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The monarch butterfly, also known as Danaus plexippus, is recognized as America’s state insect with a wing span of 4 inches and 10 centimeters long – the longest wing span ever recorded within the monarchs’ insect population (Conant, 2012). Monarchs are notorious in the United States because of their spectacular migration across Canada and the United States to the overwintering sites in central Mexico – and back again. In this case, monarchs migrate between 2,000 to 3,000 miles every single year…

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a cabinet-level agency that oversees the American farming industry (Allgove.com). Farm and foreign agricultural services, rural development, food nutrition, and consumer services, food safety, natural resources and environment, marketing and regulatory programs, research, education and economics are all areas specialized by the USDA (FY 2015). Arising from Abraham Lincoln’s desire to revive farmers from the outbreak of ravages from the Civil…

and me Kat) have decided to escape our home as we know it, in Jackson Mississippi. With all the attacks from terrorist this Country has become nothing. Most of the United States just has small towns left. We have decided to make our way on one of the only transportation ways left a magnetic train. We will be safe on the train in the forest, it is pretty much the only secure safe traveling now a day. Like most people planning to leave, we are heading north. Our departure time is 6 AM on June…

relatively small country. Of the 19,730 miles around a quarter is protected land used for national parks and wildlife refuges. Costa Rica is home to 4,923,335 people. 14% of those people are employed in agricultural. While the biggest employment area is service with 64%…

neglected and abandoned children. With a fertility rate of 3.1(worldbank.org) the population is seen to hit 104 million with no struggle. Compared to the Philippines, the United States’ fertility rate is reaching a record low around 1.9. Making up the population of the 3rd largest country, immigrants have been choosing the united States as their destination to seek a better life or meet more family. Because they are a frequent destination for people migrating, the U.S. is considered to be…

The United States’ Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) nutrition assistance programs are set in place in order to “help reduce food insecurity, improve nutrition and reduce obesity” in order to ensure that children and families, alike, are able to have access to healthy diets in both, schools and child and adult care facilities, and also ensuring that families hold the funds to purchase food (United States Department of Agriculture 8). Within a year, one in four Americans will utilize at least…

Spokane River and encompassing around 60 square miles, the city is surrounded by a vibrant landscape of the Rocky Mountain foothills, plains, prairies, lakes and forests. With a population of 208,916 and a wider metropolitan area of 535,724 residents, Spokane is the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. After Seattle, Vancouver and Portland, it is also the fourth largest city in the Pacific Northwest region. Spokane owns its name to Native Americans,…

of the San Joaquin valley. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National park are two different parks with one found in the North and the other in south of Sierra Nevada. The two parks are connected to each other contiguously and are run by the National Park Service. The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park are home…

been primarily focused on the service sector, because of an increase of people seeking higher education, globalization, and spatial interaction. One thing that is unique about Australia is that it’s not just a country but it is also a continent measuring at 7,692,060 sq.…

country was set as the economic example for the rest of South America. The Chilean miracle, a term used by the Nobel prize winner, Milton Friedman, was an economic boom in Chile set forth by the deregulation of markets, free trade, the privatization of state owned companies, and loans from the IMF and the World Bank. Many of the policies that were implemented in Chile were set in place by the “Chicago Boys,” a group of Chilean students from the University of Chicago that were taught and…