South Korea is the world’s plastic surgery capital with advertisements littering the walls of subways and increasing similarities in outward appearance among the workforce. Pressures are on for South Koreans and other Asians as family members nag and job applications routinely require an attached picture (Marx). Because of increasing interconnectedness and plastic surgery, cultural views in Asia have evolved into a unique blend of personal and societal preference that may be partially associated with Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks”.
Plastic surgery is the rigorous medical process of altering the human body through means of reconstruction, the removal of tissue, and the addition of tissue for cosmetic purposes. People see it every day and do not even question it. People’s faces and bodies are augmented in ways that humanity sees so regularly that viewers have become blind to it. Seeing faces and bodies perfectly sculpted by knives for sharp cheekbones, fuller lips, larger breasts, and a slimmer waist has tricked society into forgetting what the average person actually looks like. Consumers have become so blind to this constant fake image that humanity does not notice the difference until an unaltered, natural image is forced down our throats. This concept is present in the novel Brave New World,
As the penman predicted, the mankind is now in the process of putting on the analogous paradigm to the control of mother nature (Mazzoni). Literally speaking, people are now engineering nature. They try to create and produce new forms of life by making interventions on the microcosmic level. With genetic modification, people climb to a new, highest level of genetics. The cloning industry as well as genetic engineering are advancing so fast that it would only take a short time until people would feel the power and would misuse them on their own account (Schumacher). One day cloning human beings will be an ordinary procedure just like in the novel by Aldous Huxley.
As Maya Angelou once said “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Though diversity exists in the world today, that could diminish due to the downfalls caused by human cloning. There may be controversy surrounding human cloning, but the consequences will desolate society if the issues with it are not addressed. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, a scientist obsessed with life animates a creature who becomes evil from society treatment. Moreover, in “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a newly married scientist becomes obsessed with a hand shaped birthmark on his wife’s cheek, which leads him to attempt to remove it but to no avail, as he ends up killing her. Both works emphasize how certain unregulated science can end in misery.
Mike Pence, an American politician and the current Governor of Indiana once stated, “Human Cloning is coming”(Pence 1). This creates an anxious atmosphere that leave societies questioning if the knowledge, consequences, and ethics are even a reasonable approach towards the idea of cloning. Both “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, have themes that convey a meaning not to mess with nature’s creations. These two literary examples are evidence that cloning obviously has a vast and unpredictable outcome that are not to be ignored. Moreover, cloning is a highly questionable pursuit of science that may lead to possible destruction if not monitored carefully. The treacherous knowledge behind cloning -how cloning can create a “monster”- will induce uncertain devastation to mankind, ethics, and knowledge that has been proven by works of literature such as “The Birthmark” and Frankenstein.
Human Cloning, an exact replication of an adult human, should be banned in the United States of America because of its possible consequences to society as a whole, as proven by the science fiction novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and the short story “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
“Playing God has been a common metaphor for describing and redirecting the activities of scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals. They have been criticized for usurping God’s power- for instance, the power over life and death- by letting patients die or by using new reproductive technologies.(1) The metaphor is generally used to identify two aspects of divine activity that should not be imitated by humans: God’s unlimited power to decide and unlimited power to act. Critics frequently focus on human arrogance and rebellion in daring to “play God.” In a typical statement, Paul Ramsey writes: “Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men, and after they have learned to be men they will not play God.” (2)Thus,
Brock Downs IAH 206 Prof. Stephen A. Jones January 29, 2016 - Reflection Paper #1 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Since the beginning of time, humans have universally aspired to lay claim to the countless, yet unknown, discoveries of our ever-evolving planet. While few have proven themselves successful in this ongoing endeavor, the
Never Let Me Go begins as thirteen-year-old Kathy H, a thoughtful and perceptive human clone, starts to question her life and surroundings, namely Hailsham, the institution she is raised in. Kathy and her friends Tommy and Ruth question Hailsham’s focus on creativity and also learn that something separates the clones and normal humans. She does not fully understand her situation, but links it to her fate as a “donor”, another concept she has yet to be fully introduced to. Kathy matures, and begins to realize that she has been sheltered from reality. At age sixteen, Kathy and her friends leave Hailsham to live at an establishment called the Cottages,
Up until the age of the demand for women’s suffrage, most women would not dare to enter the male-dominated field of science, let alone find a career at all. However, Marie Curie’s discovery of radioactivity inspired women to get involved and sparked many other discoveries and inventions that are vital to how we live today. The fact that Curie was a woman from Russia-controlled Poland amazed people because her discovery was a breakthrough in science. Even today we still use her fundamental discoveries in the medical field, in everyday technology, in households, and in preventing dangerous exposure to radiation. Marie Curie’s discovery of radioactivity paved the path for technological breakthroughs and was a major accomplishment for females in
Cloning is the processes that are used in order to generate exact genetic makeup of a cell, tissue, or organism. The term clone refers to the copied material with the same genetic makeup of the original. According to the definition by National Genome Research Institute (NIH) cloning can be differentiated into three types, those are:
Cloning is an advance technological invention for producing a genetic twin of living things, an organism that starts life with the same gene as its parent. The main phenomenon taking place behind this process is in mammal, DNA is taken from adult animal and then it is inserted into an egg cell from another animal. This egg then divides into an embryo. The embryo is then transported into a surrogate mother and grown to term. It is of two types:
Most people in our society, no matter what level of education that they may have, have heard of the cloning, specifically the cloning of Dolly the lamb, and have some notions regarding the idea of cloning humans. "The successes in animal cloning suggest to some that the technology has matured sufficiently to justify its application to human cloning" (Jaenisch et al.). However, not every agrees that human cloning is a something that should be put into practice (Hoskins). There generally seem to be two basic divisions on this issue: those who find it inappropriate and unethical, and those who find it a reasonable and necessary step in the progression of scientific research (Lustig).
Today’s technology develops so quickly and many impossible things become true nowadays. Cloning technology is one of the technologies thereabout rapidly. “Cloning is the process of creating a new organism by copying genetic information from a single “parent” organism” (Boyle, 2013, p. 1). Cloning, as of later years, has become a very arguable issue in society but cloning can have several good effects for the well-being of society. Many people believe that scientists should develop a clone human but government are against human cloning. Cloning has several of prejudice. For example, expanded danger of acquired infections comes from the way that all clones have the same qualities and in this manner may be helpless to a specific kind of sickness. This may result in one sickness wiping out a whole population. Another inconvenience is absence of quality variety. Characteristic generation guarantees a blend of diverse qualities bringing about remarkable people. Alan Boyle stated that, although, the cloned offspring shares the genetic blueprint of the original, contained within nuclear DNA, researchers say different variables would make the clone not quite the same as its parents. This statement proved that cloning has lack of gene variation. Although cloning it has non beneficial it should not be banned.
Do you know that based on the scientific studies, 90% human cloning tuned out to be unsuccessful. Human cloning(modifying babies) is a process of producing new identical babies by altering their genomes. Some of studies show that scientists successfully cloned animals such as cows, Pigs, and sheep. For the past 3-5 years human cloning have a lot of debates and controversies between peoples. However Human cloning is dangerous for the new engineered baby and their moms, so it should be banned to prevent new disease, to constantly limit the population of dying human beings, and to stop unnecessary fees to modify babies.