Round Rock, Texas

My First Culinary Competition I never thought I would ever be good enough to do it alone... but I underestimated myself. I had gone through three years of culinary arts thinking I could never be good enough to compete in the competitions. Everyone supported me: my teachers, my friends, and most of all, my parents. It took three years of culinary arts, iron chef, and convincing from everyone around me for me to be confident enough to participate in a competition and realize I had a true talent.…

him to return. The tone of the poem can be describe as thoughtful but at the same time there is a feeling of longing. This can most likely be interpreted as Penelope longing for Odysseus’ return. This is shown in the lines, “I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock”. These lines describe Penelope repeating her duties day after day with great care and attention. By analyzing the poem “Penelope” it can be understood that Dorothy Parker has an understanding of how even though…

Western Expansion DBQ After the United States doubled its territory due to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, American citizens were encouraged to go westward by the government. To urge its citizens to go westward, the United States’ government even promised to give out land for free. Hearing the news that land were to be given for free in the West, thousands of people hopped onto their wagons and started to go westward hoping to seek opportunities to change their lives. However, these people had…

was able to devastate the Mexican Military with a much smaller force. During the battle, the United States was able to fire in excess of three thousand rounds of artillery, and the Mexican Army fired only six hundred and fifty. The Mexican Army had to deal with inferior munitions in the aspect of poor quality gunpowder. This caused their rounds to only barely fire, and when they did, they lacked the power to make it across the battlefield. You can accredit this failure to not knowing how to…

Mexico City a Disaster Mexico city is a nice place to live if you’re rich. Mexico city is located on a basin. A basin is a wide, round hole in the ground. Mexico City is near a lake called Lake Texcoco. Lastly Mexico City is near two volcanoes. Mexico City have lots of past history. In the past, there was a native group called Aztecs. The group went different places to find an area to settle down. They finally settle down near the lake and they called the city Tenochtitlan. Lots of years later,…

During the mid-nineteenth century, a vision on expansion surfaced in the United States. This new vision or ideology was known as Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the new colonies in the United States not only had the right to expand west, but that it also was the will of God to do so. This new idea gave Americans the right to expand into Native Territory without any consequences. The purpose of this paper is to show that this new belief caused the annexation and near…

border territory claims in Texas. The US offered $25-$30 million, along with $3 million in relief debt for American citizens. The Mexican government refused to meet with the representative, causing Polk to order US troops to move into the disputed territory to protect the border, where fighting between the two nations would break out on April 25, 1846. On that day, a Mexican force had killed sixteen American soldiers at the Nueces River. The disagreement over the border of Texas was the main…

systems. Texas, however, chose to stay out of this effort and became a staunch adversary to the implementation of the standards, fearing that the Common Core was a national effort to override states’ authorities. Nevertheless, Texas should adopt the Common Core for purposes of national unity and helping a transient society, and that the end-of-the-year test is more aligned with the ACT and SAT, better developed than the TAKS, and feasible…

Ode to My Toyota is a poem written and constructed by Kelle Groom that is able to relate to anyone that has sold one of their fairly old cars, and either has end up missing their old car and or knowing that their ex-car are in good hands (by the end). This particular poem is based on her 1974 Toyota that she is willing; does sell. In the poem Groom talks about the car’s appearance of how it’s practically crawling with insects, dirty beyond compare, and how it’s also falling apart from the inside…

“Isaac’s Storm”, by Erik Larson, is a non-fiction historical narrative about the 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane, “the most lethal hurricane this country has ever known. So far.” (www.washingtonpost.com) 1 In the book, Larson tells the story of Isaac Cline, the chief weather observer assigned to the Galveston, Texas weather station from 1891 to 1901. Mr. Larson, is a former “staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer for Time Magazine [who] has written articles…