Republic of Texas

In 1836 Texas declared themselves independent from Mexico, but of course Mexico does not recognize this at first. In 1837 Texas asked the United States to be annexed into their country, but at the time the United States could not accept a new state because of two reasons. The first reason for this was that The States had just reached a balance between Slave States and Free States and with Texas wanting to be a Slave State they would upset that balance. The second reason is that Mexico made it so…

Texas manages to simultaneously rank among the best and worst in the nation when it comes to education, but only because it excels in some fields and fails in others. An unfortunate side effect of this is that some political leaders in Texas think that budget cuts and funding in regards to education can be used to manipulate their power and political campaigns in order to forward their agenda. Education is a window to future careers; children and young adults should have access to educational…

The Texas Constitution is separated into three branches: The legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The legislative branch is composed by 150 members of the House of Representatives and by 31 members of the state senate. The House of Representatives are elected for two-year terms (represented by districts of about 166,000) and the Senators, who serve for four-year terms and serve about 800,000 people per Senator. They meet every odd-numbered year biannually. These meetings are held…

secured a victory in the Mexican-American War. A war that concluded roughly a hundred and seventy years ago, the Mexican-American War was a conflict between, as the name would imply, Mexico, and the United States over the territories of California, Texas, and New Mexico, 525,000 square miles of land, which…

In this source, Engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor proposes the idea of “scientific management” of the labor force, known as “Taylorism”. Taylor demonstrates an experiment to show the effectiveness of his method, by using fewer workers to improve efficiency and getting the absolute most out of workers. This document is introduced during the Progressive Era, where workers’ rights were being heard with the rise of socialism. His aim was to increase productivity with fewer workers. However, this…

The Santa Fe trail exhibits a rich and interesting history joined together by the people who traveled and the stories and cultures they carried with them. The exploration of the Santa Fe Trail unlocks the secrets of many questions. Who was the original founder of the trail? Who traveled it and why? When did the Santa Fe Trail experience the most frequent and constant usage? All questions can be uncovered just as the trail was discovered for many individuals. William Becknell is accredited…

Senator Lucio, a Democratic Texas State Senator of District 27 represents roughly 794,630 people. He is the chair of Intergovernmental Relations and a vice-chair of the Education Committee. He is also a member of the Natural Resources & Economic Development, Veteran Affairs & Military Installations, and VAMI Subcommittee on Border Security (“The Texas State Senate,” n.d.). Two of the populous counties that fall within District 27 is Cameron County with the population of 406,220 and Hidalgo with…

Pressures, expectations, comparisons, negotiations of self-worth, and ah- more expectations… these are common problems many South Asian diasporic women face growing up. Is it not true, girls? We have our whole lives set out for us through families, elders, or our community – always ready to put others’ needs before anything else, and never allowed the time or given the support to understand our own emotional and mental concerns. Some of us even suppress them our whole lives. As young women we…

The prominent men in Edna’s life were always present, every time she managed to escape the clutches of one man, another came along. She jumped at the chance to marry Lѐonce to escape from her father who had always forced her to be someone that she was not. “At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life–that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions” (Chopin 13). Her father viewed the world differently from her since she could remember, it served…

Mexican-American War were due to several reasons and some were the independence of Texas, Nuevo Mexico, California, Sonora, and Yucatan. The new Mexican government led by its first Mexican President, Guadalupe Victoria, was a violent one due to the Anglo immigration to the Mexican northern territories. Centralism played an important role in the subsequent loss of the entire northern frontier to the United States (Meier and Ribera, 54). Texas grew tired of the violent harassment from Mexico’s…