Yuma Essays

  • Irrigation Affected Yuma

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    How has irrigation affected Yuma? Well, irrigation has completely changed Yuma. The reason why is because before irrigation Yuma was a complete nothing. No one really knew what Yuma was before irrigation. No one wanted to live here. Yuma’s crops were dry because there really was not crops growing. Irrigation affected farmers. The reason why is because farmers were losing money because their crops were not growing due to lack of water. Now that we have irrigation farmers can irrigate their fields

  • Yuma: Beginning Anew

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    20, 2013 Yuma: Beginning Anew What do many people typically think when they hear of Yuma, Arizona? The vast majority of people would think that Arizona itself is just a desert region that greatly resembles an old western movie. On the contrary, however, Arizona -especially Yuma-, is a beautiful place that has invaluable history with the Native American tribes in the area and military history going back to WWII with General Patton and his troops with the Yuma Proving Grounds and Yuma Air Station

  • The Yuma Territorial Prison As A Beacon Of Civilization

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    The Yuma Territorial Prison is one of the main pillars in the growth of Arizona as the wild west was tamed. Its existence served not only as a beacon of civilization but that of consequence for those who resisted human expansion’s natural progression. As it existed many thought of it as a joke giving those inside the easy life or the likes of a concentration camp but in the middle of civilian held war, the prison stood toward the future. From near modern advances to holding those refusing to be held

  • Hispanic Culture

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    & Hattwick, 1992). All cultures may encounter challenges with the media and society of how their beliefs and values are represented. There are several factors that resemble how cultural values influence a culture, more specifically the Hispanic culture in Yuma, AZ. Some of those factors are, the expression of their individual and collective identity through communication, cultures identity expressed though the mass media channels, examples of the value orientations that influence the groups communications

  • Irrigation In Yuma

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    irrigation has caused many things to happen in Yuma County. There was several events that happened due to the irrigation that caused Yuma to grow more and more. Therefore Yuma’s irrigation changed a lot, the developers had challenges they had to face, different groups in Yuma had to face the Yuma Project changing things, and also technology changed Yuma in many ways. In this essay, you will learn about the events and why some of these events were important to Yuma Counties irrigation system. The irrigation

  • Yuma Research Paper

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    Yuma is a town in Southwest Arizona on the border of the California and Mexico. Going right through Yuma county is a large river called the Colorado River. With that water, farmers in Yuma and surrounding towns were starting to start farms and had irrigation. The thing was that the river was inconsistent and the farmers had problems with floods and droughts. This is how irrigation changed the complexion of Yuma and the Agricultural business. Irrigation has turned the Arizona Southwest from a dirtland

  • Yuma Research Paper

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    Irrigation has been a significant part of Yuma County’s history, as it has affected the county and areas around it in several ways, and has been affected itself by Yuma’s ways to evolve to a more relevant and helpful operation. It has changed Yuma from a small farming community to an agriculturally efficient town. Technology has also had a hand in moving irrigation in Yuma forward, including beginning the Yuma Project which affected different groups of people over time. Irrigational development also

  • Mental Health Court Case Study

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    However, the Yuma Mental Health Court is like no other court in the U.S Criminal Justice System. This unique court has specifically been established for two main reasons. The first reason, is to maintain mental ill defendants out of any jails or prisons, in order for them to receive proper treatments. The next reason, is that this court tries to help special defendants by sending them to treatment agencies so they can either be provided with medications or get some form of therapy. Yuma County is very

  • Surviving and Rebuilding: The Devastating Impacts of Floods

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    safer place. One of the challenges are that People would have to use boats to get around and find other people that need help with getting to a safer place. Another challenge is that the floods are getting bigger and most, if not all the people of Yuma have to get to a safer area or the floods will hurt or if not kill them. After the flood dies down, they would have to rebuild everything all over again making it a challenge for them because every time there is a flood

  • Impact of Irrigation on Arizona's Economy and Land Use

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    Irrigation has changed Arizona a lot economically wise and land use, irrigation is an important factor to Yuma. It brought people here for jobs and that lead to Yuma making more houses which brought up the economy and had more land to plant agricultural crops like vegetables and fruits, irrigation basically improved Arizona. Irrigation is a successful project, the Yuma project helped field workers and help year round farming conditions like the dry soil/ dry land it gave people more jobs to provide

  • Walmart Swot Analysis Paper

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    cheaper price than Wal-Mart. New entrants have a low threat to Wal-Mart 32nd St. since there are few markets and business that want to invest in Yuma to due to being a small town and the proximity of other bigger cities. However, there is one new store coming to the Yuma area, SPROUS FARMER MARKET, it is a natural and organic grocery. SPROUS is coming soon to Yuma and it is expected to open on July 26, 2017. The market rivals poses a high threat for Wal-Mart 32nd St., and are mainly retail stores close

  • Blood Meridian Chapter Summary

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    Glanton tried to warn the doctor that was running the ferry that the Yuma’s were going to attack him. He didn’t believe him, stating he knew the Yuma group and was on good terms with them. Glanton knew the plan though, he made the plan, he knew what was going to go down. As Glanton knew, the Yuma’s attacked a couple of days later. The Judge betrayed the Yuma group, as he used the Doctors howitzer and killed half of them right then and there and chased the rest into the woods to be killed, only leaving

  • Walmart Problem Analysis Paper

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    Walmart 32nd St. is a store located in the foothills area of Yuma Arizona. The highest sales of the store are recorded from October to March every year due to winter visitors in the area, and average of 44,000 customers per month during winter time. The store has quality management and inventory problems during this period of the year due to a high rate of sales faster than the system recording average of sales. This report is written to analyze the cause and effect of problems that affect the store

  • Homeless Proposal

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    States Census Bureau, “more than 45 million people, or 14.5 percent of all Americans, lived below the poverty line last year (Census Bureau, 2016).” That is a family of four, 2 adults and 2 children, making less than or equal to $24,600.00 annually. In Yuma, 21.1 percent of our population is homeless and/or living under the poverty line (Census Bureau, 2016). Homelessness is a subject that hits close to home for me as I had an uncle that disappeared

  • Early Arizona Women Teachers

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    with the problem of teaching children who knew little or no English. In the book, Portrait of a Teacher: Mary Elizabeth Post and Something of the Times in Which She Lived, Ruth Leedy Gordon explains that Mary Elizabeth Post, an early schoolteacher in Yuma,learned Spanish simply to communicate with her students (10). She also wrote recipes for her pupils’ mothers in Spanish and went to their homes to show them how to cook new dishes (76). In their collection of stories from the pioneer days in Arizona

  • The Devil's Highway Sparknotes

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    Depicting a group of people lost, with no water, in the heat of the sun, hoping to find either a civilization or a water source, but not just any group of people, the Yuma 14. The Yuma 14 are a group of immigrant men who died on the devil’s highway, twelve others survived. Then moves into a very brief history of Spanish colonialism, and the civil war, and everything in between. Also including various stories, for example, the

  • MULTIGENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLDS

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    Multigenerational Households A multigenerational household is defined as more than two generations of the same family living under one roof. Multigenerational households are common in other parts of the world. They are still uncommon in most areas of the United States, but lately they have been growing in popularity. Throughout the country, multigenerational households represent just a fraction of the population. According to the 2000 census, four percent of all U.S. households have three or more

  • The Devil's Highway Sparknotes

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    the Coyotes, a criminal organization known for human smuggling. Urrea’s text tells the story of a group of illegal Mexican immigrants known as the Welton 26, and their Coyote guide: Mendez, charged for the suffering of these 26 men and the deaths of Yuma 14, who cross the border and enter the perilous region known as the Devil’s Highway, a barren desert known for its inhospitable,

  • A Gringo In The Lettuce Fields Summary

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    the Lettuce Fields,” Gabriel Thompson not only writes about his undercover observance of the strenuous and intensive labor of a specific latino community, but also physically participates in the fieldwork that this community is involved with in Yuma Arizona. In Thompson’s article he achieves a strong awareness while immersed with the community and their work, which leads Thompson to understand their struggle between american acceptance and the overall merciless labor. I can agree to my capacity

  • Tenure and Termination

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    htm The Huffington Post. (2012). 16 New York teachers accused of sexual misconduct still teaching, city struggles to fire them. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/16-new-york-teacher-accus_n_1409184.html. Yuma School District ONE Discipline Policies and Procedures 2013-2014 School Year. Retrieved from http://www.yuma.org/