Changing Lifestyle In Texas

The men run around the oil rig drilling and drilling until suddenly they hit something. The men race down the oil rig, and stand there shocked. Then finally black, gooey, liquid gold starts shooting up, and the men celebrate their victory. Little do they know that they are about to be millionaires, and make a major social impact on the rest of Texas. The state of Texas is known for their great soil to farm, but that's not the only thing that they will be known for now.

Texas is one of the largest states in the country in terms of size, population, and its higher education system. This presents a number of challenges and opportunities. A recent report from the State Comptroller’s office provides insight into the future of higher education in light of changing demographic trends. While Texas has significantly improved in many dynamics of higher education, there are still several challenges present that need to be addressed in the coming years.

Both the geography and the people in Texas are the largest in America. A little less than forty percent of Texans are obese and that is not due to the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Junk food is a huge problem not just with LSC holders but with Texans in general. When people see an obese family, when people see them using a Lone Star Card, when people see them buy junk food for themselves and family, then, unquestioningly, people will be profoundly impacted to know that is how their money is being used. It is being used to buy the next bag of Fritos and the next can of

In the United States, for the last four decades, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan through the two Bush Presidencies, the Republican Party won the White House by amassing large margins among white voters (Lizza.) The state of Texas has been reliably Republican since the 1970s and there are various elements to Texas political culture that can be narrowed down to three essential ideological trends: economic liberalism, or faith in the free market economy, social conservatism, or favoring traditional values and moralism, and populism, or promoting the rights and worthiness of ordinary people (Texas Political Culture.) As a result, the dominant political mood in Texas favors low taxes, minimal government services, and policies that are

Cullen, K. W., & Watson, K. B. (2009, April). The impact of the Texas public school nutrition policy on student food selection and sales in Texas. The American Journal of Public Health, 99(4), 706-712. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.129387

For my cultural analysis essay I decided to base it off of a popular television series and one of my personal favorites called “The League”. The League was created by Jeff and Jackie Shaffer a couple who are both producers and television writers. The show is about a group of friends who come together every year for football season and they create a fantasy football league that includes all of them in it. All throughout football season, fantasy football is something that is taken very serious to them and the main goal of it is to try to win the leagues trophy and avoid the loser trophy. Winning the championship trophy allows you to have all the bragging rights within the whole league which something that is very important to them.

I did not know anybody. The closest person that I knew was a six hour drive away, not even in the same state as me. The day that I moved to Texas was the day that I left my sense of security behind – everything I had ever known was taken from me, and having no say in this discouraged and frustrated me. Being part of an expat family accustomed me to moving, but this time it was different. The transition from living in Qatar to living in Texas physically and mentally exhausted me, but, with the right skills and resources, I was eventually able to overcome it.

Texas born and raised means a lot of things, but for me it means diverse. As a child, I grew up in the southside of San Antonio and attended a Catholic school which contributed majorly to how I act now and has impacted how I view others. However, in the 7th grade, I moved to the Texas Hill Country and learned a plethora of contradictory views. This has led me to form my own opinions on what is right and wrong and meshed city and country life to create a well-rounded, diverse Texan.

When I arrived in Dallas, I was legitimately surprised to see that people in Texas were normal. They were not all wearing cowboy hats and boots with pistols tucked into their belts. I was ten years old, and I had just become accustomed to life in Missouri, right after leaving to Texas. Previously, I had moved from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Missouri when my dad’s job relocated us. Then, my dad quit his job and decided to pursue his dreams of owning a cattle ranch because his job had asked he relocate us to White Plains, New York. While his worst nightmare was being forced to live in a crowded, bustling urban municipality, mine included simply moving again.Visions of tumbleweed and desert haunted me the days following his announcement. This

After Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser was published in 2001 and became a New York Times bestseller, the same titled movie and other food-related documentary movies such as “Super Size Me” (2004) and “Food Inc.” (2009) became smash hits, which may reflect the enhancement of people’s awareness of healthy food in last decade. However, the recent article of Time magazine online shows that today’s food situation does not seem to improve since then, it even got worse. Especially a social problem like a relation between child obesity and fast food draws more people’s attention and some kinds of legislation by the federal government is said to be required to stop the situation get worse (Melnick). There is something should be done by the

According to a recent poll, 70 percent of Texas residents say that they are proud of their state and rank it among the best places to live. One of the most striking features about the poll was that the residents of the Lone Star State ranked their trust in local and state government significantly higher than 88 percent of residents in all other states (Aasen, 20014). The Texas legislature is so efficient in its tasks that it meets less than any other legislature in the United States. Coming from a Southeastern state, this trust in government is a concept that is quite unfamiliar to me.

In February of 2014, former Vermont Governor and Democratic National Committee chair, Howard Dean, sat down with hosts Gary Polland and David Jones for an interview. The 26 minute interview gives the audience insight into Texas politics, and Dean’s beliefs that Texas, a red state, will turn blue in the foreseeable future in order to satiate Texan’s demands for change.

The most difficult time i have faced was when I moved from Texas. I was born in San Antonio, Texas and I lived there for about 6 years. San Antonio was so much fun just because y enitre famly lived withing 10 minutes of each other. Then, we had to move to Midland, Texas, that move was not very hard just because i was so young so i was not ery attatched to things and people around me, besides my family. We lived in Midland for about 4 years after that and it was my favorite town. The people the energy of the people there was so awesome I loved it. Then one day we got the call that had to move again. We were already pretty far from our family and so to learn that we had to move even farther was devistating. So thats when we had to leave the state

Growing up, majority of the time I was the youngest and shortest out of everyone else, so it was really hard to do things I wanted to do. I didn’t always live in Texas either. Before I moved here a lot happened. My mom was married to my biological father for a little then they got a divorce so he really wasn’t there to see me grow up only when I and my brother got to visit him. A little while later my mom was getting remarried and I didn’t really like the guy at first, but that’s like most little kids trying to adjust to new surroundings. Whenever my mom got remarried we became a military family and I didn’t know until I was older so it really didn’t affect me at the time. A couple of weeks later we moved to Germany. Here’s really when I really got sneaky.

Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the most eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects had biographies on many well known artists of the Renaissance. Three of the artist he comments on are Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Da Urbino, and Michelangelo Buonarroti. While he admired all 3 artists he had an overwhelming favorite, Leonardo da Vinci.