Outline: Demographics
The River
Brenda Hughes
ENG121
Instructor Marnie Nollette
July 19, 2013
Outline
I. The Demographics
A. Climate
B. Location
C. Length
II. The History A. Indians B. Settlers C. Community
III. Advantages versus disadvantages A. Recreation B. Events C. Tragedies
IV. Environmental Impact A. Financial B. Retirement
Whenever there is the mention of the great State of Texas, one tends to automatically visualize a sweltering hot, baron wasteland, saturated with 6-foot rattlesnakes, enormous oil wells, and handsome cowboys galloping on horses, with a six shooter attached to their hip. Few people are aware that deep in the heart of Texas, there is a paradise known as the Hill Country, …show more content…
You might also question the magnitude of the river’s force, as many of these magnificent trees lie uprooted from their banks, having been defeated by the river’s overflow during a recent heavy rain. The mesmerizing power of this ice-cold river may hypnotically draw you to it when watching whitetail fawns frolicking along its edge, while their mothers graze the plentiful grass, rich in nutrients. A historical marker boldly reflects this river is where Apache, Comanche and Kiowa Indians made their camp, while chiseling arrowheads for their next fearsome battle and where cavalry soldiers stopped to water their horses and fill their canteens after a day of travel in the blistering Texas heat. You are comforted in knowing settlers eventually made their home along its banks and utilized the unlimited water resource for livestock and to enhance the prospect of future economic growth and development. The river is rich in history and is where the City of Kerrville makes its home …show more content…
This bus was caravanning with other vehicles and was transporting forty-three teenagers who had spent the week at one of the regions thirty camps serving twenty-three thousand children each summer (Odintz, M., 2010). Although two-thirds of these teenagers were ultimately rescued by helicopter from the cypress tree branches they clung to amidst the rising currents of this raging river, ten of those teenagers lost their life that summer day when an enormous wall of water descended at a low water crossing bridge and pushed the bus one hundred an fifty yards downstream. No one was prepared or saw it coming as this wall of water rolling with “debris, fence posts, snags, limbs and whole trees, tumbled past” (Thompkins, S. 2007, para.9), capturing and destroying most everything in its tumultuous path. In spite of the human chain made by staff and students who fought the river’s powerful current intent on making it to shore, they were of no equal force to its intensity. The somber death toll was horrific and the exhausting retrieval efforts proved to be futile as the body of one of these campers was never recovered. Locals in the area are forced to relive the tragedy periodically, when news reporters, intent on
Brenda Hughes
ENG121
Instructor Marnie Nollette
July 19, 2013
Outline
I. The Demographics
A. Climate
B. Location
C. Length
II. The History A. Indians B. Settlers C. Community
III. Advantages versus disadvantages A. Recreation B. Events C. Tragedies
IV. Environmental Impact A. Financial B. Retirement
Whenever there is the mention of the great State of Texas, one tends to automatically visualize a sweltering hot, baron wasteland, saturated with 6-foot rattlesnakes, enormous oil wells, and handsome cowboys galloping on horses, with a six shooter attached to their hip. Few people are aware that deep in the heart of Texas, there is a paradise known as the Hill Country, …show more content…
You might also question the magnitude of the river’s force, as many of these magnificent trees lie uprooted from their banks, having been defeated by the river’s overflow during a recent heavy rain. The mesmerizing power of this ice-cold river may hypnotically draw you to it when watching whitetail fawns frolicking along its edge, while their mothers graze the plentiful grass, rich in nutrients. A historical marker boldly reflects this river is where Apache, Comanche and Kiowa Indians made their camp, while chiseling arrowheads for their next fearsome battle and where cavalry soldiers stopped to water their horses and fill their canteens after a day of travel in the blistering Texas heat. You are comforted in knowing settlers eventually made their home along its banks and utilized the unlimited water resource for livestock and to enhance the prospect of future economic growth and development. The river is rich in history and is where the City of Kerrville makes its home …show more content…
This bus was caravanning with other vehicles and was transporting forty-three teenagers who had spent the week at one of the regions thirty camps serving twenty-three thousand children each summer (Odintz, M., 2010). Although two-thirds of these teenagers were ultimately rescued by helicopter from the cypress tree branches they clung to amidst the rising currents of this raging river, ten of those teenagers lost their life that summer day when an enormous wall of water descended at a low water crossing bridge and pushed the bus one hundred an fifty yards downstream. No one was prepared or saw it coming as this wall of water rolling with “debris, fence posts, snags, limbs and whole trees, tumbled past” (Thompkins, S. 2007, para.9), capturing and destroying most everything in its tumultuous path. In spite of the human chain made by staff and students who fought the river’s powerful current intent on making it to shore, they were of no equal force to its intensity. The somber death toll was horrific and the exhausting retrieval efforts proved to be futile as the body of one of these campers was never recovered. Locals in the area are forced to relive the tragedy periodically, when news reporters, intent on