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The American Dream The sun is high in the sky and she can feel it as it is irritating her skin. Standing there staring at the never ending desert with chapped lips, she is adamant to cross the Rio Grande River. As night time arrives the coyote says, “Are you ready for your American dream to become real?”. All the immigrants follow the coyote down through what seems like a tunnel, but one immigrant stops, a young boy, and says, “I am petrified. What if Immigration is waiting for us?”. A young lady

Introduction There is a wide range of community problems that exist in the city of El Paso, Texas ranging from gender, violence, education, and even health. Yet, there is a greater issue that usually everyone notices and falls victim for but is mostly unthought of and ignored by many due to the impotence of finding a solution to it. This problematic issue is the road-work going on all around the community. Whether it consists of fixing something as simple as a street light to adding new rails, pavement

The Rio Grande Many people think that having a river near their city can always be good as they can make a good usage of the river, just like San Antonio made their river very profitable. What people never think is what problems or controversies the river can create. Almost always a river may have its advantages and disadvantages and it is no different with the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is not as profitable because two countries own the river. Instead if it was own by only one country then the river

Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was born in the year 1917 in the month of August on the 15th day. He was born to Santos Romero and Guadalupe de Jesus Galdamez. He grew up with six other siblings. Oscar Romero was born in the city of Barrio in El Salvador. Romero was baptized by Father Cecilio Morales at two years old. He went through a miracle at seven when he healed from an unknown illness. Oscar was so effective as an apprentice in carpentry that his father wanted him to learn more about it, so

The Upper Rio Grande Change is an unavoidable part of life. For some, change can bring promise and a new beginning. For others, change disrupts what is routine and normal and makes what is new seem strange and unfamiliar. The history of North America has been shaped by change ever since Columbus first discovered the continent in 1492. With that discovery, the continent would never be the same again. More specifically, the Native American tribes who first inhabited this continent would

The subject of the book Touching The Void Is about three adventurers that climb a mountain and have something go terribly wrong. Joe, Simon, and Richard ascend the mountain in search of the summit. “Of rough walking and, and surrounded by by ice mountains.” Page 15. Richard stays at the base camp while Joe and Simon head out. “What time you’ll be back?” Richard asked. Page 20 Joe and Richard reach the summit of the mountain and on the descent Joe breaks his knee. They try to make it back down but

Analysis Paper Assignment The state of Texas is one of the biggest state of the United States. The state of Texas has major cash flows from many industries some of these industries are the oil industry, transportation and logistics and agriculture and food production are some to mention that make the state of Texas a major money maker. Just the state of Texas oil refineries produces more than 4 million barrels of oil per day. The state of Texas is a major growing state in the business industry

Since the formation of the United States, war has been a constant factor within the political sphere. From these wars the U.S obtained power, land, and status unseen and unparalleled by any civilization in humankind. One of the earliest wars that allowed the United States to grow into the global power it is today was the Mexican-American war. This war not only shaped American politics for decades, but also fueled the sectional crisis that culminated into the infamous Civil War. Being the new country’s

Motivated by the U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean, he pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. At the end of the war, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory. Let’s go back to those events in details. First of all: What caused the Mexican-American War to begin

Chihuahuan desert is large area of the northern Mexico and runs into the southern part of the United Stated which include west Texas. The region of the desert has a high altitude of 1000 to 1500 meters which fall to about 350 meters along the Rio Grande River. Summers are very hot and the winter are somewhat cool, which some night frosts. Rainfall in this area is about 20-30 cm which mostly happens during the summer time. In most of the Chihuahuan Desert most of it has calcareous soil that are