Final Blog

In order to complete a successful research paper in ENG 103 I would advice new students to researching early; do not leave everything for last minute. Complete the milestones, these are very helpful and they help you be more organized; you will have a better idea of what u have done and what still needs to be done.
Take your time writing the final paper, go over it, and then give it in to the teacher.

Critical Thinking Assignment #4

Imaginative texts like Never Let Me Go by Caryl Churlchill give us a humanistic insight into the cloning topic. In this story we are presented with a world where therapeutic cloning is highly practiced, and this has become an ordinary thing to the society. However, this story makes us think more carefully about the consequences of such a practice because, on the positive side, there will be many advantages to having new organs donated to you whenever needed but, on the negative side, where will these organs come from exactly? And how will they be raised? In this story, the organs come from fully grown human clones that have no rights; these are raised to donate organs and that is all they do. These main clones in the story are Tommy and Kathy, these have been raised in a “school” where they were raised in good conditions. But in a conversation with one of the teachers responsible for them, they find out that there are clones being raised in horrible conditions in that world, and that seemed to be the majority of the case.

 This text gives us a possibility of how the world could turn out to be like if cloning becomes a legally practiced art. Thus, making us more aware of the consequences of such a practice.

My research paper status!

I used this last class to finish my research.
Now that I am done gathering information, I will concentrate in deciding the order in which these should appear and how to connect them with my argument.
In general, my next step is to organize my ideas.

The Sample Research Paper

With this research paper I learnt that I should pay more attention to the citations when I am quoting, and even when I am paraphrasing. When the page number is not available I can simply write the Author's name. Also, it is very important to write a sentence after the quote to explain it.
In conlusion: pay more attention to details.

Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #1

I see myself both as an optimistic and pessimistic about the new developments in robotics. I feel like there will be many advantages when using robots instead of humans to do certain things. But on the other side, I can imagine the threat robots can later become to humans. Not only in a dramatic way like movies show eg: I robot but in more every day like way, like the decrease in jobs for humans since robots will be able to do the same things but with fewer expenses. In my opinion Kurzweil is only concentrating on the good effects artificial intelligence will bring, and being oblivious to the negative ones. On the other hand, it will take a long time for us to make machines that think like us since we are not 100% sure of how our own minds work, so I hope that up to then scientists examine carefully the side effects of this creation.

I usually consider myself both a humanist and a science person. But in this case, looking back at the way I feel about how technology is developing in such a fast pace, and the fact that I am planning on working on psychology field in the future, I think it would be right to consider myself more of a humanist.

I hope it is not too later already to change the future.

My Thesis Statement

Although the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' by Ron Howard has a very touching and intertainig story, it does not portray the reality of Schizophrenia in terms of its characteristics and even treatment methods as it is treated today.

I am sticking to the topic I chose ealier!
Right now I am working on my research (which is almost complete), and will start writing my essay soon.
I will be using mainly LexisNexis, JSTOR and Gale for my research.

Good luck everybody!! =)