Agent Orange

The Danaus Plexippi, known as the Monarch Butterfly, is considered to be the king of all butterflies for their beautiful orange and black colored wings and their incredible ability to migrate long distances such as, California and Mexico in large populations. Biologists have calculated distance of these arduous journeys to be 3000 miles, which is the longest journey that any insect can travel. Monarch butterflies are also unique in that generations of these species are able to migrate in the…

What would a world without constant advancements in technology be? It is quite possible our society would still be crafting the wheel using a rock and stick as tools. Without continual advancements in technology, seemingly “necessities” of today’s generation such as a televisions, cars, and smartphones would simply not exist. The pioneering of such important inventions is what advances societies technology as a whole. The 1903 image of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s airplane flying 120 feet in 12…

his wife, Olga Monsanto Queeny. In the late 1960’s Monsanto created its first Roundup herbicide; this advanced the company even more in its success. However, in the 1970’s Monsanto ran into some legal trouble with a chemical they produced called, Agent Orange. This chemical, which contained dioxin, was used in the Vietnam War to destroy the Vietnamese jungles. Dioxin was found to be very toxic and a lawsuit was brought against them in 1979 on behalf of hundreds of veterans that were poisoned by…

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soldiers killed in the Vietnam war, and over tens of thousands were wounded and the bombings of both South and North left both sides with health problems because of the herbicides used in the bombs like agent orange while the Vietnam war looked successful its was effecting the United States soldiers leaving war scars and PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) (The Aftermath of the war, N/D);consequently, the United States has paid over 168 billion dollars because…

Second Chances Some of us believe that everything happens for a reason. And then some of us believe that life will never get better. I have thought about just giving up on life when things are bad, but as I have learned over the years that bad situations come with good. You just have to wait. It may take a while for life to get great, but you have to trust it. Here’s why. September 2011, I’m so excited yet so nervous for my first day of High School today. Every type of emotion is running…

In the years 1940-1950, The Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation used a canal in Niagara Falls, New York, as a dumping ground. The company disposed of toxic chemicals; including polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxin and pesticides. This land was then covered with fill and sold to a developer. A housing development was built on the chemical dump in the 1970s. Residents of the area began to experience various health issues. The government did not begin investigating and relocating families until…

Additionally, the Americans were even more severe with their use of chemical warfare. This was done through the use of napalm as well as Operation Ranch Hand in 1962, where they destroyed Vietnam lands and forests with the use of chemicals, such as Agent…

inspected reveling usual soft drink powders, Tang (a popular international fruit-flavored drink) and a large quantity of batteries making the inspectors feel uncomfortable and decide to increase surveillance on him. With covert surveillance by field agents and incognito sources of surveillance they were able to reveal that the group was making usual purchases. This includes luggage bags, batteries, syringes, and commonly found in homemade bombs hydrogen peroxide hinting that they were getting…

Copper is important as it many chemical and physical properties. Copper is a good conductor of electricity and is malleable (the ability to be bent) which is why copper is used in electrical wiring. It is also used in bronze and brass as an alloying agent(3). Chemists use a sequence of chemical reactions to obtain a desired product that cannot be obtained in a single reaction. In the series of reactions, the product of the initial reaction selected with reagents, is used as a reactant in the…