Cameron County

treatment goals are grounded and establish only when they are within reach and achievable with the resources at hand, “Achievable, observable, behaviorally defined goals are stressed to increase client optimism and facilitate the recognition of success” (Cameron, 2006). Close monitoring for progress is a key aspect with any form of care provided through the Cohen clinic. Lastly, their advocacy and leadership is paramount to the clinic’s mission in meeting needs. Both the director for community…

The Mexican American environment has always been rich in Culture, but poor in money. Cameron county ranks top one hundred of the lowest income in the United States. I’m Yvette Colunga coming from a small town called Weslaco in Texas. I was born in Boise, Idaho then moved down to Weslaco when my grandma got sick.The environment I grew up in was always very hectic. There was always something being built and torn down. Business here hardly stayed open because of the lack of sales. My parents have…

Coming in to taking this VUSM class I thought it would just be another required VUSM that I just wanted to get through and get an easy A. This class not only taught me about people who lived differently than me, but it gave me the chance to put myself into somebody else’s shoes in ways I never would have done without this class. Other VUSM classes require you to find a place to volunteer at and count a certain amount of hours and those places are nice and you have the possibility to learn a lot…

seeping through each room and every window crevice, billowing into the morning sky. Inside the house, children screaming “Daddy, Daddy!” and neighbors lining the streets to watch the commotion. The fire deemed a triple homicide and father of three, Cameron Todd Willingham, became the prime suspect. After countless appeals and testimonies, inmate number 999401 was lethally injected in the huntsville penitentiary on February 17th 2004. Though after the execution was final,…

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. On April 26, 1865 General Joseph Johnston surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham County, North Carolina. The final Battle of the Civil War occurred from May 12-13, 1865 in Cameron County, Texas. All Confederate soldiers and officers received pardons after the Civil War ended. Though the Civil War was over the reconstruction of the country had just begun. It took the rest of the…

representation of Africa. Even the phrase used in the activism of debt relief is patronising, ‘debt forgiveness’. The word forgiveness used here is arrogant, it hides the fact that Western banks lent money to African countries knowing fully that the county will struggle to pay the money back. This dubious loaning however has been well documented and broadcasted. In pictures depicting Africa in Western Media it is always the same bleak images. Images of flies on children’s faces only used for…

their history behind, imagine all your hard work being stolen from right under your feet. Just because this cannot be seen does not mean it is not happening. Transnational corporations are large multinational companies that operate in two or more counties who operate in so many different countries they essentially lose their identity with a specific nation. These large companies are slowly taking over the less developed nations by exploiting their people for hard and cheap labour especially…

I had always been destined to speak competitively, but no betting man would have ever pegged me for Extemp. Even I resisted the pairing. The first Extemp my mother had me give was preluded by an hour of me hunched over in her bathtub, fully clothed, surrounded by files and newspapers, trying to decide between figuring out who the hell Qaddafi was and prying open a second-story window. I don’t quite know how I ended up in the tub. The cold marble and safe seclusion helped, but I had made the…

communitarianism proclaimed.” (Sandos, 9). The events of the Plan unfolded in a most unfavorable way for the Mexican Revolutionaries as time went on. The first time that American authorities heard word of the plan was after Deputy Sheriff of Hidalgo County, Tom Mayfield, arrested Basilio Ramos in McAllen, Texas, and discovered he was carrying suspicious documents. Word spread quickly and soon, while Europe was engaged in a roaring World War, Germany took an interest in the…

trips!) • Weaver Cemetery • Hills Chapel AME • Quilters Hall of Fame • The Geography of Resistance: Free Black Communities & the Underground Railroad by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche • Flossie Baily article • An Oral History of African Americans in Grant County • Lines of Color- Marion Lynching • Allen Temple AME & Reverend Gladden 10. Churches tend to be racially segregated because of America’s history of slavery, which also allowed very distinct African American cultural worship styles.…