Sam Houston

am excited that I can now continue my road that God laid out for me. Unfortunate, being in the military, I had to set my college ambitions and my goals to the side due to moving to a different duty station. I am now working and stationed at Fort Sam Houston Tx, when previously I was working at Fort Gordon Ga. With this new occupation I also had to take an exam to ensure I was still technically competent in my job to instruct to new incoming Soldiers, therefore more time was delayed because of…

oppress women are often too terrified to report abuses”, Salas said. San Francisco is one of several cities along with New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. amongst others whose campaign to organize household workers are more advanced than in Houston. In California, a bill giving nannies and house workers the right to overtime pay cleared the legislature last year by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill resulted from years of work by groups like CHIRLA the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights…

weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home. In 1913, the family included Lyndon's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson; young Lyndon; and his sisters, Rebekah and Josefa. Over the years, two more children were born in this house - Lucia and Sam Houston Johnson. The family life that Lyndon Johnson experienced here as he grew to adulthood made the man who became our thirty-sixth…

Americans. “The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs tried to delineate the various groups in October 1837 by identifying bands, estimating their length of residency in Texas, and evaluating their relations to others.” (Handbook of Texas Online) Sam Houston was a member of a special committee that was responsible for the negotiation of a treaty with several Indian bands that would reserve lands to the Native Americans that fought with Texans against Mexico. Unfortunately, the treaty was ratified,…

Surprisingly, some of the best articles I have read were very casually written. A fitting description for the article “Lil Wayne I Am Not a Human Being II” by zcamp. It is loose in style and flows easily, reflecting that of a conversation between friends. The author writes confidently about the number of phallic metaphors Wayne uses in his songs, noting that he sets the world record, and makes a joke of his own renaming one of the songs as “Penis Colada”. Of course, even in a conversational tone…

government, here in Texas, has outlawed texting while driving. Every night there’s a new story on the news about how a teen has died in a car wreck due to texting and driving. I have lost a cousin to texting and driving. She was driving to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, because she was in the reserves, and she was texting and driving. She weaved towards the concrete…

The Battle of the Alamo The battle of the Alamo occurred during a period when the Republic of Texas faced a bleak and uncertain future known as the Texas Revolution. American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas at the time under the New Mexican emperor Agustin de Iturbide. On 23, 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began the 13 day siege of the Alamo. A moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in downtown San Antonio, into a shrine. There were several events leading…

Emily Petty began her experience at New Tech High @ Coppell (NTH@C) uncertain of the success she would have there. She did not know if could succeed in a project based learning school due to her timid nature. Before her time at New Tech she believed her vocal cords were non-existent. Through NTH@C she was able to grow both as a learner and a person within society. Emily had knowledge before her first coming to NTH@C. She knew about the project based learning system since her mother was a…

they are done with it. They won’t try it again. But they put everything in their mouth to test it.” The little goat that chewed on my hem is called Tempest. The creature is extraordinarily cute, and was Fort Worth Junior Champion last year and Houston Grand Champion this year. I began to fear that I wouldn’t get away without a goat of my own. Patsy took some time to speak of her experience and philosophy in regard to local…

to leave Texas and recognized the independence of Texas. Mexico tried to regain Texas but they were not successful. Texas faced many problems with Mexico, the US and the local Indian tribes during approximately ten years that it was a republic. Sam Houston was the first President of Texas, and he also served as Governor and Senator when Texas accepted statehood. Texas became the 28th state on December 29, 1845 (Richardson, et al. 88, 94). There were different theories as to why the Texas…