Texas, also known as the Lone Star State, is a big state. It’s not just big in size, but in population, economic contributions to the United States, as well as in the famous people who were born in the great state of Texas. Texas gets its name from the Indian word “tejas”, meaning friends and its motto is “Friendship”. Texas is such a large state that in the west it is very dry and in the east it is very humid. People experience natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and
It’s no mystery to anyone that by the time a Texas summer rolls around, it’s best to be as far away from the state as you can be and to get there as fast as possible. Those of the population who must navigate the blazing Texas heat that’s often both preceded and succeeded by bouts of rain come out of this season ready for a cool down period, which in Texas will never get too cold. These immensely frustrating seasons of weather have remained somewhat constant throughout the state’s history, but a
In south Texas there are several types of ecosystems one of those ecosystems are the dunes. South Texas dunes are found along the Texas coastline and the general abiotic conditions are sandy soil, high salt content, some fresh water, flooding in the occasion of severe storms and moisture from rain and waves. Sea Oats and Bitter Pancum are two types of plants that dominate the South Texas dunes. Bitter Pancum adaptation for living in this type of ecosystem is that they are tolerant to high salinity
The Great depression created some big effects on people, some of the effects are people went into debts. They borrowed money so they could buy crops; people lost their jobs, and their money. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president at the time of the Great Depression. He tried
Nation’s worst agricultural disasters occurred. No rain came so crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Stretching over a 150,000 square mile area and encompassing parts of five states—these being Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico—the Dust Bowl was a time where over 100 million acres of topsoil were stripped from fertile fields leaving nothing but barren lands and piles of dust everywhere (Ganzel). While things were done to alleviate
Falls for about ten years when the city and surrounding areas went into the second worst drought since the Dust Bowl in the 1950s (Associated Press). The folks who lived in this waterhole of a town
Educational Inequities in Texas Public schools in Texas are disproportionately funded due to the state formulas contained in the Foundation School Program. As Governor, we need to change the state's formulas to truly distribute funding between public schools in Texas fixing the inequities. By changing the formula and making it more transparent, the legislature will be able to more effectively address the issues. I want the school’s to receive the same amount of resources so that every student may
differences that may make following the guidelines more challenging as well as other potential barriers we may encounter. Our focus group is adolescent high school students between the ages of 12 - 18 years. The selected high schools are located in both Texas (Arlington high school) and California (Abraham Lincoln high school). The challenge with this age group is that teenagers tend to be very hungry during early adolescents due to the increasing body demands. These increasing demands can be attributed
more devastating. During the Great Depression farmers had to produce more wheat in order to turn a profit. They expanded their fields, and dug up natural drought resistant grasses, leaving the top soil vulnerable to wind erosion. Plow based farming also played a big role in making the top soil vulnerable to wind erosion. The severe drought taking place at the same time made things worse. Wind kicked up
The rich farmers used all new mechanical tractors to dig up 10X the amount of farmland they needed but with the more farmland came the need for more water and the drought was just around the corner and i think you know the rest. Also withe the new tractors they needed more land so they went to the fields of short grass just destroying everything around them like digging up short grass and messing up the terrain to