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In this day and age, the words genetically modified are not uncommon. It seems we cannot enter a pharmacy or grocery store without reading labels that tell us of the genetically altered substance they contain. It is truly a great feat that scientist have made by discovering how to genetically modify the traits of living things. Genetically altered foods, for example, have the ability to last longer, become resistant to pesticides, increase taste, and hold more vitamins than their pre-genetically altered parents. Genetically altered foods can also help diets with vitamin deficiencies that cause many preventable diseases. One of the diseases that can be helped with introduction of vitamin supplements is childhood blindness. An estimate found on goldenrice.org reports that about 250,000 to 500,000 children go permanently blind every year from the lack of vitamin A in their diets. Vitamin A is essential for a plethora of functions including eyesight (Tang). Many rice-consuming populations are especially vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency because regular rice does not contain vitamin A or its precursors and intake of vitamin A-containing meat is low (Tang). One way of helping decrease the vitamin A deficiencies in children of rice-consuming populations is the introduction of a genetically modified rice known as “Golden” Rice contains beta-carotene, which helps provide humans with vitamin A. This vitamin supplement produced in the rice could help to eliminate childhood blindness in these rice-consuming populations. Asialand, a small country that does not allow any genetically modified foods to be grown or sold within its borders, is one of these rice-consuming populations that would greatly benefit from the introduction of Golden Ri...
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...dhood blindness is a great concern among rice-consuming countries whose diet lacks vitamin A. The introduction of this genetically modified food could stop children’s suffering and feed hungry people. Action should be taken immediately towards making steps of change.
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Claireece Precious Jones is currently experiencing the adolescent stage of her development and is transitioning into adulthood. Her experience as a teenage mother, growing up in poverty, and history of abuse all have implications for the development of her identity, cognitive functioning, and biological factors. We will focus on Erikson’s Psychosocial Stage for Adolescents to gage the evolution of Precious’s growth, while addressing the person in environmental theory that also attributes to the biopsychosocial context in which a young person develops.
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Genetically modified? That alone should be a cause for alarm, and have you wondering, what exactly is in this that I am eating? Yet every day millions of American’s choose to load up on food filled with GMO’s, and not even know it. First we must understand what GMO’s are. GMO’s are any organism whose genetics has been altered using genetic engineering. We should not be tampering with nature, and should try to grow organically as much as possible. There has not been enough research on GMO’s to know the potential long term effects it can have on us, so this is why GMO’s should be banned.
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Papalia, Diane E, Sally W. Olds, and Ruth D. Feldman. A Child's World: Infancy Through Adolescence. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Print. The author is a child development and psychology professor. This is an anthology with strictly objective information. The content is broken down into physical, cognitive, and psychosocial developments of different stages of childhood.
Children are complex, and the way a child develops differs from individual to individual. The study of children is a field that researchers, scientists, theorists and educators have been exploring for decades. CHYS 1F90 studies the foundations of childhood development and allows the students to look at the way children develop through multiple lenses. Many conclusions have been drawn, observing how, when and why children develop the way they do. Jerry and Samantha are both grade one students who are unrelated. Although these two students are both the same age, they are different on a variety of accounts. Jerry is a shy and introverted boy who quickly becomes uncomfortable while talking to adults, teachers and peers, contrariwise Samantha is immensely confident and demonstrates extroversion around others. After analyzing both Jerry and Samantha through a biological, learning theorist and psychoanalytical lens, the reasons for the first-graders differences are clear. Depending on the lens in which an individual looks through when analyzing the development of children, interesting and intriguing conclusions can be drawn regarding the broad topic of understanding how children develop.
As the number of people who are starving increases each day, many leaders and organizations throughout the world are looking for a solution to this global crisis. According to John Robbins, the founder of Earth Save and co-founder/president of the Food Revolution Network, “Nearly a million children die every year because they are weakened by vitamin A deficiency and an additional 350,000 go blind. Golden rice … will be a godsend for the half of humanity…” (Robbins). Genetic engineering could be the fix for this issue. Genetic engineering would allow for rice to be produced in mass quantities for a less expensive price than regular rice. Moreover, if genetic engineering of beef cows were to be pursued, it would allow for more beef to be produced per cow; this would allow people who are hunger stricken to get a well-rounded diet. Although critics of genetically modified crops argue that this might not be the healthiest solution to ending world hunger, these crops have been approved as safe by the Food and Drug Administration. Also, these crops would be a great supplement for people who need food immediately and do not have the resources to go and find a healthier source of
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Golden rice: Was created by Inro Protrykys. He wanted to eliminate the deficiency of vitamin A in rural areas and under developed countries and areas. The idea was to create a production of beta-carotene., which is mainly found in gold rice plants. Beta-carotene is one of the main sources of vitamin A. By adding only two genes, a plant phytoene synthase and a bacterial phytoene desaturase, the pathway is turned back on and β-carotene consequently accumulates in the grain. This allows for more vitamin A to be present in the rice and thus bettering the amount of nutrients one will get from Golden Rice. (The Science of Golden Rice, Golden Rice Project, 23 April 2014, http://www.goldenrice.org/Content2-How/how1_sci.php)
We live in a world that is constantly changing and advancing thanks to technological advancements, especially in the field of molecular genetics. Today, we are discovering and implementing new ways to overcome the ill-fated symptoms developed as a result from poor health or accidents. We are also making advancements in the field of agriculture thanks to molecular genetics. As we all know, food is an essential entity in our lives and is abundant as well as relatively easy to obtain here in the United States. However, as good as it may sound, this is not necessarily true for developing countries. Many people in developing countries receive very little food, if any, due to its scarcity. It is estimated that in Asia alone, close to 800 million people go to bed hungry every night due to food shortage. This problem can be alleviated by turning to the production of genetically modified organisms (a.k.a. GMOs).
No matter who you are I believe that everyone will go through stages in their life that will get them to where they are on today. I am a person who has a very interesting story; this is the first time it will be told in full. We were asked to use Erik Erikson’s theory of development as a guideline to telling the story of our lives. At first I was very nervous; however, I soon realized that this would be a fun task. Erik Erikson has eight stages of Development (Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman). I will be walking you though my life using each one of his stages drawing out the map of my life. Within my life I have had some very interesting encounters. I have been through foster care, abuse, rape, molestation, starvation, adoption, depression, and success. Although my life may not be perfect, I believe that I have overcome these battles and become the person that I am on today. I will be talking about a few crises, milestones, and some of the people that were set in place to help me and or hurt me.
Erik Erikson was a developmental psychologist known for his theory on psychosocial development. Unlike other theorists of his time Erikson’s theory focused on human development across the lifespan from birth to late adulthood. Erickson believed that development change occurs through out our lives in eight distinctive stages that emerge in a fixed pattern and are similar for all people. Erickson argued that each stage presents a crisis or conflict which results in either a positive or negative outcome (Feldman). In this essay I will identify incidents in my own life that demonstrate each stage of development according to Erickson that I have lived through. I will also interview my Aunt Tami who will share her experiences for the remainder stages of Erickson’s development that I have not gone through thus far.