...SWOTT Analysis - Jumbo Guest Ranch Introduction As a strategic planning tool, SWOTT analysis is used to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and trends of a business. It examines both the external and internal factors that are crucial to the operations and performance of a business. The results obtained from this analysis are useful during the formulation of a strategic plan. Before starting a SWOTT analysis, a clear and attainable business objective should be defined. The purpose of the analysis is to identify the negative and positive factors found within and outside of the company that influence its performance. Background Jumbo Guest Ranch is a ranch that targets the middle income earners and corporations as its principal clientele base. To improve profit margins while focusing on this market segment, the strategy of the ranch is self-sustenance and expansion. These two key strategic components are responsible for the ranch’s differentiation strategy. To enable its self-sustenance strategy, the farm will use renewable energy forms, such as solar and wind while most other resources and materials will be obtained from its farm. The Analysis In an attempt to help develop full awareness of all factors, both internal and external, which may affect the decision-making process and strategic planning, the SWOTT analysis...
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...Study Guide CH. 16: CONQUERING A CONTINENT (493-522) KEY TERMS Index cards should be created for the following key terms including time period relevant, definition, and significance in historical time period • Homestead Act • Protective tariff • Trusts • Munn v. Illinois • Gold standard • Bimetallic standard • The Crime of 1873 • Greenbacks • Bland-Allison Act • Matthew Perry • William Seward • Morill Act • Great Plains • Cow country • Long Drive • Cattle towns • Wild West • Ghost town • Great American Desert • Barbed wire • Exodusters • Polygamy • Dry farming • Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States • Yellowstone • “Reservation wars” • Sand Creek • Blackfoot • Dawes Severality Act • Navajo • Sitting Bull • Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand) • “Buffalo Bill” • Geronimo • Ghost Dance Movement • Battle of Wounded Knee LEARNING OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS Answer the following questions using the information gathered in the textbook. Please answer on a SEPARATE sheet of paper. Assignment will NOT be accepted if typed, or answered on this sheet of paper. Please PRINT this and attach to answers. 1. How and why did Republicans create an integrated economy during and after the Civil War? 2. What strategies did Americans utilize to deal with aridity in the West? 3. In what ways did mining, farming, and ranching shape the development of the West? 4. How did Native Americans respond to U.S. government policies...
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...Jacinta Legorreta February 21, 2013 English 2A Candy is an old man who has dedicated all of his life to ranch work, and the thing he most desires is freedom. Candy longs for the day when he doesn’t need to work as hard, under the poor conditions he has worked all those years, and live a peaceful life. Candy’s age put together with the fact that he is missing an arm are not beneficial things when working on a ranch. There is a constant fear in Candy’s mind of getting expelled from the ranch and it makes the thought of being free someday, a dominating one. Feelings of being lonesome are commonly portrayed through Candy, another reason for the dream that Candy shares with George and Lennie. This dream often distracts him from his harsh reality. Even though the men in the ranch can leave whenever they wish, the feeling of being locked into their lives is still present. The desolate and tiring life that most men live in the ranch is a factor that contributes to the wish of freedom. The dream that George and Lennie have is the same than that of Candy. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.” (Steinbeck pg. 13) George and Lennie are constantly speaking of how they have themselves to take care of each other. This brotherhood is something that Candy, a forlorn character, doesn’t have. Feelings of loneliness and being lonesome are factors that cause Candy to dream of obtaining...
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...5 major causes of Deforestation. 1. Is the expansion of farm land, the need for agriculture and the global demand for food has increased? The need for global commodities has driven large farmers to clear the Forrest at a massive rate. One of the largest commodities the demand has increased for is Palm Oil. This need for Palm oil is so great that it not only has destroyed acres of rain forest but this need is starting to such a strong effect that people families are becoming displaced. 2. Cattle ranchers are becoming a large driving factor of deforestation. The growth in human society is booming. Because of the population of the world there is less and less land for cattle to graze from. The ranchers in Brazil are responsible for” 75% of deforestation in Brazil is linked to the cattle industry, with the cattle herd in the Amazon growing by 140% from 1990 to 2003” http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/climate_change/?665/The-top-10-drivers-of-deforestation 3. Logging and Timber is becoming as affluent as the drug trade and other black market activities. 80% of the logging in the worlds Rain Forrest is illegal. Due to the large demand for logging many of the countries authorities are taking bribes and letting greed over rule the law. 4. Mining is becoming a major factor in deforestation particularly in developing countries and contents. All though mining isn’t as big of a factor as three logging, cattle ranching and increase in farm land it does still have...
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...The Day The Cowboys Quit This story was about the cowboy strike happened in Texas Panhandle in 1833. The main character was Hugh Hitchcock. He worked as a wagon boss for rancher Charlie Waide. Rascal Mcginty and Law Mcginty were also worked for Charlie Waide. The story started as that Rascal McGinty were argue with Dayton Brumley about the cow¡¦s brand as either LR or Figure 4. Hitchcock can not judge for them. At night Brumley¡¦s boss Selkirk come to talk about the Figure 4 and tell Charlie Waide that most of the ranchers agree that no men employed for wages be allowed to own cattle. Selkirk also said some cowboys change their owner¡¦s brand to their own brand. Charlie Waide trusted his men and believed this idea was wrong. He felt that his cowboys were like his friend and he wouldn¡¦t do this to them. Several days later, Joe Sand was injured and Hitch took him to town. After he took Joe to the doctor, he went to the Cowboys Bar to find a place for Joe to stay in town. He saw Gossett and Cottingham in there. They tried to convence Hitch to join the cowboy strike. Hitch said he was loyal to Charlie and would not strike against him. After he came back from town Charlie asked him about the cowboys rule. Hitch said they wouldn¡¦t strike against him. Short after, Selkirk came to threat Charlie to came to the rancher¡¦s meeting which were going to talk about the cowboys rule. Charlie brought Hitch with him. After the meeting, Charlie still couldn¡¦t agree to take away the cowboys...
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...Confederation and National Policy Name: Institution: Date: Abstract The Canadian Confederation entails the process through which the Canada emerged in 1867 when three colonies under Britain formed the four provinces Canada. During the emergence of Canada in 1867, several factors played vital roles in its formation and these factors include political, economic and social factors and other forces and actors. The National Policy was introduced by John Macdonald in the year 1879 and it entailed the implementation of high tariffs on the manufactured imported products so as to safeguard and protect manufacturing industries in Canada. The National Policy was also very crucial in the development of the rural Prairie West as cattle ranching activities were introduced in the region. The paper will discuss the factors that led to the emergence of Canada, analyse the National Policy and its significance for the development of the rural Prairie West. Political, Economic and Social factors, actors and forces that were instrumental in the emergence of Canada in 1867 Several factors played a significant role in the emergence of Canada in 1867. These factors include political, economic and social factors in combination to other forces and actors. The political factors played a considerable role in the emergence of Canada because by the mid 1860s, the Great Britain had almost lost its concern for the colonies it controlled in North America and particularly Canada. The loss in interest...
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...on July, 20 1889 Jim Averell and Ellen Watson, a couple who owned a cattle ranch and lived near Carbon County, Wyoming where accused of stealing cattle. The newspaper made Ella to be a prostitute also, they were kidnapped for their home and lynched because they were suspected of stealing cattle. This was added incident divided the residents more from the big stock growers. The news was circulated by Cheyenne Daily Sun, a newspaper owned by and ally to big cattle company (WSGA). This increased tensions so much over the next three years the WSGA had to hired gunmen and gave them a list of people alleged to rustlers to be killed. This shows that the WSGA is now openly taking the law in their own hands. This might be the accumulation of all the failed trials and little to no convictions that the big cattle company brought up to the court. The big cattle company now will seek justice in their own way or to eliminate any competitor’s completion. The big cattle companies hired men to start killing men from the eastern side of the county pick off men as they see fit. These men were going into people’s homes and with false papers arresting them and one body was later found on 12th of June hanging on a tree in a gulch, there were numerous murders that follows. The big Wyoming cattle owner’s now has a campaign against the cattle thieves, these gunmen were called regulators. On April 1892 they attacked KC Ranch and killed two men. Local residents were mad and formed a 300 men and took...
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...The Long Drive: Link the points together to show reasons for the development of the Long Drive. |Due to the American Civil War many cowboys went off to fight for the | |Cattle in Texas reproduced and when the cowboys returned there were 5 million| |south against the north. | |cattle. | | | | | |Demand for beef in the East meant that cattle could be sold for $50 | |Homesteaders stopped cattlemen who tried to drive their cattle across the | |per head as opposed to $5 in Texas. | |Plains. They did not want their animals catching Texas fever or their crops | | | |damaged. | | | | | |Charles Goodnight and his business partner, Oliver Loving drove a | |The construction of the Transcontinental Railway (completed 1869) solved this| |cattle herd up to a US army fort to sell beef. This journey led to...
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...Kaitlin Verhagen Dr. T DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" September 7, 2014 Convocation Number 1 History of Gunnison “Some days are good days, some days are bad days, but there is never a day that I didn’t try my best”. From the beginning, the Gunnison Valley has been a source of education, work, and recreational activities. Tourists, students, and employers come from near and far to enjoy the amenities that Gunnison and Crested Butte has to offer. Western State Colorado University students make up 2,200 of the 5,892 people that live in the Gunnison Valley. In 1923 the two year “Normal” school switched over to become a four year university known as “Western State College”. Also in 1923, Western picked up the mascot of “the fawns”, to represent speed and agility that the school’s athletics represented. But since then, WSCU has changed the mascot to “The Mountaineers” with the colors Crimson and Slate. Crimson; to represent the Indian Paint Brush and Slate; the color of Sage brush that grew above the college. Western originally started out as a small teaching school, but it has done nothing but grow throughout the years. Today Western holds the record for the four year university with the highest elevation at 7,703 feet above sea level. Also for the largest collegiate letter that is currently placed at the top of the previously named “Tenderfoot Mountain”. Dr. John Johnson designed the “W” that stands at 450 feet tall and 16 feet wide. Shortly after the W was put on Tenderfoot...
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...From the 1860’s to the 1880’s were the Texas cattle drives. A cattle drive was when a team of men drove cattle to the west coast and to the north from the southern and the central parts of Texas. This was the glory days of the cowboy. To have a drive it would require about 12 men and about 2+ months. After a cattle drivers first drive only about ⅓ would sign up for another drive. The drives were mainly easily except for when they ran into certain things like fences, hail storms, snakes, and much more like that. The drives lasted for about 25 years until it came hulting to a stop. (background essay) Drives were long, It would take about 8 weeks to do a single drive. With drives taking so long most cowboys wouldn't see their families for months...
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...I am doing my report on the new row crop application system of the Balzer liquid manure handling equipment. Working on a large hog farm in Bloomfield, IN and just having added a Balzer Eliminator 7500 gallon slurry tank (non-row crop) to our operation I felt a report on this subject would be appropriate. The new addition to the Balzer Manufacturing Company is the row-crop application system. This system will allow producers to apply the nutrients needed into standing corn or beans in crucial times of the year. The row-crop edition will be on a 120 inch wheelbase needed for 30 inch rows. The application will be equipped with 18.4R38 tires. Balzer Independent Steerable Axle System allows for easier turning on end rows as well as a smooth ride over rough terrain. Grease banks are conveniently located for easy maintenance on the steering system. The Rite-Rate system is added as an option for precise, consistent application throughout the field. The standard Bull Pull hitch allows the hitch pin to move for smooth towing and less stress on critical areas. The system is equipped with 2- wheel brakes, but can be used with up to 6.It comes standard with hydraulic drive and PTO drive is optional. A row-crop manure handling system would be a very rewarding addition to any operation. By having this option to side dress manure could well cut down on a producer’s application of fertilize, reducing quite a large portion of a producer’s expense. If we farmed more acres on our farm...
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...Farm Girl by Jessica Hemauer David Smith ENG115 Charles P. Bretan January 13, 2016 “Farm Girl" Hemauer composed this article since she needed peruses to peruse about what her life was similar to experiencing childhood with a ranch, and how she needed to oversee and assume the responsibility for her distinctive way of life that no different children had encountered. Regardless of on the off chance that she was the "ranch young lady," or the girl that was in school exercises, she was continually diverse, however, knew how to deal with her time carefully without being focused. The fundamental reason, as I would like to think, was to provide for others what she needed to encounter, and that was learning obligation and time administration. Distinctive gatherings of people might see diverse purposes relying upon what intrigues them more about the article. A few individuals might be keener on her homestead life, and others might be more centered around her school life, and after that pick what the design depends on all alone entertainments. Likewise, special gatherings of people could incorporate the individuals who deal with their time well versus the individuals who don't, and the individuals who are mindful and reckless. I imagine that her group of onlookers is for individuals who have issues with time administration, and only demonstrating that it’s conceivable to be included and buckle down, however how you deal with your time and getting to be dependable is critical...
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...Horse Barn Working on the horse farm has to be the most memorable part of my life. Surrounded by fresh air, wide-open space, and peaceful, natural sounds, I cherished every minute spent with the horses. The hot, humid summers were always the laziest parts of life on the farm. Rising early in the damp morning, I tried to get outside and start my daily chores before the inevitable heat struck the air. Breathing the crisp, morning air, winding through the maze of wagging tails and drooling mouths toward the sliding barn door, passed through a sense of importance in my life. At the gates, anxious to get their breakfast after a long, cool night in the fields, the impatient horses pawed and neighed, telling me to hurry my step. The beautiful, bay quarter horse, Impressive, was always at the head of the pack. King of the group, he was also the trusty, old horse that I knew and loved. Unlatching the gate, I allow Impressive to walk through on his own accord and trot off to his stall, awaiting the grain and hay he knows will soon come. The rest of the pack is brought in one by one and placed safely into their spacious, clean and, for the meantime, cool stalls. Perfect, Taffy, Special, Max, Arbitrator, Melvin, Rupert, and more, all having their own turn, all knowing their place in the well-established pecking order. Feeding time is always filled with commotion and seemingly unending, impatient screams. The average outsider would have guessed that the fat, robust horses hadn't been...
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...Haciendas The word “Hacienda” means estate, or large cattle ranching plantation. Some haciendas were even mines or factories for businesses. Haciendas were a display of wealth and luxury, because you were able to afford large amounts of land. Haciendas tended to be family owned, and have a lot of history behind them. Haciendas started out as land grants given to the conquistadors, or the Spanish conquers. Once they became owners, they were referred to hacendados or patrons. Campesino, or workhand, was the workers of the Haciendas. Haciendas didn’t produce large-scale items though; it was large plantations producing small-scale items. Only the best of the best land was used, there were no exceptions to the land usage. While the production was low, the prices were high because if there were more productions going on, they would have had to lower the prices. People didn’t necessarily have Haciendas to be economically helpful; they did for their own status. Haciendas produced items from meat, to produce, and other items able to be exported for income. The campesino was in debt to the Patron for their whole lives, and if they had children, the children took on the parent’s debt. They would live on the Patron’s land, but labor was their pay off. When the campesino’s needed to borrow money from the Patron’s for things such as weddings, funerals and gatherings, they would fall into debt and typically stay in debt. Because the campesino literally owns absolutely nothing, to...
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...Winston Havenstrite October 28, 2015 DCA Paper American Association of Professional Landmen The American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), centered in Fort Worth, Texas, is an organization made up of the best landmen the world has to offer. Landmen are a very unique part of the energy industry, my Dad likes to say they are “the business end of oil and gas” (Havenstrite). They spend hours in the courthouse building a report over certain areas of land that their client (Devon Energy, Southwestern Energy, etc.), could be interested in for oil purposes. Depending on their report, they and the client will decide if it would be prosperous to drill in that specific location. If they decide to drill, the land company will then write up a contract between the landowner, the land company, and the client. If terms of the contract are agreed upon, the client is able to commence the drilling process. Landmen could be a discourse community in a bigger picture, but I’ve decided to shrink the lens of the community and focus on AAPL alone. AAPL holds its members to the highest standards of performance to ensure the continued success of the energy industry. This discourse community is a very strong and ethical organization with members who share these traits and qualifications to be a member. “Discourses are intimately related to the distribution of social power and hierarchical structure in society.” (Gee 144) The community of professional landmen relate to Gee’s arguments on discourse...
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