Seminole County

President, Andrew Jackson was a part of the Indian Removal, he got to decide certain situations out on his own. There was five different Indian tribes being at the time, including the Choctaws, the Muskogee, the Chickasaws, the Cherokees, and the Seminoles. These five Indian tribes all lived on their own land that they owned. President Andrew Jackson wanted White settlers from the South side to go out and expand…

On May 10th of 2010, a series of tornadoes swept across Oklahoma. The tornadoes continued to form and persist until a couple days later when the severe weather finally abated. This event caused damage to over 500 homes and injured at least 450 people. Three people lost their lives. The outbreak caused an estimated $595 million in damages. The U.S.A. is home to 75% of the world’s tornadoes, with about 800 per year. Of these, many happen in the stretch from the Midwest to the Great Lakes,…

Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is a case that dramatically influenced forensic science. On the night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin a 17 year old high school student was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, The United States. Gorge Zimmerman, who was a 28 year old man of mixed race (Hispanic) was the coordinator for a neighborhood watch for the gated community where Trayvon Martin was living temporarily (Gray 2012). The 17 year old Trayvon Martin was unarmed during…

named from one of those nationalities. I am from Mississippi where there was historically there were over 20 tribes with some completely different tribal identities. My grandfather grew up near the Choctaw in Neshoba (name that comes from nashoba) County, When he gave me the stuffed dog he told me that I…

Lacrosse Should Be For Everyone Growing up I learned that not many people in Merced County actually know what lacrosse is. Lacrosse is a field sport, just like soccer; there are goal areas on both sides of the field. Players have chest pads a helmet like football and a lacrosse stick. Most people do not know that today 's Lacrosse was influenced by a game that the Native Americans played. Lacrosse is a popular sport in other countries and in private schools, does not cost as much as football or…

acquitting someone who is reasonably guilty. The most important reason this trial even came into existence is because George Zimmerman, age 30, who was a mainly unemployed neighborhood watchman shot and killed Trayvon, age 17, a black teenager from Seminole County Florida. Zimmerman is considered to be unemployed because he was not paid for being a neighborhood watchman and Martin was still a high school student. To quote Ted Nugent he said Martin was a, “Dope smoking, racist, gansta wanna be”…

In the nineteenth-century the expansion of the United States was revolutionized. The desire for land would soar with the invention of the cotton gin and the idea of the Manifest Destiny. The topic of territorial expansion and the effects it would have on the nation as a whole was a heated political topic. Not only would it internally divide the nation but the desire would also spark a war with Mexico and a treaty with the British. During the 1800s, key legislation was made resulting in or from…

America between the US and Spain and was an aftereffect of expanding strain between the US and Spain in regards to regional rights during a period of debilitated Spanish power. It also established the western boundary for the U.S. and prevented Seminoles from invading Georgia. The aim of the treaty was to draw a definite border between Spanish land and the Louisiana Territory through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean. Another policy, called the Missouri Compromise, was an…

drove hundreds of enslaved people to freedom utilizing the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born Araminta “Minty” Ross in late February or early March of 1822. She was born on the plantation of Anthony Thompson in the district of Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman indicated in later years that she was born in Cambridge (Humez 12). She was the fifth of nine children born to Ben Ross and Harriet “Rit” Green. Both of her parents were slaves, but were…

I am Glad the Supreme Court of the United States has amended those parts of that absurd act. Let’s just think about it for a second. If the Supreme Court hadn’t stepped in and changed things, how many families would be destroyed? How many children would have had to go without a quality education? And to think, in this instance it’s the Hispanics in this country that are being profiled. Earlier, I read an essay by Brent Staples entitled “Just Walk On By”. In the essay Staples gave a prime…