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Olaudah Equiano in his story is kidnapped from his home in African and thrown into a life that he was not expecting He is a slave for a total of ten years and tries to take on certain traits and customs of the people he is surrounded by He tries hard to improve himself and learn Christianity and adopt western culture However Equiano still tries to hold on to a some of his African heritage In the narrative he tries to keep the African part of him pure and innocent He does this because he finds that European culture often lacks those qualities This does leave him conflicted in the end between his native African self and his adapted English self Olaudah Equiano adopts Western habits while saving several of his African values This makes him a man mixed with two cultures but not necessarily belonging to either During Equiano s long journey to many different countries he learned of western culture and customs Even though at first when he was enslaved he was frightened of the Europeans he begins to see them as people he admired and were truly smarter beings So he starts to learn and practice their culture He starts to educate himself and learn their language and learns to read a write in the process He also eventually learns about
Whether or not GMOs are good has stirred up controversy in scientific communities A GMO genetically modified organism is a plant or animal that has had its DNA altered by people Bessen 2015 Although the contributions made by genetic engineering are widely accepted in the field of medicine they have raised many concerns in fields of agriculture and nutrition In this essay I will explore the reasons that which the use of GMO s is actually positive These arguments will include the benefits of GMO s in areas of agriculture medicine and how this technology can help conserve the environment With the help of GMO s agricultural producers have been able to control the traits that are expressed in their crops Genetic engineering will benefit agriculture by increasing the yield and quality of crops protect and in turn improve the industries in which they are used For example crops have been engineered to contain a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis better known as the Bt gene This gene is capable of producing a toxin that kills small insects and is commonly found in insecticides WHO 2014 When plants are engineered with to produce the Bt gene themselves there is no longer a need to spray insecticides on them
