The 1971 season was a year of major change for the Southland Conference. For the first time in history, the league expanded, adding Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana Tech. Also, two holdover teams, Arkansas State and Texas-Arlington, featured new head coaches. Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana Tech both departed the Gulf States Conference. USL was coming off a league title in 1970, while Louisiana Tech struggled through a 2-8 season a year after winning the Gulf States crown during quarterback
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ambitions were to claim Oregon and Texas, as well as Californian New Mexico. The United States went to war with Mexico with so many issues growing over Texas. Independence was gained for Texas in a brief but bitter war in 1835-1836. Mexico refused to accept the results of the Texas revolution and warned the United States that it would consider annexation an act of war. The United States Annexed Texas in 1845, Mexico broke relations and threatened retaliation against Texas. Polk tried to be diplomatic
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Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was from 1930 to 1936. The dust was over 10,000 ft in the air and killed lots of people and animals only 2 dozen survived. Some were killed, while others even took their own lives, or just severely blistered, or injured but there was those that did survive. Most all of their livestock was killed by people and the dust. How did they keep the dust out? The Dust Bowl affected many people and their livestock. To try and keep the dust out people put rags in the windows
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How Football Changed Me “Boom, pow, crack”. These are the sounds made every weekday in August to October, whether it is 85 and sunny or 65 and raining on the football practice field. Players hit each other, while practicing our offensive plays until perfection and running sprints for what feels like hours on end. Best of all are the smells of hard work the rest of the team have put in, measured by the raunchy body odors they left behind. All of this hard work is done for the sweet taste victory
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The face of Texas is changing. The Texas in Focus article “Demographics” clearly spells out that the state of Texas is becoming, and will continue to be, older and more of a majority-minority state in the coming decades. While Texas’ population grows faster than the rest of the nation, 12.7 percent, more than half of all residents were between the ages of 25 and 64 (“Demographics, ¶2-3). Urban areas in Texas will continue to grow faster than rural areas, despite the fact that Texas continues to have
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The dust bowl One day there was a really strong breeze and the farmers would over farm there fields and caused the “dust bowl”.The dust would affect manny family's homes and lives. Such as getting there homes filled with sand or dirt or running there personal belongings. But one day a family woke and they accidently left a window open and their hole house was field with dirt.That night the before they someone in the family left a window open and it let all of the sand in and made
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Striving for recognition as the “low-fare leader” of American airlines, Spirit Airlines is a service company located in Miramar, Florida. Founded in 1964 as Clippert Trucking Company, the firm has since then evolved into an air charter business prioritizing affordable transportation. Marketing itself as an “ultra low-cost carrier”, Spirit Airlines aims to attract price conscious consumers with low base fares and unbundled flight options in order to provide customers with a greater sense of freedom
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In America, football fans have declared their sport the national religion. This could be true with hundreds of thousands of fans going to games and millions more watching on television every Sunday. It is more than a game for some fan but it is more a game for the players. To keep up with growing fan base, football has become more competitive with larger, faster and stronger players. Although this allows for greater entertainment with bigger hits and more spectacular plays, the reality is it all
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Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848 to finally end the war. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, drafted by Nicholas Trist, stated that the United States was to pay Mexico a sum of $15 million in exchange for Mexican territory, that today are known as Texas, California, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and New Mexico. Also, the United States had to assume the $3 million in claims that its citizens had made against Mexico. When it was it was all said and done the United States did not actually
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for the final project is: Design a program that will allow a user to Input a list of your family members along with their age and state where they reside. Determine and print the average age of your family and print the names of anyone who live in Texas. 2. What is the required output? What is the necessary input? How you will obtain the required output from the given input? Clearly describe variable names and definitions. Include all necessary formulas and example calculations. 3. Display pseudocode
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