Historical Marker #1- Cheston L. Health School

So I know this picture isn't exactly a selfie but considering my phone camera is quite terrible and I happened to have Abigail (my camera) with me this day I hope you'll find it in your hearts to forgive me (yes, that is sarcasm). But BEHOLD Ismi, Anna, and I's selfie nonetheless! It was actually quite difficult to get together to take this picture we tried at least three times to get together to take it but something always seemed to come up. We took this picture right after the Senior pep-rally which is why Anna has rhinestones on the side of her face and I'm wearing a purple shirt I haven't worn since my Freshmen year. These factors could have added to the series of puzzled looks we got from people outside the courthouse one of which I recognized to be one of my cousins friends who were probably wondering why in the world out of all places in Corpus Christi we had decided to take the picture there... But I hope maybe seeing us take the picture there spurred their curiosity, and maybe, just maybe, got them to read what that marker said. And maybe I'm being to hopeful, but if they did read the marker I hope they thought about how far Corpus has come from those times, and I also hope this marker reminds them to be grateful for the sacrifices and hardships other people have had to endure for us to have the rights we have now such as me being able to attend Collegiate with kids of all races and backgrounds, and better yet me even getting a college education which would have been impossible to even dream of back then as a Mexican-American. 

History Topic- Moral and Emotional Effects of WW2 in Corpus Christi

I know this isn't quite an obvious topic for me considering I don't really have a direct connection to it, but how I came about to choosing this topic can mostly be contributed to Mr. Martinez. I remember sitting at my laptop staring at my Statistics homework when the idea came to me that maybe I would like to study WWII for my project. Well, actually now that I come to think of it I sort of had picked my topic long before this project... I remember studying one of the Watchtower magazines for the meeting and coming across an article that talked about a Jehovah's Witness experience in a concentration camp during WWII, and I remember thinking about the huge emotional affect WWII must have had on the world. Which brought me to thinking about how the holocaust and WWII could have possible affected my life. Well anyways after the idea surged in my head that Saturday I texted Mr.Martinez about wanting to study WWII for my project which then lead to a phone call which lead to me reading about an article about the home-front in Corpus Christi during WWII. What I gathered from the article is what really lead to me deciding to choose this topic because it really described the spirits of people in Corpus during the war, and the lingering cloud of emotions it left on the town. Which thus brings me to define my topic for you. My topic consists the study of how the war affected the way the people of Corpus Christi viewed war and most importantly the way the viewed the rights of other people regardless of race, religion, or values. I want to know how and what ultimate lesson, if any, people learned from the atrocities of WWII, how their morals were altered because of this, and what they did to make sure the world never saw such hate in the world ever again.