...Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then I will examine some of the promises made in their marketing propaganda, and provide evidence that these promises are little more than blatant lies.Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. In this essay, I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then...
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...tentacles, and arms. The Giant Squid is considered to be the largest animal in a few areas: it is the largest known invertebrate, mollusk, and Cephalopod (Vaughan). The largest Giant Squid that has been found was around 43 feet long and weighed around a ton, and the females appear to be around ten feet longer than males, some scientists believe that that is because there are eight different species of giant squid (“Giant Squid”; Roper). Giant Squid not only use their blood to carry oxygen, but they can also contract and expand the two gills on their mantle cavity to breathe. The squid can also be known for not only their size, but for their dark sepia colored ink, having no...
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...animals that share the jungle, one in particular stands out: the giant panda. The pandas live a peaceful and harmless life high in the remote mountainous regions of central China. The bamboo forests grow high, and are cool and wet—just the way the pandas prefer them to be. Pandas will climb upwards to 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) to feed on the bamboo that grows in their habitat; during the summer seasons, they will venture even higher. Pandas mainly feed on bamboo, but will eat birds or rodents as well. It is in this peaceful bamboo jungle habitat that the giant panda gives birth to and nurtures its young. The Giant Panda is one of the rarest and most exotic animals this world has given birth to. Pandas are mammals; they’re omnivores. The average lifespan in the wild for a healthy Panda is twenty years. The sizes they grow to are four to five feet (one to one and a half meters) tall and weigh upwards to 300 pounds (136 kilograms). In the past few decades the Chinese Giant Pandas have been added to the endangered species list because of their decreasing numbers. The Pandas made the list due to false pregnancies, poachers, poor nurturing, and lack of bamboo growth. First, pandas are slowly decreasing in numbers because of lack of reproduction. Pandas in the wild and zoos (artificial habitats) are losing interest in one another because of loss of habitat, food, and freedom. Over the decades there has been human contact with the pandas’ habitat, which is disturbing the mating...
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..."We stand on the shoulders of giants." Hundreds of years have passed since the great Sir Isaac Newton quoted "if I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants," yet its relevance still live true to this very day. The contribution of our predecessors in every field especially science and mathematical field has helped technology to develop. As the younger generation myself, I would say we owe our thanks to our forefathers for making our life easier and more convenient. As humans, we have to accept the fact that we need help from others and we cannot see everything from where we stand. This is where this statement comes in context in which what we know today is passed down from our past generations. We...
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...Giant ground sloth The giant sloth, also known as the megalonyx, which is Greek for giant claw, lived from the Miocene – modern time period or from 10 million to about 10,000 years ago. They lived in the woodlands of north America. And seven facts about this type of is the diet, classification, popularity, habitat, predators, extinction and size, First, the giant sloth was omnivorous with a diet consisting of moderately to soft tough food and ate yuccas and common grasses. The sloth had blunt teeth that couldn’t chew meat. And it used its huge dangerous claws to strip the bark off of the trees. The giant sloth didn’t have much to do much hunting it so it didn’t need that many predatorily attributes. Many sloths had giant claws in order to dig up bugs in order to eat them. Second, Giant sloths are classified as Chordata, Mammalia, Xenarthra, pilosa, megatheriddae. Animals that belong to the class Chordata possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve chord and a...
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...PSYCHOPATHS IN POWER: THE COLLAPSE OF THE AFRICAN DREAM IN A PLAY OF GIANTS Olusegun Adekoya Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Nigeria oadekoya2@yahoo.com AN ABSTRACT A critical investigation of Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants, the paper discusses what the playwright himself calls the Aminian theme, that is, African leaders’ obsession with power, a seductive drive that breeds moral corruption, dictatorship, delusions, economic distortions and ruination, megalomania, perversion and desecration of all that is good in African traditions, and the evaporation of all the dreams of greatness, of nationalism, liberation from colonial thraldom, disease, ignorance and poverty, and of pan-Africanism nursed in the heady days of Independence celebrations. The four despots caricatured in the play are Field-Marshal Kamini (late Idi Amin, deposed president of Uganda), Emperor Kasco (Jean-Bedel Bokassa, former Emperor of the Central African Republic), Benefacio Gunema (late President Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea), and General Barra Tuboum (late President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo). They are in New York to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations. In response to the Secretary-General’s request for a work of art representative of each member nation’s culture, say, a miniaturized bust of the president, they sit for a life-size group sculpture on Kamini’s suggestion and in what appears to be a vivid demonstration of the old...
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...Introduction The Holy Bible is full of mysteries, from the creation of the world or the beginning in Genesis to the end of time in Revelations; the Bible is full of captivating stories and teachings for mankind to attain salvation. One such mystery is that of the sons of God and the Nephilim in Genesis 6, an intriguing passage that recounts the existence of giants, called the Nephilim, that roam the earth in the days of Noah. To unlock the mysteries of the Nephilim, we first need to clearly understand who are the sons of God are, also their role in the producing the Nephilim. Who were the Sons of God in Genesis 6, and what was there role in creating the giants (Nephilim) in the day of Noah? There are different views of who the sons of God are:...
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...The Origin of the Moon: discussion on the gradual perfection of proposed hypotheses Introduction The Moon is the easiest and most familiar object that human can catch in the clear night. The Moon as known as our Earth’s only natural satellite is indicated by Rick Carlson in recent research to have an age of between 4.40 and 4.45 billion years, which is not long after the origin of the Earth. However, the origin of the Moon is still not defined and further research on this topic is continuous. The exploration of formation of the Moon is gradually per fected by the various proposed theories started from 1878 to nowadays. This research essay will discuss both the past and present hypotheses of origin of the Moon. The past hypotheses also known as “The Big Three” referring to Fission, Capture and Accretion hypotheses are popular in different times and centuries before the Apollo mission flew in 1972 (Tyson, 2000). However, the study on the moon rock brought by Apollo’s program gives unavailable clues for “The Big Three”(Tyson, 2000). Nowadays, the Giant Impact Hypothesis is regarded as the most leading theory that is most accepted in present. Nevertheless, it is widely accepted, some studies supported this theory; others may create new theory to challenge this Giant Impact Hypothesis, which make this hypothesis still arguable. However, whatever these hypotheses failed or will achieve, they bring a better understanding on the formation of planet’s satellites in our Solar System (Zhong...
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...When recounting her visit with the giant water bug, Dillard uses logos to provide facts about the giant water bug. To provide an explanation as to why the green frog seemed to “deflate,” it was because of the giant water bug. The giant water bug eats insects, tadpoles, fish, and frogs and has mighty forelegs that are hooked inward. Their forelegs are used to seize a “victim with these legs, hugs it tight, and paralyzes it with enzymes injected during a vicious bite” (Dillard 108). This could have explained what was happening to the small green frog that Dillard witnessed. When she saw the small frog, it was very still and did not move in the presence of a human being. After the giant water bugs bite, they “shoot the poisons that dissolve the victim’s muscles and bones and organs – all but the skin – and through it the giant water bug sucks out the victim’s body, reduced to a juice” (Dillard 108). Unknowingly, when Dillard saw the green frog “deflating like a football,” the giant water bug was sucking out all of its...
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...know as the giant puffball. The giant puffball is a mushroom that is part of the kingdom fungi. Its phylium is basidiomycota. The class of the giant mushroom is agaricomcetes and its order is agaricales. The giant puffballs family is agaricaceae and its genus is calvatia. (5) Giant puffballs appear to be white and round shape, or almost oval in some cases. The calvatia gigantea can be found in central or eastern USA and Canada. These mushrooms are usually found to be growing to their full potential in the fall. They are fruiting bodies that have spores. The calvatia gigantean grows mainly directly off of the earth, but it also can grow of trees. The name giant puffballs is a little deceiving because these mushrooms are not always giant, they can be as small as a golf ball, or they can be as large as a basketball. “A big specimen of the giant puffball can be almost two feet long and contain seven 7,000,000,000,000 spores” (1). The puffball is full of spores that can be found to be very useful. The mushroom cracks open to have the wind take the spores away. However, some puffballs don’t crack open to have the wind take away the spores, some puffballs have a opening on them which is where the spores are released. The spores are about “3.5 to 5.5 microns in diameter”. (1) These spores are what make the giant puffballs like a big sack of powder, because the spores are extremely dry. The giant puffball mushroom is one of many mushrooms that can be consumed by humans and other...
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...Human and nature simultaneously exist, and nature provides food, water, and habitation for humans. However, humans, sometimes, have to struggle with the power of nature to obtain those necessities. According to “Edward’s Rocks” and “Sea Devil”, the men in the stories fought against the lurking risks from the surroundings, the sea specifically, such as the pointed rocks hiding from the mist or the giant sea monster skulking in the obscure moon. The characters were in scalding danger scenes. Nevertheless, they used their advantages, which was experience from hunting and fishing for many years or the faculty of providing solutions and making decisions in deadly situations, to survive from the influence of nature. Fishermen, who lived nearby...
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...Cosmic Creation Myths Across Cultures Darrell Jones HUM/105 June 20, 2012 Mary Worley Cosmic Creation Myths across Cultures Myths vary a great deal from various cultures around the world. Although these myths differ, they all share one same common theme – a story based on creation. Myths from the Roman/Greek and Nordic cultures are no different. Both of these cultures believed in some form of creation that defined and shaped their world through cosmic occurrences or natural phenomenon, while sharing similarities and differences in the creators of the worlds and the steps these worlds were created. Roman/Greek gods lived in various worlds. This mythological world was born out of emptiness, or Chaos. The gods themselves lived on Mount Olympus. Uranus, Father Sky, ruled over all worlds with Gaea, Mother Earth, by his side. Tartarus ruled the deepest part of the underworld. Their son, Cronus, and their grandson, Zeus, both take turns ruling over the worlds after Uranus. Two of Uranus and Gaea’s other children were gods of other worldly elements: Helios, god of sun; and Selene, god of Moon. Cronus and Rhea produced the second generation of gods who ruled over other elements, including: Zeus, lord of the sky and god of thunder; Poseidon, lord of the seas; and Hades, ruler of the underworld and lord of the dead. Individuals who believed in Roman/Greek mythology believed these gods shaped their world and ruled over the elements. A titan named Atlas was condemned by Zeus to...
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...In the three films states above, giants are portrayed as frightening individuals who scare those around them away. To be frightened means someone is afraid or anxious, this is exactly what happens to multiple characters in each movie as a result of each giants actions. Fezzik, the giant in The Princess Bride is frightening because of his size and actions. During his first encounter with Buttercup he walks up to her saying no words and knocks her unconscious. She was clearly startled by these actions but was unable to act because she passed out. He is also frightening in the way he speaks. Since he is a large being his voice is incredibly deep, this is used as a scare factor to when he yells and gets close to someone while speaking. Although...
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...throws the beans out the window and sends Jack to bed without supper. While Jack was sleeping, the bean grows into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack wakes up to behold an enormous beanstalk. He climbs the monumental beanstalk and arrives in a land high up in the sky where he follows a road to a gigantic house, which is the home of a giant. He enters the immense castle and asks the giant's wife for food. She gives him food, but the giant returns and senses that a human is nearby. The giant says he smells the blood of an Englishman and would want to grind his bones to make bread. However, Jack is hidden in a closet by the giant's wife and from there tiny Jack heard the giant sit down at his monstrous table. His wife serves him from a huge bowl and he drank from his very big wine glass. Afterwards, the giant asks for his hen that lays golden eggs. The giant watched as it laid dozens of large admirable golden eggs before he sleeps off snoring. Jack steals the hen which lays big golden eggs. He is almost caught by the giant who follows him down the humongous beanstalk. Jack calls his mother for a large axe and cuts down the gigantic beanstalk down, killing the heavy giant. The end of the story has Jack and his mother living happily ever after with their new riches and the golden...
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...Professor Gregory ANT 103 Final Essay Chapter 3, pg. 70 There have been numerous archeological hoax proposed throughout history, all over the world. I will focus on The Cardiff Giant: The Goliath of New York that was a proposed hoax in 1869 in America that attracted a lot of attention from the public. Like most hoax throughout history, the Cardiff Giant was done for money. The hoax was uncovered and put to rest soon after it started. Through this paper I want to address a few main points in order to answer some questions about the hoax and why its was popular. The main points that I want to address are who believed in the hoax and why they believed it, the people who were skeptical of the hoax, and the lessons in this story that are applicable to other instances of fraud. This information will help to breakdown the reasons why the hoax was so popular and why/ how it ended. The Cardiff Giant hoax was portrayed in 1869; at this time in America and other parts of the world many people were extremely vulnerable to believe in such hoax that were based on biblical references. Many people of the nineteenth century believed in the past existence of a race of giant human beings. Many believed the existence of giants because in the Bible there are numerous references and stories about giant people that inhabited the earth in ancient times. During this time majority of the people interpreted the Bible literally, it wasn’t just small groups of zealous fundamentalists. For most...
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