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Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas Erica Grieder. PublicAffairs, 250 West 57th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10107, copyright 2013. 284 pages. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas, by Erica Grieder, breaks Texas down into its basic components in order to explain to non-Texans what Texas truly is. Grieder’s covers four main topics in her book. One of the topics she talks about is the economy. A major event that Grieder discusses is the Texas miracle, which was a series of “happy coincidences” that brought Texas many jobs and boosted its economy. The Texas miracle could not have happened in just any state. Texas had its own model that was a contributing factor to the Texas miracle. As Governor Rick Perry put it, the Texas Model is a four-part “recipe,” low taxes, low regulation, tort reform, and “don’t spend all the money.” She then talks about what built up Texas’s economy. When Texas first became a state, land and cattle were large portions of the economy, but when Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas found oil, oil became one of the biggest parts of the Economy. The next topic she dives into is Texas’ background. Texas was originally part of Mexico until after the Texas Revolution. Soon after Texas won its independence, it joined the United States. This annexation split the United States down the middle because Texas supported slavery. That is not…

In writing, it is very important to recognize different styles and formats that make a piece unique. Ivins, for example, uses rhetoric to explain the current state of Texas and where it stands politically and demographically. Through rhetorical devices, the author is able to paint a clear picture of the state's views, as well as its sense of independence from the U.S. as a whole. The three most effective rhetorical strategies in Molly Ivins’s "Is Texas America?" are word choice,…

A Line in the Sand is a written documentary created by Randy Roberts and James S. Olson in which analyzes several aspects of one of the most famous events in Texas history, the battle of the Alamo. The battle of the Alamo was and has been controversial in that very little is known about what exactly happened during the siege. It was an event that caused a massive uproar during the Texas revolution and it also added more ire and will to succeed to the rebels at the time. The Alamo in blood in…

and there happened in the following few days. They were mostly due to Texians leaving the compound discretely and attacking besieging Mexican troops. During the siege, William Travis, was the main commander of the Texian rebellion. During the siege, he unsuccessfully pleaded for help and reinforcement from the US and other neighboring towns. He famously composed his “letter to the people of Texas and all Americans in the world” in which he declared “I am determined to sustain myself as long as…

The Texas Revolutionary War is a war that is depicted by the American people to be a war that was fought and was justified to better the lives of the Texian and American people, making the Texian’s the “good guys” in the American point of view in this war. My beliefs is that the Mexican Government was only trying to defend their struggling government and land from being taken over by Anglo settlers from the United States that believed in slavery and also was against a Centralized Mexican…

historic battle of the Alamo was fought between the Mexicans under the command of Sant Anna and the Americans under Commanders Williams Travis, Bowie and David Crockett. It could also be described as the war between the Texians (non-Hispanic settlers in the then Spanish Mexico) and 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,…

Panchita, or Panchita and her last name can also be said in many different ways Alaves, Alaves, Alvarez.She was known, by the Texans, as a "high bred beauty". Her real last name and birthplace are unknown to us. Francita was with cap. Alavez in Texas,most people thought she was his wife. Later in 1935 people discovered that the captain already had a legitimate wife named María Agustina de Pozo who was abandoned on 1834. At El Cópano, she combined her mercy on the soldiers humanity with her…

In December of 1835 Susanna Dickinson was one of the few people who had survived the Battle of the Alamo. She told many stories about how she had lived the hostile attack. Susanna was only twenty-two when this attack had happened. She lived in Tennessee until 1831. Susanna had an infant daughter named angelina and a husband named Almeron who served as a texian in the Battle of the Alamo. Susanna couldn't read or write at the time of the Battle. Susanna was only fifteen when she married who is…

Mexican state. At this point most of Texas was populated by Americans. Americans wanted Stephen Austin to take this idea to Mexico City. On his way home to Texas Austin was put in jail because of their new immigration laws. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was the Mexican President and he revoked the local powers in Texas and other Mexican states. Shortly after Santa Anna released Austin from prison, other Mexican states rebelled. The Texians took control of the Alamo to be used as a fort. Santa Ana…

pivot the tide of the war which not only affected the outcome of the war but also gave the Texans something to come together and fight for, Mexico and Texas victories and losses, the relations between Mexico and the newly founded Nation of Texas, and as well as helped the new nation become a part of the United States. The battle of the Alamo was very important in numerous ways. When news spread about what had happened at the Alamo and what Mexico and Santa Anna chose to do, Texans were furious.…