Essays Tagged: "San Antonio"
This is a book report over 'Texas in Revolt' by Alwyn Barr. (the fight for San Antonio. Alamo)
Texas in RevoltTexas in Revolt, by Alwyn Barr, is about the battle for San Antonio in 1835. The siege of Bexar (San Antonio) became the first major campaign of the Texas R ... From October until early December 1835 an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Bexar. After a Texas force drove off Mexican troops at Gonzales on October 2, the Tex ... y grew to 300 men and elected Stephen F. Austin commander. The Texans advanced on October 12 toward San Antonio, where Gen. Martín Perfecto de Cos recently had concentrated Mexican forces numbe ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Alamo
The Alamo is about the battle for San Antonio in 1835. The siege of Bexar (San Antonio) became the first major campaign of the Texas R ... From October until early December 1835 an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Bexar. The Alamo is a historic structure in the center of San Antonio. A famous battl ... Texan independence. To prevent the success of this independence movement, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, in command of the Mexican Army, approached San Antonio with his troops to fight the brav ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
THe Smoking War In Texas- Persuasuive
the third leading preventable cause of death (Jacobson and Wasserman 113) and kills over fifty thousand people in just America alone and over three thousand just in Texas over approximately one year? ... America, and out of the ten largest cities in the nation, Texas is the home of Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. With such large cities, going out somewhere in Texas whether it is to a movie, restaura ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
The Alamo; Overall Summery Of The Alamo
The AlamoOriginally named Misión San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly ... venty years. Construction began on the present site in 1724. In 1793, Spanish officials secularized San Antonio's five missions and distributed their lands to the remaining Indian residents. These men ... farm the fields, once the mission's but now their own, and participated in the growing community of San Antonio.In the early 1800s, the Spanish military stationed a cavalry unit at the former mission. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Alamo ..... This is about the "heros" or the main people in the alamo and what the alamo is about
The Alamo is about the battle for San Antonio in 1835. The siege San Antonio became the first major campaign of the Texas Revolution. ... From October until early December 1835 an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Bexar. The Alamo is a historic structure in the center of San Antonio. A famous battl ... Texan independence. To prevent the success of this independence movement, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, in command of the Mexican Army, approached San Antonio with his troops to fight the brav ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Alamo
rs. All of this was portrayed in chronological order in the movies. Several minutes into the movies Santa Anna's troops reclaim San Antonio and Santa Anna ahs one of his troops raise a flag on top of ... claim San Antonio and Santa Anna ahs one of his troops raise a flag on top of the bell tower of the San Fernando Church. The flag raising actually did happen and the Texans responded with a canon shot ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Southwest Airlines, case study
Airlines (SWA) began June 18, 1971; SWA first operated its first routes between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Rollin King and Herb Kelleher founded the company, there goal was to create an environm ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
This report is about one of the many things Santa Anna did. This report is about when Santa Anna became ruler of Mexico, took over the Alamo in ... e ruler of Mexico, took over the Alamo in Texas, and when he was captured a day after the battle of San Jacinto.In 1833, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna came to power in Mexico. Two years later, h ... xas. Tejanos did not necessarily want independence from Mexico. However, they did want to be rid of Santa Anna, who ruled as a Mexican dictator.In October 1835, Texans in the town of Gonzales clashed ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Drug Rehabilitation
he counseling and the close surveillance from probation officers are credited with helping the most.San Antonio, Texas (Nazareno, 2002) is also establishing a "therapeutic model" drug court to determi ... in jail or the traditional probation system. The state passed legislation in 2001 that requires the San Antonio area to have the court in place and functional by September of 2003. San Antonio is basi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
The Channel to Watch
The city of San Antonio, Texas offers eight local television-broadcasting stations (Mondo Times, 2006). Without ... y 330, 000 (Time Warner Cable, 2006a) of the 405,000 households (AreaConnect, 2006a) in the city of San Antonio, Texas. Time Warner Cable markets to current and potential consumers through advertiseme ... ching potential buyers. According to the 2000 census (AreaConnect, 2006b), 1,144,646 people live in San Antonio of which approximately 58% are Hispanic.Online and Print Media ComparisonsThe advertisem ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Book report on "Shaq Talks Back"
Harrison, Shaq's step-dad, gets stationed at. Once they move back to the United Stated they move to San Antonio, Texas. In San Antonio Shaq plays high school basketball for Cole High School. Once he g ... rmany on a military base from 1984 to 1987 in Germany. Then in the United States again, he lived in San Antonio, Texas from 1987 to 1989. After he graduated in 1989 Shaq moved to Louisiana until 1992. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Southwest Airline
Southwest started out as a small Texas airline that served the cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Now, it is one the most successful domestic airlines today. They have expanded beyond t ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Entropy
opy When I woke up that Saturday morning, I knew something would go wrong. I was planning a trip to San Antonio with my best friend, Elizabeth. First, my car wouldn't start. When we finally got the ca ... utes after doing so, it began to rain. This did not slow us down at all. When we finally arrived in San Antonio, sweaty and exhausted, we stopped at a nearby gas station to fuel up. When we came back ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Adopt-a-Manatee
een on Discovery channel where they had moved whales from the Pacific all the way to places such as San Antonio and Cleveland. If they could do that I could definitely get Ted from Florida to Arizona, ... you would deal with a similar situation to mine? I just trusted in the brochure and never in a thousand years thought I could end up in this situation but I learned a valuable lesson and when I get m ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Comedy Play
d, I'll pass new tax bills and new wellfare bills.O:The last new bills you passed got you 1 to 5 in San-Quinton.S:I'll make it safe for women to walk the streets at night.O:And if the price is right, ... tail.S:Ah, shove the commercial Charlie Brown, i just want to know what time your 11 0 6 leaves for San Antonio.O:It Leaves at 11 o 6.S:ok O:We have tourist and first class.S:Oh, that's all right.O:In ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Analyzing Office Databases
Karta Technologies, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based technology and professional services firm that was acquired by NCI Informat ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Battle of Alamo
elebrated military engagement in Texas history. The Alamo was originally called “Misión San Antonio de Valero” The battle included many combatants such as Tennessee congressman David ... Tennessee congressman David Crockett, adventurer James Bowie and Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Another one was William Barret Travis who achieved lasting distinction as commander at t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Clean Needle Program
In an article entitled: Man who hands out clean needles in San Antonio threatened with jail time the author, Miguel Bustillo argues that, “Needle-exchange ... , but instead to keep re-using it.Finally, is a statistical argument that was researched of all the San Diegan supporters of the Clean Needle Program. In the article entitled: A Case for Clean-Needle ... le the author, Breat Whitteker statistically added, “A scientific survey of 1,000 residents of San Diego County last August found even greater support here, with over 85 percent of county residen ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
SWOT Analysis: Southwest Airlines
Airlines made its first voyage back in 1971 with service based in the cities of Dallas, Houston and San Antonio (Brief History, 2009). 38 years later, Southwest Airlines has more than 3300 flights a d ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Business Management and Leadership
tribute to two entrepreneurs' dreams. It all began in 1932, C.E. Doolin stop by in a small cafe' in San Antonio and purchase a bag of corn chips. Little did he dream that the savory chip would become ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers