DeLand, Florida

It was a Thursday night in the middle of March, as I pull into the school parking lot. I can see that there are mounds of suitcases and over stuffed duffle bags lined up on the faint lit sidewalks. I jumped out of the car with eagerness when I saw my friends waiting for me by the curb line. We leap with joy because; we knew that this was going to be one of the best trips of our final year in high school. The trip meant so much to us; we needed to be away from stress filled environment that is known

break vacation to sunny Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. I remember being very excited and anxious to get on the airplane. I am very traditional and make sure after all of the dreaded security and airport nonsense that we always go to the same bagel restaurant. This always got the vacation started for me. After boarding the airplane and getting up into the maximum altitude, I am always rest assured that in another two hours, we will be on the ground in Florida 1,000 miles away from home. On the plane

As an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida, I learned a great deal about how societies generally function and how laws and policies can affect individual members of a society in unique and significant ways. With low-income families not investing in their educations past high school and lacking proper knowledge of how their governing laws and regulations work and are enforced, they often fall into predicaments that could be avoided if they just had someone to point them in the

In my lifetime, there have been many breathtaking and wonderful experience’s I have had the pleasure in being a part of, only one experience comes to mind when I think about a personal experience that’s dear to me. The experience that is most dear to me would be one that changed my view on life and the path I had paved for myself along the way. Ordinarily, when I was seventeen years old and still in school life was hard and very stressful, I know many people would say that life was easy with no bills

was not a pleasant feeling to me. My father informed me that travel broadens the mind. As me now developing into young adult who enjoys traveling whenever fined to time The first time traveling alone was when I decided to take a vacation to Miami Florida. One day I went to see my best friend at here house for a glass a wine, and to talk and catch up on the thing that been going on in our life. As we expressed to each other the issues that was occurring in our lives at the presented time. We talked

tropical Depression twelve, which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. On August 24, the storm strengthened and became known as Tropical Storm Katrina, the 11th named storm of the 2005 hurricane season. A few hours before making landfall in Florida on August 25, Tropical storm Katrina was upgraded to Hurricane Katrina (Category1, 74mph winds). An analysis by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) climate prediction center

Mangroves are an essential part of the Tampa Bay Estuary as they help maintain the overall health of the state’s coastal zones. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the Tampa Bay was in its worst condition as a result of unregulated pollution into the Bay. Environmental regulations beginning in the 1970s with the Clean Water Act improved conditions in the bay but even today there persists a problem with pollution and the destruction of natural habitats (Water Resource Management and Environmental Assessment

Have you ever gone to Disney World? Well I have and it was so much fun! There are different themed areas inside of the park like, Fantasyland,, Tomorrowland, and Main Street to name a few. Each area is like walking into a whole different place. One second you're in Fantasy Land and the next you are in Tomorrowland. The first thing that you see when you walk into the actual park is Magic kingdom. Magic kingdom feels truly magical. There is a giant castle, Cinderellas castle, where you can have a

explorers could see for themselves that the bay was poor and sparsely populated.” These early conquests cause the Native Americans to become hostile, and even fearful, of the Spanish conquistadors. For example, when finally docking on shore in Florida,

National Park and Biscayne National Park are two important parks that rely on the water systems. Everglades National Park spans 1.5 million acres of wetlands and protects fragile ecosystems that are critical to the health and environment in South Florida (Wells, 2014). Biscayne National Park is the largest marine park in the US and was established for its natural history that has spanned 10,000 years (NPS, 2015). Dozen of beaches span Miami’s shoreline including Miami Beach, South Beach, and Sunny