My Home State Florida

Hi! My name is Kyra Foures and I will be your blogger. Today, we will be looking into the history of downtown Jacksonville. Jacksonville is a huge city with extremely beautiful views. There are pretty beaches, state parks, zoos, and also the one and only TIAA Bank Field where the Jacksonville Jaguars play. Although all of those parts are amazing, today we will be looking into the downtown portion of this charming city. I visited downtown Jacksonville on September 24, 2002. I was there from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. I visited with my mom, boyfriend, and his mom. We were there exploring and taking senior pictures. It was a great experience because I couldn’t remember the last time I had been to the pretty and historical parts of downtown Jacksonville. When researching the history of this city, it is amazing how much has changed over many years. According to an article called History of Jacksonville and the Beaches , it says “ Large land grants were issued and plantations were built along the St.

 Hello wild Floridians! Welcome back! I am Kyra Foures, your Floridian blogger and today I will inform you on some interesting points from Chapter 3 of The History of Florida.  As local Floridians know, history is very important to know how this state evolved to where it is now, and it is still evolving to this day. I now would like to explain a very fascinating piece of knowledge. Something that I found interesting in Chapter 3 of the textbook is that the Spanish mariners were who first saw the shores of La Florida. It appeared to have various features that made it more appealing such as hammocks, river valleys, pines, etc. According to page 43, it states that these shores include "unbroken forests of pines and mixed pines and hardwoods running from the sea to the great stands of fire-tolerant longleaf pine trees that marked the edges of the piedmont in the Carolinas and Georgia and covered the northern highlands of the peninsula." The forest provided for florist communities

  McCoy/AMH2070             CHAPTER 2 ANALYSIS WORKSHEET          Name: Kyra Foures                                                        (40 total points)   (4) Cite your article (in proper APA format):   Michael Gannon. 2013. First European Contacts. The History of Florida , ISBN 978-0-8130-6401-7, 18-40.     Focus Questions (1)  Who is the author?    Michael Gannon   (10) One argument presented is that Historic Accounts are not always cut & dry/ certain.   Discuss 2 examples within this chapter that supports this idea.   (pg. 18.28)   There are many events that do not clarify exactly what had happened. - Many things "happened" as listed in the book. But there aren't causes for some of it. For example, on page 21, it says "No cause for the natives' violence is given in the record, whether it was provoked by earlier visits of slaving expeditions, or by the natives' own long tradition of intertribal warfare, or by simple fear of the