Alamo Mission in San Antonio

department. Working alongside a variety of healthcare professionals such as technicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, Physician Assistants and physicians, we as a group worked together to provide competent healthcare to the diverse population of San Antonio. Thus, I began to learn more about the PA profession and began to understand the vital role they play in treating patients. Working with a diverse population, one learned to educate them and to never judge them. Our job as health care…

Texas, in 1821. Even though the Spanish had major influences throughout the centuries it ruled over Texas, they only have three continual European colonies which were Nacogdoches, Goliad, and San Antonio. The Spanish government granted Moses Austin the right to begin looking for land in between San Antonio and Brazor River areas to build up a colony. His plans for building a new colony begin to get all messed up due to the Mexican’s independence from Spain. Mexico did not want to honor the…

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza a museum dedicates to John F. Kennedy, and where the assassin of Kennedy stood to shoot him. These two attractions are widely recognizable, but there are more such as the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, or the San Antonio River Walk, both are from San Antonio, and both required a lot of walking around. Bullock Texas is another important attraction since it’s where it keeps Texas Relics, and history dating to back when it was founded. Big Bend National Park is…

permitted on the grounds. She stops and examines this as if it were new to her, although the sign has been posted for several years now. "Don 't bring your gun to the Alamo," she intones, to see how it sounds out loud, then laughs, startling a little boy. ("Mama, that lady is talking to herself. Mama--") Don 't bring your gun to the Alamo. A nice phrase, but it doesn 't make the cut. She won 't record it in one of her little notebooks, the ones where she keeps her lists of first lines,…

about Davy Crockett that included Davy Crockett at the Alamo 1955, a romantic story talking about a group outnumbered Americans surrounded by a huge Mexican army ready to execute them all. There nalo have been more than twenty big motion pictures produced about Crockett’s famous execution at the Alamo. In 1960 John Wayne directed and starred as Crockett in the Alamo. In 2004 Billy Bob Thornton starred as Crockett another film titled The Alamo with Dennis Quaid, who was cast as General Sam…

Chumash came at the hands of a "military expedition led by Pablo de la Portilla negotiated the return of this group to the Santa Barbara Mission"(Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz). Consequently Father Vicente Sarria, who was Prefect of the Missions, helped to bring the revolt to an end by convincing the Chumash rebels to return to the Santa Barbara Mission is a fact that had long been acknowledged Further details involving the end of the Chumash insurrection can be best illustrated by…

In 1803 the U.S. bought all of the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. France sold us this land for $15 million. Spain originally owned the Louisiana territory but then France gained the land in 1800 from the Treaty of San Ildefonso. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation’s size. Even before the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson wanted to explore the west. In February 1803 an expedition to the west was funded. Meriwether Lewis, who was Thomas Jefferson’s personal secretary…

of our men were hurt during an altercation between the two groups. So we decided head to San Antonio, and rest at the Alamo mission. Yet that would not happen. Word came down that the Mexican army was headed here. We worked quickly to secure our men, and what little supplies we could find to begin our evacuation. Unfortunately Johnathan had other ideas. He volunteered to stay behind and help defend the Mission from the Mexicans. I pleaded with my friend that this is not our fight, and we should…

Looking back at my short life I seem to have 20/20 vision. I see the choices that I have made and the outcomes that have happened. I would like to share a very important choice that I’ve made about joining the Navy. It’s been eleven years now since I made this life altering decision. In the year 2002, I was sixteen years old and in high school wood shop. I remember my teacher Mr. Cox making an announcement to the class. “Everyone that would like to receive extra credit can go take the…