South Texas

Potholes in South Texas roads have become a problem for many citizens and their cars. Driving cars on pothole infested streets is not safe for the citizens. Cars’ wheels often become useless because of these dangerous streets, and citizens have to waste money to repair them. Potholes should be looked over by the government and fixed by them as well, roads in South Texas deserve to be well maintained, just like every other city. Some roads in South Texas are not well maintained, and are often forgotten. For example, Esperanza Rd and Roosevelt ST in Brownsville Texas, and down Cesar Chavez south of Expressway 83 in San Juan, where you'll have to slow down to five miles per hour (Crandall). These roads should be fixed in order for cars to drive…

South Texas College When you pick a college, it’s a lot like picking a home. You need to like the environment you’re in in, enjoy the people around you, and be able to live there for the next few years of your life. Some of the steps you have to take to find the perfect university or college for you are, making a list of pros and cons on joining that college, students and parents should have no unanswered questions by the time they send their deposit to a school. Some other steps are,…

working with people's problems on a daily basis. After comparing South Texas College (STC), University of Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), and Baylor University based on my criteria of tuition cost, cost of living, and distance from home, University of Rio Grande Valley would be the best choice in helping me pursue a career in social work. Thus, the University of Rio Grande Valley offers the expertise required to become a social worker. The social work field is abundantly diverse. There are different…

place in. Just these 2 things are not really known was it before or after the civil war and who really started it? This is a small look at all of the different aspects of the Mexican-American war. This paper is for a US history class so let’s look at the history and find out what causes there were for the war. The war between the United States and Mexico starts before the United States gets involved to fight Mexico. Spain came up with an idea of how to colonize Texas, but we’re going to…

Texas political alignment began as a strong and faithful for the Democratic Party. Through time however the political alignment switched from Democratic, to Republican, to a long lasting Democratic until turning back into the Republican alignment we have today. The particular rime and the economy of Texas was a large part of what cause these changes. To dive deeper into the changes of political alignment we have to understand who was in power at the time both in the national government and state…

South Plains College is a college located in Levelland, Texas which has a distance education in Plainview and Lubbock, Texas. I know SPC will give me the opportunity to get my RN license to become a Pediatric Nurse for the future. So I hope when I attend South Plains, they will help me get on the right path to success. “In preparing you for academic transfer or a satisfying career, faculty and staff take a personal interest in helping you achieve your educational goals.” (South Plains)…

In The White Scourge, Neil Foley addresses how the construct of whiteness in Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affected the structure of society. Neil Foley is the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University. His research concerns race and civil rights in Mexico and the American Southwest. Foley structures his book chronologically, beginning with the Texas Revolution in the first chapter and ending with the 1930s and 1940s. He focuses his study…

Texas Executive Branch Have you ever ask yourself if the state level executive branch is important? The answer is most defiantly yes, every branch of the state and federal government matter because of something called checks and balances. Checks and balances is a system that was created to make sure no branch of power gets more power than the other. Critics in the past have made points and arguments that the Texas Government is out of date, the governors office of Texas appears to be weak when…

“Is Texas America?” states various points in her essay about Texas politics, demographics, geography, and education. The “Is Texas America?” essay is according to the author’s perspective about Texas. There are various statements within Ivins’s essay that are supporting and contradictory to the modern-day Texas. The reason there is a difference in the number of supporting and contradicting statements about Texas within Ivins’s essay is because Texas is changing over time where the contradicting…

away at age 93. Her father is Augustine de Zavala, he was a South Texa rancher. Her mother Julia de Zavala, was an irish immigrant who was educated in Galveston,Texas. When Adina was born, her family lived at De Zavala Point on Buffalo Bayou. Then in 1873 they moved near a ranch in San Antonio. Adina is known for saving the Alamo Long Barrack Fortress for future generations.Adina De Zavala encouraged the statewide recognition of Texas and defense of the Alamo. In Adinas early life, She and her…