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James Hunt asked:


Ponce de Leon’s found the Florida Keys while on an expedition in 1513. On this trip the Spanish did not find any gold, nor was there any fresh water, but what they did find was a large amount of bugs. They mapped and named the Keys primarily as an aid to their ships. They used the Florida Straights to get from the New World back the Old.

The first settlement was at Key West but it wasn’t until 1882. This was more than two decades before Florida became an official state. All the other Keys stayed unsettled until around 1874. It was during this year that the government surveyed them and then plotted land for homes and businesses. Although at this time the homes were still primal. The materials used to build these houses were taken from the local beaches and most of the wood was from shipwrecks that have washed up on shore.

The biggest settlers of the Florida Keys were the mosquitoes. The mosquito has been called the king of the Keys. Over the years the residents of the Keys tried many things to get rid of the mosquitoes. The most common thing used to kill these pests were bags filled with woodchips that had been soaked in engine oil and then hung over the water holes during the night in an attempt to kill the mosquito larvae.

In 1912 Henry Flagler built a railroad through the Florida Keys to Key West. This helped to greatly increase the human settlement of the Florida Keys. The railroad was destroyed however in 1935 due to a hurricane. In 1938 the longest over-water road in the world was built. This includes 42 bridges. This opened up the Florida Keys to the growing tourist trade.

Today in the Florida Keys, there are roughly about 40,000 residents and thousands and thousands of visitors that come to fish and swim and sail. Tourists love to come to the Keys to dive in the crystal waters off the tropical reef. Other tourists come to relax in the sun.



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posted by admin on Feb 17

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James Puchinelli asked:


If you have ever heard of the music by Kanye West then you will notice that it has followed a certain theme. First was the original Kanye West album “The College Dropout” and then it was followed by “Late Registration” and now with the debut of the third Kanye West album “Graduation” you can see where Kanye West has taken his music.

As a college dropout himself, Kanye West has related his music to his transition from a nobody to a famous rapper and even more famed songwriter. Kanye West treats his music as a gift and with that gift he enjoys the surprise aspect of it. Although he does release one or two of his songs before hand, either on MTV as a video or on the radio, he tends to not to release much about his music mainly because Kanye West enjoys the element of surprise more so then the does the attention.

Kanye West music is much more about the lyrics then it is about the beats. That is why so many people have taken to listening to kanye west ringtones and music. Although some reviewers have put down his music as being unorganized, Kanye West feels strongly that all of his music has a natural rhythm to it that besides being commercial successes, they are meaningful to him. Kanye West’s music is nothing short of amazing both with the lyrics and the beats. Although he can attribute a lot of his success to the other albums he produced for people such as Alicia Keys, Kanye West is trying hard to be known as one of the best rappers of all time.

With his new album “The Graduation” set to debut any day, the music and kanye west ringtones is showing that it has staying power, and that is more than Kanye West could ever ask for.



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