Waller County, Texas

The Awakening opens in the late 1800s in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans. Edna Pontellier is vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their two sons at the cottages of Madame Lebrun, which house affluent Creoles from the French Quarter. Léonce is kind and loving but preoccupied with his work. His frequent business-related absences mar his domestic life with Edna. Consequently, Edna spends most of her time with her friend Adèle Ratignolle

Emily Choumbakos Literature Based Research Erin Lesh 4 May 2014 There is one clear main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard. The story is almost entirely focused on her, her feelings, and her personal mental journey from being a prisoner and a shell of a woman, living in an oppressive, patriarchal society within the confines of a marriage to the elation of newly acquired freedom and a rebirth of that that, for the first time, belongs to her solely. There are however three other characters in the short

With training camp a little more than three weeks away, some Dallas Stars players are starting to trickle back into town. Among the early arrivals is veteran center Jason Spezza. “The last few weeks of the summer I am always antsy to get back with the guys,” Spezza said. “I am happy to be in town, trying to get settled and getting ready to go for camp.” Spezza described his summer as “pretty uneventful.” He spent most of it in the Toronto area, relaxing and focusing on family. “I’ve got the kids

Brownsville, Texas the city located on the border with Mexico also known as on the border by the sea. The poorest city in Texas became a target for a homicide that impacted the family and including the community. It all started on Tuesday of March 11, 2003 in a home located in downtown Brownsville. What seemed like a usual Tuesday evening turned into a dark, cold, and gruesome night for the city of Brownsville. “The Rubio Murder House”, apartment and home to a couple who took the lives of 3-year

Hutchinson County is located in Northwest Texas near Panhandle, is very old, being founded in 1876 with a newly counted population of about 21,500 people. The county seat of Hutchinson is Stinnett, and it got its name from a famous pioneer named Anderson Hutchinson. Hutchinson’s climate is not much different from ours, besides that their winters are a bit colder, and there summers are a tad bit cooler. Hutchinson is big on cattle ranching, often they rely on that to keep their economy stable

4. What new information do we learn about Sweet Home in this chapter, specifically about Denver’s birth? In this chapter, we learn that Sethe was already pregnant with Denver when she ran away from Sweet Home. By the time when Sethe collapsed her feet in the woods, a white girl Amy Denver had found Sethe. Due to Sethe’s fear about Sweet Home, she told Amy Denver a false name- “Lu”, because if she were caught, she would be returned to Sweet Home, and she would continue experiencing her previous painful

Imposing Affirmative Action in El Paso Have you ever applied for a job knowing that you are more than qualified for the position? But somehow you remain overlooked by someone who is bilingual, and perhaps less qualified. Well I have, predominantly here in El Paso. El Paso, a city constantly growing with more: schools, hospitals, and jobs; Where many have flourished in these endeavors. However people who are not bilingual seems to be excluded in these opportunities. But instead of remaining unemployed;

Introduction There are thousands of children who play sports in the communities on facilities supported by residents through their tax dollars. The Miracle League of El Paso provides disabled children and young adults in our communities who cannot participate in a sport on a conventional field with a place to play baseball. The Miracle League of El Paso removes the obstructions that stop children with disabilities off the baseball field and allows them to experience playing the field. The

is an article by Johnathon Silver, entitled “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Waller County Over Gun Ban.” https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/30/paxton-sues-waller-county-over-sign-banning-handgu/ This article was published back on the 30th of August, but this particular one grabbed my attention. The lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was filed on a Monday afternoon in district court in Travis County; it was geared toward Texas’ new open-carry law, which had already been

of this the possibility of Officer Encinia ( officer involved with the case) being a racist or having the mindset of a KKK member is higher than if from a place with little to no history with racism. “The history is especially painful because Waller County was for a time a beacon of black progress (Long History of Racism). The intended audience are the people who haven’t decided whether they support Sandra Bland or Officer Encinia. An inexperienced audience would analyze the reading as If the article