Urban agriculture

Agriculture has been a significant aspect of humans lives since the beginning of time. Throughout the years farming has changed exceedingly for various reasons. In the passages “An Animal’s Place” by Michael Pollan and “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals” by Blake Hurst, both the ethical and inferior sides of farming are explained and the differences in industrial and organic farming is discussed. Although the authors have different opinions of farming, both passages are…

Now that agriculture could support a large amount of humans within one community it was time for the first civilization to rise. The world’s first cities, built by the Sumerians, compared quite differently from that of the Neolithic villages. “Unlike the earlier settlements…

1. The Algonquian tribe believed there was great significance in dreams and visions. Once a youth began puberty, he was sent on a quest of isolation. They would stay in isolation and until his role in life would be revealed to him in a dream or vision. Then he would be able to return to his tribe. 2. During the warmer summer months, the whole tribe would gather for weddings and ceremonies. However, once the colder months crept in, the tribe would split up into smaller groups and each group…

Thebes was a city-state in ancient Greece. Thebes was located in central Greece, a little to the north of Athens, and in between Delphi. Thebes was a farming city, unlike Athens and Corinth who were seaports. Thebes is strategically located on a low plateau commanding the surrounding plains of Boeotia. Thebes is the largest city-state located in Boeotia, a region in Greece. Unlike many parts of Greece where the soil was light and thin, Thebes has rich, fertile soil that is well irrigated.…

Mali, a large country in Africa, stretches from the north at the Sahara desert all the way south to the Niger and Senegal River Basins (Africa Atlas). There are five lakes: Lake Débo, Lake Faguibine, Lake Sélingué, Lake Gossi, and Lake Manantali. Lake Faguibine is one of the largest in West Africa (Africa Atlas). Mali is 1,240,192 square kilometers and also has diverse climates (Drakenberg). Towards the north, there is little rain and a lot of desert (Drakenberg). Nearing the south, the rain…

There are many important differences between the New and the Old Worlds, such as the sophistication (or lack thereof) of language (pg. 450), celestial events being marked by the stars or the horizon (pg. 542), and varying interests in large sailing vessels (pg. 455) – without which the New World would not have even been discovered. However, the most important ones that can explain why the Americas developed slower than the Old World are the layout of the continents, hence, the differences in the…

The slave trade was simply a way of recruiting labor for the purpose of exploiting the great natural resources of America This trade did not develop because Indians and Negroes were red or black...but simply because they were the best workers to be found for the heavy labor in the mines and plantations across the Atlantic (Caste, Class, and Race p.332). And other words, people of color were sold because of their capacity and their strength to handle works that white people wouldn’t do or were…

effects of NAFTA, the Sierra Club (2014) analyzed how the trade agreement has affected the economy and the environment of the participating countries. In particular, the Sierra Club (2014) discusses the detrimental effects GMOs have had on native agriculture in Mexico in which native seeds have become “contaminated” by the GM corn imported from the US. The presence of genetically modified corn strains not only does not bode well for the native corn strains, but also hurts the native farmers who…

Genetically modifying organisms sounds scary, especially when consumers find out it is in their food. For many, images of oversized chickens or unnaturally large tomatoes come to mind. This is because many do not know how a GMO is created or what is considered to be a GMO. Claims spew that what is inside genetically modified organisms are cancerous and unknown chemicals are injected into the organism. A common misconception is that any organism outside of society's idea of natural or organic is…

member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food”. Back then they had no social hierarchy, no powers, and no special building used for religious beliefs. In today’s society we have evolved into farmers which agriculture and farming came in slowly. Farming is defined as “the activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock”. Domestication of both animals and plants happen during the evolution of hunter-gatherers in the beginning to farming in…