Monday, December 14, 2009

Exhaustion

It’s strange to me because I am so ready for this semester to end. I have lost so much sleep since it has started. Also I thought that it would be easier to get up and go to class. Especially when I have to wake up at eight everyday and a little bit after eight another day. It seemed a lot better than having to wake up at 5:35 every morning for high school. Shockingly enough it is still hard for me to get out of bed. I always wait till the last minute to get up. I just want to sleep in for one day. I don’t even sleep in on Saturdays because I am always doing something. Rest does a body good!!!!

It is exam time and i have a feeling that i will not like how it will turn out. A lot of my exams will make a major difference on my class grade. It is scary to me because if i don't pull my grades up high enough i will lose my scholarship. I have never been in a situation when i actually had to work as hard for a grade in my life. It's one thing to pass a class, but i have to pass a class with a high enough grade to keep my scholarships for school. Now i wish i would have went to school on a sports scholarship, therefore i wouldn't have to do nothing but pass my classes and play the sport.

Outside Event

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.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Designer Babies: The Future Of Genetics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/590919.stm

The BBC’s science programme Horizon prediscts the power to change the shape and destiny of the human species will be within the grasp of genetic scientist in just a couple of decades. In vitro fertilization means that where a family had a history of diseases, one cell could be removed and change the future of the disease. Parents that have children with crippling terminal illnesses, they can rule out the possibilities of having another child with the same condition. They have done plenty of these experiments on non-human animals like the jellyfish. Cloning may well provide an answer to the problems presented by the inefficiency of injecting genes into embryos.

The article had some really good points on why designer babies are bad. They only have one good reason for designer babies. The article is very bias and informing