Okeechobee County

Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…

theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing different plays to these eras including Trojan Women by Euripides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn, and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. In the Ancient Greek era some of the most prominent aspects of staging conventions…

Lost in Lust The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, explores a lighthearted event, as the play title suggests, a middle school spelling bee. I watched the production on February 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM at the University of Washington’s Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. This production was directed by Brandon Ivie, musically directed by Jordyn Meeker, and choreographed by Steven Sofia. This musical…

believes that, “God puts circumstances in all of our lives and expects us to use them to glorify Him and to serve others.” So, in 2010 when God placed a burden on her heart to open a free, Christ-centered clinic for the lower-income, uninsured of Okeechobee County, she was ready. Nicole was born with two holes in her heart and suffered from congestive heart failure before she was a year old. Because her family had no health insurance, Nicole would not have been able to have the life-saving heart…

known as the “fishing capital of the world.” and Florida will not have that title anymore is the dumping and burning of sugar fields. The farming of the sugar cane fields have started to pollute the surrounding area including the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, and the reef system off south Florida. For the fishing industries in the state of Florida, those reefs, beaches, canals, lakes, and runoff levees are the sources that drive industry. Hundreds and hundreds of commercial fisherman and…

April 12 a young 10 year old boy who has autism was arrested at Okeechobee Achievement Academy in Florida for “allegedly kicking and scratching the educational assistant who was working with him”. The Washington Post reported that “After the arrest, the boy was taken to a juvenile detention facility where he spent the night. His mother offered to go with officers in the police car, but they refused her to go with.” Okeechobee County schools to charge him with “battery on a school board employee”…

span around 5,000 sq km. The area experiences seasonal weather, with a wet and hot summer and relatively dry and mild winters. To the east of the Everglades is the urban Miami metropolitan area, with around 6 million residents. To the north is Lake Okeechobee, the main source of water that flows into the Everglades. Between the lake and the Everglades is a rich area of peat soils that is used mostly for agriculture of plants like sugar cane, corn, vegetables, rice, and sod.…

The first known people to have lived in the Everglades were known as the Calusa Indians. They lived in this area for more than three hundred years before us. Even though the Indians lived here first, the first permanent residents were the families of William Smith Allen and John Weeks. These two families settled down there not to long after the Civil War. Both were farmers that had to live off of the land. The Everglades was remote and not many people lived there until Barron G. Collier. He made…

The Florida metropolis that was evaluated and studied is located in the Florida Treasure Coast, Martin County which includes the smaller communities of Jensen Beach, Stuart, Palm City, Jupiter Island, Seawalls Point, Ocean Breeze, Indiantown, North River Shores, Rio, Port Salerno, Port Maraca, and Hobe Sound. Martin county is nestled between Palm Beach county and St. Lucie County and offers 753 square miles of land, 209 square miles of which is water provided by either the St. Lucie River and…