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Every school year students consider which laptop is most beneficial to maintain a successful school year. According to compass learning, “more than million students and 70,000 teachers in 10,000 schools nationwide use company personalized learning solutions, including Apple and Google devices” (Associates Programs: Apple sells more devices than google). There are many factors to determine which computer is most compatible to a student. The operating system, processor chipset, personal use,…

Imagine a world where your garden isn't plagued by ravenous Japanese beetles who eat every plant in sight. If you lived in America prior to 1912, you wouldn't have to imagine this scenario because you would be living it. As their name suggests, Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) are native to Japan. The water surrounding the island and the insect's natural predators kept them contained there until the fateful day that a plant was shipped from Japan to the United States. Hiding in the soil of…

The Truth about the American Food System What should we have for dinner? This is a question that goes through the minds of nearly everyone at least once or twice. Sure, it may seem like a straight forward or easy question to answer, but, for Americans in particular it is actually quite a difficult one. Michael Pollan attempts to explain and answer that very question, in his book The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Pollan is a journalist who has a B.A. from Bennington College…

Mexico became free in 1821. The culture of Mexico reflects the complexity of their history through the blending of pre-Hispanic civilizations and the culture of Spain, imparted during Spain's 300-year colonization of Mexico. Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world. Millions of people live and work there. Like other large cities, Mexico City has air pollution from traffic and businesses. People in Mexico City are working to clean their environment. They made rules about how many…

Invasive plants are an issue that we need to address because, they are causing a lot of damage to our infrastructure, animals, and other plants and are putting them in danger. “An invasive species is a plant, fungus, or animal species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.”(Wikipedia) Although invasive plant can be used as a natural pesticide, they…

When I go to college I want to get bachelors in software engineering. This requires great skills in mathematics and computer science. This should take roughly four years no matter where I go to college. El Paso community college (EPCC) has done much in the beginning to accomplish one of its few main goals, to provide masses of people with quality education. EPCC was founded in June 1969 and grew very rapidly in population that they were forced to build more complexes of buildings to house the…

Woke up this morning and I thought about you in many ways from beginning to end. I thought about the pieces of the puzzle that connects us so closely; I thought about what makes us so unique from other people in this generation, I thought about the struggles, trials, and tribulations we go thru to remain strong and stand tall no matter what life and the environment throws at us at any given moment. I then thought about the foundations that we were built upon, yes indeed someone planted and…

After leaving July Perrys house Mose Normand there is only a few accounts of anyone seeing him and one of which comes from Fred Maxwell, who was thirteen at the time of the massacre. According to Maxwell, Normand was good friends with his father and right after leaving July Perrys house Normand went straight to see Maxwells father. Allegedly Normand told the elder Maxwell that he spoke with judge Cheney and was informed that what the white men were doing was unconstitutional and he had a right…

The primary purpose of the Milgram's obedience/electroshock experiment was to test people's obedience to authority. I feel the test was able to fulfill its objectives. It was successful because it should that the majority of people tested were willing to fully accept, with some reservations, what a authority figure instructed them to do. In The Real World by Ferris and Stein (2008), we are told that to conducted the experiment a system was set were a research subject was assigned being a…

warned that there are more than sixty million people around the world that had been forcibly displaced, which is the highest it has ever been since World War Two. The war in Syria has been the single largest driver of refugees in the world. According to Acer (2016), the conflict in Syria has displaced more than eleven million people and about five million have fled the country. Although most of the Syrian refugees are being hosted in neighboring countries, “Europe is experiencing one of the…