Agricultural extension

To what extent did the rise of communism in China shape both the Chinese economy and social structure during the 20th century? Part A: Part B: While the long standing history between China and Japan has been filled with conflicts and atrocities, such as the Nanking massacre and the fighting for control of Manchuria in the early 19th century, the rise of communism in China played a large role in both shaping the relations between China and Japan as well as influencing their relationship today.…

“All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.” This is a quote by a famous journalist by the name of Michael Specter. Mr. Specter, along with many other respected members of the scientific community, has formed an opinion of Genetic modification. Genetic Modification has been done for thousands of years but most people…

A player in both abolitionist movements and the feminist movement was Englishwoman Francis Wright. She used the utopian ideas of Charles Fourier and Mary Wollstonecraft’s equality thoughts towards anti-slavery. “Wright published A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, a pamphlet in which she proposed that the U.S government create Owenite slave plantations where profits would go to the purchase of the slaves’ freedom”…

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Stable government finances (Reuter Agency) A decade of solid fiscal management has left Brazil with a financial position that is the envy of the United States and most European countries. Its net debt-to-GDP ratio is slightly under 40 percent, and has steadily fallen in recent years. Part of Brazil's relatively rosy standing can be chalked up to favorable demographics, with a median age of 29.6 years -- compared to 37.1 in the United States and 43.8 in Italy. Brazil may inevitably face the…

In the past several months, a somewhat concerning topic in the news has been reports of a large number of earthquakes in Oklahoma. In a region that normally has very little fault activity, this recent rise in seismic action has raised some eyebrows to an increasingly-common practice across our nation: hydraulic fracking. Currently, many people believe that the process of hydraulic fracturing (more commonly referred to as "fracking") is a major problem that needs to be stopped, causing hazards to…

International Politics & Decision Making November 14, 2015 Climate Change and Development By Hannah George The industrial civilization signaled development and modernization with increased energy use, urbanization and population growth. Svante Arhenius, a Swedish scientist was the first to point out the “greenhouse law” linking carbon dioxide emissions to burning of fossil fuels which potentially leads to atmospheric warming and changes in climate. If global temperatures are not contained to…

era. The word “baroque”, as Erwin Panofsky says in his book Three Essays on style, signifies everything wildly abstruse, obscure, fanciful, and useless. The other derivation of the term from Latin verruca and Spanish barueca meaning a wart and by extension an irregular shaped pearl. Eighteenth century critics were the first to apply the term to the art of the 17th century. It was not a term of praise. To the eyes of these critics, who favored the restraint and order of Neoclassicism, the works…

country of Canada seemed to be set on the road towards economic growth, political independence, and nationwide prosperity. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway was contributing to Canada’s growing population, especially in the Prairies. New agricultural technology and species were making farm labour less taxing and more productive, while new industrial technology was making urbanization possible in a country where a majority lived in rural areas. Considering the circumstances, it was…

Tlaloc: The God of Rain Existing between the periods between 1345 to its forceful capture in 1345, the Aztec civilization began with the creation of its thriving city of Teotihuacan. Like their predecessors, the Mayans, the Aztecs were deeply intoned with their polytheistic belief of powerful deities. One such deity, Tlaloc, god of rain and earth, was held in high regard. Tlaloc was thought to form a union with Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun and war in Aztec mythology. They shared the Templo…