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     With sights of my future set in the agricultural  direction‚ as well as my current interest‚ being agriculturally informed in the seed aspect  will benefit me  as well as many other farmers from all over the country. There are several seed companies that sell  seed‚ in this case‚ for field corn. Within each company there are lists of possible seed varieties with  different uses which will work better on different grounds. It’s important that the farmer knows which  hybrid seed to plant in which soil to have the best potential crop.  W

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    "The Triumph of the Egg" by Sherwood Anderson is a short story of a childhood recollection of a boy watching his father‚ his egg‚ and his failed ambition. It takes place in and around early Bidwell‚ Ohio‚ during pre-automobile America. The boy tells of his father‚ an otherwise simple‚ hardworking‚ farmhand‚ up until‚ at thirty-five‚ he met the boy’s mother‚ a responsible country schoolteacher‚ that changed him for possibly the worse. He also introduces the son of a merchant‚ Joe Kane. The story starts

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    sugarcane‚ sorghum‚ and corn fields to prevent the growth of weeds. Atrazine has been a reliable herbicide for over 50 years. There are no alternatives that can compare to Atrazine. Atrazine is a herbicide classified in the triazine class that is used to prevent the growth of weeds in crop fields. A herbicide is a substance that is toxic to plants and is used to kill any unwanted vegetative growth. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is a private organization where corn growers meat to discuss

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    "Else if you would be a man‚ speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls‚ and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again‚ though it contradict every thing you said today." A. planting corn Emerson compares planting corn to work ethic. “no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” B. an iron string He compares an iron string to self trust and confidence. “Trust thyself: every heart

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    what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls‚ and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again‚ though it contradict every thing you said today." A. planting corn He compares planting corn to the universe and its people : "that though the wide universe is full of good‚ no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." B. an iron string He compares iron string to .......... : "Trust

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    slaughter of the war. They mostly moved to Paris. They all gathered at the apartment of the writer Gertrude Stein. She called these people the Lost Generation. They included E.E. Cummings‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ John Dos Passos‚ and Sherwood Anderson. E.E. Cummings was a poet who brought fresh ideas to his work. He used no capitalization and did not follow the usual way of presenting verse on a page. Ernest Hemingway used a direct‚ taut style in his novels. His first book‚ The Sun Also

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    cannon balls to words: "Else if you would be a man‚ speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls‚ and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again‚ though it contradict every thing you said today." A. Planting corn; Emerson compares planting corn to the universe‚ and the people in it. He says‚ “that through the wide universe is

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    Written by Sherwood Anderson in 1919‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ a collection of short stories‚ allows us to enter the alternately complex‚ lonely‚ joyful‚ and strange lives of the inhabitants of the small town of Winesburg‚ Ohio. While each character finds definition through their role in the community‚ we are witness to the individual struggle each faces in trying to reconcile their secret life within. A perfect example of two characters are Alice Hindman and Enoch Robinson. The loneliness and illusion that

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    1. Sophistication- Sherwood Anderson 2. Big Two- Hearted River- Ernest Hemingway 3. Winter Dreams- F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. The Bear- William Faulkner 5. The Catbird Seat- James Thurber 6. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall- Katherine Anne Porter 7. The Devil and Daniel Webster- Stephen Vincent Benet 8. Flight- John Steinbeck 9. Winter Night- Kay Boyle 10. Another April- Jesse Stuart 11. A Worn Path- Eudora Welty 12. The Crop- Flannery O’Connor 13. The

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    Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg‚ Ohio deals with the understanding of human nature and its faults. In each short story the character is increasingly oppressed by his inability to express himself to those in his society. They are all desperately trying to make contact with someone outside themselves and in attempting to do so gain a greater understanding of themselves. The opening chapter "The Book of the Grotesque‚" explains how each character in Winesburg lives by one or more truths‚ escaping from

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