The Bahamas

Violent staccatos of the billowing and noxious thumps of an abrasive whip, accompanied by the piercing wails of the inhabitants of a village yearning for absolution constitute the majority of life for Native Americans dealing with Spanish rule in the America’s. Dating back to 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella trounced over the last Muslim stronghold within the Iberian Peninsula, Christopher Columbus embarked on a journey to look for the Indies with three ships. However, mistakenly,…

He set sail for approximately ten weeks and came upon an island in the Bahamas which he named San Salvador. He continued to sail on until he reached Cuba and then later to Haiti. Christopher Columbus loaded up products such as coconuts, tobacco, sweet corn, potatoes, and he also bought back some Indians. When he returned…

energy to it because it is part of the Caribbean. It is hot all year round and literally has untouched nature because of political sanctions. Cuba is only 90 miles from Key West, Florida and it is surrounded by Haiti and Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Cayman Islands. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean. Currently, people can legally travel to Cuba if it is educational, religious, volunteer work, etc. Plane tickets to Cuba from the United States can…

The Capture of one of the Greatest Criminals Put in jail in 1931 and released after 6 1/2 years, this was Al Capone's fate. Al Capone is one of the worlds' most famous gangsters. At a young age he started to show violent tendencies and was anti social. He then moved into severe criminal history. He started to avoid the police until one day The police capturing Al Capone someone found him. Al Capone was arrested on October 6, 1931. Capone avoided prosecution until one agent created a plan…

Columbus and his Voyage to America Christopher Columbus was the son of a weaver who lived in Genoa, Italy. When he was younger he never really had experience around the sea. But, when he was a teenager he got his first chance to go on a sea voyage. He then participated in several trading voyages in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. On one of his voyages, to the island of Khios, in modern day Greece, actually brought him as close as he would ever get to Asia. He was a part of several other…

patience they thought a shortage of provisions, contrary winds, and other such problems would keep them from ever returning home. Columbus successfully nullified their fears temporarily but on October 12 land had finally been sighted. He landed in the Bahamas but besides planting the royal flag left quickly anxious to arrive in Cipangu in Japan. He landed in Cuba on October 28 where he thought he had found Cipangu but had yet to see any of the great cities that had been described to him causing…

Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season, causing enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I…

Ashten Lolley The Miracle Birth Payton Holmes, a young, beautiful woman at the age of twenty-one was a kindergarten teacher at the River Town elementary school. A stunning man by the name of Haden Clark was twenty-three years old and was a post office worker in that town. Payton and Haden had attended the same church since they were little children. It was now that Haden was older that he realized the admiration and love he had for Payton. One day as Mrs. Holmes was teaching her…

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Education. These opportunities have allowed me a glimpse into the diversity that is Wolfpack Nation. Although I have lived in rural Northeastern North Carolina for my entire life, I have had the opportunity to visit such places as Alaska, the Bahamas, Hawaii, and several other states up and down the east coast. Experiencing the different cultures, socializing with people with different ideas and customs, and listening to different points of view, were the most exciting aspects of those…