Galveston

Juneteenth is a holiday in Texas that commemorates the celebration of the abolition of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, that General Gordon Granger leading the Union soldiers, arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced the end of the war and the freedom of all slaves. This event happened two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation by the president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. There have been several versions of stories to explain the two and half years’…

is blown up in Havana. The wae ends when the Treaty of Paris is signed, causing SPain to give up control of Cuba- now independent The population manages to gorw to 75 million after immigration and child brith increase. The next major disaster, Galveston Hurricane, leaves 6,000 to 8,000 dead The President, Willia Mckinely is assinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchrist. Theodore Roosevel takes over. For the first time, the U. S stock market crashes. The Oxnord Strike was the first action that…

How did the United States prepare to fight for the first World War? The United States prepared politically, economically, and militarily. They prepared by increasing the military size and weapon manufacturing. World War I was an interest America had and wanted an allied victory. The government wanted to persuade the people that going to war was the right thing to do, so they asked the public for participation to raise money for the war. The government actually raised income taxes for financial…

After I graduate high school, I didn 't know what to do before I started my semester at Galveston College.Because I graduated school in April my mother suggested for me to get a job before I when back to school so i could have some extra money. It was hard for me to find a place that would hire me because I didn’t had any experience all i had was a high school diploma. After many days of doing nothing at home I got a call from one of the places that I applied to. The job that I had got a…

Troy was an ordinary 18 year old boy. He lived on Galveston Island with his mother Jessica and his seven brothers, he was taking his second course of classes at A the local college. He lived the perfect life. At least he thought... Troy was taking notes in math when his professor used his math test as an example of what not to do. Troy was extremely embarrassed by this, as the professor continued Troy quickly became furious. Troy's perfect eyebrows lowered, his perfectly soft tan skin…

The Karankawa Indians originated along the Texas coastline which is known as present day Victoria, Texas. Their area started on the west end of present day Galveston and continued down the coast to Corpus Christi, Texas. The Karankawas were very good fighters. Most European settlers were scared to come near them. The Karankawas had an interesting lifestyle as they differed from other tribes. They primarily targeted a few different main foods in their area along the coastline. The Karankawas had…

and challenged me more academically. Fitting in with my peers was another challenge. I was new to the country and possessed minimal knowledge about its social norms. Consequently, I was bullied, and labeled. Due to this, my family and I moved to Galveston, Texas, where my grandmother resided. Here I excelled, particularly in math, and graduated salutatorian of my middle school. In my seventh and eighth grade years I became the Texas State Champion for Chess and the Science Olympiad, in which…

The contribution from employers will have to lessen, therefore leaving the workers to retire later. In 2005, President Bush addressed some of these issues in a speech he made to a crowd in Galveston, Texas. “Social Security is a system where we take your payroll taxes; we pay out the benefits to the current retirees, and with the leftover, we pay-pay for other programs, and there is nothing left but file cabinets with IOU’s, and that’s how it…

The five most significant turning points in my life were when I graduated valedictorian of my class, when I received my first scholarship, when I visited The University of Texas at Austin, when I went on my post-graduation vacation to Galveston, Texas, and when I became a part of The McLennan Community Honors College. These turning points while being immensely different from one another still connect to a key theme in my life of what I find to be the most worthwhile, my education, my desire to…

my mother’s father and and my father’s brothers were killed by the Viet Cong but they had other reasons. They always had a strong estrangement towards Vietnamese people. I guess that’s where it all started: my hatred for them ungrateful gooks. Galveston Bay, Texas was a small shrimping town located 25 miles away from Houston. Here, we never see any gooks. Then suddenly in my freshmen year of high school, I saw fifteen of them in my English class. They all sound the same. They all smell the…