John Hay

It was December 20th, 2015. I had no idea what that day was going to bring. I owned a horse named Nevaeh that year. She was very naughty and we travel all over to do shows for people. It’s very embarrassing when your horse starts bucking in front of a crowd of people. So Kelly, my horse instructor, or in other words a close friend, decided it was time for a change. She brought Jaelyn and I to a place in Volga, Iowa called Katy’s Corral. Katy runs the place and buys and sells horses. I knew why…

Lennie entered the barn to play with the puppy that was going to be his to tend. The barn full of hay, hay in every place of the barn. The sun coming in from the windows. You could see the dust from the sun light. It was quiet but you could hear the noises that puppies make when they want to be fed. Lennie loved soft things and those puppies were soft. Lennie was a nice guy, if he hurt anything it sure was an accident. Lennie also didn't know his own strength. He was a big guy but a little…

they were unable to make their mark on China before the other world powers. President McKinley (1897-1901) decided that the United States should have control over some of the actions that were being taken in Asia. In such his Secretary of State, John Hay, drafted the Open Door Policy (1899) in an attempt to create room for American trade. The Open Door Note would demand that other powers would provide each other with equal spheres of influence. Spheres of influence are special regions in which…

It all started when I was a little girl, I had always wanted a horse. So when I was 8 I started to take lessons but that only lasted for a few years, hard times hit and I wasn’t able to afford to ride anymore. I was too young to be able to help around a barn so for the time being I had to give up my love of riding and my time with horses. That was until I turned 16 and I was able to start volunteering with horses. When my parents split up and it sent me into a depression, I dreaded getting up…

He would know what to say to make the days go by easier when I did not feel like working, especially on the days when we would have to square bale hay. Which is one of the most excruciating jobs I ever did on the farm. Baling hay would require an immense amount of back and arm strength. The hay would find its way into every little crevice possible. But our relationship really blossomed the last summer I worked with him. When the day of one summer came to an end, he told…

flying to the left; purple mitten stripped from my frozen fingers. The boot was recovered -- the mitten was not. I hated that field. But soon enough, spring melted those large piles of manure, and it would get stuck on my muck boots with straw and hay making it hard to walk. The cows just after having their babies were waspy and intolerant to a little girl’s desire to play with the wobbly legged babies. ‘So rude,’ I would think, as I sprinted to the 4-wheeler to dodge the protective mama from…

Fort Osage High School is a co-ed public high school in Independence, Missouri. Classes are held at FOSH for pupils in grades 9 through 12. The gender divide at the school is 52 percent male and 48 percent female. There are about 1500 pupils enrolled and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19:1. It's a school in the Fort Osage R-I School District. State assessments show 66 percent of pupils are proficient in English and 51 percent are proficient in Mathematics. The graduation rate is 95 percent,…

Many people believe that attaining a college degree is a necessity in today’s world. While others think that spending four more years to get a college degree is an absolute waste of their time. High school was such a tremendous part of everyone’s life. You made some of your greatest memories there with lifelong friends, learned how to stick up for yourself, and be a part of something that you will cherish forever. The greatest part about high school was that it was at home and you were well…

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patents, and investments into research and development are an initiative where John Deere and Co. excels. John Deere is a leader in technological advancements. The company has “spent hundreds of millions of dollars on technologies that use detailed data on soil type, seed variety, and weather to help farmers cut costs and increase yields,” write Faulkner & Cebul (2014). These technologies are the future of agriculture. John Deere has focused on innovations, technologies, and patents and has…