approximately two million acres. It reaches from central Florida‚ near Orlando‚ all the way south to Florida Bay. (Federation‚ 2000) The geology of Southern Florida‚ has a warm and wet subtropical climate that provides conditions that help the large marshland ecosystem flourish. Layers of porous and permeable limestone create water bearing rock and soil that effect the climate‚ weather and hydrology of Southern Florida. The climate of South Florida is noted for its variability‚ as average annual temperatures
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Best Place I Ever Lived Florida is a wonderful place to live and visit. Even in the small towns in Florida there are a lot of things to see and do. Here are a few places where visitors and residents visit. There are lots of parks in Florida such as Disney World in Orlando‚ Busch Gardens in Tampa and LEGOLAND in Lakeland. There are also water parks in Florida such as Adventure Island in Tampa‚ Buccaneer Bay in Spring Hill‚ and Wet N’ Wild in Orlando. In my opinion Florida is the best place I have
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The Ecosystem of the Florida Everglades 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
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Noise problems As Florida moves into the new millennium‚ many problems will continue to emerge. Communities are growing as never before‚ fueled by the large tourism industry. Our woodlands and wetlands are giving way to new developments. New entertainment theme parks open on a regular basis. Beautiful beaches all over Florida have seen dramatic changes. As these changes take place‚ new problems arise. Bars‚ restaurants and hotels line the roadways. As these areas expand‚ they move closer to our residential
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Serving in Florida is an essay written by Barbara Ehrenreich that is a first-hand experience by the author in the world of working minimum wage jobs. The author tried to balance two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. Ehrenreich mainly uses pathos‚ or the emotional appeal‚ in her essay to persuade young adults to go to college and strive for high paying jobs and uses ethos‚ the ethical appeal as the secondary rhetorical appeal in her essay to convince her readers that she is indeed a credible
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Paul Bruton American Short Forms Final Paper The Poem “One Day at a Florida Key by Robert Bly is spectacular. It captures the beauty of the Florida Keys and how life naturally exists there. It uses a great detail of description. In sum it exemplifies the Florida Keys way of life by using many formal issues and saying by how the pelicans live and show our way of life through living theirs. The first formal issue addressed in this poem is imagery. Imagery is a set of mental pictures or
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Orlando in Central Florida is a city in the U.S. The geography of Orlando is mostly wetlands‚constiting of many lakes and swamps. The terrain is generally flat ‚making the land fairly low and wet‚ dowtown Orlando has some of the most varied architecture in the area‚ featuring buildings frome the 1920’s and 1930’s and modern skyscrapers. They are lots of parks in this city (the winter park is the most popular) . You can slip in hotel‚ in a villa… you can eat in fast food‚ in a family restaurant its
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White-Collar Scholar to Blue-Collar Waitress Creamy carrion‚ pizza barf‚ decomposing lemon wedges‚ and water-logged toast crusts; sounds like the typical garbage can. Would anyone believe that these phrases apply to a run-down restaurant in the middle of Florida? Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover at a local fast food diner known as Jerry’s to investigate life as a blue-collar laborer‚ serving to customers arriving in “human waves” (Ehrenreich 180). It is throughout her journey working for both Jerry’s and
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my pants were wrinkled up‚ too. Then it came to my mind that I slept in too long. We needed to catch the 6:30 a.m. fly to Florida. Because this destroyed our plans‚ my mom and dad were making scrambled eggs with pancakes and some yummy bacon. I felt horrible about what happened because all of the things that my mom planned was gone. The whole reason we were going to go to Florida was to see our family that we have only seen once in our whole life. When we finished eating‚ we still remained at the kitchen
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Andrew Jackson: Conqueror of Florida In the early 1800’s‚ Spain had little control of their territory south of the border of the American border‚ Florida. Indian tribes often raided towns in Southern American‚ then back to Florida to safety. America’s new mission was to seize Florida from Spain in order to protect itself from further attack. It seems that the tough and volatile Andrew Jackson was the only one to do it. Jackson’s nickname‚ Old Hickory‚ was fitting. Hickory was long held as the
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