El Paso County, Texas Essays

  • The Saga of the Tigua Indians

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    / 1992-1993 FILM 22,186 REEL 1 Center for American History FILM 22,186 REEL 2 Center for American History FILM 22,186 REEL 3 Center for American History 2. Exiled : the Tigua Indians of Ysleta del Sur. Randy Lee Eickhoff. Plano, Texas, Republic of Texas Press, 1996.

  • Imposing Affirmative Action in El Paso

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    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;

  • From Rags To Riches

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    border of the United States and Mexico. It was a 16-hour ride for him since the roads over there are very curvy because of the mountains. Also the roads aren't of high quality. When he arrived there he took a taxi across the border into El Paso, Texas. El Paso is where he took a plane to O'Hare Airport in Chicago. My grandpa picked him up. He quickly noticed America was full of work. He noticed how advanced the United States was and the quality of the streets, buildings, and cars. It was

  • Essay On El Segundo

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    History of El Segundo, California There is a quaint little town sitting at the edge of what is known to most as the South Bay called, El Segundo. Even while being surrounded by LAX airport, the Hyperion Water Treatment Plant, and the Chevron Refinery, this town manages to carry its history and culture all through out its community. We will further discuss A brief history on how this city got its start, what kind of environment does El Segundo offer for families and business large or small and finally

  • Don Haskins and The Texas Western Basketball Team

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    coach Don Haskins of Texas Western College, played in the March, 1966 NCAA championship and won. I believe that Don Haskins created significant change for African Americans and college basketball. Although Don Haskins brought about change for college basketball, it was not without the historical help of Texas Western College. Texas Western was the first college to integrate its undergraduate classes in 1955. Later, Texas Western became the first University in the state of Texas to have the first

  • Don Haskins

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    greatness. Glory Road follows the 1966 Texas Western Basketball team. This team showed the world in 1966 that basketball talent is not based on race. The feat that they achieved forever changed the game of basketball and the sports world. The movie, Glory Road, made in 2006, depicts the concepts of emotional abuse, curfew, and stereotype. The 1960’s were a time of change that slowed the harsh abuse of racism against African-Americans. The basketball season that Texas Western won the national championship

  • Glory Road Sociology

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    journey as the underdogs having to overcome multiple obstacles in a dream of being on top (Crosson, Pg. 71). In more detail to the movie it is based on a true story of the 1966 Texas Western College Basketball team coached by Don Haskins. The film portrays a story that in Don Haskins first year coaching the Miners of Texas

  • Don Haskings: A Basketball Coach with a Vision

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    Don Haskins was the head basketball coach at Texas Western College from 1961 to 1999. Growing up in the 1940s, he had a love for basketball but he lacked raw talent. His friend, Herman Carr, who was black, was a better player and they had played many games together during the course of their primary school years. Haskins was always bothered by the fact that Herman had to drink out of the coloured fountain, and use different restrooms. He did not understand why he was being treated as inferior despite

  • Dia de los Ninos - The Day of the Child

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    attention on the joy of reading, sharing books, and encouraging literacy. In March 1996 during a radio interview in Tucson, Arizona, author and poet Pat Mora learned about a holiday celebrated in Mexico, as well as in other Latin American countries. El día de los niños, or the Day of the Child, has its roots in International Children’s Day, first celebrated in Turkey in 1920. In subsequent years, following the first World Conference for the Well-being of Children, held in Geneva in 1925, that celebration

  • Dr. Catalina Esperanza Garcia

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    Dallas Texas. It was not easy for her to earn her degree and establish her reputation as a doctor. She worked hard and accomplished everything she had imagined. She grew up in a poor neighborhood in El Paso. It was hard for her to earn her doctorate degree. She studied hard in school. Despite all of the challenges. Catalina has become a successful doctor. She has been working for more than twenty five years. Dr. Garcia has helped many people and won several awards.(Our Donors University Of Texas at El

  • Maternal Infant And Child Health Essay

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    El Paso over the last 15 years has been a hub for research in maternal, infant, and child health. First, maternal, infant, and child health describes “the health of women of childbearing age (18-45 years) from pre-pregnancy through pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period and the health of the child prior to birth through adolescence…” (McKenzie & Pinger, 2012). Maternal, infant and child health serves a community for a variety of reasons. The statistics of maternal, infant, and child

  • Jimmy John's Business Analysis

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    Gourmet Sandwich shop. In 2010, Jimmy John’s was ranked 61 by Franchise 500 ("Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches," 2014). By 2014, they were ranked at number 5. ("Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches," 2014). We will be renting a space at 500 San Francisco, El Paso, TX, 79901. This space is in the Union Plaza Entertainment District and is 1,711 square feet. This triple net lease will cost $22 per square foot per year. This total comes out to $37,642 per year with a lease of 60 months (5 years). With the lease

  • OLD GRINGO

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    the editor of the Journal mentioned above, Dr. Earl H. Elam, made a systematic search of records in the Presidio County courthouse and found no trace of anyone with a name resembling Bierce having died there during that period. Importantly, Elam also spent a lengthy period in the military records at the National Archives in Washington, D. C. during 1989. While there he located and recovered reams of documentation concerning military activities on both sides of the Big Bend of the Rio Grande border

  • John Wesley Hardin: The Serial Killer

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    was born a killer in Bonham, Texas on May 26, 1853. He had 11 other siblings including Joseph Gibson Hardin; Elizabeth Cobb; Martha Ann Smith;Mattie Ann Smith; Benjamin Hardin, III Brother of Joseph Gibson Hardin; Hardin was the eighth child out of eleven. Hardin's father was a Methodist preacher. Hardin’s father moved the family as much as a nomad during Hardin's childhood. They settled in Moscow, Polk County, in 1855, then moved in 1859 to Sumpter, Trinity County, where J. G. Hardin taught school

  • Essay On Sandra Day O Connor

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    women being looked at as inferior to men. Her dedication, determination, and the fact she changed history drastically is a reason I chose to write my final over her. “Sandra Day O’Connor was born August 26th, 1930 in El Paso, Texas. Sandra lived the life of the average kid in Texas. She grew up on a farm, working with cattle and working on the ranch day in and day out. Her parents Harry and Ida Mae Day were very proud of their daughter, but wanted her to get a better education. This was sort of impossible

  • Sandra Day O Connor Research Paper

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    politics forever. From growing up on a ranch in El Paso, to becoming the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, she opened so many doors for women in male-dominated professions that were thought to be unattainable. Sandra Day O’Connor was born on March 26, 1930 in El Paso, Texas.2

  • Wealthy Tycoons Buy Rights to Blue Gold

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    gold” is the new oil. Located in the Texas panhandle, Roberts County sits above the biggest underground aquifer in the US. The Ogallala Aquifer stretches from the Texas all the way up into South Dakota. Pickens has been buying up land and is now the largest landowner in the county with some 68,000 acres. As well as the water rights that allow him to personally pump up to half of the Ogallala Aquifer which he plans to sell back to residents and nearby counties in need, for a profit of course. “Pickens

  • Texas

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    Texas, one of the West South Central states of the United States. It borders Mexico on the southwest and the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast. To the west is New Mexico, to the north and northeast lie Oklahoma and Arkansas, and Louisiana bounds Texas on the east. Austin is the capital of Texas. Houston is the largest city. Texas is the size of Ohio, Indiana, and all the New England and Middle Atlantic states combined, and its vast area encompasses forests, mountains, deserts and dry plains, and a

  • Arizona Border Patrol

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    History In 1904 the government created mounted watchmen of the U.S. Immigration Service to patrol the border because of Chinese immigrants trying to avoid the Chinese exclusion laws. Originally, the main headquarters for the Border Patrol was out of El Paso, Texas. Only 75 people out of that headquarters patrolled as far west as California. Then in March of 1915, Congress authorized a separate group called Mounted Inspectors who rode on horseback around the border. This created a more efficient way of getting

  • Sandra O'Connor

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    O'Connor was born March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas to Harry and Ada Mae, who owned the Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona, where she grew up. She experienced a challenging life on the ranch in her early childhood. Until she was seven, the ranch itself did not receive electricity or running water. The family spent their days in isolation mostly since their nearest neighbors lived 25 miles away. Sandra was sent to live with her grandmother in El Paso because the isolated ranch made formal