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Course Reflection

Throughout this course we learned lots about Florida and its history. From the original Florida crackers to Florida's impact on world war 2 and much more! Florida was very quick to be against slavery unlike most of the southern states.  We learned during world war 2 how Florida had the most troops of all southern states, and really helped out. Although they helped out so much, Florida was not really given any help or anything. Throughout the class there was lots of writing, and with writing came blogs. Blogs were very useful, and helped very much with learning more as we had to cite from the books in each post. Citing very much linked it the blogs to the material and was very important. As tedious as the blogs were they really enchanted the learning, and I strongly believe I made the correct choice choosing the blogging, for the reasons of helping me learn. While also helping to become more successful and I really believe this class has helped me. Lastly I am not a great test taker...
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Campaigning in 2022

 Connor Murphy: An independent senate member  "No Bias? You must be an independent!  As a senate member I would try to pass bills to legalize cannibus in the U.S. In 2019 545,602 people were locked up for canibus crimes. This is an amount way to high, and is filling up jails for a pointless crime. As a senator that has never used a drug it is very pointless for these offenses to be legal. Covid-19: In 2023 Covid is finally dying slowly but surely. From April 13- April 19 94,140 cases were documented, and it is down 23%. We must change nothing about our practices with this. Law enforcement: Between March 2020, and August 2022 law enforcement has fell down 4% due to people being afraid to join due to world issues. As a senate member I will do all I can to fix this!
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Jax Digital News Scavenger Hunt

 1.   Write the first line of the caption of a picture on the first page of the News tab. Does it reflect POLITICS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL (or a combination of 2 or 3)? DeSantis could run for president without resigning Under Senate bill. Politics. 2.  Write the headline of a local news article. Describe and reflect on the events, relevance, and level of importance. Jacksonville University responds to nursing shortage with new programs This article is about the shortages of new nurses in Florida and how it is not good. So universities are developing new programs to hop[e more decide to do the nursing programs. Some offering flexible hours. 3.  Find an article about a State or Local Politics. What seat is it and what is the article about? Do you recognize any of the issues or politicians' behaviors that compare with ones discussed in our textbook this week? A presidential prelude playbook: Why DeSantis is driving Florida hard right. The article is about laws like abortions...
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Current Events

Connor Murphy 4/25/2023   Source: Jacksonville.com The Florida Times union Title: Hazmat crews, Jacksonville firefighters contain battery plant fire, potential dangers Article Date: April 25th 2023 Local Who was involved: Jacksonville firefighters Where did this event happen? This event happened in lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Cecil Commerce Center on the Westside in Jacksonville Florida. This event took place on April 25th 2023 at 7:15am and is still burning now.  What happened? A 20,000 pound battery caught on fire. The first attempts to take out the fire did not work with chemicals and fire extinguishers. Other. batteries were moved to other spots to stop a chain reaction and also have them burn. This event is relevant to our textbook because this is an economical issue that we learned in the textbook.  Reflection: Overall this fire in Jacksonville today is ongoing, and hopefully the fire can be taken out soon enough. It related back to our textbook ...
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Camp Blanding Museum

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On April 15th at 1pm, my family and I arrived at the camp landing museum. A total of 3 of us, me, my mother, and my father. Here we learned about the history of camp blending and its impact during World War 2. Here we learned about the clothing, the vehicles, the weapons, and prisoners that actually loved camp Blanding. I mean who would want to be a prisoner but then like their stay? Thats a bit strange but that's what happened at camp Blanding! Vehicles- One of the vehicles we saw was an ambulance vehicle from 1942-1944! 26,000 of these were used from these years!  Uniforms- This first WW2 uniform coat was olive drab and made of wool. Under the coat was a flannel shirt.  The helmet was an M-1917 referred to as a doughboy helmet.  Around the coat was a cartridge belt to hold ammunition. Each uniform featured a haversack with a canteen. The sack also contained a first aid pouch with a pocket.  In each haversack, the soldier carried a T-handle shovel and a sword. ...
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A land Remembered Blog

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Chapters 21-29 in A Land remembered are very interesting. With meeting Tawanda, Tobias getting sick, to Zech getting married Glenda.  Zech is getting older in these chapters and more responsible than ever. Tobias believes the land they own was blessed to him by god however, Zech is aware they need to purchase the land before someone buys it stealing it from them. Zech goes against his father and takes saved up money to buy acres of the land to ensure it is there's. Zech knows someone would eventually buy the land and Tobias would be heartbroken. Eventually more acres around them are being bought, and there are more areas they cannot travel through without fearing for a war or their animals. Picture of pay-hay-okee This was what Tawanda showed Zech in the book, and he was amazed by it. He was one of the very few besides the Indians that lived there to see it. Zech has to choose between Glenda and Tawanda and ends up choosing Glenda. This works out and Tawanda is out of his mind...
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Chapter 15 worksheet

Chapter 15 worksheet:  The author of this chapter is Jerrell H. Shofner Two things in desperate need of reconstruction were the government and economy. Politics- Most members old confederates, no black males  Freedman- Former slaves now working for previous owners for wages.  Demand for cotton was Increasing. White And black farmers alike were given a new structure in which to run their land called freedmen's Bereua. Shofner describes a very sticky situation in regards to President Johnson restoring land ownership to former confederates.  Reflect on how this affects the statewide condition at the time. This affects the states by making people not know the authority they had. Congress had to make their own plan.  Black codes took place by trying to give them their own rights like to read or write. The civil rights act of 1865 was so inefective because it denied blacks protection from equal protection.  The late entry of railroads had a negative impact on Flo...
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