Texas

Spindletop. Oil was found in Texas that day, which caused many big social changes. Social changes like community pride, new job opportunities, affordable universities, and a higher divorce rate. Oil continues to shape our world and our day-to-day lives. Oil has brought many changes to Texas. Oil has had a big effect to community pride. I'm giving this social change 10 minutes. I’m giving it 10 minutes because it changed towns, but isn’t the biggest change. Wink, Texas wasn’t even a town before…

Texas has grown rapidly in the past few decades. The state of Texas has attracted people from everywhere because of the profound high-tech movement, availability of several natural resources, and other numerable sources. The finding of oil and its’ reasonable prices in Texas drove a lot of people into the state. “From 1970 to 1980, as oil prices spiraled upward and people flocked to Texas, its population grew by 2.71 percent per year, while the nation’s increased at a 1.14 percent pace”…

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…

The Texas plural executive exists to limit the power of the Texas Governor with the exception of the Secretary of State. The people of the State of Texas and not the governor himself elect all positions of the plural executive with the exception of the Secretary of State. The offices that make up the plural executive are Governor, Lieutenant Governor, The Comptroller of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of the General Land Office and The Secretary of State. The…

of life to Texas, the United States, and the world. Among new technology and industry, oil brought social change. Social change comes in both good and bad. Most of the social changes that come from oil were good. Some of the if not the most impactful social changes to Texas occurred because of money, and there are three main changes I’d like to discuss. Oil was the main contributor to advancing education in Texas. In 1858, Texas universities got a 2,000,000 acre land grant from Texas…

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…

and from there branching off into cities. I have had the great fortune of living in Texas first. Texas is the state that I have lived in the longest out of the three. The first small city that I lived in is known as Portland Texas. I lived there from birth to age nine. Portland is the farthest city south that I have lived in, being just off the Gulf of Mexico. The second city I lived in had been the Woodlands Texas. I moved to the woodland at the age of nine and stayed till the…

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…

The first objective is setting. Setting is defined as the surroundings or the environment by something or someone. Born and lived in Texas embodies the friendly, and welcoming persona that has been altered slightly throughout the years. Just like the saying “everything is bigger in Texas” especially our hearts, Texas, we believe that strengthen a relationship and construing comfort and trust will always come first. I’ve witnessed cruel actions such as the abandonment of a teen, the struggle of a…

Established by Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of 1876, the office of governor of Texas was created as a state office. It was initially established by the Constitution of 1845 that succeeded the president of the Republic of Texas office. Today the state of Texas is overseen by the chief executive of Texas (the governor) and run by the other branches of the government, one of which is the legislative. The governor has several duties that place his state rank at a status superior to…