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    business‚ netting me over 3.8 million dollars in 10 years. In 2006 I sold the business and went back to teaching. I am a certified Technical Cave and Mixed Gas Deep Diving instructor. I trained students in the underground aquifers of Florida‚ the Bahamas and North West Africa. Along with these certification‚ I became one

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    The ships were named the Niña‚ the Pinta and the Santa Maria. They were tiny and less than 30 feet wide. The Santa Maria carried 40 men‚ the Pinta‚ 26‚ and the Niña‚ 24. On October 12th‚ Cristopher Columbus and his crew sighted an island in the Bahamas and named it San Salvador. It took them thirty-three days since the ships had left the Canary Islands. A couple of weeks later they encountered land on Cuba‚ which was named Juana by Columbus‚ and Española which is now known as Hispañola. He then

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    Major Oil Spills of the 20th and 21st century In 1989 the Exxon Valdez American oil tanker crashed into the Bligh Reef‚ off the Coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound‚ Alaska. The tanker was supposed to turn south after they had reached a certain point‚ Busby Island‚ but because the ship didn’t turn fast enough‚ it collided with the reef. Due to how widespread the damage was‚ 1900km of coastline was polluted. This pollution killed approximately 250‚000 seabirds‚ 2‚800 sea otters‚ 250 bald

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    facilitated by slavery. Wanting to follow Portugal’s success‚ the Spanish Monarchs financed an expedition to explore western trade routes to Asia. Unfortunately‚ Columbus did not discover those new routes but did discover lands in the new world - Bahamas‚ Hispaniola‚ Cuba and Central America. Spain sent conquistadors to conquer territories in South America: Mexico and Peru where Spain profited greatly with the discovery of gold and silver.

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    still lived separately from one another. It took more for them just to come together they had to do other things such as leaving the country. They lived in various places to try and get away. Some of the Native Americans and blacks relocate to the Bahamas‚ Cuba and Haiti. The black refugees hurried themselves to the Manatee River. The site of the black settlement there–apparently located on a point of land at the Braden-Manatee River junction within today’s Bradenton–offered an easily defensible position

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    the boats. The concept of advanced boat services was widely accepted and the business grew worldwide with the advent of its franchise policies. Today‚ Sea Tow Franchise is established all over the world in the United States‚ Europe‚ Australia and Bahamas and has been recognized by the boating communities globally. The Sea Tow Franchise commits to serve the recreational boaters and strive to provide the best ‘non-emergency on-water services’. The existing 100 franchise owners all over the globe have

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    AUS  | 61  | 21‚262‚641 (54)  | 7‚741‚220 (7)  | 800.2 Billion (18)  | Austria | AT / AUT  | 43  | 8‚210‚281 (92)  | 83‚871 (114)  | 329.5 Billion (36)  | Azerbaijan | AZ / AZE  | 994  | 8‚238‚672 (91)  | 86‚600 (113)  | 77.61 Billion (76)  | Bahamas | BS / BHS  | 1 242  | 309‚156 (176)  | 13‚880 (161)  | 9.093 Billion (151)  | Bahrain | BH / BHR  | 973  | 727‚785 (162)  | 741 (191)  | 26.82 Billion (111)  | Bangladesh | BD / BGD  | 880  | 156‚050‚883 (7)  | 143‚998 (95)  | 224 Billion (49) 

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    locals behave and interact with each other at each individual site. Another benefit I expect to achieve from studying abroad is simply the beginner’s knowledge that every traveler needs to attain. Apart from a couple vacations in Canada and the Bahamas‚ this will be my first time travelling out of the familiarity of the United States. I feel so grateful and blessed that I have been given the opportunity to spend this experience with my fellow peers as well as an experienced professor like Dr. Hallett

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    change of the Bahamian family structure”. As explained in the above question the Bahamian family structure has changed a lot over the past years and is now going down the path to single family homes. There are so many social problems that affect the Bahamas and its very sad to think that the current turn toward single families is the primary cause. The social problems I speak of are Drug abuse‚ Teenage pregnancy‚ and Domestic Violence. What is Drug abuse? Drug abuse is defined by the Webster’s dictionary

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    he made many voyages all around the world as a young man. Columbus had a goal which was to sail to India by sailing west through the Atlantic Ocean‚ not sailing around Africa like previous explorers. Columbus landed in one of the islands of the Bahamas. He then sailed south and thought that he had landed in Asia‚ which was really Cuba. Columbus went to the Caribbean and Central America four times total and each time he discovered new islands that he thought were part of Asia. Due to Columbus’

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