicine is a practice which calls for just as…

It is a very specialized degree that is meant to be thought in very unconventional ways. The Miami Ad School is the University that brands themselves as one of the most modern institutions in Hamburg and appears to be lacking the scientific work basis (“Bachelor / Master| TOP CREATIVE SCHOOL in Europe,” n.d.). Fresenius is a relatively big private…

Moonlight is a 2016 film directed by Barry Jenkins, based on In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, an unpublished play by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The story follows a Chiron, a black boy growing up in Miami, through three distinct vignettes. These vignettes, spaced about ten years apart, depict Chiron’s childhood through young adulthood, as he struggles with poverty, trauma, bullies, and his own crystalizing sense of sexuality and masculinity. From a sociological perspective, the film is…