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    How would you feel about only eating the food that is 100 miles within the distance that you live? Would you be able to do it every single day? Within 100 miles of where you currently living, do you have access to fresh meat products, seafood, dairy products, fresh fruit, and vegetables products? If you drink coffee, are coffee beans readily available within that area? What about chocolate or coco, are coco beans grown nearby? Are you in an area where corn and wheat are grown where you can produce

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    Toward a Recovery of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks While researching texts written about nineteenth century farming, I found a few authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming, particularly agricultural journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures. These authors often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by discussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was published (see Demaree

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    Mitra’s Neel -Darpan Neel Darpan; or The Indigo Planting Mirror is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-1859. The play was essential to Neelbidraha, or Indigo revolt of February- March 1859 in Bengal, when farmers refused to plant indigo in their fields as a protest against exploitative farming under the British Raj. The preface to the play addresses the numerous indigo planters who are offered the neel darpan (the indigo mirror)

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    If not, than you must get of what you are doing. This can be used through a comparison of communist using military force in order to remove those who refuse to follow their demand for change, and the government using their economic power to force farmers to improve their farming techniques. In a “Free Market” the most successful becomes the richest. To those who could not

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    With recent controversy over the Federal Marketing Order on Tart Cherries, some feel it should be changed or eliminated. The topic has gone viral from a Facebook post generating an astonishing 40,000 shares. The farmer, who was outraged with the order, made it seem as though he had to destroy the oversupply of cherries. Was this even the case? Did he falsify his information? One thing that’s an obvious fact is that the importation of foreign cherries needs to be regulated, especially if domestic

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    Child labour in business Today, while people around the world are enjoying the chocolate, some children in Ivory Coast and Ghana have to work in the cocoa industry even without pay. These children do not have the ability to accept an education and they are trafficked to do the work. According to the documentary called The Dark Side Of Chocolate, the child labour still exists in the cocoa industry in recent years although the government promised to ban it, and this behaviour is thought as illegal

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    The Meaning Of Art

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    For many individuals collecting and viewing art might be thought of as a favorite hobby or past time. Individuals might be seen at a local art museum just gazing at a piece of art, exhibiting almost signs of being in a trance of deep thought as one stands front and center, not moving for what seems to be an endless amount of time. The reason for such an appreciation for art, might be what it represents. Lisa Marder writes, “Art can be thought of as a symbol of what it means to be human, manifested

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    survival.” The main character, an educated farmer with a love for space travel, has a complex within himself and thus he presents a great opportunity to analyze and discuss character development. Cooper, the name of one of the most natural, human characters in the entire plot line of Interstellar, goes on a journey of ups and downs to be a hero once again. (Buchanan, Jason. “Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related.”) Cooper goes from a simple farmer with a care free lifestyle, wishing the

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    Farmer, the perfect profession? This article will provide information of what being a farmer is, what is needed to become one, a common routine and some positive and negative facts of this profession. A farmer is a person who owns a farm and or takes care of it . Farmers normally perform two kinds of professional activities: one is related with animals and the other with plants. The first one includes all the process of breeding livestock, such as cattle, sheep, pig and goats. On the other hand we

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    Introduction There is a growing need for simple, cost efficient, commercially viable technology solutions for complex or day to day problems to turn the restrictions and constraints into advantage. Frugal innovation is any innovation which works around the constraints financial or otherwise to either increase efficiency of a process or service or effectively lower costs for an organisation or section of people. Frugal which is also known as ‘Jugaad’ innovation works around the concept of creation

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