Commercialization

Given Alice’s manipulative and cunning character, her comparison to a mythological hydra by Arden is particularly apt. Stemming from Greek mythology, the hydra is a venomous monster possessing nine heads and extremely difficult to kill. As Linebaugh and Rediker illuminate, “when Hercules lopped off one of the hydra’s heads, two new ones grew in its place” (2-3). Just as the hydra regrows its head when attacked, Alice exhibits increasing maliciousness when provoked. When questioned by Arden about…

Tourism and Pacific communities have a complex and multi-faceted relationship. There are both positive and negative implications of the tourism industry, which are not only economic and environmental, but also deeply cultural. As globalisation has made foreign travel to the Pacific easier, cheaper, and more widespread than ever before, the effects of tourism have never been more relevant. As many island nations in the Pacific are relatively isolated, have limited resources, and rely…

Space and place are important facets of our identity and who we are. It is sometimes said that places have a way of claiming people, or that a place grows on you. This means that not only are we getting used to a place but also that we are developing a strong relationship with that place and that it is becoming a part of our identity. Place identity is the foundation of a person’s self-identity, and consists of knowledge and feelings developed through everyday experiences of physical spaces. Not…

Scientists and researchers concede that medical research depends significantly on human cells developed in the laboratory, in order to evaluate the functionalities of such cells, and test numerous theories concerning the causes and treatments of diseases. The cell lines needed for such experiments must be immortal, which implies that they should show signs of indefinite growth, split into a number of batches for use by numerous scientists, and frozen for long durations of time. In 1951, medicine…

Mohammad Neaz SCC 101, 115A Dr. Jennifer Vance 6/5/17 Genetically Modified Organisms Genetically modified organisms, more commonly known as GMOs is the process where genes from the DNA of one organism are taken and unnaturally forced into a completely different organism, whether a plant or even an animal. The genes being relocated into another organism possibly derive from animals, viruses, bacteria, insects, and humans. This process is done in a laboratory mostly in regards to foods and…

Summary: At the end of World War One, as countries began to recover from the damages and horror of the war, the demand for Canadian products gradually increased, also increasing jobs. Industries adapted to the changes and many techniques such as assembly lines -- allowing production to be cheaper and faster-- were invented. As manufacturing rates dropped, so did the price of the products such as cars and trucks, allowing far more citizen to purchase vehicles. In fact, the vehicle ownership rate…

coordinated toward the United Kingdom, yet the same is occurring in the United States and Canada. Nowadays, adolescence is characterized by exorbitant screen time, absence of outdoor playing, a profoundly competitive education system, and persistent commercialization. These elements…

Throughout the United States, industrialization has always played a major role in history. In the early 19th century American life advances through commercialization, industrialization, and improvements of transportation. A major shift from agrarianism to industrialization marks the beginning of the market revolution. However, this change did not affect all Americans in the same way as sectionalism began to diverge the North from the South. While the North favored manufactured goods the South…

Introduction Urban sprawl is the expansion of a city or its suburbs, especially the commercialization in rural areas including farmland or undeveloped lands, such as forests and open spaces. Urban sprawl can be caused by numerous factors including rapid population growth, rise of living standard, decrease of land rate, lack of urban planning, etc. Urban sprawl creates numerous problems that would decrease in environmental quality through wildlife habitat destruction, deforestation, wetlands, and…

work, and family. Projects of the second wave of feminism focused on economic and social inequalities between the genders, and highlighted injustices like the glass ceiling and the wage gap in business, as well as the hyper-sexualization and commercialization of the female body. Major accomplishments of second-wave feminism were the institution of sexual harassment laws, and the passing of Title IX, which formally invited women into high school and college…