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    Here at The Robinson’s Community Outreach Center (RCOC) like to think of our marketing plan as a systematic method to reach our target audience. Our target audience would be communities within the Phoenix Metropolitan area that struggle with low incomes, at-risk youth, and underprivileged populations that are in need of assistance to reduce their day to day challenges. The Robinson’s center is determined to create a system that possess reliable resources to our clients, so they are aware that…

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    An advanced society would be defined as a society that is highly developed or ahead of the times. Societies such as this would possess things such as; irrigated agriculture, long distance trade, writing system, and urbanization. Both the Aztec and Incan Empires reflected characteristics of an advanced society. The development of the Western Hemisphere resembled that of other civilizations. However, they were not as technologically advanced as others, although, they did build roads for long…

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    this type of society, there is always a guarantee of access to food at locations like grocery stores and restaurants. As a hunter-gatherer, there is no guarantee that one will find any edible plants to eat or animals to hunt. Agriculture can also sustain a much larger communities than hunting and gathering can. Since a large mass of land is used exclusively for food production and it taken to where it is needed, people are able to live away from the food resources.…

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    transformation from being nomads to cultivating primitive crops. Because of this, agriculture occurred and was established as a mode of human society and economy, which means that there must be a close relationship between it and the climate change. We can analyze this inference through the process of agricultural development of in several different regions. First of all, the climate change developed the origin of agriculture in the Levant region. The Younger Dryas of the Levant region…

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    the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. The Maya reached admiring heights, leading their society to success. The Classic period between 300-800 A.D was considered the golden age. Abundant innovation, as well as advancements in writing, math, agriculture, astronomy, and architecture occurred during this time. Their highly accurate calendar, beautiful buildings, precise astronomical observations, and clever farming techniques are few testaments for their progressive culture. Creating a…

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    world would need to dedicate significantly more land to the cultivation of maize to compensate for the lost productivity. The possibility that this change will occur is doubtful. In the short term, it might be possible for more land to be used for agriculture. However, avoiding GMOs is inconceivable in the long term as the population will continue to increase exponentially. The land needed to support that population without GMOs will inevitably…

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    the world’s highest economic growth rates at 7.4%. Poverty and income inequality are very high, especially when looking at its massive wealth and huge population to support commerce, abundance of natural resources such as oil and arable land for agriculture and a well-developed economy (World Bank,2013). The rate of poverty is at 33.1% and income inequality worsened from 0.43 to 0.49 between 2004 and…

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    Corporate branding activities aimed at a variety of stakeholders are devised to gain trust, and build a strong reputation among the group. Strategic initiative toward corporate branding is especially true when scandals or allegations of unethical practices are suggested. In order to secure a strong corporate reputation, the company must succeed in delivering a quality product, financial success, social responsibility, and strong executive leadership (Ferrell, Hartline, 2014). Monsanto has had…

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    environment due to factory farming that I’m just going to point out a few I find very important. First off, looking at studies from environmental researchers we have found that: “According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including 37 percent of methane emissions and 65 percent of nitrous oxide emissions. The methane releases from billions of…

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    When a community manages to invent a way to grow and store more food than they themselves need, it opens the door to rapid innovation and development that these communities could never have experienced otherwise. Subsistence farming is a very time consuming and labor intensive way of life and it doesn’t give many people much time to do anything…

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