an anti-weevil pesticide, to the island’s plantations. It’s highly toxic, banned by most governments, including in mainland France. Over 90 percent of the population of Martinique (and nearby Guadeloupe) were exposed to the pesticide, which poisoned the soil and freshwater...
CHAPTER 3 The Disappointing Discussion About Aid Effectiveness Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: A Brief Account of Aid and Charity in Africa "Foreign aid as an instrument of development must be accepted as 'tried and failed'", says Olusegun Obasanjo. Aid, the former Nigerian ...
‘The Garden of Love’ and ‘A Poison Tree’ Indeed, in the same book Gillham makes a similar argument about a number of other Blake poems, such as ‘A Poison Tree’: in that poem, the speaker grows a poisoned apple with which to tempt his foe, and is victorious when his enemy ste...
“Snake poisoned me.”Shock flashed through her eyes and she scowled. “I see. You won’t be leaving on schedule.”His head spun, started to ask what schedule, but stopped himself. Whatever the answer no longer mattered.“Xhosa. Snake killed me. Well, there are treatments for Snake’s ...
[Thechalice comes in many iconic forms, none more so than the Holy Chalice, or Holy Grail, said to have been used to dispense its sacred content at the Last Supper. Whether the above title prompts this as your first thought orwhether it is the ‘poisoned’ variety, it is for you to ...
CHAPTER 21 THE POISONED PLOT 1753 AD The conflict about wreaking revenge and turning the other cheek continues but violence prevails. In a soul’s evolution, early incarnations entice one through free will to explore hate rather than love, evil rather than goodness and many other negative experien...
January Morning – a poem January 23, 2018 byDan Schatz photo by Dan Schatz Each morning in winter I walk to the old dogwood tree that stretches over the front yard. I am waiting for a sign. Through the earliest days there is nothing to see ...
each poisoned eye a blackberry. I was pelted with a shower of fruit from a bare blackthorn tree. I heard the chick sing in the egg, and the straw in the mattress grew, the raspberry cried in the jam. But I came safe from these shades, out of the battle-noise gales, until I ...
"It is the nature of life to favor existence over nonexistence, and to prefer the fertile soil to the poisoned wind. Because those who open their mouths to that wind pass from the world and leave no descendant, whether of flesh or of thought. But imagine the abomination of a world where...
The samples were poisoned with saturated mercuric chloride solution to prevent further biological activity, stored at room temperature away from light and were analysed onshore within 6 months. Totally, 184 samples from 13 stations were collected for the determination of DIC. Samples were analysed by...