Travis County

Republicans have won each Texas statewide office since 1994 the longest streak in the country gives them a conviction that all is good. In 2000, Republican competitors at the highest point of the ticket in statewide races found the middle value of around 60 percent of the vote. By 2008, they found the middle value of under 53 percent. What's more, Republican down-vote victors arrived at the midpoint of marginally more than 51 percent. Texas is not boundless expanses loaded with cows and cotton…

March 23, 1977 was the day my mom was born. She grew up in Baldwin County living in Daphne, Alabama. She grew up with two sisters, one whole which passed as an infant, and one brother. She was the middle child of the two and grew up a necessary good childhood. She graduated from Daphne High School but did not attend college because of getting pregnant at the age of eighteen with her first baby girl, Teneshia Coleman. Her mother was very supportive yet very stern on her being independent, so she…

Upon discovering that I would be an intern for Travis County Adult Probation, I had expectations on what I would encounter and an idea of what the position would entail. When thinking about individuals who are on probation, people I would soon face, I had an image of what they would be like. I imagined meeting people who displayed certain stereotypical characteristics that are promulgated through society such as baggy clothing, tattoos, and tough attitudes. I imagined uneducated people of low…

000 comprised of a heterogeneous community. Although the population is rather small comparted to many other cities, the area is rapidly growing. There is not a police department dedicated to our town, however, the police are through the county, Columbia county. Police presence is very low, and here is where I believe the problem lies. With not having a police agency right within in the community the police are not as present as I have seen in other places I’ve lived. The role of police in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The plan was a simple one and should have been easy to execute, after all the 24 men were all veterans of war. The aim was to gather the men from Wayne and Holmes counties on the steps leading to the Lincoln Memorial and shoot a group photograph. They were there as part of the Shreve American Legion’s inaugural Honor Bus Tour, patterned after the Honor Flight to bring veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the military memorials. As military strategists know, no plan survives…

state, and many other states, has so many smaller county defender programs that rely heavily on county tax dollars, leads to the possibility of unequitable defense for the indigent. Theoretically, a capital defense case could easily surpass the county’s yearly budget for all defense cases. It is understandable, how a federally mandated state system could absorb the cost of such a defense, easily in the hundreds of thousands, better than a county system. In fact, this is the case in non-capital…

processed into the middle classes, into the machine”. Sixteen Tons: "Sixteen Tons" is a song about the tough life of coal miners. The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt came from a letter written by Travis' brother John. Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store." When the singer says…

The governing body of a nonprofit organization is essential to its success as it provides the necessary leadership, planning, accountability, and oversight to propel the organization forward. The success of a nonprofit board often centers on effective planning, policy, meetings, and committee work. A strategic plan with measurable goals, actions steps, persons responsible and timeframes is the type of effective planning that creates a path to program growth and sustainability. Typically, the…

Social Control Theory was developed by Travis Hirschi in 1969. The Social Control Theory is a theory that indicates that people will commit crimes when their social bonds are weakened. According to the textbook Hirschi believes that social bonds are our connection to society and crimes. Social bond is made up of four elements 1. Attachment, 2. Commitment, 3. Involvement and 4. Belief. Attachment is when you feel sensitive and have feelings for others. Commitment is when you care about what other…

Larissa Melo Kathy Kvinge English 1101 October 3, 2017 Homegrown Narrative Essay Growing up in America really influenced my music taste in ways I could’ve never imagined. I was brought overseas, from Brazil, by my parents at the age of two to start a new and better life. I was being raised in America but grew up with Brazilian values and customs. Everything was so different, but what stood out the most was music. Here, in America, there is a lot more variety when it comes to music and all the…