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The South Florida Online Schools System is a young and deft structure that consolidates three establishments, each autonomously authorized by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: South Florida Online SchoolsSarasota-Manatee. Serving more than 48,000 understudies, the South Florida Online Schools System has a yearly spending arrangement of about $1.6 billion and is situated 43rd in the nation for investigation utilizes among all universities, open or…

KEY News is a series of thrillers written by one of the best media thriller writers, Mary Jane Clark. The novels feature several characters that work in the KEY News news agency in New York City. The first novel in the series was the 1998 published Do You Want to Know a Secret? The series of novels are best classified as suspense thrillers. KEY News is one of the premier news stations in New York City that is inspired by Jane Clark’s time working with CBS before she became an author. The…

Their range extends across 12 states from Minnesota to Maine, including New York (USFWS 2008a). Previously found in New York City, the Karner blue butterfly is found in particular areas of the Hudson River Valley with a population remaining in Sarasota County (NYSDEC 2015ai). Two hatches occur every year, one approximately in April and another in June. The staple food for the caterpillars is wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) which restricts the Karner blue butterfly’s distribution. Primary…

3 Social Issues The first social issue that I will be exploring is bullying. Oxford Dictionaries (2016), states the definition of bullying as “to use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants”. There are four basic types of bullying, emotional, verbal, physical, and cyber. Bullying is directly associated with competition and the need to out-perform others. This type of behavior is a primal survival instinct. Unfortunately, society,…

One of my earliest memories comes from when I was only two years old. Because my dad is a basketball coach, he wanted to make sure he instilled a love for basketball in me. One way he thought he could do that was by taking me to basketball open gym at the high school where he works. One evening I was running up and down the side of the court; grabbing a basketball, taking it back to my seat, and then doing it all over again, when the guys asked my dad to play with them because they needed one…

a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as prepositioning citizens or haven consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse. The Chief for the Sarasota Police Department in Florida, Chief Bernadette DiPino who has helped study the problem stated, “It’s so underreported and people are scated that if they call and complain about a police officer, they think every other police officer is going to…

Wayne Brightly is the perfect example of a “bad teacher”. After failing the certification Twice, Brightly began to get nervous. These nerves got the best of him and he hired a friend, Rubin Leitner, to take the test for him using a fake ID. Even though Leitner was not the smartest person, with his history of mental problems and being homeless, his test scores improved enough to get the state officials involved. Once the state officials realized what had happened, they quickly moved Brightly to…

The Ice Bucket started in Sarasota, Florida with a student named Chris Kennedy. He was nominated by a friend of his to participate, which in that time had nothing to do with the ALS Association. Participants on that time were choosing their own charity donations. Chris friend decided and choice a charity that was going to benefit a young child with cancer closed to the area. From there Kennedy passed the challenge along, he selected the ALS charity because he knew a relative was passing through…

This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff Set in the post-World-War Two era, in the mid 1950s, the central character Toby and his mother leave Sarasota, Florida for Utah with the eager and ambitious plans to become economically prosperous, on uranium. Toby changes his Christian name to Jack, after Jack London as he feels it will charge him with “strength and competence,” and these acts are done also out of spite and betrayal to his father, as they were abandoned. He feels unworthy of his life and feels too…

Christine is the true story of Christine Chubbuck, a 29 year old television reporter working for a local TV station in Sarasota, Florida. After watching the film, I wondered why I had never heard of this story before because I'm usually up on news stories that make the national news. The story however occurred in the summer of 1974, right before I was entering my senior year of college and I believe I was working as a camp counselor and didn't have access to any news during that time. Before I…