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A local Blanchard family took the song lyrics “anything you can do I can do better” to heart and created their own business. After tasting a homemade salsa, a natural competitiveness caused Lori Redmon, her husband Bill Redmon and her mother Diane Cooper to create Killin Time Canning. “My mother works at a nursing home and she brought some salsa home that a resident’s family member had made. Just out of the competitiveness of our family, we said we could do better and that’s where it started…

Lately, my crew and I have had a very crazy journey. We have done a lot of traveling lately and it has been very frustrating because my crew has not been listening to my commands of what I tell them to do. My crew and I started out our journey my sailing all the way from the land of the Cyclops to the land of Aeolus. I got the chance to meet Aeolus and he is the God of the Wind. I was also very fortunate to receive a tremendously nice gift from the God Aeolus. This gift made me very happy…

Kingsolver is correct about America’s degrading basic survival competencies but comes off as a pretentious wide eyed idealist which leaves the reader reluctant to admit that she is right. Why? The argument presented by the text is compelling with examples of children who associated the dirt of growing food with something that is unsanitary or unsafe to consume. She further alludes to what we now call the “Purell Generation”, people so afraid of bacteria and germs they neglect or ignore the…

Salazar David Amy Ludwig English 101 19 September 2016 “So called worldly things” In “Knowing Our Place,” Barbara Kingsolver, a highly respected bestselling novelist, conveys her opinion on the environment. She begins by mentioning a log cabin that her and her family live in during the summer, located in southern Appalachia. Where there was once an extraordinary amount of American chestnut trees, until they were infected with mold and disease, causing most of them to die off. She then proceeds…

“important” conversations. How could we have crucial ideas to contribute? We’re just kids, right? In chapter ten of Ender’s Game, Card introduces a new character named Bean. Now Bean, fresh off the shuttle, was one of the newer boys who had just arrived at the Battle School; “launchies” as the veterans called them. However, not only was Bean assigned to an army right off the bat, unlike most newcomers, but positioned in Ender Wiggin’s army, the most celebrated soldier in the Battle School.…

Based on the research we did, Mr. Mega Bean Marketing is advised to improve their product marketing since the major weakness of the company is promotion. They should utilize the promotional strategies in order to improve the company’s brand popularity and sales performance. They should carry out promotional activities through advertising in particular media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and social media. Besides that, company also have to appoint promoters to promote their…

Helena Maria Viramontes’ short story “The Moths” follows a latina narrator as she recounts her childhood struggles with religion and family. To escape beatings from her father, her mother would send the narrator to “help Abuelita plants wild lilies” and other plants in “coffee cans”(322). Throughout the turmoil of her teenage years, the narrator’s Abuelita was always there to care for her. As the story continues, it is divulged that this time the help will be different because Mama Luna is dying…

Coffee is grown mainly in sub-tropical regions including rainforests, and some plantations are grown in tropical savannahs. There are two ways to grow coffee — shade cultivation and sun cultivation, and two types of coffee grown commercially— robusta and higher quality arabica. Coffee was previously shade-grown, but now ‘sun cultivation’ is becoming more popular and widely used as it produces higher yields faster than shade cultivation. Producing coffee requires deforestation and land clearing.…

Product Differentiation Ben and Jerry’s produce their products in environmentally, animal friendly ways and supporting local farmers especially from Vermont (Dennis, Neck, & Goldsby, 1998). All farmers who provided dairy had agreed to use no bovine growth hormone (BGH) (Polk, 2014). This has made their ice cream become an all-natural and high quality in the same time. In 1998 Ben & Jerry’s introduced the eco-pint, the ice cream industry’s first pint container made from unbleached paperboard,…

The distinct aroma of manure is a familiar scent that is prominent in all the towns in Lancaster County. Except there is one town, by the name of Lititz, that smells of sweet chocolate. Lititz won the Coolest Small Town award in 2013 putting itself on the map as a go to tourist destination. The leap this town made did not come overnight nor did it come easy. One large factor in the success of this small town was the introduction of the H.O. Wilbur & Sons Chocolate Factory on April 17,…