No matter what good some people believe they are doing, everything seems to come with a consequence, and the question is whether or not the good overpowers the bad. ... Secondarily, GMO's are said to be more productive, and create greater yields; however Stated by Kimbrell, "there are currently two principal types of biotech seeds in production: Herbicide Resistant, and 'Pest' resistant seeds. ... "TT" is when the companies genetically engineer plants to "Produce a sterile seed after a single growing season" (Kimbrell 2003) ensuring that farmers cannot save their seed, having to...

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To work alongside pesticides modern advances in industrial agriculture have created a new seed for crops called Genetically Modified Organisms, an unnatural and controversial topic. Basically the process is rearranging the plants DNA and certain genes through molecular biology taking specific beneficial traits from different species of the plant in the same family, and combining their strengths into one modified seed. ... In 2009 26 scientists kept their names anonymous for fear of jeopardizing their careers or litigation, submitted the following public statement to the EPA protesting against ...

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With the advent of green revolution in the late sixties, the scenario has undergone a rapid transformation with majority of the inputs like seed, fertilizer and pesticide being purchased form external sources. ... Propaganda by the seed dealer, who is the de facto counselor for the farmer, could also influence the farmers. ... At present, only Mahyco-Monsanto Alliance has sanction to produce and distribute Bt Cotton seeds. ... A general observation is that in the current season, pest attack is lower and this may be due to the climatic conditions or due to the fact that acreage under Cotton cu...

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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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Despite Ahuja's oppressive policies about his wife's use of the telephone and contact with the outside world, Lalita submits and sacrifices her individuality and human freedoms in the marriage to prevent her family from "get[ting] a bad name" (Divakaruni 105). ... For example, the poppy seed develops from a lifeless "grain" to "khus khus," a name filled with exotic syllables and noise interpreted as a coming to life. Before the Mistress reaches out to the seed physically and speaks to it, she notes the poppy by the generic English name, a dull factual piece. ... Possessing the true n...

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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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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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"Eu" meaning "True" and "Genics" meaning "Seed or Inherited Material", In other words, "The True Seed". ... By sterilizing the mentally ill and restricting foreign immigration, eugenicists sought to isolate the American genetic stock from the taint of allegedly bad genes. ...

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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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Marijuana is also known as cannabis, a product of the hemp plant, which is a mixture of green or brown dried seeds, shredded leaves and flowers with a strong smell. ... For example, hemp can be used for a variety of product such as paper and fabric while the seeds, which are a good nutritional source, can be used for tea. ... CBD can kill cancer cells and block the development of bad cells in blood vessels. ...

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At this point life was a constant battle against famine and bad luck. 1Although T. ... For instances, Jethro Tull created a seed drill that was powerfully and precisely placed seeds into the soil which ultimately became an advantage for farmers. ...

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Macbeth knowing he will not have any kids, he fears the idea "the seeds of Banquo kings. ... The power of becoming king and having all that power got to his head, which lead into a bad ruling over the country as it stated, "our country sinks beneath the yoke, it weeps, it bleeds, and each day a gash is added to her wounds. "(4.3.39-41) all that ambition Macbeth had was his kryptonite because it gave him the big ego and ruthless attitude which was his demise. ...

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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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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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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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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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Most people can agree that most of us are born pure and then sometimes the weight of the world can crush that fragile spirit and turn people "bad." ... Looking beyond the perceptions of the media, one will realize that there is more "good" in the world than "bad." ... In fact, "Media studies show that bad news far outweighs good news by as much as seventeen negative news reports for every one good news report" (Williams, 2010). ... "Many studies have shown that we care more about the threat of bad things than we do about the prospect of good things. ... How can one ass...

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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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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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