Students should find and post/submit images or audio files that they feel are representative of Texas generally or Lubbock, Texas specifically.
**The idea is to have these contributions as points of departure for class discussions. Please post homework as comments to this entry. We'll have three (similar) homework assignments for this section, people in class is expected to do either of them. Thanks!
I found quite interesting that Lubbok is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world.I found this photo:http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/tif/highplains/images/cotton.jpg
ResponderEliminarI didn´t know Lubbock was the birthplace of Buddy Holly, that´s amazing!
ResponderEliminarThis is a photo of the cultural centre that has his name:
http://jglass86.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/dscn1323.jpg
I found this interesting video in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb4jpoq7ndo
ResponderEliminarTexas is well known for its large oil and gas fields:
ResponderEliminarhttp://insightbridge.com/images/Oil-Refinery-Pump-Image.jpg
Houston is the largest ciry in Texas and it's were NASA has its Mission Control Center ("Houston, we have a problem"). This is a picture of the Johnson Space Center:
ResponderEliminarhttp:// upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/8/82/ Challenger_Ferry_Flight_Flyover_of _Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center.jpg
This time I'm faithful to the stereotypes... Texas will always go together with the image of cowboys, wide valleys and the association of freedom. Look: the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration will take place in Lubbock:
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.cowboy.org/ !!
I agree with the idea that Texas goes together with the image of cowboys and Amarillo is an example of what I´m saying. Amarillo is a large city in the U.S state of Texas.
ResponderEliminarLet´s see a national promotion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5XxnCDwbI
The Houston Rockets is really famous over the world, I think most of basketball fans know about this basketball team.
ResponderEliminarThese well-known players had played in Rockets
Patrick James Riley
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon
Clyde Drexler
Rudy Tomjanovich......
we can get more info from the official website
http://www.nba.com/rockets/tickets/red_nation_appreciation_night_2010_04_09.html
I found this website made by a guy that has a lot of Texas info including trivia, songs , facts,jokes and everything from the state police station contacts to a glossary of southern medical terms!
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.qsl.net/w5www/texas.htm
-María Sierra
In terms of history, how can you forget the Alamo? http://www.thealamo.org/main/index.php
ResponderEliminar-Pauline Moran
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Texas is rodeo. I remember as a kid my dad used to tell me the story of when he attended a rodeo show in Sonora:
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.sonoratx-chamber.com/
As texas is one of the most patriotic states of the country, republican stronghold, and we have recently studied the symbols, I bring here this interesting site with different Texas state symbols:
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/symbols.html
And this is my audio, the Texas anthem:
http://www.lsjunction.com/tot.mid