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been a bicyclist for more than forty five years now, and is used to riding a couple thousand miles a year, but before his trip he hadn’t been on a bike for roughly four months. However starting his trip from Mexico and riding through Texas and the Rio Grande River, he was mainly riding on flat tabletop surfaces, helping him ride himself back into shape. Pierce started his journey on February 5 in Matamoros, Mexico, however didn’t start riding his bike until he hit the border. He spent the night in

Our ecosystem is described depending on the location we are located in. There is different plants, animals, and environments in different environmental regions. For this paper we are focusing on the six different biomes structures we have in the state of Texas. The first biome I am going to discuss is the Central Prairies and Woodlands biome. This biome is located in the middle of biome 2 and 3 covering all of the coastal area from the Gulf of Mexico. The precipitation gradient in this area is

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 small children in the middle of the streets selling chicklets for a few pennies. No, I was not prepared to handle the begging and the overwhelming cry for help amongst the islanders. One day, my friend whom I was visiting, decided to go to Ocho Rios,

The war with Mexico is long remembered as an episode, and by no means is it an unimportant one. With the events that led up to its happening, from the Manifest Destiny to the disputes on territory, it has severely marked the United States. American historians regard the Mexican-American war as “the foulest blot on our national honor”. (sfmuseum.org) Unethical actions were taken gain Mexican territory. Polk and his hunger for land drove him to find some devious way to fight a war with Mexico. His

President James K. Polk faith was in one thing and one thing only to the Manifest Destiny. He believed that the country shouldn’t be limited to just the Atlantic coastline that it should be connected to the Pacific Ocean as well. It began alongside the Rio Grande. Mexico controlled Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico in 1835. In 1836, Texas was the first Mexican territory that gained its independence from them. The United States originally believed that another state would cause

Us Commander Thomas McDonough rigs his ships with 2 anchors enabling them to fire nonstop without pivoting, he drives the British back to Canada. First Campaign led by General Zachary Taylor, his army moves south across the Rio Grande, winning ever battle, and by the end of 1846 controls northern Mexico. General Stephan Kearney and a force of 1700 men were ordered to capture the relatively unpopulated provinces of New Mexico and California. He captures Santa Fe without a fight

the right to also have Texas as part of their territory. So the U.S. set out to negotiate with Mexico to gain rights for the territory. General Taylor and his American troop were sent to the Rio Grande River in Texas to scare the Mexican government. The Mexican government also sent in their troops to the Rio Grande to defend their territory. This resulted in an incident between American troops, and Mexico that gave Polk leverage to convince congress to make it official to begin the Mexican-American

Award winning professor Carlos Nicolas Flores has put a new perspective in a life of a Mexican-American. The El Paso native has had a successful career as a professor and author, he’s well known for Our House on Hueco, but he’s been recently getting more attention with his lascivious novel: Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel. This said novel has placed him in the spotlight as he acquires more interviews and reviews about the book he further discloses information about himself. The interviews