#1-2 Katherine Spriggs has convinced me that buying local is important and should be done. She persuades the audiuence that buying local greatly improves the local economy‚ is better for the enviroment through lessening green-house gas emissions and that it is healthier for the soil and land through producing different crops which benefit the soil in different ways‚ encourages polycultural farms‚ and that it uses less natural rescources for shipping like fuel and energy. She establishes the importance
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2013 Professor Woolverton Gay marriage is definitely the talk of the country‚ there are many people for it but unfortunately‚ the country also consists of people against it. My opponent Peter S. Sprigg is very much so against the whole idea of legalizing gay marriage. While reading the article Sprigg wrote‚ I noticed that his main concern was the uprising of children. He went on and on about the fact that marriage should be held between a man and a woman because opposite-sex relationships are
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Summary of “On Buying Local” by Katherine Spriggs Having the luxury of eating any fruit or vegetable at any time is amazing but it can come at a cost to our bodies and our environment. Buying local is a way we can counteract this because local farms are more sustainable and overall better for the environment. The United States play a huge part in global warming. But this is an international problem and many companies are putting billions of pounds of pesticides and chemicals into our water‚ air
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Global warming‚ pollution‚ and dwindling fossil fuels will always be the conservational problems if nobody starts to buy local grown foods. Katherine Spriggs‚ author of the essay‚ “On Buying Local‚” explains how having a large variety of foods at all times of the year is not worth the negative effects in the communities and their economies (Spriggs 92). As a community‚ many environmental challenges are being faced; Buying local will help bring advantages to not only the environment‚ but also the
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important aspect that has changed the Americas is the immigration of people from around the world. Immigrants did not just come from one location‚ they came from many countries such as Spain like Alonso Ortiz‚ France like Marie‚ and London like Elizabeth Spriggs‚ all three of who immigrated to the Americas for a reason. Based on the letter Alonso Ortiz wrote to his wife who was living in Spain‚ readers can clearly tell Ortiz immigrated to the Americas for a better life and more opportunities‚ but also to
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Belen Spriggs 9 March 2012 Ms. Dougherty AP English 11 Belen Spriggs 9 March 2012 Ms. Dougherty AP English 11 Spriggs 1 Spriggs 1 \ Critical Analysis of Behaviors of Tennessee Williams A significant playwright of the twentieth century‚ Tennessee Williams‚ possesses an insightful understanding of human relations and displays that understanding in a handful of his plays. Tennessee Williams’ lived through a rough childhood and had to grow up quickly to take care of his family as it
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(Sprigg) The court found that it is up to each individual state to make their own policy on same – sex marriage which was not followed during the time of Windsor. In regards to due process and equal protection‚ the Supreme Court found DOMA violated laws that the federal government placed in order for all people to be treated equally. (Sprigg) The majority stated that the main purpose of DOMA was to make same – sex couples
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"John Dos Passos‚ the illegitimate son of a prominent American attorney‚ John Randolph Dos Passos Jr.‚ was born in Chicago in 1896. His mother was Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison. Alan Wald has argued: "Dos Passos spent his early years traveling semi-clandestinely about the United States and abroad with his mother. It was to these unusual circumstances of his birth and childhood that he would later attribute his lifelong sense of rootlessness." Eventually the Passo family settled in Virginia. His
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D. “Uncertainties in Projections of Human-Caused Climate Warming”. Science‚ Vol 287‚ 21 Nov. 1997. Web. 23 Aug. 2013. Rissman‚ Jeffrey. “We Will Not Run Out of Fossil Fuels.” Livescience.com. Tech Media Network‚ 14 June 1013. Web. 27 Aug. 2013. Spriggs‚ Katherine. “On Buying Local.” Everyone’s an Author with Readings. Eds. Andrea Lunsford‚ et al. New York: W. W. Norton‚ 2013. 90-100. Print.
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holding costs‚ McCaskey believes that a cycle-service level of at least 95 percent should be achieved. Parts Emporium‚ Inc. was formed in 1973 as a wholesale distributor of automobile parts by two disenchanted auto mechanics‚ Dan Block and Ed Spriggs. Originally located in Block’s garage‚ the firm showed slow but steady growth until 1976‚ when it relocated to an old‚ abandoned meat-packing warehouse on Chicago’s South Side. With increased space for inventory
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