Designer Babies

The phrase “Designer Babies” is a very important phrase in the science word today. It means that a person can design their own baby. Scientist today is able to detect which gene would cause a disease or birth defect in the baby. This could lead to the either the termination of a pregnancy, or if analyzed at a pre-implantation stage when using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), can enable the pregnancy to be created using only non-disease bearing genes (www.cnn.com). Not only can they detect the gene of a disease but they know which gene can change the baby’s gender. For example, in China and India the gender of the baby is very important. They will be able to scan their embryo for the gender of the baby and if that was not the gender that they wanted they would be able to change it. Where there might have been an X chromosome they could replace it with a Y chromosome, and where there was meant to be a Y chromosome they would be able to replace it with a X chromosome to change the sex of the baby. Technology these days is very advanced in many ways. Scanning an embryo is very high tech and is how scientist and doctors are able to determine certain things about the baby. Many people think that in the future they may be able to “cure” genetic disease in embryos by replacing faulty sections of DNA with healthy DNA, in a process called germ line therapy (www.cnn.com). In the future not sure how much far from the present of now, there will be a way to cure genetic diseases. They will also be able to change more things about their baby. That is where the phrase “designer babies” come into play. They would be able to do way more than just change the gender or cure a disease; they would be able to pick and choose what their baby would look like. Making their baby to be “perfect” by choosing their eye color, height, how intelligent they would be hair color, and many more things that come with a baby’s appearance and intellectuals.

Chemistry Quiz

Friday I had a quiz for my chemistry class. The night before I have to do some homework on line that had to be turned in five minutes before midnight. The homework was frustrating me because I could not understand it. When I do something and I keep trying it and never really get the hang of how it operates it frustrates me a lot. After I had finished doing the homework, I had decided to do some studying over the chapter that we was suppose to have the quiz over. I understood some of the things but my knowledge of the whole chapter was a bit shakey. The next morning I had overslept and was rushing to get to my chemistry class. When the quiz was about to start I realized I had left my calculator in my room. I just knew that I was going to fail it, or I could do my best with a pen and paper and do the basic math an estimate. I actually knew how to do everything on the quiz. The first time I know everything I don’t have my calculator to calculate things. We got out quiz back today and I ended up getting an eight out of ten. I was shocked but yet happy because that is the best I have done on a quiz and really needed that grade.

A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles – Hold the Colic

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123439771603075099.html

PGD has been used for medical purposes only to avert life-threatening disease in children. The study of it has progressed to the point where it could be used to create designer babies. PGD is a technique that is used to scan a three-day embryo to see if it carries a particular genetic disease, and if it doesn’t then the embryo is planted into the mother’s womb. PGD has been taken a step a farther and is used to target less-serious disorders or certain characteristics. PGD has steadily expanded its scopes. It can also be used to help a younger brother or sister whose healthy cells can be harvested to treat an older sibling with a serious illness. Dr. Steinberg takes a new approach for screening embryos that involves taking cells from a five day old embryo instead of cells from a three day old embryo to make a more reliable diagnosis of the embryo.

Walmart Expeirence

You know how you always have the ignorant people in the stores that just go there to have fun. Well this weekend I was one of them people. Three of my friends and I went to Wal-Mart to waste time before we went to the movies. The section that we stayed in the most the toy section. We played basketball on the goal that was not taped off. I was playing with the plastic balls and my genius friend decided to use the actually basketball and almost broke something. We ran until we were sure that the cost was clear. Then I and another friend was play tennis with the plastic balls that I was playing basketball with. I hit the air vent in the ceiling so we stopped. My friend was in the basket that people drive when they are handicap or can’t stand for a long period of time. We played with that and I rode a tricycle that was small enough for a two year old. Then after we left the inside of the store we played on the outside with the carts and put a friend in the cart and pushed her around the parking lot.

My Life!

Music is what I would call my life. I can express my feelings through music. Depending on what kind of mood I am in is what kind of music I listening to. I sing and dance to music. Even tried to right music but that’s just not one of my talents. It’s like music knows how to say what I want to say and says it well. If I am not listening to music than I’m singing it. If I’m not singing it then there is a guaranteed fact that there is some song in my head. That is one of the things that makes me lose focus on what I am doing. I can be in a quiet place and if I have a song in my head that is something I would dance to. I would literally start doing the dance, no matter if I am sitting or standing. I listen to a wide variety of music. There is nothing that I won’t listen to. People always say to me "you know ever song," and I just laugh. I think that every song has a purpose except for the some of the new rap songs. A lot of music I listen to is from the 90's. I love old school music and new school. As long as it has a meaning I will listen to it.

Designer Babie - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989987,00.html

Within a decade or two people will be able to screen their children for whatever they might want. Tall, short, types of illness, IQ, and even personality types can be determined in the screenings. Now today the only traits that can be determined at the earliest stage is the gender and the different sorts of illnesses. Many parents know about the choosing their baby's gender and they know that some clinics will let then do it. Sex selection will become a major issue. For the countries that prefer one gender over the other like in China and India, which are already off balanced, this would really over tip the scale. Many Americans believe that an ideal family should have a boy as the firstborn child, because they would be more assertive.

Designer Babies: Creating the Perfect Child

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/30/designer.babies/

Creating the perfect child does seem scary. In the article above it explains both the good side and the bad side of creating your own child. It explains how they have found a way to determine the "bad genes" the genes that have some kind of disease in them. They can remove the gene from the embryo or they could cancel the pregnancy. Canceling the pregnancy would be the same thing has having an abortion. Well I think it falls under the same category. Also they explained how designer babies could be a bad idea in some countries. Many countries choose the male gender over the female gender. Then that would cause genetic elite.

Diamond's Eyes

I always found it strange how dogs could have one eye that is not the same color as the other one. I thought my pit was very unique. When I first got her she was a little over five weeks old. She was a blue pit with a white belly. When I first looked at her eyes I was scared and thought that it was something wrong with her. Her left eye was a light blue color. I thought it was so pretty. Then I noticed that her right eye was a light honey brown color. We took her to the vet to make sure that everything was good with her. I had a lot of questions that I wanted an answer to, but for some reason I forgot to ask them I was too busy looking at baby. I use to love looking in her eyes; the only thing was she would scare me sometimes when I would be sleep. I would wake up with her in my face in the dark and all I seen was her blue eye. I miss her; she was killed three weeks after I left for school.

Chemestry

On Thursday some people in my chemistry class decided to meet up in the library to study for our chemistry exam that we was suppose to take that next day. The whole study group was supposed to start at six. Everyone well just about everyone was there on time, but nobody was really situated yet. So it took us more than an hour to even start studying. Then when we did study we stayed on one subject for another hour. The paste of everything was moving slow. Like we weren't really coving a lot of stuff. Then there were a lot of side conversations. What was really shocking to me, was that i found out that i actually knew more than what I knew. Didn't really learn anything new. After our little session i went back to my dorm room, suppose to be studying. I ended up joining a bible study group and talked on the phone all night. The next morning i was very tired and was moving very slow but still made it to class on time. Come to find out the teacher never showed up and I had gotten rained on. All of this was for nothing!

Working and School

When I was in high school I worked my junior and senior year of school, and during the summer I worked almost six days a week. The reason I use to work that much was because I had to stay busy and it wasn’t good for me to have a lot of free time on my hands. My junior year I played basketball for three different teams, worked and had a nephew to take care of besides school. My senior year I played started playing basketball but something happened and could play no more so I ended up working a lot to stay busy and hanging out with friends when time permitted itself. When I came to college I was thinking I was going to work after the first four weeks of school. Things didn’t turn out like how I wanted. I still have to learn how to balance all the school work and my social life. Like now I have a lot of free time on my hands; I know what I should be doing but I rarely do it because of other things to do and I have to stay busy and moving. I miss working; I thought I was kind of amusing what kind of people I would meet in the fast food business. It also helped me stand out more and be more outspoken. Hopefully I can start back working soon.

A Streetcar Named Desire

When I first thought of the play I thought that I was going to be really boring and long. I really thought that I wasn't going to have a good time and it would seem all that interesting. Well let me say that my whole aura of the play was wrong. I thought the play was very good. What shocked me the most about it was that it was an African American play. When it first started I knew that I was going to like it and that it would be interesting. The play turned out differently than what I had thought it would. I thought that the husband was actually going to be the perfect husband and not a woman beater and abuser. It was something new to me, because normally the plays I go to are musicals. I think that if the play was a musical it would have been a lot better, not saying it wasn't already good. The play was quite lengthy but good. It lasted from 7:30 through 10:00. I wouldn't mind going to go see another play that they may produce.

Persentation of Mike McCarthy

I thought that his presentation was very different. I thought that McCarthy was a very weird yet unique in his own way. I think that his whole life was based on the pop culture. It seems like that he focus so much on Elvis Presley; he became his idle, almost like his God. To me there were two people that made a big impact in his life and that were Elvis Presley or the author of the book "Sexual Persona." As far as me reading any of his comics or watching his movies, they are not my type thing, because it seemed like they wouldn't have anything but a lot of nudity of the females. I like his thought of women as far as they can do just as much things as men. They just don’t have to be naked or half naked.