Seedling

Education: A National Security Issue with Long-term Impact An issue with long-term national security implications important to my generation is education funding. More specifically, the disproportionate cuts in funding for elementary, secondary and higher education. There are a myriad of topics with national security implications in the headlines daily. These include issues such as climate change, bio-threats, cyber-attacks, transnational crime, and most recently the Syrian refugee crisis.…

Gaining a Green Thumb Living in the country and passing several farms on the way to and from my home made me contemplate how rewarding it could be to have that much land and provide for my family with food straight from the earth. Gardening, for me, is a meditative escape and empowering project. Vegetable gardening can be an easy task for some. The phrase, “he or she has a green thumb” comes to mind, although most people just have a plain flesh colored thumb. I have been gardening for five…

of their ancestors which involved shifting cultivation. “According to Miller and Nair’s historical findings, the cultivation systems previously used involved one or more of the following practices: Fruit trees and plants are planted and managed seedlings [were] grown in…gardens for transplanting to fields; tree species are spared when forest and old fallows are cleared for agriculture; Seeds…planted with staple crops, [are] dispersed arbitrarily, planted along trails…and forest clearings”…

When an item says “organic” compared to “conventional,” thoughts of old-fashioned farming practices come to mind. In certain aspects that is what organic farming is. The labeling, pesticide use, fertilizer use, and certifications are different between the two farming industries. Because of this, organic and conventional farming are very different industries, and when it comes to feeding an overpopulated planet, conventional farming appears to be the only choice. However, modern day farming…

Building Resilience City Building cities for more than half of the population on the planet becomes significant problem for environment. It has been long since we crossed the threshold when the cities were only a point of concentration of the population, trade, industry and transport. Today was simply impossible to follow sustainable development in cities with millions people without “big cuts”. New York, which has nearly nine million inhabitants and major cultural, historical and financial…

Title: To investigate the reproductive structures of the plants and to understand its importance in the survival of plant species. Introduction: Angiosperms are the dominant form of plant life in most terrestrial ecosystems, comprising about 90 percent of all plant species. Most crop and ornamental plants are angiosperms. Their success results, in part, from two innovative structures: the flower and the fruit. Flowers are derived evolutionarily from modified leaves. The main parts of a flower…

Personal Response to Texts How do these texts suggest about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity? If a person has faced an adversity in their life, there is always something important about it which creates the person’s character or breaks it. Almost everyone who have faced adversity in their life would agree that a life with adversity is more appreciated than a life of privilege, and that is because you learn from your adversities. Going through that adversity, you…

vegetation so quickly. Ancient rat DNA suggests that their population increased dramatically after the first settlers disappeared. The hundreds of rat bones and rat-gnawed palm seeds found deep in the sands along the beach support the theory. The seedling was needed to replenish the mature stock but the rat population devoured the palm seeds causing the palm forest to decline. This helps determine that the rat population increased more than the human population (Guo…

rendition of Beowulf, Christianity is professed greatly throughout the work. All glory and ultimate faith is referenced to “The Lord” by both Beowulf and Hrothgar. The persistence of this religious motif could be due to the fact that Christianity was a seedling of a religion by the time it had reached the birthplace of this particular epic. As a means of conversion, the scop regurgitating the tale could have employed the professions of Christianity. Not only does it put Christianity in a…

“An education isn 't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It 's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don 't.” – Anatole France Low-income students typically graduate four grade levels behind their higher-income counterparts (Palardy). Why is this? Is education in under-developed areas suffering because students lack the motivation to achieve excellence? Or are there social factors affecting students’ lives that are incapable of being…