...Political culture is defined as “a shared framework of values, beliefs and habits of behavior with regard to government and politics” (Newell et al. 21). There are three different patterns of political culture across the United States: moralistic, individualistic, and traditionalistic. Texas, like some other states, has a mix of traditionalistic and individualistic political culture. Its traditionalistic political culture means “citizens technically believe in democracy, but emphasize deference to an elite rule” (22), and its individualistic political culture means “the citizens understand the state and nation as marketplaces in which people strive to better their personal welfare” (22). Texas’s former slave-allowing confederacy membership and its business orientation are the main reasons as to why it’s traditionalistic and individualistic....
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...I agree with Hunter’s focus on the importance of education in Texas. Poverty and economic status are strongly related with the level of education individuals have, and the Texas government should focus on advancing its education programs in order to benefit the African and Hispanic communities that are struggling. With Texas’ low rankings for being the 44th in high school graduation rate and 47th in average SAT scores compared to the rest of the nation, this is a clear indication that Texas needs to improve its school systems (Brown). Texas should look past its conservative nature and focus on what the state really needs, instead of rejecting participation in federal education grants, such as the Race to the Top, in 2010. As for the standardization...
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...1800’s were a turbulent time for Texas and Mexico. That time period was known as the Spanish Colonization. It was full of building missions, establishing capitals, slavery, fighting for independence, and ever-lasting effects. The most significant dates during that brutal time period were 1718 and 1821. In 1718, San Antonio de Valero was founded and in 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. Those events helped shape Texas and Mexico into the regions we know today. The reason 1718 is a significant date during the Spanish Colonization is because the mission, San Antonio de Valero, was created on May 1st. A mission is a settlement that is part of the mission system. The mission system was an easy way to help the...
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...November 30, 2013 The Honorable Wendy Davis P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 Dear Senator Davis, Upon your decision to run for Governor of the great state of Texas, I was compelled to write to you concerning your stance on the issue of abortion and how this may impact women’s lives statewide if you become Governor in 2014. Your efforts to support pro-choice activists were reflected on June 25, 2013 when you filibustered to block Texas Senate Bill 5 from passing. This bill was undertaking the challenge of banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, requiring hospital-style medical care, and demanding better healthcare for women wanting an abortion. Nonetheless against all odds, you stood for 11 hours non-stop on your quest to stall the passing of this bill. Here’s where the rubber meets the road, you made statements such as, “I am pro-life, the goal that we should have is that we see zero abortions, and when I believe women’s health is in danger, I’m going to stand and fight to protect that.” These statements were reported by The Valley Morning Star. With all due respect, this is an attempt to confuse and deliberately mislead voters to be desensitized from your June filibuster. You are trying to be perceived as a moderate candidate. This tactics have also been seen from former President Bill Clinton in 1996 when he said abortion “should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.” The positions that were made in these statements don’t...
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...where I live in Texas. Texas is one of the largest areas where Hispanics reside. With the older Hispanics in Dallas, the city where I reside, 40.5 percent are estimated to be poor, or near poor (Mahone, J. 1988). There are major barriers to getting needed services to the aging Hispanic community. These barriers range from language to an overloaded staff with aging services (Severence, J. 2009). Texas's challenges with this issue are funding for services needed for older Hispanics. Due to the funding situation, this results in trimming program allocations, causing a freeze in hiring staff and less programs are able to be created. Another challenge, is the fact that the long-term care-giving of Hispanic families use to be handled within their own families homes; however, today these family caregivers are dwindling in size. As the age of caregivers increases, the informal caregiver system is becoming overwhelmed. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, more than thirty-three percent of the Texas population speaks another language in their home. How accurate this is, is uncertain, because many non-English speaking Hispanics are not included in the Census. Texas has the second-largest aging Hispanic population in the nation. Texas also has sixty-four frontier counties that has an average of less than seven people per square mile, so this is a big challenge in getting appropriate transportation and support for these frontier counties. The rural counties in Texas pretty much...
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...principal’s office to the courthouse, the author, Deborah Fowler, takes the stance that schools in Texas and other states have been historically safe for students and teachers even before it was commonplace for law enforcement officers to be assigned to them. The author states that since the release of the motion picture “The Blackboard Jungle” more than fifty years ago, popular media has fed the public’s concerns about juvenile delinquency. (Fowler, 2011) Fowler further states that those fears by the public are not supported by historical data, which document very few incidents involving youth and weapons in the nation’s public schools from the 1950’s to the present. Publicity around “isolated incidents” of school violence such as the Columbine shootings has increased the fears of the public as it pertains to violence in our schools. (Fowler, 2011) The author concentrates on the state of Texas in her article and cites that minor offenses such as class disruption have been criminalized, with students receiving Class C misdemeanor tickets each year. Fowler points out that historically the nation’s schools have been safe to include those in high-crime areas. School discipline has become more punitive in nature and in Texas and other states school discipline has begun to shift from the “schoolhouse to the courthouse.” Fowler cites a study by the Public Policy research Institute at Texas A&M University that the single most predictor of future involvement in the juvenile justice...
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...November 30, 2013 The Honorable Wendy Davis P.O. Box 12068 Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 Dear Senator Davis, Upon your decision to run for Governor of the great state of Texas, I was compelled to write to you concerning your stance on the issue of abortion and how this may impact women’s lives statewide if you become Governor in 2014. Your efforts to support pro-choice activists were reflected on June 25, 2013 when you filibustered to block Texas Senate Bill 5 from passing. This bill was undertaking the challenge of banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, requiring hospital-style medical care, and demanding better healthcare for women wanting an abortion. Nonetheless against all odds, you stood for 11 hours non-stop on your quest to stall the passing of this bill. Here’s where the rubber meets the road, you made statements such as, “I am pro-life, the goal that we should have is that we see zero abortions, and when I believe women’s health is in danger, I’m going to stand and fight to protect that.” These statements were reported by The Valley Morning Star. With all due respect, this is an attempt to confuse and deliberately mislead voters to be desensitized from your June filibuster. You are trying to be perceived as a moderate candidate. This tactics have also been seen from former President Bill Clinton in 1996 when he said abortion “should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.” The positions that were made in these statements don’t...
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...1966 started off as a small commuter air service owned by an entrepreneur named Rollin King. After over hearing business men complain about there routine drive between San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston Texas. After overhearing these complaints in 1967 King filed papers to incorporate the new airline and submitted an application to the Texas Aeronautics Commission for the new company to begin serving Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. After several years of legal problems from rival airlines by 1971 Lamar Muse was bought in as the CEO of the small commuter air service to get operations underway. Muse was a self confident veteran of the airline business that had the skill needed to send the small service in the right direction. In a short time Muse raised $7 million in new capital which was used to purchase planes and equipment. Below I will discuss the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines and how it leverages its culture to achieve a competitive advantage, evaluate the company’s financial performance by calculating and interpreting the profitability ratios. Describe the characteristics of company’s culture and how you think it affects company performance. Given the strategic decisions in the case, I will recommend actions that management should take to sustain/strengthen the culture (or implement a change), based on the situation given. Given the strategic decisions in the case, I will also identify three leadership actions that the company would need to be considering to implement...
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...and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican America War. The United States government stated that Mexicans who lived within the newly controlled territory of the Southwest would become American citizens. However, a year later after the treaty had been signed, the United States government lied and broke its promise of allowing equality to the newly controlled Mexican population living within the southwest. California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas were some of the states newly controlled by the United States government. The United States government began the process of...
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...Community Assessment and Analysis of the Hispanic Population in Dallas Introduction Most of Texas’ phenomenal growth over the last decade followed the route of Interstate 35 from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, a broad swath that included seven of the ten fastest-growing counties in the state. And much of that growth was fueled by the fast-growing Hispanic population. Hispanics account for two-thirds of Texas' growth over the past decade and now make up 38 percent of the state's total population, according to new local U.S. Census figures. And forty-two percentage of the general population in Dallas is Hispanic. "As Census figures show, Texas is becoming more ethnically and racially diverse. Without the tremendous growth of the Hispanic community, Texas would have had very little growth," said Sen. Many Hispanic-Americans have many common heritage traits, but they also have many differences depending on their country of origin. For example, Mexican Americans make up the largest Hispanic subgroup with over 350,000 of them residing in Dallas which contributes to this being the ninth most populous city in America and the third most populous city in the state of Texas. In addition, the Dallas area economy is the sixth largest in the United States. Geopolitical features Dallas is located in north Texas, and a major city in the American South, Dallas is the main core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United...
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...Banned Books: A History and Examination One of the most prolific issues in American education has been censorship in the classroom. This issue has manifested itself in several ways throughout history; however, censorship most often manifests itself in the classroom as book banning. Book banning can be any form of textual censorship from the exclusion of novels from a school library, to the censoring of textbooks by a school board, to the full banning of books by a government. This paper will examine book banning and textual censorship and its impact on education. It will first look at the history of book banning including several modern occurrences of it in the classroom. It will then seek to explain the significance of book banning on education in general with particular attention paid to the American educational system. Banning books has been used as a system for controlling what students learn for ages where those in power use it force the views of the few on the next generation of learners. The banning of books has its origins as far back as 450 B.C., when Anaxagoras wrote that he thought the sun was a “white hot stone and that the moon reflected the sun's rays.” His writings were deemed “derogatory” to the gods, forcing his departure from Athens and the burning of all of his writings. Since that time, decisions about book bannings often have turned on the definition of what is derogatory. As society has grown and changed, so have its tastes, and the fine...
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...Borderlands/La Fonterra, Gloria Anzaldua paints a moving portrait of the search for her missing identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S. and Mexico helps create the psychological "fence" that a she is put through when she is denied a culture and a place in society. "She has this fear that she has no names… that she has many names…that she doesn't know her names." This quote shows the rich nature of her writing and the amount of energy she feels while writing this poem. Anzaldua, who as both a woman and a Chicana, grew up in an atmosphere of oppression and confusion. "It's not a comfortable territory to live in, this place of contradictions,", "Hatred, anger and exploitation are the prominent features of this landscape." It is also a landscape where the question "Who Am I?" is not readily or easily answered. "The culture and the Church insist that women are subservient to males." I know it’s weird for a male to be reading about women’s rights, but it’s actually pretty interesting to see how other people deal with their personal battles. Anzaldúa begins the book by using imagery to illustrate the incredible pain the border has brought to the mestizos by both dividing their culture and fencing...
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...Austin VS. Dallas Compare and Contrast (Draft #1) Senator William Blakely once said, “Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.” Although this well-stated quote exemplifies the pride that Texans have for their home state, the blanket proclamation is one that fails to distinguish the unique characteristics found in nearly every region of the lone star state. A quote that offers a much more accurate description and distinguishes the diversity and differences of each city/region was made by professional golfer Lee Trevino when he stated, “If you’ve ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus.” The quote is a metaphor that juxtaposes the similarities shared between El Paso and Dallas to the physical similarities shared between Jack Nicklaus, one of the most decorated golfers of all time, and Lee Trevino, a Mexican-American golfer. Now, more than ever, there are more differences between each region in Texas than there are similarities. Two such regions that have undoubtedly diverged from their common ancestry are the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area and the Austin “Hill Country” region. From sports and music, to leisure activities and geography, each area boasts its own culture that is neither superior nor lesser to its counterpart. In 2011, the official U.S. Census ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth area as the largest metropolitan area in the south...
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...Once The Republic of Texas won their independence from Mexico, the new country favored joining the union. Unfortunately for Texas, the annexation raised many issues with the United States causing it to be a prolonged event. Although it was widely opposed in the beginning, there were some who supported the annexation and eventually convinced the nation to go through with it, but not without consequences. The United States wanted to avoid war with Mexico, who had not recognized the independence of Texas. Mexico would recognize the United States annexing Texas as an act of war. This is an example of the military controversy caused by the annexation of Texas. As Henry Clay stated, “Annexation and war with Mexico are identical.” Economically...
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...Race and Your Community Ethics 125 The analysis of different cultures is a very interesting thing this world is full of all kinds of people. No one is going to be exactly the same yet some a very similar. This paper will cover the impacts, differences and the effects that difference ethnic groups have on my life. The differences between ethnic groups make the world a place of challenges and variety. In my community I have to say that I do look like most of my immediate community. However I live in a part of Houston that is commonly called “the rich part of town” it is mostly a white neighborhood with very few ethnic varieties. If you look all over Houston there are many different cultures and ethnic groups, as I look across the city I have seen an abundance of Mexican Americans, as well as Asians, Indians and African Americans. These different ethnic groups tend to stay in separate regions of the city, although they are not separated by laws they tend to stay separated by choice. I feel like this is one of the only cities that I have lived in that feels very segregated. Leaders in my community often look like me, however after this past years election there now is the very first Hispanic Sherriff in Houston (Harris County Sheriff’s). I was ever excited for the different groups of Hispanics in the area, I am aware that many of these groups feel like they are underrepresented, and this was a major step in the advancement of there representation in the community. For the...
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