...I was born and raised in Austin, Texas. There are those who I have heard about who were born and raised in a town, but when they grew up they just wanted to leave and never come back. Not me, I love Austin. Some would say that I don’t know what I don’t know, because I haven't lived in any other city. However, I know of no other place in the world where you can play, work and live with a community of very friendly people who enjoy variety and many different cultures as much as we do in Austin Texas. There is great opportunity in Austin Texas when it come too employment. The gaming industry is growing by leaps and bounds here, and in fact grew faster than any other creative industry in Austin from 2005 to 2010. However, while the video game business continues to grow in terms of revenue many jobs will continue to be created, as computer industry is getting stronger. Austin is now one of the top five cities in the country for video games development, behind Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Industry is making its way to Austin TX, with many companies like EA Sports, Bio Wear and Electronic Arts. Not to worry if you not into video games you also have a range of companies to work from Samsung to MC Donald to help keep your finance stable. There are many great attractions in Austin. One of my favorite is Six street located in down town Austin. If you’re at home and just want to get out and enjoy a good time, 6st is where to go. You can meet single ladies, run into friends...
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...Terrence C. Austin, 81, of Cottage Hill Road, retired chef and a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient for his duties in Korea, died Sunday at Mercy Hospital of throat cancer. Mr. Austin learned how to cook from his mother when he was a child. His cooking skills advanced when he became a trained cook in the Marines, before becoming a rifleman. After completing his tour in Korea, Mr. Austin was hired by a restaurant where he worked in the kitchen and gained more cooking experience. Despite the long work hours, Mr. Austin’s passion and drive for becoming a chef grew over the years. Mr. Austin usually worked 12 hour shifts and long hours on holidays. He didn’t get to spend a lot of quality time with his family until he retired. “He worked...
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...Stephen F. Austin Often when individuals reflect on the history of Texas, many great names with acts of heroism come to mind. However, when asked to explain the interpretation, and accomplishments these heroes achieved, we draw a blank. One hero in particular is Stephen F. Austin. This individual has acquired the title as "Father of Texas" and yet many people don't understand the impact and importance this man was, and still is, on the state of Texas. Stephen F. Austin was born on November 3, 1793. His father, Moses Austin and mother, Mary Brown, set high expectations for him since birth. Through the years, Austin traveled from place to place due to his Fathers work and acquired knowledge of his father's business, a mining operation. At the age of ten, Austin was driven to school and ultimately graduated from college. He had spent some time working for his father and spending some time in the military. Stephen was discharged from the military as a senior level sergeant upon completion of his term. During this time in Stephens life, his father, Moses, departed to San Antonio to petition for a land grant from the Spanish territory. The land grant gave authorization for 300 families with a total of 200,000 acres to be separated amongst themselves. Before completion of the land grant, Moses Austin passed away. This left Stephen to follow his father's dreams and continue to pursue the colonization of a territory from the Spanish. Austin had a difficult time getting the land...
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...Independence, he was trying to show “the first draft of the Declaration of Independence” being presented. It seems as if he really tried to give the sense of anticipation of the draft being presented to Congress. Everyone that is sitting in the chairs and the people that are standing at the table look anxious to see if Congress is going to approve or reject the declaration. During this time the Revolutionary War was going on. The nation wanted to gain independence. Therefore, a committee was formed, the one that is seen in this painting to try to gain independence. So, a document was created and presented to gain their independence. The way the artist showed great detail when it came to the gentlemen in the very front handing the document to Congress and how every eye is on Congress displays great communication in his painting. A person not even been there during this period could almost feel like they were...
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...The Barton Creek Greenbelt Unlike many cities in Texas, Austin has a plethora of picturesque swimming holes and parks. There are a handful of amazing recreational locations in Austin, but none quite like the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Barton Creek stretches about eight miles long from South West Austin into the heart of the city. When it rains and the creek fills with water, the swimming holes produced make for a great place to enjoy the outdoors. The Greenbelt in Austin Texas reveals itself to be unique and establishes itself as a great recreational location by bringing diverse people together who share a common goal, promoting a healthy lifestyle through exercise, and by inviting frequent park goer's to maintain Austin's beautiful scenery. The Barton Creek Greenbelt is a melting pot where all walks of life can come to enjoy a relaxing environment without the distraction of everyday life. Barton Creek has numerous swimming holes and hiking trails surrounded by plant and animal life. It's hard to tell that you're surrounded by a city with all the trees and plant life around. Every year, when the creek fills with water, it becomes a popular place to swim. One knows they're close when they hear the sounds of a drum circle or the whisper of a guitar on the wind complimented by echoing laughter. Every year I’ve gone to the creek, I always meet so many different kinds of people. It's unusual to see anything but good vibes and a positive interaction amongst the crowd...
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...The Great Gun Debate Introduction Among the more diverse issues in an already polarized society is a national perspective of guns (Hargrove & Perdue, 2015). The gun debate in the U.S. dates back to the 18th century, when the nation’s founders were crafting the Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution, adopted in 1791 (Smith & Ross, 2013). All gun control debates turn on interpretations of the Second Amendment, the worst written and most bizarre part of the constitution (Eichenwald, 2015). The Second Amendment gave Americans the right to “bear arms;” however, for more than 200 years, people have disagreed over how to interpret the amendment (Smith & Ross, 2013). Heated debates over guns have created division among “we the people.” On one end of the divide are pro-gun extremists. On the opposite end of the divide are anti-gun extremists. Then, there is the rational middle—the group that is often left out of the debate. This group typically consists of average law-abiding citizens who do not believe that Americans should be stripped of their rights to bear arms, but, rather, that some laws should be tightened up to ensure that guns and deadly accessories, such as high-capacity magazines, stay out of the wrong hands. Over the years, numerous mass shootings in schools have forced lawmakers to assess and tighten gun-control laws, which has also reignited the fiery gun debate. This assessment will attempt to uncover a proper course of action via a rigorous...
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...John Austin, in his Lectures on Jurisprudence writes : The notion of sovereignty and independent political society may be expressed concisely thus : ‘If a determinate human superior not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receives habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society: and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent’. Laws are defined simply as the command of a superior to an inferior. In Austin’s words : ‘Law is the aggregate of rules set by men as politically superior, or sovereign, to men as political subject’. The chief reason for the bulk of a given society rendering habitual obedience to a determinate human superior is the power it possesses ‘to put compulsion without limit on subjects or fellow subjects’. As to what is the core nature of law, Austin's answer is that laws (“properly so called”) are commands of a sovereign. He clarifies the concept of positive law (that is, man-made law) by analyzing the constituent concepts of his definition, and by distinguishing law from other concepts that are similar: • “Commands” involve an expressed wish that something be done, combined with a willingness and ability to impose “an evil” if that wish is not complied with. • Rules are general commands (applying generally to a class), as contrasted with specific or individual commands (“drink wine today” or “John Major must drink wine”). • Positive law...
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...Mr. Hendricks has been a principal at Grover Cleveland High School for the past five (5) years. During his tenure, he has created a work environment that has met with great success in all aspects relating to academic achievement and school climate, incorporating a style of management that is personal. As a result, the staff worked very hard for him. Jim Austin, head of the schools physical education department requested a confidential meeting with his principal Mr. Hendricks. Mr. Hedricks and Mr. Austin had become good friends over the years, often jogging early in the morning prior to coming to work. During the meeting, Mr. Austin disclosed that he had contracted AIDS and that he wanted to keep his health challenges a secret for as long as possible while maintaining his employment with the school. Clearly, Mr. Hendricks was in conflict regarding this dilemma. Does he comply with his friends wishes and conceal the illness from his respective stakeholders, staff and/or superiors, or does he communicate in complete earnest with Mr. Austin and communicate to him that, regardless of their personal relationship, as the instructional leader of the school he may be prohibited from concealing Mr. Austin’s disease, as it potentially risks the overall health, safety and well-being of each and every student in the school? Mr. Hendricks has a very serious dilemma to consider. As a principal, fostering personal relationships with his staff at the school has proven to be highly beneficial...
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...Comparing Aung San Suu Kyi’s excerpt from “In Quest with Democracy” and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Aung San Suu Kyis and Martin Luther King Jr. are among the great activists the world has ever witnessed who have gallantly championed for the liberation of the masses from oppressing institutions and systems of power. Both authors had rooted their campaigns in the tenets of their religious faith, which endeared themselves with the masses. Change is inevitable and their efforts in no doubt bore fruits for in each case they have received world recognition for what they did for the people. Aung San Suu Kyi’s excerpt “In Quest with Democracy” and Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, surpassed other writings in their employment of rhetorical appeal of pathos, ethos and logos; which is why they achieve persuasion on the other people to join the course for just institutions. Aung San Suu Kyi in her writing expresses her desired for democratic Burma which had over many decades been assaulted by authoritarian and military regimes. Martin Luther King Jr. on the other hand was battling the social injustices on the masses which via nonviolent campaign (Austin 37). Letter from Birmingham Jail by King Jr. gallantly attacks hypocrisy, injustice and inequality with great feelings. King jailed for ‘disturbing the peace’ he responds to critics from religious leaders in the opening of this letter. He appeals to their reason by acknowledging their concern in...
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...Race and Your Community ETH/125 Race and Your Community While living in Austin, TX, I have seen the influences of each and every race as it revolves around my community. I believe the relations in my community and city have been racialized, positively and negatively. However, I do not believe these interactions have directly affected affairs in my direct neighborhood, schools, environment, clubs, and service/volunteer groups which I participate in. Even despite the fact the leader of the community’s outlook of the community and individual race is negative, the relations in my community show positive construction influences on race and the our community. “This marks the third consecutive year for Austin to appear among the three most popular places in the U.S. for Hispanics to live and work”. (http://www.austintexas.org/media/press_releases/press_release?id=16, para 1). I will analyze whether members within my community bear a resemblance to my characteristics and in the ways we look different and the same. As well as how the leaders within my community handle people who are of Hispanic culture and if they are treated differently. Also if members of my community treat individuals who are of my culture any differently than the rest of the community. Also analyze texts and work manuals to check for information by or about individuals of Hispanic culture. Also if local media embody people like me, and...
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...scaffold, and dream of a witches Sabbath. In the 1855 version, Berlioz put a little more thought into the artist’s life. The artist became a musician, one of “of morbid sensitivity and ardent imagination poisons himself with opium in a moment of despair caused by frustrated love.” (Austin) The musician takes a dose of narcotic and while it does not kill him, it puts him into a deep sleep, whereupon his thoughts and such become musical thoughts and images. The symphony itself seemed to have a great impact on the general audience. In Memoirs, Berlioz said “Three movements of the symphony, the Ball, the March to the scaffold and the Witches’ Sabbath caused a sensation. The March to the scaffold in particular took the audience by storm.” (Austin) Obviously, the audience of this era greatly enjoyed most of Symphonie Fantastique. The two parts they did not like prompted Berlioz to edit his symphony even more. The symphony itself had even greater impact, through it, Berlioz helped to “usher in the Romantic era that would characterize much of 19th-century artistic expression, including the writings of Lord Byron and Honoré de Balzac, and the paintings of Eugene Delacroix.” (Thomas) He also had a great influence on Romantic musicians such as Franz List and Frederic Chopin. The piece sounds like a transitional piece between the Gothic and Romantic eras. It has some of the darker melodies that are in minor key; however...
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...Hearing Maya Lin speak about her designs, work, and journey as an artist, I could not help but feel a sense of admiration at the great strides that she has taken as an artist. Initially, while I familiarized myself with Lin’s work, I was surprised that her journey as an artist began several decades ago. My amazement was specifically influenced by the reality that while she was just a 21 years old student at Yale, in a period where immigrants were sidelined in most areas of society, she managed to excel and create a design that outdid her competition. Her journey in designing the Vietnam Veteran Memorial, which is now my most favorite piece of monument, is nothing short of inspirational. While watching the videos and explanations by Lee Mock and Anne Wagner, I could understand that while the piece may seem to have been a simple project, it was more than that. The monument became her tribute, and subsequently, that of America, which could finally pay homage to the fallen heroes of the Vietnam War. Through her symbolic V-shaped design that descends into the ground, visitors to the monument can...
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...Austin, Texas is a beautiful metropolis located at an absolute location of 30.2500° N, 97.7500° W. Austin is located on the North American continent, in Central Texas, along the Colorado River, 150 miles northwest of Houston. It is also 160 miles south of Dallas and 75 miles north of San Antonio. Austin’s elevation is approximately 489 feet above sea level. [3] As a result of its straddling the Balcones Fault, geologic fault zone that is several miles wide, much of the eastern portion of the city is flat, with clay and loamy soils, whereas, the western portion contains rolling hills with large amounts of limestone because the western portion is just outside of what is known as Texas’ hill country. Austin has an average mean temperature 68.5...
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...I interviewed Valente Martinez and I can tell that he is very pleasant and I got to know more about him; not only his name, although the great person that he is. In detail, in just five minutes that I spend talked to him, I felt a great connection. He is very peaceful, friendly, kind and hardworking. I would like to introduce Valente Martinez. These are some basic facts about him. His nickname is Valentin, but prefers that people call him Valente. He is Mexican, is twenty years old and he is single. He born in July 31, 1996 in Austin Texas. He lives at Austin with his parents since he born. He never moved to another place. Valente wants to become a master mechanic at Nissan and open his own auto shop within 10 years, he chooses that major considering he loves fix cars; he has not served for the military, he thought about it but changes his mind because he decided to go to Austin Community College and try it. When I talked to him about the school, he told me that he dislikes reading or writing, do homework, test, or going to school early, but he likes hands on classes because that's how he learns best. His parent’s name are...
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...BANG! BANG! “Sargent! Enemy at 130 North East is firing shots in our direction, should I take him out?” I said. Throughout all of the times that I’ve been shipped out here, to the wonderful country of Iraq, no enemy has ever taken fire at me before we’ve even landed the helicopter. “Private Austin, how dumb are you? Those shots are nowhere near us. It’s more than likely just some terrorists having a dispute.” Either Sargent Peppers is going insane, or I am, because I can clearly hear bullets sprinting past our apache attack helicopter. The guns firing in the distance are the only source of light, to the naked eye, at this time of night. After each bullet is fired, I get a glimpse of the terrain, covered in rocks, mud, and dead plants....
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