After listening to the podcast on words, I’m prompted to think about the role that words have played in my life so far. In being an overly anxious child, I relied on words to let out the feelings trapped in my body while my overly anxious younger brother let out his feelings in the form … [Read more…]
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ORIGINAL PARAGRAPH In the time that human beings have been on this planet, we’ve come to alter almost every aspect of our natural lives in some way, by means of science or otherwise. However, there are two major concepts humans have never had the ability to manipulate. The creation of life and the inevitability of … [Read more…]
Lehrer, Jonah. “The Future of Science is…. Art?”. SEEDMAGAZINE.COM, Fourth Culture , 31 Aug. 2018, www.seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/. Ma, Yo-Yo. “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education.” Emerging Contemporary Readings for Writers, edited by Barclay Barrios, 3rd ed, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016, pp257-261. https://elishaemerson.uneportfolio.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/400/2018/09/YoYoMaNecessaryEdges.pdf Matti Häyry, Ethics and cloning, British Medical Bulletin, Volume 128, Issue 1, December 2018, Pages 15–21, https://doi-org.une.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/bmb/ldy031
The topic, I have chosen for the essay is human cloning and all of its controversy. Since human cloning is a practice born of biological studies and therefore has to do with DNA, I have made the decision to present the multimodal element of my paper with images. The image above depicts a strand of … [Read more…]
when asked to visit a chapter in “They Say I Say” relevant to a problem or potential problem I’m facing while constructing the final draft of my English essay, I chose to look into the chapter entitled “Yes/No/Okay, But” in which the author explains three ways to respond while writing. I chose to use this … [Read more…]
I feel this individual essay is written on a very interesting topic and really gives them an opportunity to make a really cool argument here. With that being said, I feel that if the writer were to provide more background information on juuling before jumping right into introducing the nitty-gritty of the essay, it would … [Read more…]
Essay topic: The Ethics of Human Cloning Possible thesis statement: As we know from the workings of Yo-yo Ma and Jonah Lehrer, art has the ability to spark creative thinking, and demonstrate new perspectives. So, is it possible that if people began looking at the creation of life they way they look at acclaimed works … [Read more…]
The topic I’m preparing to explore for my third and final English essay is the ethics (or lack thereof) of human cloning. Since news of the first successfully cloned animal, a sheep named “Dolly” broke in 1996, the question of whether or not this technique would be applied for use on humans has been spreading … [Read more…]
Yo-Yo Ma, Chinese-American cellist claims that as important as math and science is in the world of education, we are in dire need of adding the “empathetic reasoning of the arts” to the educations system. People sharing his opinion support the idea of art-related subjects holding an equal weight of importance in curriculums, off of … [Read more…]
