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    Florida beaches would be like, white sands, clear water, and hot weather. Whereas in order to do anything amusing at Porter you have to travel out to the city of Houston. Houston isn’t very far from Porter and there's many amusing activities to do there. This city is Famous for NASA’s Space Center. Just like in any space movie they call Houston for help. You could go here and learn more about space. Or go watch your favorite soccer team play in BBVA Compass

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    Houdini's Legacy

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    Achieving the dream Imagine a world with no one to help, everyone is only looking to better themselves. After a big hurricane of the coast of New Orleans in 2005, the town was a disaster. With nobody to come to the rescue it was everyone for themselves. This hurricane was hurricane Katrina and it was a category three hurricane. It devastated the state of Louisiana and was a vicious storm. Over 80% of the large roads and major areas were flooded by this storm. This lasted for weeks and the outcome

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    This assignment is a media analysis of The Super bowl 2018 Touchdown video. This form of media is analyzed using critical discourse and interpretation of semiotics. The Super Bowl is more than just a sport, to Americans overtime it has become a part of their holiday tradition and culture. This televised sport is used as a means to communicate the culture of Americans to the rest of the world and create a sense of togetherness, the Super Bowl being something that connects all the Americans together

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    singing, “In ancient east there is a dragon/ its name is China/ in ancient east there was a group people/ they are all descendants of Dragon” (Wang). The dragon can fly to wherever it wants so that it decided to take a rest in the street of Bellaire in Houston of the United States in 1870. The dragon left its 250 descendants here and formed a so-called Chinatown here. At the beginning, Chinese people did not have the sense of local American dream because of language problems and lack of knowledge. They

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    Hurricane Katrina Case Study On August 29, 2009, Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast. It was a Category 3 Hurricane, according to the Saffir Simpson Scale. Winds gusted to up to 140 miles per hour, and the hurricane was almost 400 miles wide . The storm itself did a tremendous amount of damage, but the storm’s aftermath was cataclysmic. Many claimed that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm. This paper

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    Isaac Monroe Cline was one of the era’s new scientists who believed he knew everything there was to be known about the motions of clouds and the behavior of storms. Isaac was the chief of the United States Weather Service bureau in Galveston at this time. The idea of a hurricane destroying the city of Galveston baffled him. As rain started to fall in the city with a higher intensity than normal, people were reassured by Isaac’s beliefs. He was completely wrong. Galveston which is located

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    I. Name or Title: City of Houston, Texas v. Hill II. Legal Citation: 482 U.S. 451 III. Statement of Facts: A gay right’s activist was arrested for the municipal ordinance of interrupting an officer while performing their duties when officers approached his friend and he tried to sidetrack them by screaming out at them to “pick on someone their own size.” The activist brought the case to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, which then was overlooked a panel of the United

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    Long Point Fault Essay

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    Area of the Long Point Fault The Long Point Fault is located in Harris County, which covers 83,450 square miles located with in Houston, Teaxas City Limits. Research specifies that there are three sections of the Long Point fault that appear to be active; some sections of the Long Point fault have averaged more than 2 cm per year of vertical offset over the last 20 years. Evidence of the faults concludes it is a natural fault. The reason for activity is not caused by man, even though man’s activities

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    1) Why are you interested in applying to RUSM? (1 paragraph) RUSM is famous and good quality to train U.S. physician. I was volunteer in Houston Methodist Hospital. One of nurses working more than 20 years there recommended me to go to RUSM. He told me RUSM is a well-known medical school all over the world. RUSM website also show match more than 800 residents in the U.S.. I believe RUSM can give me a good education, clinical experiences and let my dream come true: to become a physician. 2) How

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    Houston City Case Study

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    administers to the third most populous county in the United States. The HCFCD is a special purpose district organized in 1937 to design, implement and maintain flood reduction infrastructure and programs for the entirety of the county including Houston City. For this, they retain only 380 full-time employees. This necessitates that nearly all engineering design and maintenance work for capital projects is contracted to the private sector through a bidding process. Similarly, ‘100%’ of routine

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