Looking back at the history of this country I agree with George J. Annas hypothesis that the new ideal human would represent “the other.”
If a person is genetically engineered they are being brought into this world to be better than others before they are even born. If this person grows up to be great at everything, people are going to look at this person as superior. When you have the acceptance of others that’s when the problem starts because these superior humans could take advantage of the non-ideal human.
When the slaves were brought to the United States they had the opposite affect of the ideal human, they were viewed as inferior. Anna mentions that normal humans would either view people as better or seek to control them. In the case of the slaves white Americans were controlling them by having them do hard labor, selling them to others separating them from their families, having them live in poor conditions. This opposite effect caused a change in the US after slavery legally put to an end.
In the film “Gattaca” the ideal human had already taken over and Vincent was trying to prove the myth of the ideal human was wrong. He did so by using the DNA and Identity of what was believe to be an ideal human gone wrong. The film showed what could possibly go wrong with creating a race of superior humans.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
BLOG 11
NOT INTENDED TO OFFEND JUST BEING REAL!
Something that I define as “The Other” would be someone who is homosexual. The Reason for this is because my sexual preference happens to be the opposite sex. I happen to be a straight male and love women and I prefer to have a relationship with a woman over a man because I don’t have any attraction to men in that physical or mental way. Even though I’m not very religious, I was raised in a family that follows traditional religious views that a man should get married to a woman, have children and create a family. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have anything against same sex relationships. In my opinion, whatever floats your boat. If it makes you happy it shouldn’t be frowned upon unless it involves committing a violent crime.
I consider myself to be a masculine guy; I watch and play sports like baseball, basketball, and football. I dress in standard clothing jeans, a shirt and sneakers; nothing flamboyant, nothing loud that raises questions. I walk straight and don’t have a feminine hiss to the tone of my voice. I know that not every homosexual dress sound or walk a certain way but this seems to be common traits that associate with homosexual. For these reasons alone I would define homosexual as “The Other.”
Something that I define as “The Other” would be someone who is homosexual. The Reason for this is because my sexual preference happens to be the opposite sex. I happen to be a straight male and love women and I prefer to have a relationship with a woman over a man because I don’t have any attraction to men in that physical or mental way. Even though I’m not very religious, I was raised in a family that follows traditional religious views that a man should get married to a woman, have children and create a family. Don’t get me wrong I don’t have anything against same sex relationships. In my opinion, whatever floats your boat. If it makes you happy it shouldn’t be frowned upon unless it involves committing a violent crime.
I consider myself to be a masculine guy; I watch and play sports like baseball, basketball, and football. I dress in standard clothing jeans, a shirt and sneakers; nothing flamboyant, nothing loud that raises questions. I walk straight and don’t have a feminine hiss to the tone of my voice. I know that not every homosexual dress sound or walk a certain way but this seems to be common traits that associate with homosexual. For these reasons alone I would define homosexual as “The Other.”
Thursday, April 14, 2011
BLOG 10
Looking back at some of the content of this course some of the interesting concepts we have touched on in class has been the Mythology in the Matrix, The Allegory of the Cave and invention techniques like the brain storming or creating the list of 10 ideas followed by another 10 to help us think outside of the box when trying to decide on a thesis to avoid the most common topics.
We touched on the allegory of the cave for a long time and even though it was short there was a whole lot to dissect. The concepts were also used a lot when we watched the film The Matrix that helped me understand some of the scenes with Morpheus and throughout the film.
In this course I will like to understand the play “Oedipus the King” better because the language used like the riddles confused me prior to the professor explaining them. Unfortunately I wasn’t here when the Documenting sources and MLA documentation style was covered so I would like to also get a briefing on the two concepts as well.
As a writer I still consider myself pretty bad but taking this course has helped me understand what I have done wrong in the past and present. Hopefully I am showing some improvement but I still find myself stuck elaborating on some of the concepts like mythology, which I have little knowledge or interest in. I find it overwhelming when I have to write 600 words on these concepts because unlike some people I can’t bullshit a whole paper. I guess I follow that quality over quantity concept.
This course has also helped me realize how poor my grammar is. On the matrix essay, Professor had another class comment on the essay and one of the students stressed that point also in Wednesdays English 103 class I seen some poor introduction techniques not to follow, like asking a question as part of the intro.
Using the blog in this class has helped me because I don’t feel as pressured to complete the assignment in the short time provided. I feel like if I couldn’t think in class I could use the helpful confines of my dark bedroom to help me out. The blog also has made me a little lazy because I don’t always follow the essay format commas and periods are secondary.
My strongest piece which I didn’t fully complete was on illusion. How I used a situation from human history and I explained the illusion. The JFK Single Bullet Theory was an illusion believed by many but was revealed impossible because of the extensive research by the Warren Commission. I believe it was my strongest work because it was the kind of work I was most use to in high school because it required mostly research to write the paper.
We touched on the allegory of the cave for a long time and even though it was short there was a whole lot to dissect. The concepts were also used a lot when we watched the film The Matrix that helped me understand some of the scenes with Morpheus and throughout the film.
In this course I will like to understand the play “Oedipus the King” better because the language used like the riddles confused me prior to the professor explaining them. Unfortunately I wasn’t here when the Documenting sources and MLA documentation style was covered so I would like to also get a briefing on the two concepts as well.
As a writer I still consider myself pretty bad but taking this course has helped me understand what I have done wrong in the past and present. Hopefully I am showing some improvement but I still find myself stuck elaborating on some of the concepts like mythology, which I have little knowledge or interest in. I find it overwhelming when I have to write 600 words on these concepts because unlike some people I can’t bullshit a whole paper. I guess I follow that quality over quantity concept.
This course has also helped me realize how poor my grammar is. On the matrix essay, Professor had another class comment on the essay and one of the students stressed that point also in Wednesdays English 103 class I seen some poor introduction techniques not to follow, like asking a question as part of the intro.
Using the blog in this class has helped me because I don’t feel as pressured to complete the assignment in the short time provided. I feel like if I couldn’t think in class I could use the helpful confines of my dark bedroom to help me out. The blog also has made me a little lazy because I don’t always follow the essay format commas and periods are secondary.
My strongest piece which I didn’t fully complete was on illusion. How I used a situation from human history and I explained the illusion. The JFK Single Bullet Theory was an illusion believed by many but was revealed impossible because of the extensive research by the Warren Commission. I believe it was my strongest work because it was the kind of work I was most use to in high school because it required mostly research to write the paper.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
blog 8
In the film The Matrix and the play Oedipus The King both shared concepts of ignorance, bliss/happiness and knowledge. In the Matrix, Morpheus,Trinity, etc. relied on “The Oracle” for answers and Neo was sent to see the Oracle to seek the answer is he “The One”
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