The Zone

At first, It was my team and I just sitting in our little locker room. We were banging on the lockers as hard our hands could handle. Then the music started playing. “BOOM! HERE COMES THE BOOM, I DON’T REALLY WANT IT NOW.” Then, we sprinted out of the locker rooms at full speed. The team was so intimidated by our appearance. We were screaming and yelling chants to get our team and the crowd fired up. Then, it was kickoff time. My buddy Shawn got the ball on kickoff and ran it back to the 50…

Materials and Methods The sampling of the Gambusia holbrooski was done in Hennington Pond at FIU. The class was divided into five groups each tasked with obtaining thirty samples of mosquitofish. These samples were obtained randomly using a landing net and a bucket of water that contained water from the pond to put the fish. The collected fish were measured and their length recorded (in mm) from the apex of the lower jaw towards the posterior end. The measurement was done using a small ruler…

through in life? In the novel ‘Deep Zone’ written by Tim Green, the main character Ty Lewis changes throughout the story by becoming braver, learning leadership, and by suffering. Everyone goes through a evolution of change, although everyone's experience through change is different. Ty Lewis’s change would be a hard one to go through as explained throughout “Deep Zone”. To begin, the first part of Ty’s evolution of change is his bravery he gains throughout ‘Deep Zone’. Ty Lewis’s family got…

Crumple zones are structural features mainly used in automobiles such as cars and trucks. They are designed to absorb the energy from the impact during a traffic collision by controlled deformation. Normally located at the front part of the vehicle, in order to absorb the impact of a head-on collision, though they may be found on other parts of vehicles as well. Crumple zones, are secondary safety features, this is due to the fact that secondary safety features only come into play once you have…

occurred in gun-free zones (Hawkins, 2014). The basic rights of the Second Amendment allow us to purchase weapons and use them as we please as long as we follow the rules and laws. Gun rights were very serious rights when America was first founded and are still very serious and important. After a few shootings, the federal government decided to mark some areas as gun free zones because they were trying to stop mass shootings. Instead of further protecting the people, the gun free zones…

sewage, chemicals, and garbage. Two consequences of this transition, mercury contamination and dead zones, have come to threaten the ocean’s ecosystems, which directly affects us. Mercury and lead contamination in the ocean is a widespread problem that is affecting organisms throughout the world. Humans play a big role in mercury…

as supercentenarians. Several regions of the world, known as The Blue Zones have been researched to identify the areas which have the highest recorded number of centenarians. The locations of the zones are The Sardinia Blue Zone (Italy), The Loma Lima Blue Zone (California), The Okinawa Blue Zone (Japan) and The Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone (Costa Rica), but why are these areas highly populated…

Zone two is viewed as the slums of a city with the poorest neighborhoods and a heavy flow of immigrants. Zone three is where the working class citizens mainly live and it is located further away from Zone two. The living conditions in this area are way better than zone two with moderate housing and apartments. The people who occupy this area have most likely migrated from Zone two due to its poor upkeep. Zone four which is located in the center of the city. Zone four consists of…

Dead Zones I believe that the United States should be held responsible for fixing the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico because they are the main culprits who contribute to the low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas which has led the delta near the Mississippi river to become the most drastic dead zone known. This is a dead zone that is not naturally made like the largest dead zone that can be found in the lower portion of the black sea. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico has been caused by our…

The Argument for Safe Zones A “Safe Zone” for anybody in the LGBTQ community is more then just somewhere to go, it’s a safe haven for many, and a look at a brighter more self aware community, in our town and all over the world. Changes happen in anybody’s life whether it’s a move to a town, or breaking up with someone those have an enormous amount of an effect on somebodies life. It changes the way you think about things or approach different things but those all have the potential to be…