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    Florida State University is one of the oldest sites in Tallahassee with a great future for their upcoming students while still accomplishing many goals today. An American public space grant and sea grant research university located on a 1,391.54 acre campus in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.Well if you didn’t know what a space grant university is, here you go Sandra May say it 's an institution who are working to expand opportunities for Americans to understand and participate in NASA’s aeronautics

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    University of south Florida: (USF) The first independent state University located in the state of Florida. The University was established in 1956. The system of the University of South Florida has three institutions and is also is the home to 14 colleges. Adding, the institution offers majors for graduate and undergraduate students and they have a variety of programs where each student can choose the best option for them. Also the University has a big amount of students, the institution has an approximated

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    to attend the University of Florida, and major in Biomedical Engineering. In eighth grade, I decided that in order to get a head start I would do dual enrollment in high school. I took my first two official college courses my sophomore year of high school. Through Florida Southwestern State College, I was able to enroll in French I and II, along with Psychology and Human Growth and Development. My junior year, I decided to be a full-time dual-enrolled student at Florida Gulf Coast University. I plan

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    The Florida Museum of Natural History is a government-sponsored museum that is incorporated into the University of Florida in the city of Gainesville. The museum was established by Frank Pickel, a professor of natural science at the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City, and was dedicated to understanding, preserving, and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage. The state of Florida formally assumed ownership of the museum in 1917 and established it as part of the state university

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    Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park rests on 400 acres protected land. Occupying the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne, this natural respite for birds and people alike falls just south of Miami Beach. This park was rightly named for The Miami News editor who fought to protect the land and preserve the Key in its natural state. Along the east side of the park, one and a quarter miles of sandy beachfront boasts open views of the Atlantic Ocean. This beautiful area offers visitors access

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    power. However, through the realm of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Vires epitomizes standing tall and remaining “Unconquered”. During the Seminole Wars many Seminoles were forced out of their homes and pushed into smaller groups around the state, notably around the Mississippi River. Though few Seminoles had still remained in Florida leading to the rich culture we have the privilege of seeing represented around the Florida State community. These Seminole Indians pushed on looking to the days ahead

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    The First Seminole War

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    The First Seminole War was the first of three conflicts in the early 19th century that involved the United States Army and the Seminole population in Florida. At the time, Florida was still under the control of Spain. Most of its population consisted of the Seminole Native Americans and African Americans. The dates of the First Seminole War are debated but most believe that it occurred between 1816 and 1818. This war took place after the War of 1812 and tensions were still high between the United

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    Payne's Landing Treaty

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    “…delegation of Seminoles should be sent at the expense of the United States to examine the country to be allotted them among the Creeks, and should this delegation be satisfied with the character of the country and of the favorable disposition of the Creeks to unite with them as one people, then the aforementioned treaty would be considered binding and obligatory upon the parties. And the undersigned Seminole chiefs,

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    genocide of the Seminole peoples during the First Seminole War. Jackson’s racist perception of the Seminole Indians was the result of his experiences fighting Indians during the Creek War, which resulted in his larger national mandate to remove the Seminole from their land for European settlers to inhabit. The First Seminole war defined the overarching genocide against the Seminole peoples through Jackson’s leadership of the United States Army, which took lands and relocated the Seminole to the interior

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    The Seminole Essay

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    The Seminole "As the United States is a nation made up of people from many nations, so the Seminole is a tribe made up of Indians from many tribes."  (Garbarino 13)  The Seminole are the indigenous people living in southeastern America.  They lived in what is now Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi.  The Seminole had a Muskogean language of the Hokan-Siouan stock.  (Bookshelf)  The Indian tribes found in the southeast were the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw

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