University of Texas at El Paso

Travel El Paso lies in far West Texas, in the area where Mexico, New Mexico and Texas meet. As of 2018, the population estimate from the US census was 686,077. El Paso shares four border crossing with neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, making a strong player in the international trade business. Unfortunately, Ciudad Juárez has been called "the most violent zone in the world.” Despite having such a notorious neighbor, El Paso ranked among the safest large cities in U.S. for years. El Paso also offers a diverse and rich culture, full of history and pride. El Paso is home to University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso, and a strong military community from Fort Bliss. Fort Bliss is one of the largest…

he applied for a position as a salesman in the store downtown and got it. Much to his friends’ surprise, he proved to be an excellent salesman, despite his heavy Puerto Rican accent in both English and Spanish; but handsome, charming, and attentive, he outsold all the other salesmen during his first year on the job. Then, he bought a house in a good neighborhood near Five Points and moved us out of the barrio in south El Paso. Since we were still very poor, he could not afford the monthly…

Americans to attend the same schools that White people attended. Thelma White was born on January 10, 1936 in small city in Texas called Marlin. As a small child she moved to El Paso, Texas with her family. White, attended her local public schools. She was a very smart and successful student managed to…

the point quickly. Because Dagoberto Gilb’s writing is to the point this allows the reader to quickly understand what he is trying get across to the reader much faster. Through his simple sentence Dagoberto Gilb writes about what he can relate too as well. He tells stories about the Mexican-American working class, Family, love and unemployment. Many of these subjects he has experience. For example unemployment, after graduating college he struggled to find a job in his field. Another example…

University Medical Center is the largest public hospital located on the U.S./Mexico border. El Paso is located in West Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert along the Rio Grande. Immigration is a key factor due to El Paso’s proximity to Mexico impacting not only the city but the hospital as well. University Medical Center is the only non-profit hospital in El Paso. In the 1950s, the residents of El Paso voted to create the El Paso County Hospital District. By doing this the residents agreed that part…

Multiple Sclerosis Cluster in El Paso? An Analysis of the Data Andre L. Beasley Sr. University of Saint Francis Background A Texas resident with multiple sclerosis (MS) contacted the Texas Department of Health (TDH) to report a suspected cluster of MS cases among people that spent their childhood in the Kern-Place-Mission Hills area of El Paso, Texas in 1994 (Henry, Garabedian, Wagner, and Shire, 2007, p. 5). Fifteen individuals that lived in the area from the 1940s through the 1960s, had…

great skills in mathematics and computer science. This should take roughly four years no matter where I go to college. El Paso community college (EPCC) has done much in the beginning to accomplish one of its few main goals, to provide masses of people with quality education. EPCC was founded in June 1969 and grew very rapidly in population that they were forced to build more complexes of buildings to house the students. Because of this, they had to rely on donations to pay for all the…

this view. From the top of North Franklin Mountain, the individual aspects of my home – El Paso - appeared small in comparison to the vast city below me. Even the border fence was rendered invisible from such a vantage point. This community, with its intersection of cultures and countries, showed me how to think, developed my open mind, and shaped my compassion. El Paso del Norte is situated at the westernmost tip of Texas, bordered by New Mexico to the west and Ciudad Juarez to the south.…

There is nothing more interesting than a Missionary. The Definition of a Missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. And no better way to find out about the life of a missionary is to find one and ask what is it like to be a missionary. When I asked if I could give him an interview of what his life and his in his life in ministry, and he said yes. As we started the interview we started off with simplest question ever,…

foreclosure and at this point my mom wanted to give up. Her entire side of the family lives in France and the husband she once leaned on was nowhere in sight. Luckily she had me and my little brother to give her a reason to keep on thriving. After we lost our house in Cape Coral Florida we packed our bags once again and moved to Fort Lauderdale Florida. My mom was now making good money at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, but my brother and I were not getting the proper schooling we needed. We…