The Journalman's Impression

  I. In abandoned ruins of a once proud city, echoed stomping of boots hitting pavement could be heard in the empty streets . Gently the sound snapped off abandoned apartment buildings, passing through government offices and clanging against the metal of rusted cars. Two young men ran along the devastation, surrounded by tragedy of a time before them. They crossed a jungle of cracking cement and steel, dark windows scattered across the landscape now absent of the families that had long ago kept warm with light. The pair knew little of small normalities we keep as a civilization; human lives became much simpler after the Wipeout. They hopped along a rebar obstacle course protruding from a high-rise apartment building, pathways given to them by time and practice. Any off step, wary of tripping, was an untimely doom calling from the ground below. Concrete blocks of ancient perseverance stacked together in heaps of imbalance; crumbling below every step was an corroded chunk. Mother n...

  George L. Settlemier 4000 Lancaster Dr. NE  11/10/2022  Professor VanStavern  Building 1  Chemeketa Community College  4000 Lancaster Dr. NE  P.O. Box 14007 Salem, OR 97309 To Professor VanStavern; Attached is the requested final report which I have worked on fervently over the last few weeks. My topic covers apples and their reproductive cycle, as well as the science behind grafting and production of NEW cultivars. I also wanted to look at the folklore surrounding apples, like Johnny Appleseed, to give some domestic perspective on history as we know it. Apples are a fruit known worldwide and from a humble beginning in Kazakhstan, we have cultivated it to every taste. I admire the fruit, as well as the agricultural field, and wanted to lend some layman knowledge down for the average person to get to know that tasty fruit in the fridge. There is a little bit of history, some science and human interference, as well as the general information regarding ...