South Texas

movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by the…

warrior tribe. They were in states such as Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma,and Arizona. They were exceptional horsemen. The Comanches were excellent at hunting and gathering. The Comanches were known as the “Lords of the Plains. The Comanches had a very unique culture. The Comanches were originally part of the Eastern Shoshone, who lived by Platte River near Wyoming . When the Europeans arrived, the Comanches migrated more towards the south such as, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The…

battle of the Mexican-American War. The Battle was fought on May 8, 1946, in the area of what is called Brownsville, Texas. The Battle began as result of Mexico’s effort to besiege Fort Texas on May 3, General Zachary Taylor in command of the Army of Occupation consisting of 2,300 troops was received supplies from Fort Polk, heard reports of cannon fire.Started to make movements to Fort Texas on May 7 with soldiers and supplies. General Arista with a force of 3,700 Mexican troops Immediately…

Federico Villalba's Texas: A Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend is a biography and autobiography about Federico Villalba’s different milestones throughout his life. It also focuses on the lives of his children and wife. The author Juan Manuel Casas brings blissful births, weddings, and family gatherings but, it also touches sadness of illness and loss of life. The book starts off when he is a young man and decides to move away from San Geronimo, Chihuahua in the 1880s. He wanted to start his…

Throughout history it has been a lot of movements in order to defeat injustice, and one of these movements was created back in the mid 1960’s in San Antonio. This book is divided into three different time-lapses and it tells us how the Mexican-American started to gain a place in the US with the Chicano movement. In the mid 1960’s San Antonio was ruled by the Anglo social and the high class. The Mexican-American motivated by the gang warfare, the seasonal flood, and the strike of the farm…

them back to the Union. Lincoln thought this would be a good way to heal the wounds from the Civil War and wanted to be a bit easier on the South. Mostly because the Southern states had lost a lot during the war, and now they were struggling to get back on their feet. Most of their men had fought and died in the Civil War, so it was hard for the women in the south to get a hold of the jobs and working on the farms. Trying to provide for their families was getting increasingly harder. Also they…

Herb Kelleher decided to join together and to start a different sort of airline. So, in 1967 South West Airlines was started. However, the company’s name at the time was Air Southwest and then subsequently changed to South West Airlines as it progressed. In 1971 it started operating as an interstate airline within Texas. Moreover, the expansion of the flight began in 1975, to cities all over the state of Texas, and in 1978 the company started its…

The Mexican-American War was a struggle between Mexico and the United States. On April 25, 1864 the war began and it ended on February 2, 1848. President Polk played a huge role with the United States government’s relations with the Mexican-American War. Polk was strictly a democrat and elected President in 1844 as the dark horse candidate. Before Polk was elected president he served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress. Not all American’s were supportive of the Mexican-American…

political support for territorial expansion, or was it merely a description of events? For the next two decades, the professional politicians who managed the Second Party System avoided policies, such as the annexation of the slave holding Republic of Texas, that would prompt regional strife. This shows how the passion on the abolitionist side, struck fear into the opposing side, enough to avoid confrontation. During the 1840s, many citizens embraced an ideology of conquest that proclaimed…

Significant Achievements in Community Health Probably the most widely known and impressive achievements in community health were done on a national scale. During the first 10 years of the 20th century, the United States made major advancements on multiple health fronts. They are called the “Ten Great Public Health Achievements” ("CDC", 2011). Though public health and community health are not used interchangeably, it is without question that because of the national health advances it created…