The Golden Era

The rise of industrial capitalism proved that American was advancing both in resources and profit. Captains of industry controlled large monopolies who sought out to destroy smaller competition. The American economy was reshaped by these larger enterprises which corrupted the system and made living as a lower classman more of a punishment than a reward. Immigrants who fled their previous countries where on a search for prosperity, large monopolies took advantage of their desperation to make a…

The Victorian Era marked a large step into the modern world and provided some of the most famous writers of all time. The era can characterized by rapid change and more progressive ideals. Wilkie Collins was an author who published many novels through a series of weekly distributed papers, that reflected the rapidly changing time period. Collins’ highly detailed style of sensationalist novels, was truly reflective in his mystery works; riddled with undertones of a truly tragic life in victorian…

August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie written during the Victorian age exemplified the conflicts created within a master-servant relationship. During this time, the elite: the rich, property owners, aristocrats were thought to be superior to the masses. This is exactly, the kind of society that philosopher, Karl Marx detested. Marx supported the lower class: the common people, the servants, the masses and believed that the masses untimely had the potential to rise above the oppressors if they…

Increase in Nutritional Value – The decrease in price not only makes GMO foods more widely available to people with lower incomes, GMOs can also have the added benefit of having more nutritional value. For example, there are some GMOs like Golden rice that have Vitamin A which can solve the issue of Vitamin A deficiency in Asian countries [4]. Disadvantages of GMOs Despite the advantages of GMOs, it also has a great amount of disadvantages for which the controversy of GMOs stems from. Yet…

Since GMOs (or genetically modified organisms) were introduced in the mid-1990s, allergies and other health problems including reproductive disorders and autism have been escalating. Time and time again, genetically modified foods have been presented as being “the same” as their organic counterparts, so that the labeling of them in unnecessary, but the facts seem to sing a different song. Genetically modifying foods has been praised for the impressive number of crops the practice yields with the…

scientists, hoping to eliminate the need for post-harvest processing, have genetically modified rice to contain significantly higher amounts of vitamin A.” this rice is called the golden rice is not yet legal in most countries, but according to experts it will be very soon (“Genetically Modified Foods”). Crops like golden rice could be very helpful to the third world countries. People in African and other third world countries who live in poverty can be fed by foods that are excessive in…

GMO Title As we sit down to eat our lunch, we pause and consider the contents of our meal. In 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act passed to include the nutritional value of our food. Yet, when examining the label there is no information on whether the ingredients have been genetically engineered. GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) have been integrated in our foods for over 20 years (McLure). Since the sale of genetically modified tomatoes which were approved by the FDA in 1994, the…

Food is a fundamental human right, it is essential to our bodies for developing cells and tissues to protecting them against infections. It is just as fundamental that the public is aware of what foods they consume. In the past couple of decades, a rise of bio technology has revolutionized the agricultural industry, since then GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have been introduced that claim to be resistant to disease, help humans that are suffering from famine, produce greater yields, and…

Genetically modified organisms is a controversial topic that has been on people 's minds in the past couple of years, but lots of people don 't know what genetically modified organisms actually are or what they 're used for. Many people think they’re terrible things in food that are going to kill us one day, but they don 't know very much else. Everyone should know what genetically modified organisms are, why they are used, pros, cons, and why is it controversial, so that they can form their own…

Have you ever thought about if you are eating a food that has been genetically modified? I can guarantee you eat a few food that have been genetically modified about every day. You may not know what a GMO organism is well let me explain. A genetically modified organism, or GMO, is an organism that has had its DNA altered or modified in some way through genetic engineering. On average, people eat an estimated 193 pounds of genetically engineered food during a 12-month period. That is 193 pounds…