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Article one: Florida Snakes

Mercier’s wife shouted for him to look, and he saw a stunning sight: A huge snake wrapped around an adult alligator. The alligator rolled over and grabbed the snake in its mouth. As Mercier ran down the boardwalk to keep up, the alligator swam off with the snake in its jaws.  A Burmese python, a native of Southeast Asia and one of the largest snakes in the world.

There are 27 species of snakes in the everglades only four of them are venomous, cotton mouth, diamond back rattlesnake, dusky pygmy rattlesnake and coral snake.  Wow right.

Butterfly McQueen and Sydney Poitier

These people were both African-American Floridian people living through hard times.  First I will tell you about Butterfly McQueen and then Sydney Poitier and then I will do similarities and differences.

Butterfly McQueen was born the January, 7 1911 Tampa Florida.  Her birth name was Thelma McQueen.  It was changed because when she danced she constantly moved her arms.  Butterfly has won one award.  She went to school in Augusta Georgia and finished high school in Long Island New York.  Butterfly studied dance with Kathrine Dunham, Janet Collins and Georfry Holder.  She has been in movies like Huckerberry Finn, Polly and her most famous playing the roll of the whiny servant Prissy (who knows nothin about havin a baby: from the movie) from Gone With  The Wind.  She died December 22 1995 at age 84 from a fire.                                                                         Sydney Poitier was born February 20 1927 Miami.  Being born into poverty Sydney did not get much schooling until at age 15 his parents sent him to live with his older brother.  At age 18 Sydney moved to New York.  He got several rolls that other African-Americans at the time could only dream of.  He has won one Oscar for 1963 Lilies of the Field and as won one Academy award for1950 No Way Out.  Sydney is still alive.

Similarity:

• Both lived through hard times but still found away to be succesful
• Both were born in Florida
• Both have won an award

• Both are African-American

Differences:

• Sydney was born in Miami Butterfly was born in Tampa
• Butterfly has a stage name
• Sydney has won a oscar Butterfly has not