Browsing by Subject "San Antonio"
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(2009-05-15)The Texas Volunteer Guard, created by the Militia Law of 1879, continued to allow African Americans to serve as citizen soldiers. From 1880 to 1906 over six hundred black men faithfully served in the various state militia ...
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(2019-03-28)As urbanizing cities work toward sustainable resource planning, particular attention must be given to the interdependence of interconnected resource challenges. Coherent policies, strengthened by and consistent with, the ...
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(2013-03-28)This research was initiated from two questions: what personality San Antonio has as a tourist destination despite its being an inanimate object and what relationships there are among destination personality, self-congruity, ...
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(2021-11-03)The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...
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(2014-07-02)Higher education continues to remain elusive for a significant portion of eligible students in Texas. With the rise in cost for tuition and fees and the decrease in funding by the state government, more students are left ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)San Antonio, Texas, is home to several eighteenth-century Spanish Franciscan missions, which represent some of the best examples of Spanish colonial mission architecture in the United States and which together comprise the ...
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(2017-03-29)Why do people choose to live where they do? Answers to this simple yet intricate question can provide insight into how important transportation issues are to the housing location choice among other factors and how ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)A detailed survey of two tracts of houses on sloping terrain underlain by expansible clay-rich soils indicates that expansive soils are especially susceptible to downhill creep. This poses an additional threat on top of ...
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(2012-10-19)Immigration is a topic that has experienced an evolution of social importance across centuries. While the United States has welcomed individuals seeking lives of promise and opportunity, its neighboring border with Mexico ...
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Within the Texas Triangle, a region defined by rapidly growing metropolitan areas, the relationship between architecture and the edge-city is emerging and being defined. Dating back to the 1930s, with the help of special ...