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humans. One of the health concerns about the rising use of GMO is due to the increase of different types of food allergy cases. In the “GMO: Pros and Cons” article, Colbert mentions the opponents of GMO claim that GM food can have the long-term adverse health effects on humans. She writes, “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food allergies in children under 18 years of age have increased; from 3.4 percent between 1997 and 1999 to 5.1 percent between 2009 and 2011,”

Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma is a Chinese American cellist. He was born October 7, 1955 in Paris, France. He was a child prodigy, and after studying many instruments Ma chose the cello. He began performing at the age of four and a half. At the age of seven his family moved to New York where he attended the Juilliard School. At sixteen he enrolled at Harvard University. He graduated in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. Yo-Yo Ma’s performing career has no boundaries. He has performed with the world’s

This format is used in strictly traditional “girl tales” such as the historic story of the heroine Cinderella which has been retold in over 700 versions (195). The series presents misogynistic gender roles for most of the female characters such as Petunia Dursley, Molly Weasley, and the departed Lily Potter who all represent reclusive homemakers without much power (193-4). The series does portray Hermione Granger, Professor Sibyll Trelawney, and Professor Minerva McGonagall who are women with a voice

rectangle was also seen as beauty they used in architecture like the Parthenon contains many of the rectangles and paintings like the Mona Lisa and also sculptures. Next they go on to talk about how pentagons are in nature for example flowers like the petunia and the wax flower, and in animals like the starfish. Lastly they talk about how mathematics is used in games such as chess, baseball, football, basketball and even hopscotch. Lastly they talk about how mathematics is used in the game billiards, it

The Impact of Pigs on Popular Culture We all know what pigs are, generally speaking. However, one thing that not all of us know is that pigs had various impacts on certain aspects in popular culture. We are not only talking about cartoons and films here, but in most of the areas of popular culture. So get ready to see some of the cultural areas where pigs brought their presence into. Pigs in popular culture Many aspects of culture were influenced by the presence of pigs, in different ways. Here

Chamber of Secrets is a metaphor itself. The entrance is in the girls' bathroom and through a long, dark, wet tunnel under the school. Harry emerges with Ginny after Fawkes' tears. Harry descends into the underworld of the basement caverns beneath Hogwarts School. The process of reemerging from the chamber is easily a metaphor rebirth. “By his wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53-5.) The Third, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry hears his mother's screams and he meets his godfather Sirius

Doodle's Reason to Succeed Do you ever feel like an outsider? Well, that is how Brother portrays Doodle, a disabled boy in the story, "The Scarlet Ibis". Brother referred to him as this because he could not walk until he was about six or seven. Doodle, the disabled brother, learned to walk when he was about six by Brother, Doodle's older brother. He was not even supposed to live when he first entered this world. Even though he is not perfect, he holds many characteristics that can let him be capable

The period of the book is an unspecified time, modern and roughly up-to-date. The story of Harry Potter came to J. K. Rowling on a train ride from Manchester to London in 1990. She was a single mother of a daughter and living on welfare in Edinburgh, Scotland, when she began to write the novel. She began writing in a café while her baby, Jessica, napped. Rowling soon shot up to fame and fortune. Identify the genre & specify how this work fits its characteristics: The genre is a fantasy tale, the

If my life had a soundtrack, right now it would be playing banjo music. We pulled into the rocky driveway of our new house in Freeburg, Pennsylvania, and all I saw for miles was corn, cows, and woods. It was a miracle my cell phone still worked, because I felt like I’d fallen off the face of the planet. “We’re here!” Dad crowed, pivoting in his seat to give Haylie and me a maniacal grin. Which fit, considering I thought he was bonkers for making us move from NYC to the sticks. I’d think he was

more extreme than it really is; when the first lady is placing the flower on the wardrobe, Marian thinks it nigh impossible that the lady could reach. Also, even though the first lady’s “claw” is “horny,” when touching it Marian describes it as a “petunia leaf, clinging and just a little sticky.” Even the climax is described in child-like terms.      As a little girl might be alone in a strange place, Marian is scared. She goes to the nursing home slowly, and pays attention only “vaguely” to what