Greater Houston

my project guidelines I knew I wanted to interview my grandmother. This project has helped me to learn so much more about her and I now feel so much closer to her now than I did before. Lynette Kay Pampell Lively was born on November 9, 1949, in Houston, Texas. She had two loving parents, William Ludwig Pampell and Frances Nay Garlington. Her father William was born March 17, 1916, and he died January 27, 1925. William’s parents, Ernst Pampell and Ester Moerbe, were German and French. Both his…

Class Philosophy and Corresponding Resources: Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger III, and McDaniel Recent studies indicate that an effective method of learning is interleaving: layering skills so practice is varied and builds. The authors of the book liken it to shooting a basketball. If player A practices shooting from the freethrow line 100 times and player B practices shooting 100 times from varied positions and distances, player B would be most likely to sink a freethrow from the line. In the…

On April 25, 1980, Bobby Moore, aged 20, was involved in a robbery of a grocery store in Houston, Texas with 2 accomplices, where he accidentally shot a grocery store employee. On July 15, 1980, he was convicted of robbery and capital murder. On appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his sentence in 1985. On February 14, 2001 he was given a new sentence hearing and again given a capital sentence. In 2003, Moore challenged his 2001 hearing and sentence, one of his 48 claims being…

The history of basketball wasn’t really even created to be an individual sport itself. It was actually supposed to be a daily exercise or indoor activity in the YMCA. It was being in use for off season football players. They called a man to create the indoor activity. His name was James Naismith. (Sportsknowhow.com) He made a ball out of rubber in a sort of volleyball form and put up fruit baskets for hoops. The players had to dribble to the other side of the court and try to shoot the ball into…

Equine Squamous Gastric Disease: Causation and Preventative Management Strategies Brittany Bartlett Sam Houston State University ANSC 1119 02 October 12, 2015 Equine Squamous Gastric Disease: Causation and Preventative Management Strategies Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) has been used to describe a wide variety of ulcerative diseases in the horses. These ulcers can be commonly found in the esophageal, stomach, and duodenum mucosa of horses and occurs frequently because horses are…

In his article, “The Choice of a Pregnant Woman Always Outweighs the Life of a Fetus,” Peter Singer makes interesting points defending his stance on maybe one of the most controversial topics to ever be known. He thinks that abortions should remain legal for different and, in his eyes, good reasons. He believes that a “woman’s interests always outweigh any supposed interests of a fetus.” Singer uses different scenarios and statistics to further explain why illegalizing abortion may make matters…

Throughout the Holocaust, Jews in Europe continuously tried to flee persecution and emigrate to other nations. Some were successful, while others failed to leave Germany or fled to a nation Hitler and Nazi Germany later invaded. One of the key events that marked the beginning of the Holocaust was Kristallnacht. On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi supporters vandalized and destroyed synagogues, businesses, and homes owned by Jews in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany. Because of the broken glass…

Body Cameras Could Help or Hurt Police Officer’s Body worn cameras are a part of technological advancement that will seek to redress some of the issues taking place within the country, and which could improve or make matters worse for the police force. Many proponents of these cameras have made a plea to have police officers use them as a way of making them accountable. Several of those accused of certain wrong doings during the collection of evidence have also been saved by using the footage…

Conflict Management Styles in the Workplace: A Study of First Generation Arab Muslim Immigrants in the United States Abstract Different studies have demonstrated that culture, religiosity, and sexual orientation impact individuals' conduct in dealing with their strife; be that as it may, there has been little examination of the effect of the cultural assimilation process on these variables used by original Arab Muslim foreigners in the United States. My study takes after a consecutive…

breaches in New Orleans hurricane surge protection were the cause of the majority of deaths and destruction during hurricane Katrina. In addition 80% or the city and neighborhoods were flooded and the floodwaters lingered for weeks with water depths greater than 15 feet. But reconstruction in the southern portion of Louisiana have been addressed by the Army Corp Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration. In addition, There was also an investigation of the responses from federal state and…