For the past few years Columbia's anti-drug police, backed by the United States, have tried to eradicate cocoa growing in the southern jungles, where it is most prevalent. ... As large plantations have been wiped out, farmers have move deeper into the jungle to plant more, smaller crops. ... This chemical is a broad spectrum herbicide which is very effective in wooded vegetation, such as the southern jungles of Columbia. ...

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She also mentioned that while she marched for freedom, she viewed many children crying from hunger as well as witnessing parents poisoning their babies with opium to avoid being detected while hiding in the jungles in the attempt to flee (Katsuyo, 1990). ... Hiding in the middle of the jungle with your family as well to avoid being killed by the red army, also would present fear to anyone. ...

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Upton Sinclair was best known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. ... Directly after the publishing of The Jungle, the Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration, which tested and approved drugs before they went on the market for consumers. ...

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Pioneering in the pestilent jungle lowlands, where bananas grow, was heartbreaking because the jungle fights to reclaim its terrain and only the strong survive.... "Land was exceedingly cheap in the vast undeveloped lowlands, and eager government made available large tract of jungle territories for an enterprise that would supply basic railroad and port facilities" (May, 7). ... While United Fruit Company dominated railroad track in the isolated jungle area, International Railway Company (IRC) controlled the main routed that connected Mexico through south Guatemala. ...

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Upton Sinclair was best-known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. ... Directly after the publishing of The Jungle, the Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration, which tested and approved drugs before they went on the market for consumers. ...

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The society I chose that is isolated from modern developments and advancement are the Kayapo Indians. Kayapo Indians live in the Amazon River Basin of Brazil , with villages that are along the Xingu River. Their territory is made up of mostly tropical rain forests. The name Kayapo was given to the t...

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The Effect of the "Splendid Little War" on America As sweeping changes reshaped America socially, industrially, and economically, the lack of interest in foreign policy and the outside world changed just as significantly. A new awareness of supremacy and control moved Americans to rightfully co...

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In 1778, a Captain James Cook, sailed the Resolution into Waimea Bay Hawaii. The effect of this journey was to radically restructure the space/time vectors connecting Hawaii with London. This rift in global space/time instantly conceptualized a dramatic shift in "positional, opening a wormhole in so...

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The Colombian and American governments should increase their response to The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Weakened by the corruption sown by cocaine cartels and a decades-long civil war, the Colombian government faces a strong leftist insurgent group that not only wages guerrilla ...

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During the first decades of the postwar period, its power and influence expanded until it was finally checked in the jungles of Southeast Asia and by more fundamental changes in the international distribution of economic and military power. ...

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