Settling the Rio Grande Valley The Rio Grande Valley consists of the southern most part of Texas‚ along the Texas/Mexico border. The population growth in this area was very slow until the 1900’s‚ when it began to skyrocket. From 1920 to 1930‚ the population in the Valley more than doubled. One of the main factors for this population increase was the railroad construction. The St. Louis‚ Brownsville‚ and Mexico railroads all were completed in 1904. This furthered the expansion of the already
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The first crossing of the Rio Grande in Part I is symbolic of a rebirth for John Grady’s life. “They crossed the river under a white quartermoon naked and pale and thin atop their horses… They rode up out of the river among the willows and rode singlefile upstream through the shallows onto a long gravel beach where they took off their hats and turned and looked back at the country they’d left” (McCarthy 45). John Grady has experienced a rebirth in this moment. He looks back at Texas grounds‚ which
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the Rio Grande Valley‚ is not as the Hollywood movies‚ where you must be in a cool fraternity‚ or that you are going to be drunk every single day of the week‚ college life in the Rio Grande Valley is more pacific‚ but your friends become your family and everything you do they will go with you. First‚ things first‚ Rio Grande Valley is a composition of different areas in the south tip of Texas. The larger cities in The Valley includes Brownsville‚ McAllen‚ Edinburg‚ and many others. The Rio Grande
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throws at them. I was originally born in the Rio Grande Valley in 1981 on the 28th of September and currently reside
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How Will the Wall affect The Rio Grande Valley? Since Donald Trump stated he wanted to build the wall across the U.S. Mexican border it started a huge controversy. On January 25‚ he signed an executive order to start building the wall to stop aliens from coming to our country‚ to him illegal immigrants present a treat to national security and public safety. He argues the wall will secure the border and difficult the trafficking of drugs‚ stop crime‚ illegal immigration and protect Americans from
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The Rio Grande Valley has its own identity. The food‚ the people and the language are like no place else in this country. A predominantly Mexican area with most families living below the poverty line‚ the Valley has represented to me‚ a place where nothing comes easy‚ a place where people have to work for everything they want‚ and above all else‚ a place I will always call home. Throughout my primary‚ secondary and even my post-secondary education most of my fellow students came from almost identical
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There’s a lot to love about the area where I grew up‚ The Rio Grande Valley (RGV). Over the years‚ the major underlying factor that I’m most appreciative of is the bonds I have been able to form with its diverse communities. The following are some examples of my lasting interactions with the RGV. My two years serving as President of the UTPA Society of Physics Students (SPS) have given me the opportunity to work directly with the various student communities of the RGV in the capacity of a student
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military power to take over the Americas despite the rebelling natives. “The Europeans conquered it‚ in spite of resistance by some 300 native people” (Chapman 4). “As early of 1598‚ Juan de Onate had led a group of colonists to the region north of the Rio Grande. These colonists set up small agricultural villages and ranches along the rivers and established the mission and town of Santa Fe in 1609” (Downey 43). Establishment of colonies meant more power‚ and the goal of the Spanish‚ French‚
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society‚ sociologists tend to focus on them extensively. In Conceiving Risk‚ Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder by Elizabeth Armstrong and The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia‚ theories about the social construction of illness and the impact of medicalization on a community have been exemplified. The purpose of Freidson’s article was to analyze the social organization of the medical profession and its
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Rio Grande Valley‚ and all but one closed in West Texas. Comparing November 2012–April 2013 to November 2013–April 2014‚ there was a 13% decrease in the abortion rate (from 12.9 to 11.2 abortions/1000 women age 15–44). Medical abortion decreased by 70%‚ from 28.1% of all abortions in the earlier period to 9.7% after November 2013 (pb0.001). Second-trimester abortion increased from 13.5% to 13.9% of all abortions (pb0.001). Only 22% of abortions were performed in the state’s six ASCs" (Grossman et
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