Industrial espionage

Conventional and Organic Farming On the back. What is your final decision? Did you change your mind after our discussion? Questions for Prompting Student discussion: Organic farmers don’t use antibiotics why do conventional farmers use them. Does the use have effects on consumers? Are there any long term effects of synthetic fertilizers on the soil? Why do we have to use fertilizers for the growth of food? Can we grow enough food organically for the human population? Does organic food…

OCCUPATIONS IN THE COLONIES GRQ’S The difference between a colonial farmer and a planter was that colonial farmers worked small, family-run farms, while planters were wealthy, educated, who oversaw the operations on their large farms, or plantations. Colonial farmers used plows, hoes, axes, and building tools to clear land, dig ditches, build fences, farm buildings, plow, and do other heavy labor. Planters used books to track expenses and sales. They dealt with the logistics rather than hard…

A Small Place Essay During the Age of Exploration many small countries like Antigua were colonized by European nations. England arrived in Antigua in 1632, Antigua was underdeveloped at the time and the English modernized and industrialized their society. When England left Antigua in 1981, Antigua was left in poverty and with no government structure. A Small Place reveals that a form of economic slavery still exists today in post-colonial Antigua through the corrupt government leaders, which…

The typical family extinction Introduction: In the book Brave New World, the author describes the life in a dystopian futuristic society in which poverty, hunger, war and diseases exist. Technology is advanced enough to never deny what is considered “progress”. A lot of important aspects in our actual society (like family life, marriage, art, literature, religion, etc.) have been removed in order to make this possible. In the family and marriage side, the book says that families make people…

In order to have enough knowledge to answer the question: “Was the Industrial Revolution beneficial or detrimental to the 18th and 19th century Europeans?”, the use of two primary sources will be required. It is essential to understand what is the Industrial Revolution. The Oxford dictionary defines this term as: “The rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery.” . The first source that will be used…

The Industrial Revolution was a time period between the 1800s and the 1900s where there was many new inventions and ideas. During the Industrial Revolution factories started to be more popular all over the United States. Also, new types of transportation like the steamships, trains and automobiles brought safer and faster traveling. The Industrial Revolution was a time that encouraged change, but that change was not always a good one. The period of rapid industrial growth during the 1800s and…

The world of artificial intelligence is advancing at a rapid rate with robots becoming increasingly human like everyday. Advancements in these technologies requires us as humans to understand the benefits and the ramifications of introducing this scarcely understood technology into our everyday lives. Blindly allowing a new form of intelligence could be potentially catastrophic if not fully understood as the stability of these technologies are yet to be understood. Within Isaac Asimov's story…

The Victorian Period, the most important time in British history. This Period started with Queen Victoria’s rise to power in 1837 and ended with her death in 1901, thus ending the Victorian Period. Through this era, many changes occurred, from scientific improvements to population growth. Even though it started with many problems many of them were already improved by the end of the Victorian Period. For starters, one of the biggest improvements was the steam engine, which even though it was…

The article “Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s” by Ruth Bleasdale discusses the social disorder of class conflict on the canals of British North America. In the 1840s numerous Irish immigrants were migrating to Canada whose sole choice was to enter the capitalist labour market and accept any wages given by the contractor. However, the unemployment rates in Upper Canada were at peak and several thousand Irish labourers were living in extreme poverty and facing starvation.…

In the story Rivethead: Tales From The Assembly Line Ben Hamper talks about his own personal experiences of working on the assembly line. Hamper wanted to do anything but work for the factory, but the tables turned and he needed the steady income. He was very unhappy with his job and began drinking all the time while he was there. Hamper does not hold back to explain every little detail about the conditions of working for the factory because he is no longer employed there. Ben Hamper was not a…