Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are disciplined ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovina of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. In some countries, such as India, they are honored in religious ceremonies and revered. It is expected that there are 1.4 billion head of cattle in the world today.

Cattle were originally known by Carolus Linnaeus as three separate species. These were Bos taurus, the European cattle, including similar types from Africa and Asia, Bos indicus, the zebu,and the extinct Bos primigenius, the aurochs. The aurochs is ancestral to together zebu and European cattle. More newly these three have increasingly been grouped as one species, sometimes using the names Bos primigenius taurus, Bos primigenius indicus and Bos primigenius. Complicating the matter is the capacity of cattle to interbreed with other closely related species. Hybrid individuals and even breeds exist, not only between European cattle and zebu but also with yaks, banteng, gaur, and bison, a cross-genera fusion. Cattle cannot effectively be bred with water buffalo or African buffalo.

Monday, November 19, 2007

College

Every day we must take decisions that affect our lives. To choose a college is one of the very most important decisions in life, exceeded only by the choice of a wife or a husband. By looking the decision through financially speaking, college can easily be the second largest expenditure in life, surpassed only by the cost of a house. For four years the colleges’ cost far more than the average expense of a house in some states. College is just more than a preparation for a career. By Often, the person who graduates becomes a different person from what he or she was as an entering first year student. Furthermore, the imprint of a particular college or university can remain for life. After some decades later, people may say knowingly, "He was a “hawk,” or “She went to Monmouth University. And also for better or worse, the choice of a college has lifelong implications.

To choose a right college was a very stressful process. Another important factor in choosing college was looking for in a college, was that I was receiving a good education for a reasonable price. It will cause you to grow as an individual and learn to become more independent. The process may help you to believe in yourself and in your abilities.
Choosing a college is a biggest decision in your life. You have to go through the whole process by yourself receiving assistance only when needed. Choosing a college may impact your life immensely. What helps to make the process much easier was narrowing your search down to the colleges that possesses qualities for which you were looking. There was so much going on in your life that you may felt like you had no time to think about your future.