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Importance of Nature There are very few places where people can find peace and happiness, but some people decided to go to nature. During the Age of Transcendentalism, people believed that if they went to nature they would be closer to God. They used nature in order to form a better relationship with God. Since God created nature, people believed there was no evil there. In the text Nature, Emerson talks about getting away from society and to go to nature in order to be alone. In Thoreau’s text…

Concentrated animal feeding operations are a growing concern in Wisconsin. CAFOs are animal facilities where creatures that produce eggs, beef, pork or milk are housed in limited space buildings. These animals have restricted or almost no access to the outside world. As well as a cramped indoor living area, they are kept on a relatively small plot of land causing a concentration of waste from the animals. CAFOs have been the subject for debate in my area because most homeowners do not want them…

In the essay, Sanders talks about a family that stays put because they invested so much time in their home. For instance, they planted crops, plants, spread manure, and manufactured new items for their home. To illustrate, if you were to live in a segregated community and someone stood up for everyone would you not like to stay? For example, Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist who led the Civil Right Movement…

The Inbetween of Meat Eating The matter of eating meat is a heavily debated topic, especially with the threats of climate change, population change, and animal cruelty gaining popularity. The production of meat has been linked to the rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as methane. This claim has been intensified by the growing population and the food that is needed to support them. While these arguments against eating meats are somewhat compelling, there is plenty of evidence of to…

In the short story of “Barn burning,” that wrote by William Faulkner. In the story, a poor boy named Sartoris craves food. He’s afraid and scared that his father, Abner Snopes is in court, charged with burning down Mr. Harris’s barn. Sartoris is called up to give evidence against his own father. He is going to have to lie to the court to protect his father that he has to say that he didn’t burn the barn. The Justice and the barn owner are putting the poor and young child in a horrible position…

Hundreds of miles to the north, a grey overcast obscured Sol's light. An early chill billowed through the craggy gauntlet and into the box canyon. Crows and pickpockets eyed the deceased knights and other soldiers for their armor, weapons and other valuables. For that reason, the surviving knights desperately sought to account for all royal and the highest ranking nobles. Out of due respect and the kingdoms in question's security, possessions and especially royal seals had to be in hand.…

1. “grocery lit” is a term coined by Michael Pollan and is a reference to the literature presented in grocery stores. He argues that supermarkets have developed a new form of literature that aims towards getting the consumer to buy a certain product. By using this form of persuasion, grocery stores hope to create a relationship between the consumer, the farmer and the product. This relationship takes the form of a story that has some real basis and some exaggerated facts in order to enhance the…

worker that can get a job done efficiently.” They seemed to be pleased with the answer because as I got up to leave I shook all of their hands again and the last man said, “It was nice talkin’ to you son.” I thanked and went back to work scooping cow manure and washing the…

Everyone has heard of the impending doom of global warming. Over the last decade, most people have verbally expressed that it was a myth. Now, with the extreme transmutations in our climate, people are finally opening their eyes. The elevating temperatures and extreme weather patterns, pose the question, how could this have transpired? Well, let me tell you. Global warming is defined in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as: the elevation in the earth’s atmospheric and marine temperatures…

Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium and facultative anaerobic that can grow under either anaerobic or aerobic conditions but do not form endospores. Among the six species of Listeria, only Listeria monocytogenes is the major human pathogen that causes disease in humans. It is a causative agent to cause listeriosis, a serious infection caused by ingesting the food contaminated with Listeria. The optimum temperature for growth is 30 to 37 degree Celsius, within this…