Reflective Essay: Living In Texas

Now, here I am, a junior at Mineola High School, and I feel ready for whatever will come after high school. As I try to figure out what I want to do with my future, I now know how much I love travelling and people and hope my career includes that. Moving helped me see my flaws and strengths. It helped me recognize that I am sometimes too diffident and circumspect. While in Mineola, I managed to ameliorate my social skills enough to be voted by my classmates as “Class Favorite” and have also joined activities I normally would have been too shy to take part

There are numerous demographic changes taking place in the Texas as a result of immigration. The main changes include a rapidly increasing population, a decreasing White population, and increasing Black, Asian, and Hispanic population. This is different from the trends occurring nationally since Texas is one of the fastest growing states in the Nation and, in 2010, according the reading by Murdock, was one of the only four states that had a population that was less than 50% non Hispanic White. One reason behind such large population growth is net immigration (including legal and illegal) into Texas, which accounted for 35% of population growth from 1990 to 1994 according to the CIS reading. In fact, if fertility rates were to remain the same, 70% of the growth between 1995 and 2020

"Insert quote here" -Person. I moved to Texas when I was five years old to be closer to my dad's family. My parents, my sister, and I moved around a lot. My sister and I would jump around from school to school. (Insert more about life.) The word (...)

Knowing how to adapt to change has been, perhaps, the most supportive characteristic in my life. My experience moving to Texas was a huge challenge which I had trouble overcoming. I lost friends, an amazing environment, and also the future I had planned for myself while living in Minnesota. Through that life-changing event though, I did come across pleasant change. My relationship with God became more concrete, and I was given new opportunities for my future. Although I did not understand it at the time, my relocation improved my education quality, turned me into a better person, and gave a new outlook to my walk with God

One day my friend and I was playing outside in my yard and then her mom called her in so I went with her.When we got in the house her mom said that they were moving to texas I was very mad because she was my best friend.But I knew I could not tell them that she could not move to texas.

The types of soils found in the state of Texas vary over a wide range. Research done by the Natural Resources Conservation service indicated that there are approximately over 1300 different types of soils that can be located in the State of Texas. All of these soil types each play a different role in how it affects the foundation of structures. However, this wide range of soil types, has been shrunk down to fit into nine groups of Taxonomy to help make it easier for identification and research (Vepraskas et al., 26). In this essay, I shall discuss the different types of soils that can be located in Texas according to their respective taxonomic group.

In the State of Texas, the current dominating political party is Republican. This is somewhat of a new era for Texas considering that the state was once a dominating Democratic state for hundred years. The state known as the Lone Star State, is literally known for being a one-party state as well. Even though this is true, both parties have on edge and stay competitive. Unlike other states in the United States of America, Texas has had a solid foot on the ground when it comes to politics.

Welcome back to this week's episode of Texas Oil and social change!This week we are going to be talking about four topics: Economic opportunity, higher education, U.S. divorce rates vs. Texas divorce rates due to the new oil business, and Wink, Texas. Since 1901 when a small hilltop near Beaumont started gushing oil, Texas's economy began to boom.

I stared blankly out the window, then to my family, then the box that sat right in front of me. “Aren’t you going to open your present?” Usually I’d tear into the paper and reveal the item that I longed for, but I honestly could care less what I got. This family Christmas celebration was a little different, and I really had to make it count. This was just days before we had to make our trek to the great state of Texas. Thoughts about the move raced through my mind, going from California to Texas would definitely be a big change.

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.

Texas is undoubtedly one of the most difficult states in which to be a Congressional Senator. The reason that I state this is for multiple reasons; the size of the state, the high variability of the constituency base, the complexities of having both urban and rural areas, and the strong religious base that is prevalent in the southern region of the United States.

In the short story, “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”, Clint the protagonist of the story endures many conflicts in the story and racism is one of the conflicts he endures. Racism isn’t something that everyone goes through, but people have witnessed it sometime in their life. Today there is a racial divide in the United States. Racism is still very much alive as it is in “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”. That being said, I empathize for Clint because I’ve grown up around racism, witnessed and endured racism in my lifetime.

Apply Texas Prompt A: What was the environment in which you were raised? Describe your family, your home, neighborhood, or community and explain how it has shaped you as a person.

In 1718 Spanish missionaries founded Texas taking it as a Spanish territory. Many whites started to go to Texas and began to take over. In March 1836 Texans revolted against their Spanish rule and declared their independence from Spain. Texas then became an independent nation, but Texas could not protect themselves from the Spanish attacks. On December 29th, 1845, after almost 10 years of waiting to be accepted into the United states, Texas became part of the United States.

Description: Texas Rising is a History Channel mini-series set during the Texas War of Independence, when colonists in Texas, which was a Mexican territory at the time, rebelled against the Mexican government. The series primarily focuses on the aftermath of the Battle of the Alamo. It follows the experiences several characters both fictional and those based on real people, who have diverse cultural backgrounds, though it mainly follows events surrounding the Texas Rangers and Sam Houston’s army.