Pensacola

Imagine flying thousands of feet in the air, performing open heart surgery on a patient, without the proper tools, and under a lot of pressure. Working under the pressure of successfully treating a patient is something that naval flight surgeons must face almost daily. A flight surgeon primarily practices preventive medicine. Their job consists of a balance between the practice of medicine, the profession of aviation, and the study of hyperbaric medicine. A surgeon requires several skill, some…

years in World War 1 and years later he started suffering from facial paralysis due to severe injuries he sustained. So, for the next eight years of Hanks life were spent separated from his dad, because his dad stayed in Veterans Affairs clinic in Pensacola, Florida. At this time Hanks mom, Jessie “Lillie”…

Jackson went through everything alone in his life mostly because his parents not being with him and his brothers dying.” Since both of his parents died when he was still quite young, he had little opportunity to learn about his heritage” (par 1, Genealogy). Andrew Jackson was the 17th president of the United States he was born in March 15, 1767 near Lancaster, southern Carolina.” The battles of the American Revolutionary War that raged in the Carolinas from 1778 to 1781 had a devastating effect…

Derrick Thomas is a hoss standing at 6’3” and 255 pounds. Derrick Thomas was once little though, believe it or not. Derrick was born in Miami, Florida in 1967. Thomas has been into football ever since a very young age of 3. Derrick was raised by his mother after his father was killed in an Air Force mission in Vietnam. Thomas is looked up to by many young kids and NFL players now, people want to be like him. Such as Von Miller who has been tearing it up just like Thomas did. Sadly, Derrick…

Introduction The leadership style of Quint Studer reminds me of a bulb, not because the Studer Group and Foundation carries his name has a bulb in the logo, on the contrary, it encourages to “be the bulb.” As described by Cokeley in (2012) an electric current flowed through a filament of carbonized thread and brought the world into light on New Year’s Eve 1879. It was Edison’s vision, and willingness to share that created dynamic change. Both Edison and Studer are exemplar they set raised bar,…

they were overall more fit to go into space physically and emotionally. Out of the 19 women that Lovelace tested, 13 passed with flying colors, one being Wally Funk. Unfortunately, when these women were to complete the final phase of testing in Pensacola, they were barred from entry because they weren’t cleared by NASA. Funk and the others would never get their chance to go to space. Two women in…

There were many territorial gains made by the United States between 1800 and 1860; some of those include; Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Florida, Missouri Compromise, and the Westward Expansion which included Texas and Oregon, and California Gold Rush. The pressure of fast population increase between 1800 and 1860 greatly; “just from 1800 to 1820 it increased from 5.3 million to 9.6 million” due to births and immigration rates (Brinkley, 2012, p.218). Each and every one of these purchases brought…

Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946, Theodore Robert Bundy was a wicked child of Louise Cowell which during the next few years they spent living with Louise’s parents. There were speculating to believe they led Ted and others believe that his mother was his older sister. Others believed it was during this time that Ted had been traumatized by his aggressive grandfather. It was not until at age four Ted and his mother moved to Tacoma, Washington where Ted’s mother went on to marry an army cook,…

tourist attention away from the gulf completely. Before the spill according to TripAdvisor, the gulf had nearly 47 million visitors monthly. The top cities that have faced a tremendous decrease are Gulf Shores, Alabama which decreased 65 percent, Pensacola, Florida at 52 percent and Destin, Florida at 48 percent. In Louisiana 26 percent of people had previously intended to visit the state had postponed or cancelled their…

Historians normally give the perspectives of the American Revolution from those that were living in the thirteen colonies. In Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution we are able to see the American Revolution from a different side not normally seen which involves the war fought in the Gulf Coast region. Duval focuses on the Revolution’s impact on people in Louisiana and Western Florida. We learn from the eight characters that the American Revolution was more than just…