The situation is so bad that manure is now getting into other foods not just meat such as spinach, onions and other leafy greens. ... The last problem we saw in the movie is about the Monsanto Conglomerate and their bullying of farmers who save their own seeds to be replanted the next year. Monsanto forces farmers to buy seeds from them every year and if they replant the seeds they save the farmers are prosecuted and sued for patent infringement because Monsanto has patented a gene in the soybean seeds. Most of the farmers interviewed in the movie were so scared of Monsanto and what their grou...

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This testament served as one of few written accounts of how bad slavery could be and why it shouldn't exist at all. "I began to raise my fear from man to him alone, and to call daily on his holy name with fear and reverence: and I trust he heard my supplications, and graciously condescended to answer me according to his holy word, and to implant the seeds of piety in me, even one of the meanest of his creatures" (Equiano, 88). ...

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Even an only child can be a victim of sibling rivalry because he or she feels that other children may have great advantages over them, which can lead to extreme jealousy once again planting the seed of sibling rivalry. ... The bad egg turns out to be better than the rest and triumph over all the obstacles they encounter. ...

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Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. ... The difference in these numbers is astonishing considering the bad reputation marijuana gets. ...

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Confucianism took a humanistic approach in which an individual's action determined whether they were good or bad. ... He perceived benevolence as seeds, like apple seeds, which after being sown, will sprout and grow. " This renders the idea that an individual uses oneself as a role model to standardize one's behavior in relative to others around them. ...

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(The Declaration of Independence) All of these injustices had happened to the American colonists many times, and demonstrate that through "Repeated injuries, and Usurpation- (assignment sheet) King George III has been a disgrace to the crown, and bad ruler of the colonies. ... (Apstudent.com) As a result of their futile efforts to squeeze all the money they could out of the colonists, the King unwittingly sowed the seeds of revolution, and his attitude in implementing these truculent policies served to start the American Revolution long before any shots were fired. ... (Apstudent.com) Th...

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While both Confucius and Mencius believed that virtues could be developed, it was Mencius that approached the naturally arriving question of whether man is fundamentally good or bad. ... Mencius goes even further to point out that each of these tendencies are seeds to a specific cardinal virtue: 'the heart of compassion' develops into the germ of benevolence; 'the heart of shame', the germ of dutifulness; 'the heart of courtesy and modesty', the germ of the observance of the rites; and 'the heart of right and wrong', the germ of wisdom (Mencius 38). ...

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While some may interpret that as "bad news", others during the Early Preclassic period took advantage of it. ... Once the storage containers could no longer be used for perishable food, they were later used for the preservation of household items used to prepare food as well as storage of dried seeds and other nonperishable foods. ...

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In 1959 he declared to a group of government ministers 'Peasants are hiding food and a very bad. ... The whole Chinese population was called on to end the menace of sparrows and other wild birds which ate crop seeds. ...

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In episode AABF19, Homer tries to become a successful farmer, but when he mixes tobacco and tomato seeds and attempts to spur their growth with plutonium, the resultant is a bad tasting, yet highly addictive fruit. ...

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The structure and order of this type of poetry left Allen Ginsberg feeling that his poetry was not properly conveying his message and left him with a bad taste in his mouth. ... Here, Ginsberg uses the lowest of the low creatures of the earth, the spider and it's web it to describe the dearth of light on the sunflower, "corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be toothless mouth of sunny air , sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb," Ginsberg also used the image of a toothless mouth which is ja...

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For example experiments that have involved transgenic oil-seed rape have concluded that insects developed a resistance to plants that have been manipulated to incorporate pesticides. ... As with all scientific experiments there will be good and bad side effects, long term side effects are just that "long term, and their benefits might not be prevalent for many years. ...

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Like them, cloning is to be regarded as a neutral technique, with no inherent meaning or goodness, but subject to multiple uses, some good, some bad. The morality of cloning thus depends absolutely on the goodness or badness of the motives and intentions of the cloners . . . by the way the parents nurture and rear their resulting child and whether they bestow the same love and affection on a child brought into existence by a technique of assisted reproduction as they would on a child born in the usual way. ... Frankenstein harvested his components from the charnel houses of Ingolstadt, whereas...

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Throughout her book Macy touches on three key concepts, It's All Connected, Gratitude and Sowing seeds for the future. ... Macy stresses that people fighting the "bad guys " can also fall victim to this lense, people such as average citizens or grassroot activists. ...

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The drive behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time. 1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of post modernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticized theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. ...

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Marijuana is a mixture of shredded leaves, stems, seeds and flowers of Cannabis sativa aka the hemp plant. ... Even though marijuana has its faults they are not nearly as bad as those of alcohol or tobacco products. ...

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Lago then convinces Cassio to talk to Desdemona about asking Othello to give him his job back which was all apart of Lagos plan to plant the seed in Othello that Desdemona was cheating on him. ... Emilia sees the handkerchief on the floor and stills it for Lago remembering him mentioning how bad he wanted it in the past. ...

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Even though the Mesopotamian culture existed for approximately two thousand years, the seeds of its destruction were already sown when the system was created. ... However, to regard the ozone problem as just more bad news would be to overlook the substantial progress that has been made in the last decade. ...

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However; other people permanently think of time and their future throughout the bad events in their life, like the death of their relatives; this normal ideology can open the minds of people about the life after death, who will face the same fate of those who precedes them. ... Therefore, some people support this new technology despite of its disadvantages running to immortality, in order to keep their seeds promoting forever. ...

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Sometimes the environment is downplayed a lot, because some assume that once a 'bad seed' is born it cannot be changed, but environment can have a big impact into developing the person's character a good environment can help a person to reflect on their actions and create a great change. ...

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Genetically modified foods get a bad name because of people being ignorant to the process and making claims about GM crops being " manufactured " or "unnatural " when there is nothing unnatural about it. ... Genetically Modified crop seeds will help poor farmers grow more food for themselves and making more money selling them at the market. ...

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Similarly, in the book The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulfield also doesn't enjoy the life that he is living and seeks change, however unlike Kathy and Pai, Holden has a choice in his fate and his own bad decisions eventually lead him down a darkened path, while embarking on a journey of self-discovery in New York City. ... I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway"(16.25). ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in econ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw ...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands ...

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