...The North Carolina Annual State Fair Trisha Wrenn Shelley DeVry University Contents Page. . History . Accidents and incidents . Exhibits . Antique Farm Machinery .Cultivate a Career Tent . Field of Dreams . Flower and Garden Show .Got to Be NC Agriculture Tent . Heritage Circle .State Fair Ark . Village of Yesteryear .Competitions . General Exhibits . Livestock .Poultry & Rabbits . Family & Consumer Sciences . Special Exhibits .Folk Festival . Horses . Entertainment .Concerts in Dorton Arena .Fireworks . Free Entertainment . Grandstand Shows . Kiddieland Fun Park . Carnival Rides and Games . Roller coasters The North Carolina state fair began in October of 1853, and lasted four days, with a total of four thousand people who attended. Today the fair lasts eleven days with over eight hundred thousand people who attended. The fair is held in our state capitol of Raleigh, North Carolina. The purpose of the state fair is to showcase and promote the states agriculture arts, crafts and culture through the annual agriculture fair. The State Fair’s aim is to educate all North Carolinians about the importance of agriculture to our heritage and our economy. The exhibits are antique farm machinery, cultivate a career tent, flower and garden show, heritage circle, and state fair ARK and the village of yesteryear. The completions include general exhibits such as livestock, poultry, rabbits, family...
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...general. In Florida alone in the past years has seen thousands of people working in Florida tomato fields against their will. Additionally, in South Haven, Michigan State, companies such as Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Company have children as young as five years old working in their blueberry fields (Patel, Hill, Eslocker, & Ross, 2009). Chemicals and pesticides used in these fields are toxic to the workers causing serious respiratory and carcinogenic diseases. Unfortunately, most of these cases go unreported. However, over the years after outcries by human activists and other human rights organizations who are against this kind of labor force, law enforcement officials have worked tirelessly over the last couple of years to free thousands of ‘slaves’ and prosecute those involved in this outrageous crime against humanity. Some of those who found themselves in these unkind working conditions had come seeking better lives for themselves and their families while others were ‘sold’ into slavery. Ironically, most Americans know and ponder over child labor as a problem everywhere else except in America, and shamelessly I fall into that category. How much of a problem is sex trafficking in Charlotte, North Carolina and does this surprise you? Have you seen evidence of this issue or heard about it? Explain the story of Janet; why did she and so many other women end up on these farms...
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...They worked in the fields on crops that would be sold or eaten by the people who lived on the plantation. They also raised animals for meat and milk. Field slaves worked very long and hard. They worked each day from the time the sun rose until it set. Many of these slaves lived in extremely poor conditions in small houses with no heat or furniture. Sometimes, five or ten people lived together in one room. House slaves usually lived in the owner's house. They did the cooking and cleaning in the house. House slaves worked fewer hours than field slaves, but were more closely supervised by the owner and his family. Laws approved in the southern colonies made it illegal for slaves to marry, own property or earn their freedom. These laws also did not permit slaves to be educated, or even to learn to read. But some owners permitted their slaves to earn their freedom, or gave them money for good work. Other owners punished slaves to get them to work. These punishments included beatings, withholding food and threatening to sell members of a slave's family. Some plantation owners executed slaves suspected of serious crimes by hanging them or burning them...
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...considered a ‘slave’ state.(3) Many states had banned slavery in 1776 already, but Maryland hadn’t banned slavery yet.(1) When the Civil war started in 1861, the North wanted to ban slavery, while the south wanted to keep slavery completely legal. She works on a farm in the south where she and many others planted cotton and other plants as well.(4) She did not like the way her owners treated her unfairly along with the rest of her fellow slaves. The house servants were given better food and clothing than the farm workers were given.(2) She had to be out in the field as soon...
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...Introduction Every day, despite their screams of terror and cries for help thousands of animals are murdered for the sake of human nourishment. It has been estimated that in 2002 factory farms made up 99% of all animals raised and slaughtered in the United States (Farm Forward, 2004). Today those numbers only continue to grow both in USA and Canada. Despite the accounts of violence from meat workers and the opinion of the public, factory farms are an industry that continues to grow and flourish today. Ultimately showing that human consumption of meat is not only unnecessary it is cruel as well. Aggressive Meatworkers The primary way that North Americans get meat into our grocery stores and eventfully onto their tables is through the unfortunate invention of factory farms. Despite the unsanitary and inhumane conditions that the animals in these factories must endure the worst cruelties from the employees themselves. A 2013...
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...and widespread drought. The first picture in my collage is of a young male splitting wood in preparation of winter, most likely for firewood in order to keep warm. His clothes look a little worn and dirty from working, as a pile of already split wood can be seen behind him. He looks to be around the preteen or teen age, so this conveys that although his family may own the farm, their children would likely be needed to help with various tasks around the farm....
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...There are hundreds of different views about ‘slavery’. As Paul Finkelman says; few subjects in American history have been as compelling as slavery. Actually the reason, of why this is one of the most compelled and debated issue, is “slavery is not only one of the most ancient but also one of the most long-lived forms of economic and social organizations” . All antebellum Americans, in north and south, were affected directly or indirectly by slavery. When we look at the economic aspect of slavery, I can say that slavery helped the economic growth and development of the United States. It was a harsh but profitable system. Contrary to the arguments that see slavery as inefficient and detriment to America’s economy, I believe that it was a benefactor. As Stampp and Fogel argue, slavery was morally untenable; it was a harsh working system but an efficient and profitable one. This paper will touch upon different arguments about efficiency of slavery and how slavery affected the South economy. This paper will try to clarify the issue that whether slavery was a benefactor or detriment for economy of the United States. The debate has gone on for a long time and it is about whether the slavery was efficient or not and whether it was an economic burden on regions. Historians emphasized mostly on the issue of whether or not slavery was a benefactor or detriment to the United States. There are two opposite poles of this debate. From those historians, Ulrich B. Phillips represented one pole...
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...shareholder value. 2012 Acquisition of Nautical Petroleum Nautical was an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It had development assets in the United Kingdom North Sea (including interests in the Catcher, Kraken and Mariner fields) and exploration assets in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. Acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS Agora was a private Norwegian company with non-operated, exploration, appraisal and developmental assets in the UK and Norwegian North Sea. Proposed $3.5 billion return of cash to shareholders announced Shareholders to receive £1.60/share dividend for each Ordinary Share. 2011 Simon Thomson becomes Chief Executive Part sale of shareholding in Cairn India to Vedanta Resources plc completed Cairn retains an approximate 22 per cent shareholding in Cairn India. 2010 Proposed part sale of Cairn India to Vedanta Resources plc Cairn announces the proposed part sale of up to 51% of its shareholding in Cairn India to Vedanta. Cairn's interests in Bangladesh acquired by Santos Santos acquires all of Cairn's assets in Bangladesh, including its interest in the Sangu gas field and Block 16 exploration acreage. 2009 Successful placing of 6,542,270 new Ordinary Shares (5%) at Placing Price of £17.75/share raises $161 million Cairn agrees farm out with Petronas International Corporation Ltd (PICL) for Greenland blocks: Sigguk, Eqqua, Kingittoq, Saqqamuit, Sallitt and Uummannarsuaq Cairn has agreed to sell to PICL a 10% interest...
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...My experience in Jaffna. - Sandarangi Perera. For three long decades Sri Lanka was torn apart by a malicious war between the country’s majority and minority. This war made the northern part of the country inaccessible to most of us; its citizens. I myself thought that the people, culture and beauty of Jaffna and its surrounding areas would forever remain a mystery to me. However once the war ended the north opened its doors for the rest of the island to come witness all it has to offer. Even with this great opportunity at my grasp, yet I was not capable of visiting northern Sri Lanka as I simply never had the chance to. Luckily this chance was given to my fellow college mates and me by our college, the chance to see and experience the post war north. After much planning, excitement and enthusiasm we set off to Jaffna hoping to gain new experiences, to learn new lessons and to make memories as young individuals aspiring to be future journalists. Our purpose of going to Jaffna was to collect information that was needed to write the stories that each of us were assigned. The general topic assigned to the particular group that I belonged to was “agriculture”, and we were given the full freedom to choose a story we preferred under that wide topic. The task was to choose a story which has a news value. I instantly decided on writing my story about the grape cultivation in Jaffna, considering my love for the fruit and my curiosity about the process of its cultivation. On my first...
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...shareholder value. 2012 Acquisition of Nautical Petroleum Nautical was an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It had development assets in the United Kingdom North Sea (including interests in the Catcher, Kraken and Mariner fields) and exploration assets in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. Acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS Agora was a private Norwegian company with non-operated, exploration, appraisal and developmental assets in the UK and Norwegian North Sea. Proposed $3.5 billion return of cash to shareholders announced Shareholders to receive £1.60/share dividend for each Ordinary Share. 2011 Simon Thomson becomes Chief Executive Part sale of shareholding in Cairn India to Vedanta Resources plc completed Cairn retains an approximate 22 per cent shareholding in Cairn India. 2010 Proposed part sale of Cairn India to Vedanta Resources plc Cairn announces the proposed part sale of up to 51% of its shareholding in Cairn India to Vedanta. Cairn's interests in Bangladesh acquired by Santos Santos acquires all of Cairn's assets in Bangladesh, including its interest in the Sangu gas field and Block 16 exploration acreage. 2009 Successful placing of 6,542,270 new Ordinary Shares (5%) at Placing Price of £17.75/share raises $161 million Cairn agrees farm out with Petronas International Corporation Ltd (PICL) for Greenland blocks: Sigguk, Eqqua, Kingittoq, Saqqamuit, Sallitt and Uummannarsuaq Cairn has agreed to sell to PICL a 10% interest...
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...Jamestown was the first permanent English colony established in North America in the year 1607. People came to North America for many reasons. Some came for religious freedom, the glory of god or in honor of their King and country. During their first days in North America, settlers did not know how to adapt to the wilderness and survive out there on their own, many of these settlers were sick or hungry. Life during the seventeenth century was harsh, there were many obstacles people had to face in order to survive. Since there were many problems, it was difficult for a family to form. Children were brought up in harsh conditions, and forced to adapt to different conditions. As time passed, settlers learned to live in the wilderness and small...
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...than a farm. I miss the gurgling sounds of irrigation houses as they watered the fields and the cool blanket it would produce over the farm on a hot summer night. Or playing in the dense sticky mud with my brothers and sister acting like we were stuck in quick sand, helpless to escape. However, nothing compares to the night sky on a clear evening. It would make any star gazer green with envy with its vivid scenery, wild life in the background and fresh brisk air. Once the coral and amethyst sky transforms into a vast amplitude of jet black the real joy began. A colossal umbrella of luminous stars would metamorphasized amongst the ocean of darkness. Every star and planet would be in its' proper place every night. A full moon would seemed to lighten the night, projecting invisible rays that would high light the mountains on the horizon. The stars would glitter and gleam, blinking wildly aginst the contrasting black night. Constellations were emense and easy to spot. The North star always shined brighter than the others making it effortless to find the Big Dipper.Some of my favorite memories are attached with the starry sky. Wildlife would invigorate the evening with its harmonious tunes. Frogs would start croaking and bellowing as the stars started to gleam. Crickets could be heard performing their orchestra of chirps and whistles for the man on moon. An occasional hoot from an underground owl would echo aginst concrete ditches, carrying its' heckle down the fields. A calming...
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...an equal and ethical way of treating their workers and paying them. What divided the United States was both the morality and the economics of slavery. This essay will describe the differences in the northern and southern economies, and their beliefs about the sale and ownership of human beings. It was these differences that led to the South seceding from the United States and to war with the North. Slavery was first...
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...children work for their low-income family in dangerous conditions. In the U.S specifically in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, children under the age of fifteen work on tobacco farms. There are reasons why children should not be involved in child slavery. In reality, child labor on tobacco farms is dangerous for children. In turn, the use of children on tobacco farms abuses their rights. First, there are hazardous chemicals in the atmosphere surrounding the workers. Contributing to that, children who are exposed to chemicals such as nicotine and pesticides face nicotine poisoning (green poisoning) that can affect a child more than it can affect an adult. Nicotine poisoning both effects physical and mental health. Nicotine can affect a child's life later as they grow to be an adult (The Editors). The U.S has laws that prohibit the sale of tobacco products on children, but yet they can still work on farms. In all, recruiting children on tobacco farms should be illegal. Next, the use of children on tobacco farms abuses their rights. Also, children...
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...Professor Brad Long October 3rd 2014 Actual article: Children working on tobacco farms in the United States are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, and other dangers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While US law prohibits the sale of tobacco products to children, children can legally work on tobacco farms in the US. The world’s largest tobacco companies buy tobacco grown on US farms, but none have child labor policies that sufficiently protect children from hazardous work. The 138-page report, “Tobacco’s Hidden Children: Hazardous Child Labor in US Tobacco Farming,” documents conditions for children working on tobacco farms in four states where 90 percent of US tobacco is grown: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Children reported vomiting, nausea, headaches, and dizziness while working on tobacco farms, all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning. Many also said they worked long hours without overtime pay, often in extreme heat without shade or sufficient breaks, and wore no, or inadequate, protective gear. “As the school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can’t avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine, without smoking a single cigarette” said Margaret Wurth, children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. “It’s no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick.” The report is based on interviews with 141 child tobacco workers...
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