Tallahassee

in a line at a store preparing to pay for your items and right before it is your turn to checkout, a couple cuts in front of you. Even though it sounds unlikely, this exact scenario happened to me while standing in line at a local Wal-Mart in Tallahassee. While standing with a surprised look on my face, I watched the couple slowly walk up and place their items on the belt to proceed to checkout. Many emotions traveled through my mind as I witnessed the couple cut in front of everyone waiting in…

On November 24, 1946, Eleanor Cowell had no idea that she gave birth to a person who would turn out to be one of the most notorious serial killers in the late 20th century. She would not be the one to raise her son, Theodore, though. She was only eighteen years old and was not married when she had him. Her parents decided to take the responsibility of raising Ted in order to hide Eleanor’s role of being an unmarried mother. Ted was told that Eleanor was really his sister and that her parents…

Lennox was born on June 16, 2014. He weighed 8 lbs 4 oz. He lives in Tallahassee with his mother and sister. He was born at 39 weeks gestation. He had the diagnosis of albinism and nystagmus. He is now a physically healthy young boy. He attends Bud Bell Early Learning Center five days a week. He receives monthly services from a vision coach. Vision coach uses the Oregon Assessment and reports he scored at or slightly above his age level on all measures. He has seen his physician for well-baby…

nineteen-twenty inside their barn. When she was in her late teens she met a military man. In the beginning of World War II, they got married. They always told the stories of their travels and of the war. My grandpa was stationed in Germany, Iceland, and then Tallahassee, Florida. While they were stationed in Florida, they had two children, John and Linda. Linda was my father’s mother.…

America is at War, and believe it or not it started with a movement for peace and equality. The Civil Rights Movement is recognized as one of the most well-known movements that transformed the United States, and it all started with a young man’s dream and his accomplishments along the way. Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished many feats in his quest of relinquishing segregation in the black community, but is his view of peace dying out with the rise of Black Power. On January 15, 1929, one of…

T. Thomas Fortune was born in Marianna, Florida, on October 3, 1856. Fortune and his parents, Emanuel and Sara Fortune, were all born into slavery. After the Emancipation Proclamation, his family was freed and able to acquire a last name. His father believed that his father was an Irishmen, therefore he acquired the surname of Thomas. Initially a carpenter by trade, Fortune 's father became active in the Reconstruction period of the United States, winning the election to the Florida House of…

With public support for tough laws, these sentencing minimums were enacted across the country due to increasing crime rates. However, in certain states, lawmakers and taxpayers are beginning to see that these laws cost more than they help. In Tallahassee, Florida, a twenty-five-year drug sentence for selling thirty-five pills for $300 will cost taxpayers an average of $18,064 per year, or $451,600 by the time the offender is released (Klas, 2017). Others will argue that mandatory minimums…

wastewater and reuse technologies to both clean up the wastewater effluent, and to find another economically suitable use for it. The first reuse projects were created for Tallahassee and St. Petersburg. These have significantly influenced reuse in Florida and have paved the way for today's multitude of reuse projects. Tallahassee initiated testing of spray irrigation systems in 1961. This has evolved into a 2000 acre system for farmland. St. Petersburg implemented an urban reuse system in…

The dumb jock stereotype has troubled athletes for as long as anyone can remember. Athletes are seen as unintelligent jocks that get free and easy rides through school. They never seem to work hard at anything academically and yet they earn A’s from their professors. This belief has led to athletes being stigmatized by their non-athletic peers who feel as though their needs and accomplishments are ignored in favor of those they view as intellectually inferior to them. However, if one were to…

The struggle and persistence for identity and sovereignty by the Seminoles from the 1820s to the 1850s served as an early example of the evolutionary process by way of legal channels and treaty language and negotiation to attain them. Their defiance against removal and Creek integration emerged during an era that defined Native American sovereign status and nationhood in relation to American constitutional interpretation. Their struggle was an early example of a civil rights movement that took…