Stop Blaming Houston’s Libertarian Zoning for Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction INTRODUCTION Managing editor of the Federalist, Gracy Olmstead wrote the article Stop Blaming Houston’s Libertarian Zoning for Hurricane Harvey’s Destruction, that is full of opinions about who to blame for the zoning done in Houston. In this article, Olmstead is arguing that the libertarian’s are not to be blamed for the culprits of Hurricane Harvey’s damage. She feels that the blame should be pointed towards the media for making the people of Houston believe in their opinionated suggestions about who’s fault it may be for the flooding of Houston’s area.…
In Rebecca Richmond 's A Woman of Texas: Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, she discussed the life of Anna Hardwick and her contribution to the progression of teaching in Texas and the progression of women 's rights worldwide. She addressed Anna 's hunger for education for herself and others, and how this hunger made her a better teacher and the persuasion she had when it came to teaching. Numerous times throughout the book, Rebecca mentioned how Anna was able to engage all of her students on a level that got them interested about school, and whatever subject she take they believed it was the most important subject in the world. She also mentions Anna 's contribution to Texas in the form of her history book about Texas history, that was used in the…
Galveston is one of the very few peculiar cities in the state of Texas. Otherwise known as an Island, it was undoubtedly the commercial gateway to Texas and its environs in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. There was a time that Galveston was the third largest exporters of cotton in the whole of United States, not only that, about ninety percent of goods that entered or left Texas came in through Galveston. Although a terrible event occurred that would later cast a great limitation to being a commercial nerve center in Texas, Galveston may not have been have attained such place in history without the doggedness of its founders. In the book “Galveston-…
In Galveston Texas, 1900 there was a hurricane. It wasn't just any hurricane, it was one of the most massive hurricanes in history with winds up to 145 mph and lasted from August 27, 1900 to September 17, 1900. The Galveston hurricane damaged 21 cities, and left up to 6,000-12,000 people dead. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is the deadliest natural disaster ever in the United States. They first detected the hurricane over the tropical Atlantic on August 27th.…
The journey of this Houston community is one of amazing progress! The journey includes the schools, homes and the addition of a Lone Star College. These were the effects of the outgrowing of the qualities that labeled them as a “ghetto” community. Although this community has seen tremendous improvement, the effects of Harvey has ruined homes, damaged vehicles, and affected the beauty of the community. Even though the community wasn’t impacted the effects left the people with an extreme number of repairs.…
In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, Randolph B. Campbell argues that Sam Houston was a great leader but with a subpar personal life for most of it. The four major moments one should pay attention to when discussing Houston’s time of leadership, are his time governing Tennessee, leading an army during the war for Texas independence, his time running Texas and lastly, his time as a member of the Senate for the state of Texas. Houston made decisions based on what he feels is the best for his people in the long run.…
As a young armadillo growing up in Texas during the 1820s, my life was peaceful and happy. The Federalists who held power in Mexico left me, my fellow armadillos, and the Anglo Americans alone to enjoy and work the land. However, in 1829, the Centralists gained control of the Mexican government and the freedom we enjoyed gradually eroded. As the Mexican government imposed more regulations on the Anglo Americans, the tension which had existed between the two groups due to the Nacogdoches land grant, become even more palpable.…
As a group, we will be presenting on traffic as an ongoing problem within the city of Houston. Illustrated through our speech will be a comparison of Houston’s traffic to other cities in the United States. We will also discuss current plans to alleviate the issue and how it is working out for us as a city, future plans to help with our cities traffic congestion, as well as other possible outcomes that we as Houstonians have yet to look into. We will go into detail with each section to explain the causes and potential positive outcomes that can stem from a change in our approach to traffic within the city of Houston. Houston has been ranked the fourth worst city for traffic in the United States by Inrix Inc.…
There is no secret that the Houston roadways are empathically and unapologetically grisly. Regardless of where the Houstonians drive, they’re bound to meet catastrophes in the form of potholes, rough terrain and even sudden drop offs. The current state of our roadways is incredibly awful for the safety of our drivers, financial costs on our drivers and the hassle our drivers to endure on a daily basis. According to TRIP, a national transportation research organization, in 2014, 49 percent of our major roads and highways are in mediocre condition (Hernandez).…
August 1st through August 5th was the most exciting, influential, and eye-opening week of my life. Through the heat, sweat and panic, Win-Shape Camps still managed to change my life for the better. On day one I woke up dreading going to camp. I dreaded dealing with kids.…
Big Foot Finder Embarrassing Camping Trip. My morning was not going well for me; I keep getting told “Hurry up Shieanne! We need to get on the road,” and by getting rushed I start to panic, and then my mind went blank. Thinking I grabbed ever thing; I hop in our F150 Ford truck read to go camping. “Did you get everything we ask you to get?”…
The weekend my boyfriend began seeing another woman, I walked into a megachurch for the first time. My girlfriends and I didn’t go to praise Jesus. We went for fun. (I didn’t know about the boyfriend yet.)…
The first thing I felt when I walked out of the cold air conditioning house was the scorching warmth of Florida. Even during the afternoon its scorching. But, I'm a good granddaughter and I suffered through it to take family pictures. It was the first day in Florida and we needed to take the family photos at the beach.…
It was the first day of summer in sunny Arizona, but of course it is always summer in Arizona everyday all throughout mid-December where there are some type of icy frost on the road and trees. The only thing that seemed too cool off the people here including their temper and attitudes it was the same everyday hot, sticky and stuffy no sign of movement of weather. The clouds just made a big circle around the city as is trying to avoid this place. It was the same everyday wake up in the morning wait for the sun to go down go outside play in the cooling asphalt and then come in for a really spice dinner that has really good, but hot and really worth eating after long sunny hot day. It was time for a change I thought, that night my parents said…
Scary summer camp The summer of 2015 was the scariest summer I ever had. School was out so I decided to embark on a much anticipated camping trip with my friends Melvin, Tom, Danny, Tasha, and Brenda .We stayed up for hours planning, preparing. July 20th finally arrived we jumped in my car and drove the five miles to River rock mountain. On arrival we speedily got out of the car in awe.…