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With drones growing popular in the U.S, Farmers have took action to gain access to drones to use it for agricultural purposes on their farmland. Farmers should be able to use specialized drones for their land under guidelines that have been created.

A excerpt from an article titled “Farmers Drone” says, ” There are economic advantages for farmers who use drones. Flying over fields is faster than driving through them. Using the remotely controlled drones is cheaper than hiring a plane. The drones can also apply fertilizers and pesticides more accurately. This allows for more precision in agriculture. They fly closer to the ground, and their backwash enables the spray to reach the underside of leaves. This means farmers can use fewer chemicals. This results in lower costs for consumers and less of an impact on the environment.” This explains that drones are cheaper, more efficient, and less impact on the environment.

Also these drones can monitor the crops and check on the overall health of each crop and will make it easier to identify problems within each crop. Drones would provide a better visual and could save time for the farmers. From the same article it explains this saying, “Drones can fly above massive fields of crops to scout out where crops are too wet, too dry, too diseased, or too infested with pests. Drones also help farmers count plants or measure their height.”Following this, the drones can provide the farmer with data so that he/she knows where the weal, damaged, or stressed crop spots are specifically. A small excerpt from the article says, ” Once the land is surveyed, U.S. farmers can use the data to narrow the area that needs treatment. For example, say a plot of farmland is infested with weeds. A farmer can use drones to find that area and spray a small amount of chemicals to kill the weeds in just that spot, instead of an entire field.”

Although there are cons to flying drones such crashing into aircraft, being mistaken as a spy drone, and causing damage to properties, the FAA adjusting the rules and regulations for drone permits for the Farmers of the U.S.

Who will win presidency?

By the number of “Trump haters”, I would imagine by the negative comments that Biden would have more people and votes to his side. Also, citizens who do not agree with President Trump will vote for Biden just for the fact of not wanting President Trump in office.

Controversy dealing with President Trump

With the brutal death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Lawmakers and citizens criticized and made negative comments toward President Trump.In fact, one lawmakers made a comment, “He should just stop talking”, after Trump’s comments that worsened an already bad situation. Later on that week, both Democratic and Republican officials say “his inflammatory tweets unhelpful amid to the protest”.He referred to protesters as “THUGS” and said “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”. This sparked alot of controversy not only to African Americans, but to all Ethnic groups throughout the country.

Biden’s Plans as president

Biden plans to help the country by Unifying the Nation,

Mr Biden’s approach to tackling coronavirus, the most immediate and obvious challenge facing the country, is to provide free testing for all and hire 100,000 people to set up a national contact-tracing program.

He says he wants to establish at least 10 testing centers in every state, call upon federal agencies to deploy resources and give firmer national guidance through federal experts. He says all governors should mandate wearing masks.

Citations:

:https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864722348/twitter-hides-trumps-tweet-on-minneapolis-saying-it-glorifies-violence

:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/he-should-just-stop-talking-lawmakers-say-trump-s-comments-n1220306

:https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53575474

The reformation started in 1517 over Christianity and the Catholic Church because of the discrepancies with the Catholic practices. He wrote 95 theses and nailed them into the church gate. He believed that the church abused its power and he also disagreed with the Church’s practices. Martin Luther believed that in order to reach salvation by using the teachings and salvation of the bible could be granted by Faith and Christ. The Catholic Church paid indulgences to the church for sins and he believed otherwise.

The printing press was invented which allowed Martin Luther to spread his ideas and writings which equalized his idea to whom the writing was shared.Printing press publishers could publish documents or other writings multiple times without copyright laws/rights. Luther wrote 3 treatises that marked the beginning of doctrine also known as”Priesthood of all believers” that meant that everyone baptized will have direct access to God without needing a mediator.This Expanded the Priesthood of Martin Luther because now he could reach many more people with his word and expand his self-grounding.

Modern Day Relation:

The Peshawar church Bombing took place on September 22,2013 in Quetta, Pakistan. This happened because of the discrimination again religion(mainly Christians. The Sunni Extremist Group leader (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) planned the attack secretly with Pakistan’s Politician(Asif Ali Zardari). Both the Terrorist group and Pakistan’s Political leader took a risk to bomb a Christian church and with Asif Ali Zardari being a leader in Pakistan, he had to secretly hide his part/role in the suicide bombing.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Asif Ali Zardari:

In this article, you will learn how to become a better linebacker physically and mentally in just five steps.

Physicality

1.To build up your physicality perform power exercise movements, such as power cleans, Bench press, Squats, Etc. These exercises will build up power in the Lower and Upper body. These exercises are key and can translate to field play with rushing the QB, making tackles, and lower the injury risk.

Agility and Movement

2.To better your agility and movement, perform shuffles with an agility ladder such as icky shuffles, in in out out, crossovers, and side shuffles. This will improve your quickness, speed, and overall agility. For additional work, use field cones and work on sharpness and breakdown timing and power. the pyramid, gap cleans, and back pedaling technique drill will help you with overall field recognition with footwork and lower body movements.

Mentality

3.Mentality is key on and off the field. You need to be able to take trash talk and still perform on the field. Believing that you can get better is the only way that you will get better. To know that your mindset is locked in, after practice, you shouldn’t be saying”Man I could’ve done better or maybe tomorrow I’ll do better”. Those types of people don’t practice to their full potential which results in poor playing techniques in-game. You should go into every game and every practice thinking, “Imma leave knowing I did my best”. A positive mindset drives way further than a poor/negative one does.

Film Study

4.While watching the film, when the coach explains what could’ve been done better, coming up with excuses is what shows coaches that you never self critique yourself. Be watching how you performed and focus on bettering what you did wrong. Also, watch the next opponents’ film and study on different plays whats the personnel and how they shift. Be looking for what they do when they are going to run the ball or pass it. Watch the man you have to cover whether your an outside LB or inside. Outside guys should be looking at OT(offensive tackle), TE(tight end), or the slot receiver. For the TE and slot receiver, look at the release patterns and how they lineup and what determines what route they’ll run or how they block on run plays.

Leadership

5.Leadership is what a player needs to become a successful and impactful player. Stepping up and bringing your teammates up during rough times in practice or in-game is how you show leadership. Helping critique your teammates will better the team as a whole and result in much better results and attitude. Be the guy on defense making sure everyone is lined up and cheering your teammates on through times no one will.Having hope and faith on the other 10 guys on the field will give your team a much better chance of not laying down because of the score or how much “better” the other team is.

Conclusion

By having all five of these characteristics as a linebacker will create you into a unstoppable, dependable, and worthy linebacker. A successful linebacker will use these five in and out of games so make you do the same!!Looking forward to seeing “New Linebackers” this SZN.