Sam Houston

The is Super Bowl the most watched sporting event in America? The last super bowl there were 114.4 million people watching(Topic: Super Bowl). Super bowl is two teams battling it out to see who becomes champion.Super bowl impacted the world not just with the game but with the commercials and the halftime show. Super bowl has come a long way starting in 1967 to present day. The super bowl is once a year on the first Sunday of February. To get the Super Bowl a team has to make it to the…

Our world, once divided by the vastness of its oceans, has become connected more so than ever through globalization. International transport, communication, and commerce are results of this development. While globalization has its benefits, it instills regional and global competition between cities. Some cities have flourished, becoming world cities. Others struggle to maintain or catch up. To better understand this sense of competition, indexes have conceptualized universal characteristics of…

I was dead set on the University of Houston all of high school, but working with my dad I was exposed to many people with degrees in my desired area of study. The superintendents that I would speak all spoke inspiring words that I are a big reason why I am at this point. My views on the University of Houston soon changed when I noticed that all of the superintendents I knew went to Texas A&M University. I began to do some…

I have had the great opportunity to have lived in several different locations around the United States. Branching off into three states and then subcategorized into cities based on the location of each. I have traveled the United States for many years, traveling from one city to another. Staring from birth I have moved and lived in many different homes, classifying each location into states and from there branching off into cities. I have had the great fortune of living in Texas first. Texas…

city where I am living currently. These cities are different and similar form each other in various ways but there are three main factors that distinguish Houston from my hometown (Lahore) such as, costs of living, Economy and standard of life. First of all, the most obvious and striking difference of course, is living costs. Living costs in Houston are much more expensive than the living costs in Lahore. For instance, if you want to rent a one bedroom apartment…

As a group, we will be presenting on traffic as an ongoing problem within the city of Houston. Illustrated through our speech will be a comparison of Houston’s traffic to other cities in the United States. We will also discuss current plans to alleviate the issue and how it is working out for us as a city, future plans to help with our cities traffic congestion, as well as other possible outcomes that we as Houstonians have yet to look into. We will go into detail with each section to explain…

30th, 2005, Houston, Texas lost its only major amusement park when Six Flags decided to close the gates to AstroWorld after operating since the summer of 1968. B. AstroWorld was once full of history and thrilling attractions, and although some of the rides have been taken elsewhere, it may soon be open for business under a new name. C. Now, unless you are a native Houstonian or visited Houston when AstroWorld was still up and running, then you probably weren’t even aware that Houston once had…

March 26, 2018 To: Ellen Cohen, Mayor Pro-Tem of Houston City Council From: Janet Asante, Chief Environmental Science officer for the Houston Health Department Re: Urban Houston Communities Suffering from Pollution after Hurricane Harvey Background and History: Hurricane Harvey is the first hurricane to hit the Texas coast since Ike in 2008 and the first major hurricane to hit Texas since Brett in 1999. Houston, which was founded on the banks of the Buffalo Bayou in 1836 and rises barely above…

Houston is a vibrant city in Texas that is one of the most diverse in the country in terms of religion, race and language. With large Asian, White, and African American communities, English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese are spoken on a regular basis by many of Houston’s inhabitants. Created just following the Texas Revolution, Houston has an extensive history. Prior to the Civil War, many enslaved Africans worked near the city on either cotton or sugar plantations. By 1860, some 49% of the…

recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue their active…