Essay #1 Cause/Effect (Revision) – “Genetically Modified Seeds: The Killing of the Honey Bee’s”

Genetically Modified Seeds: The Killing of the Honey Bee’s From the flowers to the trees, bees of all kinds are very important for the continuation of not just plant life, but all life here on Earth. Without the help from these pollinating insects, the produce section of the local grocery stores might look a lot [...]

Response #11-15

Response #11-15 Article #1 The very name of the article, How Factory Farms Are Killing Seals, is thought provoking. How can farms be harming sea creatures? Author Tom Philpott reveals an ugly side to farming that the industry wants covered up. This piece is written for anyone who doesn’t want the sea life of our [...]

Responses #11-15

Responses #11-15 Article #1 The antibiotics that are used on the animals that are raised on feed lots does not leave the land on which they are raised. This statement is what almost every feed lot owner will tell you and the the antibiotics that are given to the animals are harmless to humans as [...]

Essay 3 Proposal- Genetically Modified Vegetables: Deadly Veggies

Imagine a world void of everything you know. Where beans, peas, corn and tomatoes once grew only mutant, invincible weeds now grow. Grocery store shelves that once help tortillas, chips, and vegetable soups are now barren. The store’s vegetable section is in a similar state. There is no more popcorn, cereal, soy sauce, potato chips, [...]

Essay 3 Proposal- Community Garden: Finally Alaska Fresh

  It is easy to just say let us start a community garden, but the reality is that there are many things that need to be taken into account before the process can begin. Regardless of that process there are so many benefits that can come out of a community garden, benefits for the environment [...]

Essay #2 Book Review (Revision)- Rural Renissance

What does the future of the world look like? Will it be one that is dying and its future looks bleak or is it one where life is thriving, birds are singing, the grass is green, and the sun is shining bright? “A renewal of life, vigor, interest; rebirth; revival”, this is how renaissance is [...]

Eaasy #2 Book Review – Rural Renaissance

What does the future of the world look like? Will it be one that is dying and its future looks bleak or is it one where life is thriving, birds are singing, the grass is green, and the sun is shining bright? “A renewal of life, vigor, interest; rebirth; revival”, this is how renaissance is [...]

Response #6-10

ARTICLE #1 The article “Electric Bugaboo” by Tim Dickinson tells of the struggle to get started with renewable energy here in the United States.  It would seem natural to believe that the biggest obstacles standing in the way for renewable energy construction would be large corporations that supply energy already, coal and oil.  The shock [...]

Reading Responses #6-10

Article #1 Bryan Walsh starts out his article “Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food” by drawing a picture of a pig being raised for slaughter in the state of Iowa. His picture contains confined pens, chopped of curly tails, antibiotics, and the waste produced by all of these pigs wafting up into [...]

Essay #1 Cause/Effect – “Genetically Modified Seeds: The Killing of the Honey Bee’s”

From the flowers to the trees, bees of all kinds are very important for the continuation of not just plant life but all life here on Earth. Without the help from these pollinating insects the produce section of the local grocery stores might look at a lot different. Although the general public has not been [...]