Texas Rangers

Service Learning Project During March of 2016, my church held its annual Easter Mission Trip to San Antonio. The intention of the Mission Trip was to bring the message of love and mercy to a community that is filled with bitterness, fighting, and poverty. On the first day of the trip, a large group of people from the church drove down to San Antonio. On the second day, the group facilitated an Easter-Egg-Hunt for Agora Ministries. Later that evening, the group toured Church Under the Bridge…

Though belief in the system of monarchy was present over much of Mexico from the 1700s to the early 1800’s, by 1867, the Mexican people ultimately rallied behind the principles of liberalism, leading to it’s full incorporation into Mexican Society. In order to understand the reason for this implementation, one must look at the popular ideologies held by the people of Mexico and it’s influence on their actions, during this time in which there was instability in their government. It is also…

In the nineteenth century, the young United States had focused her eyes towards the West. The country had various economic and political reasons for expanding westward, but the Americans also had created an exuberance of American patriotism during this time period. The belief of “manifest destiny” deemed that it was the destiny of the United States to exalt her dominance over the entirety of North America. This put the “Oregon Country” in the crosshairs of American expansionism. However, the…

Most people believe “El Chupacabra” is a myth while others don't. Although many have claimed that they have seen it, they don’t have proof. It may just be some stray dog, or canine-type creature. One of the pieces of evidence goes something like this "It can change colors at will, has a hairy, reptilian body with spines all along its back and an obsession with blood. El Chupacabra translated into English means "the goat-sucker," because that's exactly what it does. El Chupacabra made its first…

Tejanos (native-born Mexican-Americans). The Alamo was fought on the dawn of March 6th, 1836 was because of many factors that had arisen in the then Spanish Texas. Some of these factors were conflicts over land, politics, slavery, and borders. Those Texians who had problems obeying the laws and rules of the united states government crossed over to Texas with the aim of amassing wealth and eager to capture land through the impresarios who handed over land to…

changed a lot from the time period 1776 to 1870. A lot of major things happened like for example The civil war, the Louisiana purchase, and the Texas revolution. These three things among others changed the United States hugely. In 1776 the United States was just the 13 colonies but over the years the United States expanded to Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Texas. The population changed as well from 2,148,100 in 1776 to 38,558,371 in 1870. Lots of things about the United States changed. The…

The power to choose has empowered humans for many centuries. Democracy, a crucial component to the foundation of America, is based on the power of choice. Choice is no longer an unproven idea, in the 21st century it is how we run our lives. To preserve this power of choice, the professional sports leagues of the National Basketball Association and the National Football League have adopted a policy of free agency. However, several aspects of NBA and NFL free agency are different, which means one…

are three areas of the Texas Local Government. They are the County Government, City Government and Special Districts. “The county is the oldest form of local government in America.”(Newell,350) With 254 counties Texas has the largest number of any state. The county was created so the citizens did not have to travel to the capital to take care of any state business they needed. The County Officials are an elected officials chosen by the people of that county. In rural Texas the county is…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of Spanish Colonial Missions in Texas in order to gain a better understanding of Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz. Spanish Colonial missions in Texas have a rich archaeological and ethnohistorical record that provide insight to daily lives of missions as well as the long-term processes of the Spanish government on the North American continent. The Spanish government funded mission projects in order to spread Catholicism as well as adopt the…

Guadalupe County Report Guadalupe County is the county that is the subject of my report. Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 then Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845. The Republic of Texas organized Guadalupe County as a judicial county in 1842, but discontinued it later that year when the Texas Supreme Court declared judicial counties to be unconstitutional. In March 1846 after the annexation, the legislature established Guadalupe County from parts of other counties.…