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investigate, pulling on me with her 105 pounds of muscle. At the same time I slithered my feet out of my poorly tied boots and scrambled my way up my baggy sweatpants, until with one large thrust of my legs I launch myself into the air, screaming “¡Hasta la vista pantalones!” in my excitement. With a wet thud I land on my back quickly scrambling towards the sturdy ground at the edge of the pond. I celebrate my victory with shouts, laughs, and gracious petting for my four legged-savior. It…

From charts and financial report above show that revenues increased by each year from $450,000,000 to $29,150,000 in the past five years; total employees grew from 54 people in 2011 to 175 in 2014; and the highest productivity (revenue/employee) was $1,083,333 in 2012. By calculation, Revenue Growth Rate in one year was 206.1% and 90.6% of 3 year average. Employee Growth Rate was 56.3% in one year and 3 year average was 48%. (Privco, 2016) Strengths YETI has existed distribution and sales…

The United States of America has an intricate history, but in particular, the Battle of Gettysburg is exceptionally unique. The battle took place on July 1-3 of 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Confederacy wanted to win a battle on Union territory, so they advanced, planning for an offensive objective, but The Union, knew they were approaching, and prepared a defensive strategy. When the battle first broke out, the Union cavalry was trying to hold back the Confederate infantry, which proved…

In the Fall of 2017 Dr. Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, published a book about today's generation that she named IGen. Her book is called IGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. IGen were born between 1995-2012, so they have always have some sort of smartphone during their childhood. Smartphones have ruined that generation, with the poor mental and physical health…

Title “Don 't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.” ~Marva Collins There will always be a student that will be struggling and as a teacher you should never give up on the student and help them succeed. In becoming a teacher, I will need a certain amount of education, understand what my responsibilities and requirements will be ,and make sure the job…

Everyone mourned the loss of Robin Williams, one of the funniest men I have ever known. Famous people such as this hit the news and everyone morns, but what about the ones we do not here about. Sitting in our basement watching television as a family the other night our phones all started ringing. A loud message over the phone tells us this is a code red emergency message from the police department. We are responding to an armed person that is threating suicide in your neighborhood please stay…

This research aims to understand the concept of borders and boundaries, their implications in the lives of common people and how it builds the national identity in the novel The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. Most often than not we are identified by the countries or for that matter the states we come from. These fragmentations brought about by the physical demarcations characterize our behavior in society. But the problem arise when…

In Hordeum bulbosum technique the H. bulbosum chromosomes are eliminated during embryo development from a hybrid zygote (Barclay, 1975). In this system, the Crossability with wheat is constrained by the presence of incompatible genes (Kr1 and Kr2 ) situated on the 5A and 5B of wheat chromosomes that markedly reduce the crossability between wheat and H. bulbosum (Falk and Kasha 1981).for this reason, at present, the method using Hordeum bulbosum is restricted to crossable wheat genotypes.…

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is known as one of the greatest poets in American history. His poetry was a significant trend of words and emotions which is why he is known as the father of free verse. Either published or not, Whitman had written thousands of poems and work in his life time. His most famous collection of poems was Leaves of Grass. He was a humanist and learned realism and transcendentalism at schools. Whitman didn’t just write poems, he was an essayist and journalist too and his…

on mental health concerns is a reoccurring part of the discourse when it comes to mass shootings, however such has been labelled to be ‘scapegoating’ the problem of gun violence (Wolf 2014, Online). As was evident from looking at the event in Isla Vista, each shooting brings new issues to light that can be debated in conjunction with gun violence, while distracting from discussions of control. While…