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precision farming, which offers great export opportunities. It is “a new technique that boosts crop yields and reduces waste by using satellite maps and computers to match seed, fertilizer, and crop protection applications to local soil conditions” (Todd, paragraph…

Pirates star Andrew McCutchen mans center field, while two minor league products, Gregory Polanco and Starling Marte, should play alongside the five-time All-Star. 

Chicago Cubs

The Cubs’ World Series drought is well documented, but Chicago snapped a six-year playoff drought last season. The…

Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson’s collaboration, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, and Todd Gitlin’s book, Occupy Nation, examine the formation and workings of two politically dichotomous social movements, the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement respectively. Both books profile each social movement profoundly and conduct rigorous research before making their respective conclusions about the causes and effects of each social movement. I found both…

Presently, no mandatory federal vaccination law exists; however, all fifty states require vaccinations for children entering public schools. The leading source by educators on unbiased information testifies that, “All 50 states allow medical exemptions, 48 states allow religious exemptions, and 19 states allow philosophical exemptions” (ProCon). Philosophical exemptions though, are firmly a parent’s belief on vaccinations. The Governor of California recently approved a bill that does not…

Grant and Lee is a compare and contrast between their personal lives, political views, and how they would hold oneself. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are two complete different people from different time periods where one had slavery and the other aimed to abolish it. In a compare and contrast of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington each one having their own personal lives, family, and historical actions, which made up some of their differences. Firstly, Abraham Lincoln was never a…

Advancements of Prosthetics Over the Years 1 in 190 Americans are currently living with the loss of a limb, in the year 2005 1.6 million people were living with the loss of a limb (Langtree,2016). Therefore, prosthetics have advanced due to the change to lighter material, the change in mobility (movement),and the design has become more productable and useful for the amputee. “The evolution of prosthetics is a long and storied history, from its primitive beginnings to its sophisticated present,…

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Gaining presidency in the midst of the debacle of the Union, Lincoln utilized the characteristics he shared with George Washington such as “sure judgment,” “perfect balance of thoroughly sound faculties,” and “great calmness of temper, great firmness of purpose, supreme moral principle, and intense patriotism” to preserve the Union. (Britannica School) Lincoln devoted his presidency to reestablishing the Union, which he perceived as…

How did Janie Crawford become a strong woman? Imagine how significant a woman’s life changed after she went through three marriages. In most cases, she would learn many valuable lessons from each marriage. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston succeeded in creating the heroine as well as the protagonist in Janie Crawford. Having married to three different men who each had distinct perspectives, Janie learned more about different aspects of love, hopes, freedom, and eventually…

affected by psychotropic drug use. The Life History Theory describes males as more likely to develop psychotropic drug addictions than females, especially prevalent in adolescence. This trend does not decline in males until they marry (Durrant, Adamson, Todd, Sellman ,2009). In adolescence, males and females have varying likelihoods of developing psychotropic drug addictions. In middle school, males have higher lifetime prevalence rates for substance abuse. However, in high school, females…

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE Financial Analysis Introduction Georgetown College was established in 1789 by John Carroll as the nation’s first Catholic institution of higher learning. Georgetown College has Religious affiliation with Catholic, Jesuit. Georgetown is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institute of higher learning in the United States. Georgetown is an important part of the Washington, DC landscape. Georgetown College is devoted to the Jesuit traditions of an assimilated education and of…