Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings. By Michael Jarrett. Middletown‚ Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press‚ 2014. 287 pp (softcover). ISBN 978-0-8195-7464-0. A Life on Nashville’s Music Row. By Bobby Braddock. Nashville‚ Tennessee: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press‚ 2015. 375 pp (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-8265-2082-1. Rhythm Makers: The Drumming Legends of Nashville in Their Own Words. By Tony Artimisi. New York: Rowman & Littlefield‚ 2015. 179
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For many years corn was only known in the Americas‚ now it is the most important grain in the world after wheat. When Columbus was traveling to search for new lands‚ he stumbled upon the island of Cuba and found native Indians that raised corn. In America we know the plant as corn whereas in Spanish-speaking countries it is called maize. The corn stalk itself has obvious features like the coarse leaves and its grown height. A corn stalk can range from 3 to 15 feet tall. The corn itself is consisted
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We are all made of corn. Take a strand of your hair. A recent study proved that if you are like the average American consumer today‚ your hair is 69% made of corn carbon. This is in contrast to the 5% of corn carbon that is in the hair of Europeans. Americans use more corn in their diet than anyone else‚ and the corn content of the American diet is partially responsible for our country’s widespread obesity and the prevalence of diabetes. America’s over-production of corn has serious consequences
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people‚ the theory reigns true for anything and corn. In other words‚ anything can trace back to corn in 6 steps or less. The widespread use of corn in almost every industry in America is no longer beneficial because of the vast consequences with the use of corn. In a section his book‚ Michael Pollan focuses on the corn industry. He finds of the “forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket...more than a quarter of them now contain corn ” Although these cheap foods can conveniently
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Bt-corn and its Effects on Danaus plexippus Recently‚ in response to the chronic problem of insects destroying crops and from the known effects of pesticides on humans and on the environment‚ a new form of insecticide was discovered‚ particularly for corn. In this new case‚ the organism itself is genetically modified for protection. This insect-resistant corn is the new Bt-corn and contains genetic material from the donor organism‚ a bacterium. Bacillus thuringiensis contains a protein that kills
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LITERARY ANALYSIS OF “The Corn Planting” Author: Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) is often called “the mid-American Chekhov” Title: The title suggests that characters in the story plant corn on a farm. Setting: A farm on Scratch Gravel Road in spring time. Point of view: First person point of view. Central Conflict: The old couple struggle to get over the terrible pain and grief because of the death of their only son. Plot: A man and a woman have a son late in their life. They are
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1. 175 million bushels grown annually‚ corn is Kentucky’s leading cash crop in terms of value. 2. Kentucky ranks 14th in the nation for corn production. 3. Bourbon County .............................................. 783‚200 bushels 4. Corn is the most widely produced feed grain in the United States‚ accounting for more than 90 percent of total value and production of feed grains. 5. Around 80 million acres of land are planted to corn‚ with the majority of the crop grown in the
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King Corn King Corn a documentary that starts off with two college graduates who happen to be friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis‚ at a lab where they discover to have “corn” in their hair. Right away the viewer gets a taste of the charisma these two friends and the closeness of the friendship they share. After this revelation they set out to trace where the corn came from which brings them to a small town in Greene‚ Iowa where a large percentage of corn farming takes place. Coincidently‚ that is
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well known as the Land of Opportunity because it provides individuals with many different options in life so they can achieve anything they set their mind to‚ no matter who they are‚ but is everyone today given that equal right to each opportunity? According to the dictionary equal opportunity is “the policy of treating others without discrimination‚ especially because of sex‚ race‚ or age”. Therefore in my opinion‚ I do not think America is really the ‘land of opportunity’ for all people equally.
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Short Story Analyzer Short Story: The Corn Planting Author: Sherwood Anderson Element for Analysis Response/Evidence Significance Basic summary of the story: Major action of the story in five to eight sentences. Hatch Hutchenson lives in a small town‚ where he marries a schoolteacher and they have a son named Will. The Hutchenson family runs a farm even after their son Will goes into Chicago to attend school at the Art Institute as a cartoonist. At the Art Institute
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