Thursday, December 8, 2011

Advice for a future student

ENG 103 reasearch paper isnt as bad as it seems, as we go through the milestones, they really do help. doing the milestones, helps you plan out and get your thoughts together. if we just had to do the research paper without having milestones at first, it would be a complete mess. Everyone should take advatage of the milestones, and also getting corrected on it, so you will know what to correct for your final paper. What i now know is to put my thoughts together, and ideas together, so later it wouldnt have to be jumbled up. Using sources such as Gale Reference and LexisNexis help a lot in find information related to your research paper. there you can find research articles, scholarly articles, any type of info related to your topic, which helps your essay better.  what i wouldve done differently is take advantage of the research links, becuase now i finally it REALLY useful, and i know i can use these links for future papers. im glad to have had this class for it helped me to find various sources for my paper and to write better.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Blog Assignment #7

The text i've chosen is A Number by Caryl Churchill. this imaginative text embodies conflicts and the complexities of an issue. In this play, Salter has to deal with the problems that come up with the fact that he cloned his son. Things go wrong, and bad things happen where one of the clones gets killed. In my opinion this play is a great example of why cloning is unethical and isnt moral at all. So many problems can arise that you wouldnt expect. The clones might want their rights as a human, even though they derived from someone else. The clones might want to live their life normally, while the person who created them, probably wants them for a different reason. Clones might fight against you to keep their life. As for the originial B1, he didnt seem to appreciate it either, they wont feel unique anymore becuase theres probably a million copies of him somewhere else living a separate life. Also the orginial might hate the fact that his life probably sucks while his clone might be happy. This might lead to one killing the other, which does occur in this play. In the end B1 kills B2, and Salter doesnt reallly feel anything because he still feels like he has his son (even though he said he favored b2 more).  Science can learn from storytelling, becuase even though the story might not be real , it might have real ideas and real problems that might occur.