LONDON’S TREE NURSERY
Model Problem Solving
London’s Nursery is a business that grows and sells evergreen trees. Here lately London’s has been looking into purchasing some new land in order to be able to grow some additional trees. This new land purchase will just be intended for the production of Colorado Blue Spruce trees and Concolor Fir trees. The London’s are looking at a section of land that is ten acres big. Before London’s decides to buy this land they want to know the amount of profits that they will be able to make off the land with the two different types of trees. They also want to know how many of each type of tree they will be able to plant on this section of land.
The model that will be used to determine the best option for London’s will be an Integer Programming Model and this model will be a total integer model. The reason why I selected to use a total integer model is because of the fact that you can not technically grow or sell only part of a tree. The issue of the amount of land can be divided out into fractions of land, but when objects such as these are being dealt with, fractions are not going to be able to properly give you a precise answer. When you use a total integer model, all of the decisions variables are required to have integer solution values. So, instead of coming up with an answer that might say you should produce 125.4 Colorado trees and 136.8 Concolor trees, your answer will not require any guessing or rounding down to try to determine the results. With a total integer model, your answer will be exact and it won’t require taking any chances.
The new trees that London’s plan on growing on their new land have different requirements. The Colorado Blue Spruce requires about five square feet of room, and the Concolor Fir tree normally needs around seven square feet of room to properly grow and be maintained. The two trees also require different amounts of labor time in maintaining them. During the time that the nursery will have the trees a Colorado tree needs 1.5 hours of labor, but since the Concolor tree is more of an easy adapting tree they only need 1 hour(s) of labor a week. The London’s Tree Nursery has an extra 300 hours that they plan on using for these trees.
A good view the Truax had was that for every tree cut down, 5 more are planted. It is a fact that newer trees give off more air than older trees, so cutting down the older trees
Terry Kay’s father cultivates fruit trees. Fruit trees generally live for approximately ten years then die off. It takes fruit trees three to five years before they will bear fruit. Overall fruit trees require a short term commitment. Although Kay’s father became famous for his well grown trees, it did not require the dedication and time that Sam Peek had to exert for his pecan trees.[b2] In the novel Sam Peek has dedicated his life to the growth and production of his pecan trees. Pecan trees take at least five years to yield fruit and can live up to seventy-five years. They take much more time and effort to yield profit. Cultivating pecan trees is a life long project. In the novel Sam Peek dedicates his life to the care of his pecan trees. In his old age, when he is retired from the tree business, he still has the commitment to go to the pecan orchard and pull weeds. This shows Sam Peeks strong bonds to his life and family[b3]. He is very much tied down to the land around his family home. His dedication to his trees is because he wishes to provide a good life for his family. He pours a lot of effort into this wish.
The City Council of Boomtown, a fictitious city, wants to expand their current borders and is considering building new houses and apartments on one of three locations: Green Hill, Delta Wetlands, or Seaside Cliff. Though each of the landforms have differing advantages and disadvantages, the cliff would be the best place to build. It is located along the East Bay, north of the Rolling River. Seaside Cliff has the most stable land and the easiest solutions to its problems. It is also the least flood-prone and damaging to the environment. The most logical location to build in Boomtown is Seaside Cliff for several reasons.
There are two solutions that provide the optimal profit given the current constraints under which JP Molasses operates. Under these conditions, the optimal profit is $63,571. This profit margin is achieved in both cases with revenue of $942,354 and cost of $412,333 for material purchased and $466,450 for fixed and variable costs in processing, for total cost of $878,783.
Anne Whittle was the first of the Pendle witches tried, she had confessed to being a witch in all of her examinations and blamed Elizabeth Sowtherns for introducing her to witchcraft, but plead not guilty to the crimes of using witchcraft to harm others. After examination of Anne Whittle, the Justices of the Peace examined those that were accused with her about the actions of Anne Whittle in relation to acts of witchcraft. Notably, James, Alizon, and Elizabeth Deuice all testified against Anne Whittle accusing her of multiple witchcrafts. Anne Whittle was found guilty of using witchcraft to harm people, and sentenced to death. Anne Whittle’s case was not the only one of the cases from Pendle Forest that resulted in execution. Executed along with Anne Whittle were, James Deuice, Alizon Deuice, Elizabeth Deuice, Anne Readfearne, Alice Nutter, Katherine Hewytte, John Bulcock, Jane Bulcock, and Isabel Robey. Of the eleven cases from Pendle Forest that went to trial, ten people were executed, Margaret Pearson was deemed guilty by the jury but not executed. Instead of execution, Margaret Pearson was forced to stand on a pillar in the market for four market
The Baron in the Trees is a great short story by Italo Calvino. It is about a young baron about twelve years old living in the town of Ombrosa. Cosimo, one night decided not to eat the disgusting plate of snails that his sister had made that night for dinner, so he went and climbed into the big holm oak tree in his yard and never came down. Cosimo was still able to become a baron and live an adventurous life for the rest of his days. He was able to help Napoleon's army when they came to Italy to fight the Austrians, defended the town from pirates, and built and irrigation system to stop the forest fires in the summer. This is just the plot of The Baron in the Trees, I am going talk a bit more about the author, setting, the main characters, the theme, and the tone and style used.
In the book, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, the notion of a quest is very prevalent. According to Thomas Foster, a Quest consists of five things a quester, a place to go, a reason to go there, challenges and trials, and an actual purpose (Foster). Taylor Greer’s journey in The Bean Trees embodies Foster’s ideals through which she gains self-knowledge, learns to thrive and finds her place in the world.
Police brutality has become one of the hot topics within the media within the past few years. It’s always been around but its being discussed and speculated now more than ever, because of technology like cell phones, people are able to record what is happening, which furthers the attention of the police’s over excessive force within their communities. Still even with cellphone footage of cops killing these innocent people, they get acquitted and get put on leave from their job with pay until all of it blows over and they begin working again. Some cops believe that because they’re hiding behind a badge, they get a pass at murdering people and call it self-defense and refuse to take responsibility for their actions, which is a technique of neutralization. Minorities, especially African-Americans suffer many injustices from law enforcement especially in terms of being killed, brutalized, and longer jail sentences
In the Ferguson article (2015), there was an example given about an African American man claimed that he was standing outside of of Wal-Mart, an officer called him a “stupid motherf****r” and a “bastard.” According to the man, a lieutenant was on the scene and did nothing to reproach the officer, instead threatening to arrest the man (p. 80). This demonstrates that the police in Ferguson had no respect for the civilian and even though the lieutenant was present, they did nothing. The officer was not suspended nor held responsible for this incident. By failing to hold officers accountable, it sends a message that officers can behave as they like, “regardless of law or policy, and even if caught, that punishment will be light.” (Ferguson, 86). This message serves to excuse officer wrongdoing and heighten community distrust. This is also to say that police can possibly get away with murder because they are higher officials and work for the
A critical aspect of the training regime should touch on the lawful use of different types of forces, and the circumstances that guarantee the graduation of non-lethal force to lethal intervention (Barak et al. 204). Consequently, the training regime should equip police officers with the ability to resist the discriminatory use of force. In the United States, there is a clear evidence of the existence of discriminatory use of force. Black communities and Hispanics suffer the majority of brutal police actions. Largely, the problem stems from the lack of proper training for police officers to understand the psychological and physical dangers of subjecting the public to lethal force during the process of law enforcement (Barak et al. 211). Since police officers are employed as the agents of the state, it is important to inform them of their obligations under the global human rights laws regarding the use of lethal force. This can only happen during initial training and subsequent capacity building
Plagiarism is a severe problem because it has since become an epidemic and is being practiced at an alarmingly increasing rate. It has become widely accepted among students at many colleges and universities across the United States. It has gotten to the point that many students don’t even consider it cheating. This fact alone makes it even more serious and harder to control. It is now common practice to obtain someone else’s writing and turn it in as an original work. It is not difficult to purchase a pre-written paper or hire another individual to write a paper. Students are willing to pay whatever the cost so that they don’t have to do the work themselves. In fact, paper-selling services such as this have become quite a lucrative business. With the age of technology quickly advancing it has become all the more easily to plagiarize.
...I used my accounting system, and determined the actual cost per square yard. Here are my results:
In the story The Thing in the Forest written by A. S. Byatt, the characterization of Penny and Primrose is portrayed as very similar individuals. They both start out in the story as young girls in a world of conflict. This world of conflict helps represent the main theme of the story and their lives in response to the conflict. The main idea of the scary thing in the forest, that they think they saw, symbolizes their response to their childhood experiences as something realer than themselves as the characters both relate this in the story The Thing in the Forest as not even remembering their father's presence before dying at war. They both experienced the terrible childhood and both were affected by it, even without intentions the conflict
Zobel BZ and Talbert JT. 1984. Applied Forest Tree Improvement. New York: Wiley and Sons.
College degrees have proven to be a valuable resource to achieve a higher pay. “Is a College Education Worth It” writes, college graduates with a bachelor degree earned on average $30,000 more per year than a person with just a high school education (1). This statistic shows that with just a four-year degree, someone can earn more than a person with just a high school education. This also proves that people with a college degree earn more in their lifetime than people with just a high school education. “Benefits of a College Degree” adds that in a lifetime, people with a bachelor 's degree earn $2.7 million. People with just a high school diploma earn about $1.3 million in their lifetime (1). Abel and Deitz claim that over the past four decades, people with a bachelor’s degree earned 56% more than high school graduates while people with an associate’s degree earned 21% more than high school graduates (1). This comes to show how getting a college education has benefited people for four decades. Mark Peters and Douglas Belkin propose that the cost of college for someone with a bachelor’s degree is on average 110,000 to 130,000 (1). This number can seem very large to most people, but people with a bachelor’s degree earn more money, so the amount of debt they have will quickly