...NAME: ADU OWUSU EMMANUEL INDEX NO.: 4245510 COURSE: MEAT SCIENCE (AS 455) DEPT: POSTHARVEST TECHNOLOGY ASSIGNMENT 1 QUESTION: Factors that hinder meat animal production in Ghana Some of the factors affecting meat animal production in Ghana include the following; 1. CLIMATE Of all the factors influencing livestock production, climate, and location are undoubtedly the most significant. In fact, climatology characteristics such as ambient temperature and rainfall patterns have great influence on pasture and food resources availability cycle throughout the year, and types of disease and parasite outbreaks among animal populations. High temperature for instance can cause desertification which may result in pasture scarcity. 2. DISEASES AND PARASITES Many diseases affect livestock productivity thereby affecting their meat and other products. The added complication is that they can also cause disease in humans, such as Trypanosomiasis, Salmonellosis, and Brucellosis. Many animal diseases are not zoonotic; however they result in severe economic hardship. In Ghana there are several tropical parasitic livestock diseases such as the tsetse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis, with a sub continental scale of distribution that poses a major burden on cattle farming and rural livelihoods. Increased production costs associated to Trypanosomiasis is expected to be compensated by reduction in productivity losses due to mortality and morbidity in cattle and other species. 3. NUTRITION ...
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...Back to School A country thrives when its citizens contribute and make an effort to make the most of what they are offered in life. President Barack Obama is very aware of this and has made it an important subject and goal in his presidential career to inspire youngsters in the right direction, both for their own sake and their country’s. Barack Obamas’ speech “Back to School” at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was held in September 8, 2009. The age of the present audience varied to children from kindergarten and all the way up to twelfth grade. In addition to that, the speech was also broadcasted to students all over the country. The audience is obviously extremely great, and the speech will therefore have a tremendous impact on several individuals. The first thing Obama seems to focus on in his speech on the first day of the children’s school day are in fact the children themselves. He speaks directly to them, and initiates the whole thing by telling everyone that being nervous is perfectly normal. He has obviously tried it himself when he was their age. Very easily he finds a way to make everyone relate to him by telling stories from his own life. Barack Obama did not grow up under the best circumstances. He was raised by a single mother whom was very passionate about doing what was best for her son. She even sought to homeschool Obama, when he wasn’t at school. She wanted to make sure he would have the best possible future. This particular section of the speech...
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...Zalvin Prof. Jennifer Crane QU101 9/13/10 Creating An Identity In Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama he talks about his life experiences and how it formed him as a human being. The story also shows his interpretation of what a solid community should consist of, as well as how individuals should interact with each other within the community. Through out his life he was discovering who he was by new meeting people and trying new things. An individual’s identity is formed through life experiences and cannot be sustained because it is ever changing. A community is a group of people that are brought together by friends, family, neighbors, and people with common interests. Communities are important because it gives people a sense of belonging and being wanted. And in Dreams From My Father, those were the needs and values that Barack was searching for. Communities are sustained through shared values, trust, loyalty, and a sense of safety. In a community people have moral responsibilities to other people and the community as a whole. Communities have moral responsibilities to their individual members because they need to keep their community together. Sometimes you get put into situations where you want to look out for yourself rather than the big picture with the community. You have to be able to put others in front of you sometimes so that you can avoid these types of conflicts. My favorite excerpt from the text came when his father was insulted by a man who...
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...In the Name of Identity: Who are you? What makes you, you? How are you recognized as a human being? What makes you different than every other person in the world? These questions contribute to your identity regardless of what you look like or where you come from. Every single person in the world is different whether it is visible to others or not. Although we are all different, we connect and form relationships through common ideas, values, and goals. In the novel Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, he recalls many different issues involving his identity as a whole in addition to the communities he lived in and principle values he was raised to believe. Throughout the story Obama creates a theme of struggle involving his own identity. He relates these issues towards his own community and explains how certain occurrences shaped his character values and personality. The word individual can be defined in various ways. It is a word that can apply to many different aspects of life as well as raising questions about who exactly we are as individuals and how we became the who we are today. Some factors that contribute to shaping our identities are social, educational, economic and historical. While Obama was growing up, identity was something he struggled with deeply. He was constantly moving, which forced him to experience different communities and ultimately aided in forming his identity. Looking back on it now, it seems beneficial, but at...
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...really means to be free and what the real meaning is. Do we as a society understand how some laws were meant for all and some that were really placed in law for others? There are rules and laws that are set in place just for people of color or minority and some that are set in place for all if the all fit in the category set forth in that particular law. To this day the law is not equal. Crucial Social and Political incidents When my parents moved our family from Newark, NJ to Piscataway, NJ in the early 70’s, my father wanted to find a place better than where we were coming from. He found a home in an area that the builder was told not to sell to blacks. The builder did not care, he cared that my father had the down payment and he was approved, so the builder let my father buy the home. There was a reason why blacks were not allowed in that area. It all started with the bomb threats, sugar in our car gas tank, screen door torn from off the front door and racial slurs written on the garage doors. That is just the tip of the iceberg. My father told us never to cross to the other side of the road. We could never figure out why, until one day we decided to ride our bikes to the school on the other side of the road. We were at the school no more than five minutes before three police cars pulled and with sirens hailing. They told us to drop the bikes and lay on the ground. He asked us where we stole the bikes from. We told them our father bought them for us. One of...
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...Describe your American dream My American dream is very difficult to describe. This is mainly because I came from a very poor country where opportunities were so few and far between that there really was nothing to dream about. When I found out I’d be coming to the US, I began watching more television and did begin to formulate what I’d like to make out of my time in America. In the beginning I wanted to finish my education at the university level, someday own a home, buy a nice car, and settle down with a nice man. I must say, I have already achieved 3 of those 4 goals and I’m in the process of achieving the 4th. I believe the American dream for me will be ever changing. As I see more of the opportunities available, my dreams and desires will continue to grow. At this point, I would have to say that my dream is now to grow my business into a full time job, help my husband buy our dream home which will the final home that we will raise our daughter and future children in, and finish my bachelor’s degree in nursing. My husband and I started a small online business several months ago and it has been growing rapidly. I am able to run that business during my free time between classes, but as school finishes, I’d like to be able to count on that business for a full time income while I look for a nursing job. After that, I hope to hire employees and still be able to make a profit. While my husband and I do own a home now, we do not consider this our final house. ...
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...My Life Plan Vonda Shields My name is Vonda Shields., from Mobile Alabama. In this town you would think you can live up your dreams, but not much happening here. I have a lot of dreams. When I was a kid my dream is to be a Paralegal, and as the time goes by, I have other dreams, at times, and I wanted to be a Nurse, or a teacher and other motivating dreams. But now I have grown-up, now I know what I want to be. Currently, I’m nearly finished my educations at Keiser University. I will obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies. After I graduate, I want to work in a law office. I want to be Senior Paralegal in any case. I prefer working in a big city because it gives me a challenge to work there plus pay me higher salary. All of this is just the beginning of my dreams. Afterwards I will work for 4 or 5 year, I will have a lot of money by that time. I will resign from my job and start a business. Maybe one day start an antique business like my grandmother did. My dream is to be rich, that is the biggest dream. Afterwards or during my business, I am going to marry a handsome and intelligent man. I will start to make a family and planned to have 2 children positively a boy or girl. That dream went away after high school, now I just want to get married or enjoy the single life. I will live in a big house with a garden like my paw paw had. Maybe a pool so my children can play inside the yard because if they play outside It would be risky. Must keep them...
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...Term Paper on About Me and My Dream | Submission Date: August 18, 2013 Course Code: MKT-509 Course Title: Business Communication | Evening MBA Program Department of Marketing Faculty of Business Studies Submitted To Mubina Khondkar PhD(Manchester), Professor Department of Marketing Former Chairman, Department of Tourism and Hospitality management Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Submitted By Md. Amdadul Houqe ID No. 41324083 24th Batch University of Dhaka Background I am Md. Amdadul Houqe Topu, from Ashugonj, a small town from Brahmanbaria district of Chittagong division of Bangladesh. My father, Late Md. Abdul Kadir was a Head Master of Ashugonj Tap Biddut Kendra High School. I am the youngest son of my father. I have fourteen siblings. My Education I started my academic career in 1989 from Ashugonj Tap Biddut Kendra High School situated in Brahmanbaria district. There I studied up to Class V. I Studied in Ramiz Uddin High School in class VI which is situated in Dhaka cantonment with a dream to get admitted myself in cadet college. I got myself admitted in Comilla Cadet College in 1995. I have passed my SSC in 1999 from Comilla Cadet College which is in Comilla board and passed HSC in 2001 from the same college. After I completed my higher secondary examination, I came Dhaka with a dream to get admitted myself into University...
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...proud today to write my personal statement toyou as I have a dream in my life. In this statement I will show more and more about myself and about all things I achieved. When I was young (age of 4) my mother has died. When I was young I relied on myself. I learned myself. I was one of the first students in my primary school. When I joined to prep school, my dreams and my ideas get started. After that I started to search for programs and microschoolarship to improve my skills and to help me to achieve the most important dream. I already applied for some programs which presented from the embassy of the United States. - Such as access microschoolarship program which I passed and learned more and more from it. Also I applied for exchange culture programs and E.EERA program. All these programs which I applied for are very useful to me. After all these attempts, arranged my ideas again. I tried to take MARTIN LUTHER KING as my role model. I really love this Pearson because he achieves all his dreams and I want to achieve my dreams also. I helped myself. No one helped me when I was young. I can pass all difficulties which I face in my life. I am self motivated and ambitious. I don’t feel disappointed at all. I can come up with new ideas. I have innovation ideas. I am creative. Life is very nice. Then I joined to high school. My goals in this stage are to achieve my dreams. In my high school I take some certificate for my efforts in English and my efforts in my class. When I finished...
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...The concept of American Dream in general can be described as a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the U.S. It is a very vague concept as people tend to input their own perceptions. The American Dream can highly be related to my goals and aspirations. I try to name one personal who wouldn’t relate to the American Dream and I found none. But attaining that level of serenity and comfort is a challenge especially at this point of time. In relations to the context of the book “The Great Gatsby” and basing it upon the author’s emotion, this book portrays the 1920’s as an era of decayed social and moral values. The evidence was verified as a part of greed, empty pursuit of pleasure, and attaining the raging peck by overthrowing anyone that stands on the way. Whereas my professional goals and objective are the exact opposite from the context of this book. Yes, I too want to attain the highest possible peak in relations to my field, but I want to earn it being ethical towards my society and surroundings. The word “ethics”, means a lot to me, and upon the current economic and social standpoint, it is hard to afford ethics but we can. This World is a cruel place to live in but then again it’s a challenge for us young personal’s to modify and make this place livable. Probably, we won’t be privileged to enjoy our time of life, but we can make sure to make it a better place and set a stage that can be crucial for the next upcoming...
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...obtaining a degree in early childhood education will help me to be a positive role model to my children along with others that will be under my care and myself as we enter the classroom each day we as teachers we get the chance to inspire some if not all of the children we teach each day the basics of life and every day learning, as a teacher most of our children only get the opportunity to be love and inspire by some teachers. My goal is to obtain my associate degree in early childhood education by 2015, as I push forward to my goal I will study hard to do my best and get good grades, apart from this goal I have achieve my certificate in nursing and pursue my goal in the airline industry by obtain a certificate for that also I have accomplish my course in business and clerical and those was some of my goals that I set out to do and I did, we always set goals and at some point never got the time to meet those goals because of different reasons some of us is having children and so of us is that at the time the money is not there to go well I am one of those people but now that I can achieve my goal I will with the help of my teachers and others. My dreams there much I want to do dreams are something only you alone can overcome my dream is always to become a teacher I was always told that I can dream and to my dreams to realty and that is what I intend to do no matter what may come my way, with the ability and strong...
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...Some people have their own dreams since they were young. And they are sure that they want those dreams to be their future. However, some people find their dreams after they have grown up. Most of the teenagers are still having numerous dream jobs in their mind. Most of them not sure of what they want to be but they knew where they want to be. They want to live without worries , and live happily in the future. For me, as a 17-years-old student, my only aim for now is to pass my O'level with good grades so that i can get into the course that i want. Even though my mind has been wavering with a lot of thoughts and people's 'suggestion'. It is really hard for me to stick on one dream as i am easily influenced by other people. I wanted to be a business woman when i was young because i saw a movie about a successful business woman and i thought she was cool. After a while, i wanted to be an engineer like my father, a hotel owner after i visited to a grand hotel as i thought it would be awesome and a ballet dancer when i saw a Hong Kong movie about a beautiful ballet dancer. As i grew up i had more and more dreams. I wanted to be spy, detective, singer, and lastly architecture. And now i had realized, no matter how many dreams i had, there are some common factors about the dreams that i want. I wanted those career because i thought it would be cool, famous and mostly money. The fact that i like money does not change. My last dream was to be an architecture because i thought it...
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...ultimately become envious, I enjoy seeing my friends and other people succeed. I encourage all my children to go after their dreams. I have dreams of my own and have received very positive feedback from several personal and business friends. I hold back for one reason, I don’t have any support from my spouse. To her, it’s a foolish and vain ambition. So with my entrepreneurial needs lying dormant, I encourage everyone I meet to go for it! My father is an attorney and his father was a cattle rancher. As I was growing up in the home, my father shared with me a dream he had, but he never fulfilled that dream. He didn’t go for it! His dream was to own and operate a premium cycling shop in Salt Lake City. At the time, back in the 1980’s there was Fishers in Sugarhouse and a few, less premium, shops scattered about the valley. Today, there are dozens of successful, independent, premium cycling shops along the Wasatch Front. My father saw the vision and had the passion, but did not go for it. I have a great friend and tax client named Steve Savage. We both worked at Datamark together. At the time of his employment at Datamark, he was their lead account manager over their largest client, Corinthian Colleges. Steve and I both left the company around the same time. Both of us took positions with other firms. As we would meet occasionally for lunch we would discuss our individual entrepreneurial dreams. Steve had mastered the online lead generation business at Datamark and was now building a multi-million...
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...what I credit a large part of my work ethic to. From Day one in the military you are required to do everything to the best of your ability and to continue to do so until the task is completed. Even as a child, I was told that that if I say am going to do something or be somewhere, then I am to keep my word and follow through with every commitment. Once again the military further hammered in that mindset and even introduced me to the phrase; “if you are 15 minutes early, you are on time. If you are on time, you are late.” Both of these influences have molded me to value the characteristic of being reliable not only by presence but by carrying my own weight as well. The third trait that I feel solidifies my value as an employee is my ability to produce results. Of course the first two characteristics play a role in my ability to get results but I have always had a competitive nature as well. Coming from an athletic background and excelling at sports my whole life, I developed a hunger to be the best at whatever it was that I was doing. If I were to make a list of dream companies that I would like to work for, the first job that would have to be at the top of the list would have to be working for the Phoenix Suns at a corporate level. My first dream job that I ever remember having was to be a professional basketball player for the NBA and I kept that dream alive for about 25 years until I came to face the reality that my NBA hopes and dreams were not meant to be and the...
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...The Fall of Affordable Dream Homes How well can someone know the reasons for failure of a business? In my case, intimately. I partnered with my husband Dave for five years as a general contractor in our business Affordable Dream Homes. We became a statistic, one of the fifty-five percent of businesses that fail before their fifth anniversary (Hatten, 2009, p. 17). In the years that have passed since our business failed, I’ve mulled over why and have wrestled with what we could have done differently. Businesses fail for many reasons. Our case was classic. We failed in the long run first and foremost due to poor management. We also lacked capital, expert advice, marketing know-how, and we were pricing our product incorrectly. Off to a Great Start We started the business with great prospects, however. My husband Dave and I had dreamed of opening our own business for over ten years. Both of us craved the independence afforded us of working for ourselves, but between the two of us, we didn’t possess much in the way of small business management experience. I worked as an accounting and administrative clerk. Dave had a degree in construction management. He had managed a Winchell’s donut shop for two and a half years fresh out of college and then worked in residential construction as a construction manager and finish carpenter for five years. We became homebuilders in March of 1992. Our goal was to build beautiful, affordable new homes for clients and we named...
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