Texas Rangers

United States Army his career could be looked back as very successful and heroic. General Taylor has ties to the US - Mexican War of 1846. He lead U.S. forces into Texas territories and the Rio Grande at the command of President Zachary Polk. Taylor’s contributions to the war consist of a series of successes throughout both the Texas and Mexican territory, including Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterrey and Veracruz in Central Mexico. Taylor was considered…

What is Minimum Wage and why we need to increase it in Texas? Minimum wage by definition is the lowest wage permitted by law to be paid to any worker or employed person. A Quote by Jon Corzine he said, “No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.” Here in Texas, the standard set minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour and it was last increased on February 24, 2015. We need to look at the average hours a typical…

The Journey Of An Explorer Cabeza De Vaca a guy who came to Texas and wasn’t even planning on coming here helped colonize it to what Texas is today. Cabeza originally heading towards Mexico and ended crashing into what is now modern day Galveston Island and made Texas what it is today. Cabeza traveled all the way around Texas and soon met up with an Indian tribe who took him as a work slave which he soon escaped from them and he and his partners walked to Mexico city over a 21 month trip and a…

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…

HOW DID THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA? American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous…

By emphasizing a connection with “his” pueblo and their opposition to “aquel gobierno” (a phrasing that stresses the government’s distance from the people), the narrator draws on his regional credentials and strikes an emotional chord with his presumed audience, people living a rural or semi-rural lifestyle far from the elegant Mexican capital. However, it is crucial to note that although the singer speaks in the first person as he narrates the action, it is not himself he is speaking about nor…

1. Under the Texas state education system, public elementary schools and secondary schools are financed by both federal and local funds. The Establishment of the Texas Minimum Foundation School Program was made to guarantee a basic educational offering to each child in the state of Texas. In addition to this program, each school district was required to provide additional principal for education, based on an ad valorem tax on property within its jurisdiction. The State supplies about 80% of the…

After Christmas, Judy walked into the Owner’s office to divulge she was pregnant. Before she shared the news with him, she confided in Taylor, who sincerely congratulated her, then contemplated what’s next. For Judy being in her early 40’s with one child, a daughter in middle school, meant the responsibilities of being a manager and mother would become laborious, while handling a newborn baby. The Owner congratulated Judy and asked her when she was due. Moreover, she was due in March and…

When the United States annexed Texas, they believed the Texan boundary was along the Rio Grande River, whereas Mexico insisted that the Nueces River was the boundary. Polk, being one of the many Americans who believed the border was the Rio Grande, told Congress in the “Special Message…

Three centuries of Spanish Rule, Creole, Indian populations, and the Mestizo outnumbered native Spaniards in Mexico. However, the Spaniards remained on the top of social hierarchy. Documents were purchased to establish European ancestry, as being European came with a lot of benefits. The primary force was the Catholic Church, which was a dominant social threat. Spanish churches dominated villages of Mexico, they symbolized wealth and power. The natives believed in the Virgin De Guadalupe,…