Question one
1. What is the current population estimates in the world and what is the estimated food consumed by that population?
2. How many tons does an individual consume on average per year, what is the major source of that food consumed by that individual?
3. What are key stable food and how are they utilized?
4. Is there any deficit or surplus if? If yes, what are the causes?
5. What is the percentage of land that is dedicated to food producing crops in the world?
6. What is the impact of population growth on such land?
7. If the current population trend continues, what amount of land will be available for crop production in 50 years to come?
8. Will that land be able to feed the exploding population growth?
9. Is industrial agriculture a solution to these problem
10. How does the cultivation of one crop improve food production?
11. Can the cultivation of one crop be considered harmful is so in what can it be harmful?
12. Is constant reliance of antibiotics advisable to use in the food production?
13. Industrial farming yield more profits and results in more food. Is it right to conclude that such farming is bad?
14. Sustainable farming is considered as a good alternative. Will such farming sustain the ever growing population and what example of this kind of agriculture has been proven effective in feeding the population?
15. How the use of manure and compost does compare with the use of fertilizers?
16. What are the long term cost benefits of using compost manure?
17. What is the average number of tons produced in both kinds of farming when one acre of land is subjected to farming using each type?
18. How can the differences be addresses if they exist when one acre of land is subjected to both kinds of farming?
19. What alternatives should a farmer following sustainable agriculture do to reduce the use of antibiotics and are they practical and feasible?
20. What is the attitude of farmers towards industrial and sustainable farming?
21. What are the consequences of using industrial crops in our bodies and does this impact cause a worry to us?
22. Does the pesticides that get into our bodies enough reason to ban industrial agriculture, if not what are the obstacles preventing countries from adopting sustainable agriculture?
23. Are these obstacles manageable?
24. What role should government institution play in addressing such obstacles?
25. Are there any policies amendments that should be made?
26. What should these policies discourage or encourage?
27. Does the world need to double up for food production?
28. What are the key steps to take towards increasing food production?
29. Does the world needs to start using technology to increase food production?
30. If yes or no, then why?
31. Can the quality of depleted soil be restored?
32. What are some of the ways of restoring such soil
33. Is genetic engineering a solution to the ever growing demand for food?
34. What is the impact of genetic engineering on the environment and in our body s ...
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Question one1. What is the current population estimates in the.docx
1. Question one
1. What is the current population estimates in the world and
what is the estimated food consumed by that population?
2. How many tons does an individual consume on average per
year, what is the major source of that food consumed by that
individual?
3. What are key stable food and how are they utilized?
4. Is there any deficit or surplus if? If yes, what are the causes?
5. What is the percentage of land that is dedicated to food
producing crops in the world?
6. What is the impact of population growth on such land?
7. If the current population trend continues, what amount of
land will be available for crop production in 50 years to come?
8. Will that land be able to feed the exploding population
growth?
9. Is industrial agriculture a solution to these problem
10. How does the cultivation of one crop improve food
production?
11. Can the cultivation of one crop be considered harmful is so
in what can it be harmful?
12. Is constant reliance of antibiotics advisable to use in the
food production?
13. Industrial farming yield more profits and results in more
food. Is it right to conclude that such farming is bad?
14. Sustainable farming is considered as a good alternative.
Will such farming sustain the ever growing population and what
example of this kind of agriculture has been proven effective in
feeding the population?
15. How the use of manure and compost does compare with the
use of fertilizers?
16. What are the long term cost benefits of using compost
manure?
17. What is the average number of tons produced in both kinds
2. of farming when one acre of land is subjected to farming using
each type?
18. How can the differences be addresses if they exist when one
acre of land is subjected to both kinds of farming?
19. What alternatives should a farmer following sustainable
agriculture do to reduce the use of antibiotics and are they
practical and feasible?
20. What is the attitude of farmers towards industrial and
sustainable farming?
21. What are the consequences of using industrial crops in our
bodies and does this impact cause a worry to us?
22. Does the pesticides that get into our bodies enough reason
to ban industrial agriculture, if not what are the obstacles
preventing countries from adopting sustainable agriculture?
23. Are these obstacles manageable?
24. What role should government institution play in addressing
such obstacles?
25. Are there any policies amendments that should be made?
26. What should these policies discourage or encourage?
27. Does the world need to double up for food production?
28. What are the key steps to take towards increasing food
production?
29. Does the world needs to start using technology to increase
food production?
30. If yes or no, then why?
31. Can the quality of depleted soil be restored?
32. What are some of the ways of restoring such soil
33. Is genetic engineering a solution to the ever growing
demand for food?
34. What is the impact of genetic engineering on the
environment and in our body system?
Question two
a. What is the percentage of land that is dedicated to food
producing crops in the world?
The percentage of land that is being dedicated to crop
production is of major concern. This is because if the
3. percentage is small that means that there will be shortage of
food production, which is required for human consumption.
Also if the percentage is large it means that, the growing
population will be left with no land to live on. This raises a big
question as what should be done because in both cases there is a
negative impact associated with it
b. Is industrial agriculture a solution to these problem
Yes I think industrial agriculture is the solution to the ever
increasing problems on agriculture. This is because when using
industrial agriculture a small piece of land can be utilized to
maximize very large output that can be used to feed a very large
population, in a certain region.
c. What are the long term cost benefits of using compost
manure?
The long term cost benefits of using compost manure is very
large. This is because a farmer ends up cutting the overall cost
incurred in acquiring fertilizers because he or she uses the
compost manure from the animals that are being reared in the
farm. Thus he ends up buying only the small amounts of drugs
that are required to feed the animals only.
d. What is the attitude of farmers towards industrial and
sustainable farming?
Some farmers believe that industrial farming is much expensive
than sustainable farming. This depends on the agriculture
orientation of a farmer. If a farmer was introduced to farming
through sustainable farming he or she will deem industrial
farming as being not good or being not profitable in the long
run, while a farmer who was oriented into agriculture via
industrial farming will always see it as the best kind of farming
available.
e. Can the quality of depleted soil be restored?
Yes the quality of soil can be restored. This can be done using
various ways of such as crop rotation, this is the act of
agriculture where a farmer plants a certain crop in a certain
piece of land for let’s say three year’s consecutively. Then after
that period the farmer plants another type of crop in that piece
4. of land, and the crop that was initially in that land is planted in
another piece of land.
Symposium by Plato
Introduction & Outline
The Symposium narrates the events of a drinking party that was
supposed to have taken
place in Athens, in 416 BC, two days after a festival called
Lenaia. The party took place
at the home of Agathon, a tragic poet who had just won the
prize for best tragedies at the
festival. Those attending the party were an intellectually elite
group including the comic
poet Aristophanes, a physician named Eryximachus, and
Socrates. The last to arrive is
Alcibiades, an important Athenian politician and general who
later became the strongest
advocate for the (eventually disastrous) expedition to Sicily.
The guests at the party play a game in which each makes an
extemporaneous speech upon
a given topic--this time, the topic is to compose an encomium in
praise of the god Love
(Eros in Greek). Unlike most Platonic dialogues, the
Symposium has little question-and-
answer led by Socrates; instead several guests give continuous
speeches praising Love. In
all of the speeches "Love" refers to sexual pleasure, but none of
the speeches praises the
pleasure of sex itself; each praises Love because of some
5. personal improvement that
occurs through or because of sexual pleasure and desire.
Each speech displays something about the individual who makes
it, something about
what he thinks of Love, and most importantly something about
what he thinks makes a
person good. It is the job of the reader to interpret the principle
behind each speech and
how it relates to the others. In reading each speech notice how
the benefit of Love
emerges in association with a kind of education, and what each
kind of education implies
about what a person is and what he needs to learn. The various
speeches follow a tacit
trajectory leading to a speech in which Socrates explains how
he learned that the desire
for physical possession of another person is a symptom of the
soul's desire to find and
possess its own immortal beauty through the soul of another.
This furnishes the
paradigm for a particular kind of education, Philosophy.
According to Socrates
Philosophy is Love (philosophia = "love of wisdom"), and the
pursuit of philosophy in
conversation with friends is love. (This is where the expression
"Platonic relationship"
comes from.)
Two essential questions:
1. What makes a good teacher?
2. What’s so good about Love (i.e., “Eros” = physical lust)?
Outline (remember the numbers here refer to the “page”
6. numbers in the outside margins
of your text):
• Intro: Rumors of Socratic speeches. Getting to Agathon’s
(172-178).
• Phaedrus’ speech (178-180b): Phaedrus, likely in his late 20’s,
is the boyfriend
of Eryximachus, the doctor, who must be at least 30. Regardless
of the details of
age, note that Phaedrus has a crush on an older, very learned
man, and the
relevance of this relationship to Phaedrus’ account of Eros.
Phaedrus has also had
a traditional education in poetry.
2
• Pausanias’ speech (180c-185e): Pausanias is an adult gay man
who is essentially
married to Agathon the star tragic poet, also an adult gay man
but younger than
Pausanias (they’re both probably around the age of 30).
Pausanias’ speech
justifies the seduction of a boy by an older man only when the
man is the boy’s
teacher.
• Eryximachus’ speech (186a-188e): A physician, lover of
7. Phaedrus. He thinks of
Eros in terms of physical health. But this specific instantiation
of Eros is not
limited to the human body; it extends to the entire material
world.
• Aristophanes’ speech (189a-193e): A great comic poet (i.e.,
playwright). Eros is
not just a desire one person has to physically possess another,
but an intuitive
yearning for wholeness that is characteristic of the human
condition.
• Agathon’s speech (194a-201c): Prize-winning tragic poet (i.e.,
playwright),
partner of Pausanias. Sexual attraction is a kind of sweet
persuasion that makes
the soul soft, peaceful, and cooperative.
• Socrates’ speech (201d-212c): First he cross-examines
Agathon, then he relates a
speech he heard from a wise woman named Diotima. Eros is the
human soul’s
desire for immortality in communion with other souls.
• Alcibiades’ entrance and speech (212c-222c): Alcibiades is a
politician and
8. general. He is very intelligent, good-looking, charming, and
popular (and very
wealthy). Infatuated by Socrates’ intellect, he tries to get
Socrates to convey his
wisdom by making himself his teacher’s sexual pet. It doesn’t
work. Readers are
provoked to consider the implications of the teacher-student
relationship in
general, and that of Socrates-Alcibiades in particular, when it is
remembered that
the historical Alcibiades was a strong advocate for an Athenian
expedition to
Sicily that was ultimately unsuccessful: many Athenian men
died on this military
endeavor.
• Outro (222c-223d)
Theogony
by
Hesiod
Supplement
for
Buckeye
Myth
Au2015
Basic
13. Odysseus' Journey from Troy to Ithaca in the Odyssey by Homer
Where is Odysseus?Where in the Odyssey?
with CalypsoBks 1-4 Telemachy
Bk 5 Odysseus & Calypso
with Phaeacians Bk 6 Nausicaa
Bk 7 Alcinous & Arete
Bk 8 Sports & Songs
Bks 9-12 Odysseus tells his story, from Troy to Calypso
Bk 9 = Troy, Cicones, Lotus Eaters, Cyclopes
Bk 10 = Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe
Bk 11 = Hades
Bk 12 = Sirens, Charybdis & Scylla, Thrinacia, Calypso
at Ithaca Bks 13-24
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Mythology
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PART II
Ask 50 questions
1. What is the current population estimates in the world?
2. How many tonnes of food does each individual person
consume on average per year?
3. What is the major source of such food?
4. What are the key stable food?
5. How are these food utilized?
6. What is the total estimate of food consumed per year?
7. Is there any deficit or surplus?
8. What causes such deficit or surplus?
9. What percentage of land is dedicated to producing food crops
in the world?
10. What is the impact of population growth on such land?
11. If the current population trend continues, what amount of
land will be available for crop production in 50 years to come?
12. Will that land sufficient to feed the exploding population
growth?
13. Is industrial agriculture a solution?
14. How does the cultivation of one crop improve food
production?
15. Is there any way such farming can be regarded as harmful?
16. If so, what are some of the common ways in which such
farming can be harmful.
17. Is constant reliance of antibiotics advisable?
18. Industrial farming yield more profits and result in more
food. Is it justifiable to conclude that such farming is bad?
19. Sustainable farming is considered a good alternative. Will
such farming sustain the population?
31. 20. How the use of manure and compost does compares with the
use of fertilizers?
21. What is the long term cost benefit analysis of using compost
manure?
22. What are example of sustainable agriculture that has been
proven effective in feeding the population?
23. What is average tonnes of cons produced in one acre
through sustainable farming?
24. What is the average tonnes of cons produced in one acre
through industrial farming?
25. Is there any differences?
26. How can such differences be addressed?
27. What alternatives should a farmer following sustainable
agriculture do to reduce the use of antibiotics?
28. Are these alternatives practical and feasible?
29. What is the attitude of farmers towards sustainable
agriculture?
30. What is their attitudes towards industrial agriculture?
31. What are the effectiveness of these alternatives in
controlling diseases?
32. What is the consequences of using industrial crops in our
bodies?
33. Is this impact a cause of worry?
34. Does the pesticide that gets into our bodies enough reason
to ban industrial agriculture?
35. If not, what are the obstacles that prevent countries from
adopting sustainable agriculture?
36. Are these obstacles manageable?
37. What role should government institution play in addressing
such obstacles?
38. Are there any policy amendments that should be made?
39. What should these policies encourage?
40. what should these policies discourage?
41. Does the world need to double up food production?
42. What are the key steps to take towards increasing food
production?
32. 43. Does the world needs to start using technology to increase
food production?
44. If yes, why?
45. If no, why?
46. Can the quality of otherwise depleted soil be restored?
47. What are some of ways of restoring such soil?
48. Is genetic engineering a solution to the ever growing
demand for food?
49. What is its impact on environment?
50. What is its impact on our body systems?
Plant and Soil Science 390 Food Forever
Case Report:
Investigative Research on Food
Production
1. PART 1: Pick topic and do an interview with a local expert
2. PART 2: Ask 50 questions
3. PART 3: Narrow questions
4. PART 4: Post citations and commentary
(and self-scoring form)
6. PART 5: Create poster => then, critique and present
33. PART 1: Introduction
The purpose of this project is to explore, research, and present
the
global ramifications of a local food issue. So, you will begin by
picking a topic of concern to you, related to your food supply.
Then, you will
interview a local expert. This information will form the basis
for your further
research. See the Assignments link for posting your doing and
posting
Some articles for further consideration
Below are some topics and associated articles that I found to piq
ue your interest
about issues directly related to the long-term sustainability of
food production.
These are intended to thought-provoking and
controversial. Some of them are
news articles, and some of them are
stories and opinion. You may agree or
disagree with the points of view, but I hope they give you ideas
for further
exploration. However, please don't feel limited by these!
Urban Agriculture In Africa, Producing Food from Waste
Could City Farming be a
34. Solution
for Bangkok's Urban Poor
Agro-Forestry Hope is Evergreen
Sustainable
Management of Crop
Production
The Next Green Revolution
A Push to Farm Smarter--Not Bigger--To Feed the
Do We Need Industrial Agriculture to Feed the
World's Hungry
World?
Conservation Tillage
That Stubble in the Fields Helps Farms Hold onto
Precious Topsoil
Zero Tillage: When Less Means More
35. Plant Breeding
Why Midwest Drought Could Have Been Much
Worse for Some Corn Farmers
"People of Corn" Protest GMO Strain in Mexico
PART 2. Ask 50 Questions
Reasons for
this
Assignment
To engage in a reading by asking lots of questions; to
question material that you receive; to practice the
process of refining questions
To articulate and evaluate your own views, beliefs,
preconceptions, or thoughts
To assess the quality of evidence based on the
characteristics of that evidence
What to do:
1. Identify your chosen topic and article. Brainstorm a list of
questions that you have as you read through at least one article
pertaining to the topic of your choice.
36. 2. Generate at least 50 questions. No, I’m not kidding. 50 is
the minimum; number them. It’s okay if the same question
keeps popping up in slightly different words. It’s okay if many
of the questions seem rather trivial and only a few of them
seem big or important. HOWEVER, at least some of the
questions should be very thoughtful; don't be content with
asking "what is that" questions or with asking "fake" big
questions like "why can't we just grow more food?" Also, your
questions should show that you've read and thought about the
entire issue even if one part of the assignment really catches
your attention and you end up asking most of your questions
about that part.
TOPIC
Article / Video
Food Safety
Small Farmers In New England Fear New Food Safety Rules
How Safe is Your Food?
The Benefits of Buying Local Food
http://www.unep.org/pdf/OP_May/EN/OP-2010-05-EN-
ARTICLE8.pdf
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0925/Why-Midwest-
38. 1.
Look over all your questions. See if any questions are repetitive
and can be put
together into one question. Next, pick out your FIVE TOP quest
ions, the ones that are
most important or interesting to you for some reason.
2.
Write a paragraph for each of your five top questions about WH
Y that question is
important to you. I won’t grade on whether I agree with you, I
will grade on whether I
understand what you are saying and whether your writing comm
unicates that you
have carefully considered your values and interests. So, spend t
he time to think and
write clearly. Also, be sure that your question is scrutable and
worthy of a
research project. That is, they should be questions that can be i
nvestigated. [[NOT:
"Why would the creator have done this?" or "What is the Latin n
ame for 'tomato'?"]]
3.
Identify your ONE TOP question, the one that is most interestin
39. g or important to you,
that you would like to investigate further.
PART 4. Research
1. See if you need to modify your one top question –
you might need to narrow or clarify
it.
2.
Search for information that will help you answer your big questi
on. You need to
find and properly cite at least TEN sources of information that a
ddress your question.
At least five of these sources must be good, high quality sources
based on sound
evidence, which will take some digging to find. The others can
be bad, crummy
sources based on rumor, junk science, or political posturing, tha
t pop up first in a
Google search.
3.
For EACH source you find and cite, write two paragraphs explai
ning:
40. a)
how information from this source is applicable to your question
s; and
b)
if this is a reliable source of evidence and WHY YOU THINK S
O, or if it’s a
bad source and why.
4.
Tell me in a paragraph which piece of evidence you find most c
onvincing, and why?
Again, this is subjective; I won’t grade on agreement with you b
ut on your clarity of
explanation.
5.
In a single page, answer your own question based upon the evid
ence you find using
the FIVE good sources of information. You will need to be clea
r, focused and
succinct!
CITATIONS
Be sure to cite your sources properly. You may use APA or ML
41. A
citation style. However, be consistent. If you cannot adequatel
y
identify the source, don't use it! Check out this slide show for
http://www.csuchico.edu/lref/newciting.html
http://www.csuchico.edu/lref/newciting.html
detailed instructions: "How to Cite Your Sources." (Pay attentio
n
to the notes at the bottom of each slide).
COMMON MISTAKES THAT STUDENTS MAKE ON THIS
ASSIGNMENT
1. Not doing all the parts, or leaving some of them incomplete.
2. Not following a search engine result all the way to origin of
the paper. For example, you might evaluate a reference
incorrectly because you’re looking at a summary when the
full paper might be better. Or, you might be very critical of
how completely wrong an article is because you didn’t
follow it back to the original source and find that the paper
was published in 1980, not 2012. Or, and this is
42. embarrassing, you think a paper is very authoritative –
without realizing that it was written by a high school student.
3. Evaluating a source based on how useful it is for you, not on
the merits of the source. If an article is not useful for you,
don’t use or cite it. If an article is exactly what you needed
but the information is shaky, you need to recognize that. Cite
it, but critique it.
4. Mistaking excellent writing style or website architecture for
substantive information.
5. Not citing references fully – leaving off authors, dates, or
URLs. Be sure to include in-text citations for all ideas
derived from other sources.
6. USING QUOTES! Avoid them; instead, express ideas in
your own words (but cite the source).
7. Expressing your own opinions instead of information and
ideas from reputable outside sources. This project is not
about your opinions!
PART 5: Develop a Poster
43. This part will be done in teams for presentation at the Sense of
Place event on Dec. 8.
This will be discussed further in class.
file:///E:/138-PSSC390-02-
1121/Course2/course2/Library/Abridged%20Citation%20Power
Point.ppt