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    cattle industry

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    With around 56.7 of worlds buffaloes‚ 12.5 cattle‚ 1.5 pigs and 3.1 poultry‚ India has the largest livestock sector in the world. Animal husbandry‚ being an integral part of the Gross Domestic Product‚ comprised 4 of the GDP and 26 of the agricultural GDP. Generating outputs worth Livestock Rs 2075 billion (at 2004-05 prices) in 2010-11‚ the total output worth was higher than the value of food grains. Livestock sector plays an important role in socio-economic development of rural households. Over

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    Gilles de Rais was one of the first “modern” serial killers even though he was alive during the 15th century. Experts believed that he killed anywhere from 140 to 800 children (DeBoer.‚ 2001). He was also one of the lieutenants under the infamous Joan of Arc (DeBoer.‚ 2001). Gilles was believed to be a great sorcerer (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.‚ N.D.). He is also considered to be Bluebeard from old nursery songs (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.‚ N.D.). Bluebeard was associated

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    Kinship of the Nuer People The Nuer is a tribe of people located along the Eastern banks of the Nile River in Southern Su dan. Traditionally‚ the Nuer’s most prominent possession is their cattle. It is essential to their society to the point they are willing to die fighting for their cattle. Much prestige and status is determined by the quantity and quality of the cattle one owns. It can be better understood by the way the Nuer will often take the name of their favorite cattle or oxen. In a way

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    The Cattle Kingdom

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    1-The Cattle Kingdom Cattle ranching was important in the West’s changing economy. The open range provided a place where herds could graze free of charge with no boundaries. Mexican ranchers were the ones who developed the techniques and equipment that was later used by all ranchers and cowboys‚ including branding‚ roping saddles‚ chaps‚ spurs and roundups. Texas had the largest herds of cattle and their cattle came from good Spanish stock‚ as well as small muscular broncos or mustangs suited to

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    The Dinka and the Nuer have hated each other for as long as anyone can remember. They fight over land‚ and will even kill each other. They also steal cows from each other. Both tribes have many things in common‚ this is why they are in conflict. The Nuer and the Dinka both honor their cattle‚ and see them as a sign of wealth. They both live in the same area and use the same resources. Both tribes follow the same culture. The Nuer and the Dinka both honor their cattle. For example in source C it states

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    Cattle Shed

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    4/12/12 Dr. Caton 347 Cross Cultural Contemporary Literature Optimism in ‘The Cattle Shed’ Imagine this: you are confined in a small room as a prisoner‚ forced to be a laborer because of the political preference Communism‚ and the love of your life is locked up in his own ‘cattle shed’. How is a person supposed to stay optimistic in these horrible living conditions? In Ding Ling’s “Sketches from the ‘Cattle Shed’”‚ the narrator who is placed in solitary confinement due to being a Communist

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    Roles Among Groups

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    personality and everyone fits into different roles when they starting working in groups with other people. “Every group has roles that need to be filled in order for the group to function effectively” (Argosy‚ 2012). Once these roles are established it is extremely important for everyone to communicate with each other. There are many different roles that people can fall into. I will begin with the role that I generally fall into myself. I like this role because I am naturally good at it and it

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    Cattle Identification

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    1310 Cattle Identification in Commercial Agriculture Topic: Methods of Cattle Identification Organization: Topically Specific Purpose: I want my audience to understand the different methods of cattle identification that are used in the commercial agriculture industry. I. Introduction A. Attention getter: A traditional West Texas saying goes‚ “trust your neighbors‚ but brand your cattle.” B. Relevance: Commercial agriculture contributes to the food we eat‚ and through the methods of cattle identification

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    Heather Evans

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    1) When evaluating the opportunity for Heather Evans it is important to analyze the situation from a few perspectives. From an industry perspective there is ample opportunity for her to succeed. The barriers to entry are quite low with no clear market leader and even the largest companies do not have high relative market share. Her concept appears to provide her with some differentiation and that will help to position her products to a target segment of the market. The industry growth rate is a strong

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    Walker Evans

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    (FSA) project. Photographers were hired and sent across the United States to document Americans living in poverty‚ and Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans were two of those photographers that were sent out. Along with their partners Paul S. Taylor and James Agee they started their projects which were approached through two different methods. Agee and Evans project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Lange and Taylor’s project An American exodus: A Record of Human Erosion‚ are two similar‚ though different

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