Selecting cattle‚ calving seasons‚ and weaning dates for efficient range beef production systems in the Northern Great Plains Wade Anderson Chadron State College Chadron‚ Nebraska Abstract The prevalence of late spring/early summer calving (May-June) and the use of early weaning with environmentally adapted cows is not a new concept‚ however it is not a common occurrence in Northwest Nebraska nor the Northern Great Plains. Over time smaller framed cows with less milk production have
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Who Benefits From Affirmative Action? Who benefits from Affirmative Action? Affirmative action is the positive effort to recruit subordinate-group members‚ including women‚ for jobs‚ promotions‚ and educational opportunities. The phrase affirmative action first appeared in an executive order issued by President Kennedy in 1961. The order called for contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed‚ and that employees are treated during employment‚ without regard
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Academy of Management Journal 2012‚ Vol. 55‚ No. 2‚ 421–457. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.0352 FROM COMMON TO UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: FOUNDATIONS OF FIRM-SPECIFIC USE OF KNOWLEDGE AS A RESOURCE RAJIV NAG Georgia State University DENNIS A. GIOIA The Pennsylvania State University Although the knowledge-based view of strategy has significantly advanced understanding of the foundations of competitive advantage‚ less is known about how knowledge becomes a strategic resource. In this study‚ we develop
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Running Head: “THE AWAKENING” FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE In Kate Chopin’s novel‚ “The Awakening”‚ Edna finds herself in a society where women were socially confined to be mothers and wives. This novel embodies the struggle of women in the society for independence along with the presence of women struggling to live up to the demands that their strict culture has placed upon them. A part of Edna wants to meet the standards of mother and wife that society has set‚ however her biggest desire
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Name: Date of Experiment: November 20‚ 2012 Group mates: Date of Submission: November 28‚ 2012 Experiment No. 1 ISOLATION OF CAFFEINE FROM TEA I. Introduction Caffeine is a very common substance and is found in coffee‚ tea‚ soft drinks‚ chocolate‚ and "stay-awake" pills such as Vivarin. It can be synthesized or isolated from natural sources. Caffeine constitutes approximately 4% of tea and coffee leaves‚ and is also found in cola nuts and cacao beans. Caffeine is a member of
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2 Years Two years from now I see myself in a State University. I am a Full time student at Cerritos College. I am here because I want to be successful in life. I want to prove my children that even though being a full time student‚ mother‚ and obtaining a full time job is hard but I can still accomplish my dream goals. There isn’t anything in this world that can stop me from going to school and graduating from a state university. I am majoring in Business Administration. I had previously graduated
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Downloading Music from the Web: We believe that even though downloading free music from the internet might not be right in the eyes of the artist that as a consumer we still find ways to support the artist. We pay for their shirts‚ hats and concert tickets. Plus there are still people out there who do buy their music. If music fans everywhere decided to start downloading from the internet I am sure that the music companies would find some way to make the consumer pay for it. Yes‚ they are
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desire to overshadow the fact that he was from the darkness‚ where only destitute and impoverished people come from. In the novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga‚ Balram’s origin and culture drove him to take drastic measures to remove the label of The Darkness‚ that said‚”You’re only a stupid servant.” According to Balram’s culture‚ his destiny was to be a sweet-maker.. Nobody expected more than that from him. Also‚ Balram received relentless taunting from some of his employers due to them believing
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Where I come from Student: Valentin Turri The poem is divided in two stanzas and two extra lines. The poet is an old woman that talks about her present and her old past. In the first stanza the poet starts like introducing us in the text‚ explaining us the meaning of ‘’people are made of places’’‚ this means that all we are made of memories‚ places where we come from‚ we carry
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Where I Come From - By Elizabeth Brewster The poem ‘Where I Come From’ by Elizabeth Brewster is about how a person is influenced by the environment he is brought up in‚ and how urban life and rural life differ from each other. The poet has used a very critical tone in this poem to convey how people are influenced by the places they have come from rural or urban. She has used a lot of visual imageries and metaphors to convey the busy lifestyle of the city. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem
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