College Life Is Exhausting!

To me college life is actually very exhausted. I use to work with some college people and never understood why they couldn’t work like how I was working when I was high school. Honestly I don’t think I could word like I did in high school, keep my grades up, chill with friends, and still get all my rest. I don’t work now but I chill with friends and do my work, and still don’t get all my rest. Hopefully next semester I will be able to balance that out. It has been a whole semester and I still don’t have it all down pack. It’s just so much studying to stay up in my classes, but I have to do more studying for exam time!

After Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving break was so amazing. Although I had that one person that would try to ruin it anyway they could, but I wasn’t going to let them. My family came down to see me and I loved it. I got to see my dog and my nephew. Oh my God, my nephew has a very colorful vocabulary that was cute in a way but the other words were just crazy. The food was great and I ate so much. Although I was quite disappointed because I didn’t get my mac-n-cheese but I did get my chocolate on chocolate cake. To top that off it was a three layer cake; that didn’t last a whole day! The next break that I can’t wait till is my Christmas break, which is just around the corner. I get to go back to Cashville and shake something!

Debating 'designer babies'

http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/ocrreliss7.php

There is an endless debate about ‘designer babies’ in the world today. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has become very popular in the UK for curing children’s illness. Even a child that has not been born yet can cure a sibling’s illness. Many people believe that if they wanted to sex select then they should be able to do it when they want to. It is often argued that this new interest is an inevitable corollary of new techniques and innovations: that because of the invention of in vitro fertilization techniques. Science is running ahead of ethics and regulation. Today’s opposition to new reproductive technologies is often articulated by those who consider themselves radical. The ‘designer babies’ issure provides a particular focus for many fears, because it is about parents and children. It feeds into another powerful prejudice of our times: the mistrust of individuals’ motivation, and their impact upon others.

I think that this article is a very good article. Rather it is very bias, but still gives good reason why they go move for the cons of the subject. It is a good source to use for my paper that I will be writing, Gives good detail, but not any detail about how the procedure is formed.

The Kid In Me

I don’t care what people say about watching cartoons I think they are lovely. I can watch Nickalodeon all day. I love all the cartoons that come on that channel. My most favorite is Spongebob, that’s my baby! Many people would say that I am a big kid, because of the things I watch. I love the older cartoons that use to come on when I was growing up like Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes. I think those cartoons were the best, and a lot of recent ones that come out are just not as good. I would choose to watch cartoons over any talk show or reality t.v. I think that comes from my dad, because he use to watch cartoons with me every Saturday morning and eat a bowl of cereal with me.

Expectations Of 2009 Thanksgiving!

Oh my God, when I think of Thanksgiving I get over excited. The thought of eating is just a thought that brings me happiness. Mac-n-cheese, dressing, green beans, chitterlings, poatatoe salad just sounds too good. Then there will be even more food, sweets, and the meats. Then I get to see the two loves of my life. I get to see my Josh man and my Spotward. The Josh man is my nephew and the Spotward is my dog. I gave them both nicknames, but I cant wait to get them in my arms. They will have my attention from Wednesday night until they leave Sunday!

The Need to Regulate "Designer Babies"

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=regulate-designer-babies

The cover story of the New York Daily News had a headline saying “Design Your Baby.” The headline was telling parents that they were allowed to choose their baby’s hair, eye, and skin color. Then the Fertility Institutes pulled the information back by saying they wasn’t going to do it. The use and abuse of advanced fertility technology that evokes fears of Gatta and the Nazis’ quest for a blonde, blue-eyed race of Aryans continues aspace. The Fertility Institute pulled the screening back after an unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets through in vitro fertilization. The preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technique is used to test embryos before implantation in the womb. By doing that it could tell the mother if there are any diseases in the offspring. The reason the young lady had eight babies was because she was implanted with six embryos but two of the

Neil White

I went to a reading of Neil White. He was reading from his book that he recently published. Whenever I go to one of the outside events I always have low expectations of it. I never want to get my hope up for something good and it doesn’t turn out the way that I want it. Shocking from the time he started reading from his book to the end when he was answering a lot of question I was interested. I think his book was a book worth writing; the story that the book tells is very interesting and important to know. Just from going to the readings made me wish that I had read the book. It made me feel bad because it was a really good book. It basically explains and gives good detail about how he spent a year in prison with the last leoparcy patients.

College

This school year is going by faster than I thought it would be. I still remember the first day, yet along the week of school. I walked in the classes not really knowing what to expect. I thought from day one that it would be hard. Until this day I still have not adjusted to the school work. I still have problems with studying. I know that has to change and change very quickly. If it doesn’t then I might fail some very important classes, and that not good at all. I’m hoping that next semester would be a whole lot easier. I just hate chemistry!

Pros and Cons Of Designer Babies

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-designer-babies.html

The term designer baby is defined as a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering a combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics. In Vitro Fertilization technique involves the fertilization of the egg by the sperm in test tubes, outside the mother’s body. In which it allows doctors to screen for any disorder. This technique has many pros and cons to it. Genetic screening can reduce the baby’s chances of being born with a terminal illness or serious diseases like Down syndrome. One of the cons would be that the technique is not limited to screening for genetic and hereditary disorder, but is also used for cosmetic diagnosis. Meaning that people could pretty much buy their baby for eighteen thousand dollars.

It seemed amazing to me how they could only find one pro out of the situation. They found numerous cons and gave details. To me the article is bias, but gives very good description of their information.

Final Years Of High School!

When I was in school I was very outspoken. I stood out a lot and was very well known. I played a sport whenever I got the chance. I played basketball, softball, and ran track. All through high school I was always having my wars with teachers and had other teachers that would pull strings for me and get me out of trouble. I was one of the lucky ones. I was always getting put out of class and stayed in the halls. I was rarely on time and was well known in the principal’s office. When we got progress reports I would get nothing higher than a sixty. I was ridiculous but when grades came out I never got nothing lower than an eighty five. I was the only student that my teacher would tell me to put my head down and go to sleep. They wouldn’t put me out of class because they knew that was what I wanted. They would move me around the class to sit by people that wouldn’t normally talk and were the “nerds” of the class, but somehow I would get them to talk and laugh with me and the teachers hated that. Either it was that or my friends in the class would somehow work their way over to where I was seated and talk to me. Then I was placed by the teacher’s desk so I wouldn’t talk to anybody; so I started talking to the teacher. There was a principal that was like my best friend and was really the only one that cared enough to set me straight. She cared more about my future than I did. She tried her hardest to keep me out of trouble and never gave up on me. I honestly am thankful for her and thank her so much, because she saw something in me that I didn’t.

Thinking In Color and Do-It-Yourself Porn

Samantha Patton was doing an experiment about abstract words. She embodied cognition was the words must be grounded in the environment. An example she gave us was that visual is processed faster than anything else. An apple that is green is processed faster than an apple that is shiny or tart. The experiment was going to be concrete words versus abstract words. The data collection was they had 52 students, 200 nouns, 50 concrete words, and 150 abstract words. The students had a free response to write any color they seen when the word was said. They ended up with eleven main colors: red, yellow, purple, pink, black, grey, blue, white, green, brown, and orange. The experiment had low kappa and low agreement on the words. They then took the top 75 abstract words and 75 fillers and used it for another part of the experiment.

The experiment was going to have around 30 people that was taking the test again. It was going to be a stooped based format. Brown was excluded from the color choice; so they were left with only ten colors. Their expectations were to based on the response time and accuracy of how good they matched the colors.

The whole point of these experiments were to prove that abstract words could be ground words just as much as concrete words were. A man asked the question, “why did you use colors to determine if it was a ground word?" "Why didn’t you use objects instead?" They said that if they used objects then their free response would have been all over the place and they were not going to be able to narrow them down and put them in group the way that they did.

Benjamin Marshall was a young man that did a report on porn that was produced by people that did it their self. Meaning it wasn't from a big company and they acted in their own work. The young man spoke very fast, it almost seemed as if he had memorized his whole paper. He spoke of using slapping during intercourse. Many people thought that it was down grading to women. They felt that it doesn’t matter if the woman likes it or not they should there should not be an act a violence against them. The man that was doing it said that he does not hit unless he is sure that the women liked to be hit.

He gets into a lot of other videos and mentions one about a man that is about ten years older than a young boy that’s from the ages of twelve and fourteen. Many people that watched it thought that it was a boring video because the boy did not seem interested in what was going on. Abuses of minors are not brought to the public as exploitation until somebody actually says something about it. A question was raise at the end of his reading. Why is it that when an older man messes with a younger female or male that it is made a big deal, but when an older female messes with a younger underage female nobody says anything about it .

Throughout two reading I went to I thought that time went by a lot fast then I had though. I thought that it was going to be big science talk, and that I wasn’t going to be able to understand it. At first I couldn’t understand what Mr. Marshall was saying because of how fast he read, but I finally caught on. The lectures kept my attention and was quite interesting to me.

Designer Babies: Ethical Consideration

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/agar.html

A baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics is their definition of designer babies. They raise questions about ethical and moral considerations. Example: are the technologies of genetic modification and selection safe enough to be used on humans. Another thing that may enable the selection of children’s characteristics is cloning. Cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer uses a somatic cell from the person to be cloned. The thing with a clone is one would have different influences on them due to the environment that they would be in. They go in to talking about morals. They say it is hard to find definitions of disease suitable to serve as a moral guideline for genetic technologies. They then get into if parents should be able to enhance their children the way that they want to. They relate that to Adolf Hitler and what he did to the Germans, because he thought one appearance was better than the other.

Halloween For Me!

When I was a kind Halloween was a holiday that I couldn’t wait till it came. I would dress up in my costume that my mom had bought for me and all my cousins would come over to my house and we would go trick-or-treating. One year me and my younger brother dressed as twins because people say that me and him could pass as twins. That year he had gotten tired of walking so he had to go back home and missed out on a lot of candy. Then as I got older and stop going with my parents I would go with my friends. Of course we would still dress up, but we would do things that we thought was funny to us. We would run pass another kid with a big bag of candy and snatch it and run. We would have tones of candy. Then when we went back to school we would sell bags of it. Also we would go to the “rich” neighborhoods, and trick-or-treat the only reason we went there was because we knew they would give out money. What a treat that was! Then when I had gotten like fourteen my mom said that we couldn’t trick-or-treat anymore because we was worshipping the devil. Then it took us almost three years to make her realize that the only reason we wanted to go was for the candy. Duhhhh! Now I still dress up, but just for the costume and I take my younger cousins and my nephew trick-or-treating. Then after that I go party, but that didn’t happen this year. Nothing but bad happened this year, and it will be a very memorable one.

English Video

I was watching a video in English class was that very fascinating to me. It doesn’t take much to fascinate me. The movie was about our inheritance and how everybody originated from one group in Africa. It doesn’t matter what race you are there is a link in everyone that links them together thousands of years ago. The way they said it, there is no such thing as a race. Everyone came from one tribe that split into two. They described it as a big tree that branched off. Back then it was a lot easier to cross some countries because the water tides was low during the ice age times; they were able to walk across the island without many problems. Before the decided to move, they were almost exstincted because of the sever dry land. When they finally branched off they moved across the world. They ended up in Europe, China, Iraq, and many more parts around the world. Their skin color changed the further they moved away from Africa and they had to lighten up so that they could receive more of the sun rays. Darker skin blocks out more sun rays. The way that they became so different and distinctive was depended upon how they adapted to their environment and how they would be able to live. The part that was confusing to me was how they traced back where they moved and how they moved around the world. The thing that was amazing to me is how everyone has an African descendent. No race is no better than the other, so the whole slavery and other stuff was pointless and dumb and all the discrimination that in the world today is just ignorant.