1. While at my hpd internship I was asked to do multiple task such as deliver mail‚ send out packages‚ organize and file documents according to date and time‚ conduct background check‚ record information‚ conduct surveillance handling evidence‚ helping organize various events‚ file case files‚ fax subpoenas‚ and seizures My internship Daily duties mostly consisted of helping the agents and working in the mail room. I learned how to handle different responsibilities such as delivering mail and sending
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My love and interest in Houston’s sports teams has given me a means of identifying with my beloved hometown. Until recently I had no idea how to connect myself with the city and the millions of other Houstonians that inhabited Houston. I then discovered the cities sports teams the Texans‚ Rockets‚ and Astros which many of the cities locals love and support endlessly. Ever since discovering these teams I have become a ferocious supporters of them win or lose. I support them no matter without any conditions
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Tropical Storm Harvey continues to drench southeast Texas and flood the Houston area‚ people aren’t the only ones seeking higher ground. The wild animals are‚ too. Reports and images of swimming snakes and lurking alligators are making the rounds on social media‚ and some are not current or real. Some alligator photos were from 2016. A fake photo shows a shark that was definitely not swimming down a flooded city freeway. But the Houston area is home to thousands of American alligators that reside in streams
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Anahuac Middle School The Life of Samuel Houston Christina Roberson Rasbeary~7th Christina Roberson Anahuac Middle School The life of Samuel Houston Rasbeary~7th Samuel Houston was born March 2 1793‚ in Rockbridge county‚ Virginia‚he was the fifth of nine children. When Samuel was 14 years old his father died and his mother moved her 9 children to the frontier village of Maryville‚ Tennessee. After he worked in the Maryville general store Samuel joined the army at the age of 20. He attracted
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Sam Houston and the American Southwest Sam Houston was born from Scottish-Irish decent. His forefathers were immigrants that had settled in Pennsylvania and migrated south towards Virginia. Houston’s grandfather‚ John Houston‚ established the successful Timber Ridge plantation and his father‚ Samuel Houston‚ was a member of the revolutionary army‚ attaining the rank of major. Sam Houston was born in 1793 the middle child of eight siblings. Sam’s father military service took its toll on the Houston’s
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Sam Houston and the American Southwest by Randolph B. Campbell The first half of the nineteenth century was a time of emergence‚ change‚ and uncertainty in the American Southwest. Randolph B. Campbell celebrates this historical time period in his novel‚ Sam Houston and the American Southwest‚ as well as the life and times of the southwest’s hero himself‚ Sam Houston. Sam Houston‚ more than any other individual‚ provided indispensable guidance to southwestern expansion in the United States. Within
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Sam Houston was a great man in our history. He stood up for what he believed was good for the Union not the North or the South. When Sam was rebuked for providing the winning margin for his opponents he said "I know neither North nor South; I know only the Union." He also said everyone " must stand firm to the Union‚ regardless of all personal consequences." He was fiercely ambitious‚ yet at the end he sacrificed for principle all he had ever won or wanted. He was a Southerner‚ and yet he steadfastly
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External Environment Social. KIPP Houston serves students in high-minority‚ low-income communities. KIPP’s leaders actively recruit students from Houston’s low rent apartment neighborhoods. Of the 8‚500 students‚ 85 percent are considered low income‚ 36 percent are African-American‚ 62 percent are Latino‚ and 30 percent have limited English proficiency. Many of these students come from immigrant households‚ single-parents‚ or full-time working parents with multiple jobs. This family situation becomes
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At an early age‚ I began preparing for the Houston Livestock Show‚ being that I am 5 years younger than my brother and I followed in his footsteps. I loved being in the barn with him and my parents‚ I would practice driving my hog just like my brother did. He is‚ and has always been‚ my biggest critic. Over time‚ I participated in clinics to learn how to show my hog to the best of my ability. I also participated in honorary shows before I was old enough to actually show in the county show and major
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Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark‚ New Jersey‚ on August 9‚ 1963 to gospel and R&B singer Cissy Houston. “By age 11‚ Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at her Baptist church. As a teenager‚ she began accompanying her mother in concert‚ and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan” (Huey‚ Steve). Houston is now described as one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Over her twenty-seven years in the spotlight that began in 1984‚ Houston has progressed
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