Urchin

In 1996 Dolly the sheep was born. However, she was not born like most other sheep. Instead, Dolly was cloned from the DNA of an adult sheep. Although Dolly seemed healthy, she died in 2003 after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease. Dolly was the only sheep out of 277 attempts that made it to a live birth. Would it be safe to take that chance when experimenting with cloning human babies? Some people seem to believe so, and agree with the idea of cloning to have a child. These people…

In today’s generation, the Earth is experiencing a climate change that is significantly changing the way humans, animals, and plants live and function. Due to global warming, temperatures on Earth are rising and it’s affecting life on land and in the ocean. During the 18th century of the Industrial Revolution, there was an increase in factories to help with manufacturing. Even though this improved the production of manufactured goods, the factories burned fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and gas,…

Dramatization of The Tempest: Law and Human Rights Shakespeare’s drama, The Tempest, is a play that evokes controversy and can be read as morally ambiguous. The dynamics of power, wealth, law and human rights can be perceived differently depending on which character you empathize with. Through dramatizations presented by Group 2 on law, and Group 3 on human rights, we will explore these concepts as portrayed through scenes acted out in class. The concepts of law and human rights can be very…

identical cell, tissue or individual organisms such as insects, plants or bacteria in a lab that would otherwise naturally occur in nature. Cloning is a science that has been around since before Dolly the sheep was created in a lab in the 1997, a sea urchin was cloned in 1894, it ties into many different aspects in life and is soon to be a very common thing in society. Since, and even before, Dolly the sheep scientists have been able to clone genes, cells, food, and other organisms. …

Frederick Douglass is a well-known African-American abolitionist. He often wrote about his experiences growing up as a slave. In one of his works, “Learning to Read and Write,” Douglass discusses the obstacles he had to overcome in order to gain an education while enslaved. Many modern citizens can relate to his story; today, many Americans have to work many hours in order to get the basic necessities for their families. In order to escape economic slavery, Americans need an education to provide…

It always seems to come down to this question, the “who am I?” An entire branch of philosophy devoted to how to approach the question and still, I have no definite answer, though there has been some great art to come out of it. Thankfully, I have a bit more… “specificity” to work with, limits have been put down, as well as the much easier “why” to scribe. All about the idea of nature. That laid out, it turns the question from “Who am I?” to why am I doing this? The question more manageable, it’s…

In the past year researchers have discovered that the Homarus americanus consume fresh food as their primary food source which includes clams, fish, mussels, crabs, sea urchins, starfish, marine worms, shrimp, plants such as eel-grass and algae, carrion just like the blue crab, and sometimes other lobsters! The Homarus americanus have two claws that are used for acquiring food and consuming the aliment. One of the claws…

The Social Environment of the Bowery Stephen Crane, writer of the novella: Maggie a Girl of the Streets discusses the impact of social environment through symbolic characters and setting. Crane describes the tragedy of individuals who are destroyed by their environment. The theme of social environment demonstrates the impact society has on people and shows how easily subjected people are to becoming products of their environment. The "environment" that an individual is brought up in…

Throughout the book “the sceptical environmentalist”, the author Bjorn Lomborg argues against the “litany of our ever-deteriorating environment” (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany refers to the popular view point of mass environmental destruction and rapid degradation caused by the human race; which is shaped by the media with the messages and images we see on a daily basis (Lomborg 2001, 3). The litany incorporates the issues such as declining food security, water quality, biodiversity loss and…

The first day of kindergarten will always be an everlasting memory to me because it brought up my biggest challenge in life learning to read. Learning to read was a struggle for both Fredrick Douglass and I due to inconsistent teachers, challenges which sparked motivation, and effects on our future because we had to teach ourselves the fundamental of reading. It is difficult to learn to read and when you have inconsistent teachers. This adds an additional obstacle. Although I was not a slave,…