The combination of three major events going on around the turn of the twentieth century led to a massive change in the trajectories of the cities of Houston and Galveston. Many people are familiar with the death and devastation left behind by the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, less people, though, are familiar with the huge oil field that was found at Spindletop, 90 miles east of Houston near Beaumont, just a few months after the 1900 storm. One other key event that was going on was the clash the city of Houston had been having with Congress since the 1890’s, the city and Congressman Tom Ball had been trying to convince other members of Congress that Texas needed a more protected port, Houston, than Galveston’s exposed position no more than a few feet above sea level. Ball’s pleas did not carry much weight until the disastrous hurricane struck in September of 1900. Taking a closer look at all the players involved will give a better look at just how each of the events affected the towns.…
Cited: O’Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods. New York: First Mariner Books, 1994. Print.…
The Florida Everglades is a vast wetland ecosystem made up of marshes and swamps. This ecosystem begins at Lake Okeechobee, a large lake in central Florida, and ends in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay. It is nearly 50 miles across and 110 miles long and contains mile after mile of shallow water flowing through thick mats of grass (Hinrichsen, 1995). Although it does flow like a river, the flow of water is so slow that from a distance it doesn 't seem to move at all.…
Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State. Brooks Blevins. Fayetteville, AR. 2009. 242 pages…
Imagine coming home and there is a python as big as your car in your driveway. In the Everglades there are snakes that can size up to 25 feet in length. These abrupt animals are taking a big toll on the environment in the Everglades. The Burmese pythons are affecting Florida in a big way, like the people, local animals, and the ecosystem. These pythons need to be taken out of the Everglades.…
The Florida Everglades is often thought to be a swampland but is actually a very slow flowing river. The following essay will look at the structural and functional dynamics of the Everglades. This essay will also consider the plant and animal life that inhabit this ecosystem.…
3,560 km2 of fresh water wetlands 6,600 km2 of salt water wetlands. Bogs, Marshes, & Swamps…
The Appalachian Elktoe is a small freshwater animal that reside in Eastern Tennessee and Western, North Carolina. It has a thin familiar shell, extending to about 4 to 5” inches in length. To the common untrained eye, it looks like any other mussel. The adult mussels are usually dark brown to greenish-black. They have the appearance of a lob-sided flying saucer with striated lines. Further, “ The shell nacre (inside shell surface) is shiny, often white to bluish-white, changing to a salmon, pinkish, or brownish color in the central and beak cavity portions of the shell; some specimens may be marked with irregular brownish blotches”[2] . The reproductive cycle of the species is similar to other native mussels. Historically, the species has been recorded from the Tululu Creek (Tennessee River Drainage, the main stem of the French Broad River, and the Swannanoa River (French Broad River” (Clarke 1981). The elktoe mussel requires a specific habitat in order to maintain a healthy population. The components of habitat that the elktoe requires respectively a specific depth, a specific flow of water, and a specific mix of bottom composition. The elktoe is known to live in the “riffle sections” [3]of small to medium sized streams with gravel and sand bottoms.…
Answer each of the following prompts with a response of at least 200 to 300…
The Nutcracker is a wonderful story, and there are many versions of the story, including movies, plays, and ballets. The original story was published in 1816 by E.T.A Hoffman, and the original ballet was in 1892, but some people have change the story over the years, but they kept the plot very similar of the story.…
Hello today we will talk about the fascinating creatures in the wild or what we call animals and we will also be talking about farming.…
Write a one page response, skipping lines, for EACH question for a total of two pages.…
The author two passages are informative about Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp. The author in Passage 1 supports this claim by using simple sentences to describe the swamp then finally using the last sentence as the negative thing about the swamp. Passage 1’s purpose is to inform tourists so they would want to visit, creating an inviting tone for the audience. The author in passage 2 supports this claim by informing about the smallest to biggest negative things about the swamp, then finally connecting the swamp with a “hellish zoo”. Passage 2’s purpose is to inform the improvements for the tourists about the swamp, creating a negative tone for the audience being researchers or geologist.…
Although it’s been many years and many miles since I last spent an afternoon with Tim Stengel, on afternoons filled with lecture notes and correcting essays, I often reflect on the last fishing trip the two of us young bucks spent along the secluded shores of the Little Manitou River. In many ways, this last trip spent in the coniferous forests of Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region, really envelopes who Tim was and why I so looked up to him.…
The Eastern Woodland region has much of its land covered by thick forests or woodlands. There are “rugged snow-covered mountains in the north and hot, wet swamps in the south”…