Supersize Your Child Rhetorical Analysis

Which means our technology is so high that we can soon make a baby in a test tube and make whatever gendered we would like. Our society freezes eggs and sperm so we can put them in a tube and make babies. Our society, technology is so good that we could someday change the gender of the baby when in the makes of that baby. Our society has in-vitro-fertilization which means we put the egg and sperm together and place it into the mother. Our society, technology is kind like Brave New World that someday we can become like the book Brave New World if we aren’t careful.

In the film, a person’s genes almost completely determines a person’s destiny and while Vincent says there is “no gene for fate”, genes undoubtedly lay out the most likely future for the members in the society. The destructive consequences of biotechnology becoming an overbearing aspect of our lives is exemplified from the beginning of Vincent’s life. As a newborn, instead of being held by his parents, his blood is immediately tested to calculate the probability of his health risks in the future. This shows that in this new society, the blood and genetic makeup of a child is considered more important than the bond of love between mother and child at birth. Biotechnology, as an overbearing aspect of society, causes people to disregard many factors which make up a person such as environmental and psychological development and ambition and “invalids”, such as Vincent are immediately relegated to the lower class.

The chapter on origin of life was particularly interesting as he explained the debate over how first DNA was made and he also talks about the Miller Urey experiment, which I found fascinating when I studied it in high school, and also about the first cell. In part 3, he answers the questions about why bacteria have not evolved into something more complex and why/how mitochondria are responsible for the complexity of different organisms. Bigger cells can support more genetic material and produce more energy (as respiration requires a membrane, eukaryotic cells have more of it and can therefore produce more ATP), which leads to the possibility of more greater complexity - and in particular to multicellular

They intended to create children with desirable characteristics and to create an utopian society with “perfect” humans. Today eugenics continues to be a topic of many political and social debate and arguments. Gregor Mendel

Charlie Gordon was getting smarter day by day he was having rapid progression. His friends, teacher and doctor all saw that he was getting smarter day by day. An example of this is “No Charlie Dr. Nemur wants them just as they are. That 's why he let you keep them after they were photostated to see your own progress you 're coming along fast charlie” ( Keyes 230). This

Steven Pearlstein is a well-rounded and educated man. Pearlstein is thorough with his research and does an incredible job in his article “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature.” Of course that title is just the hook to the real title “Forcing college kids to ignore the liberal arts won’t help them in a competitive economy”, both titles pop out and lead into what Pearlstein intends to go over in the work. Parents these days are forcing children to go to college and get the degrees they want well Pearlstein has something to say about that. To the parents who still think that liberal education is a waste of time, at least the kids learning liberal arts won’t mix up meaningful life with maximizing lifetime salary.

Doing the procedure undermines evolution and could even reverse it. The reason humans have been so popular in terms of surviving and reproducing is due to the genetic diversity given to them from two million years of evolution. Now, not everyone will look exactly the same, but most will be pretty, healthy, and smart because almost everyone has the same idea of what a “better” human is (“Designer Babies: The Good and the Bad”). Almost no parent who would go through with the procedure would choose an ugly and dumb child.

In Chapter 1 of the novel Our PostHuman Future, Francis Fukuyama biotechnology and the solutions to stop the potential hazards of using biotechnology and genetic engineering. In recent discussions, a controversial issue that has been brought up is whether biotechnology, that in the future, can pose potential threats to society and affect the wellbeing of humanity. On the one hand, some argue that biotechnology and genetic engineering allows for society to prosper because you can genetically make all individuals happy and unique. For instance, in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, society is broken up into caste systems and due to genetic engineering, the administration of soma, a drug that elicits instant happiness, and hypnopedia, members

According Gatto, a man who speaks from both the perspective of a student and a teacher, the education system in America is truly a marvel of modern social engineering. He argues the problems commonly associated with American education are just the opposite because, in his view, what some view as issues, are what society has created as the fundamental pillars of schooling. It is his belief that school simply exists not to educate, but to instill the qualities necessary to produce a compliant work force. Thus, the twelve years of schooling millions of kids experience all across the United States only plans to ‘dumb [them] down’ (Gatto, 2003). All the time, money, and effort these kids impart unto their studies in the hopes of learning is only

Parents now can choose the Gender, disease resistance and hair color of their child. For years, reproductive medical services have gotten stronger and

Bluecollar Jobs Joe Lamachiaa, who is the founder of blue collar and proud of it.com, a website deicated to letting people know there is no shmae in being blue collar. Mr.Lamachiaa believes that people are over looking trade jobs such as plumbing, construction workers, electricians, etc and are pushing everyone to go to college, when college is not for everyone. Mr. Lamachiaa argues that scholls are pushing children to go to college even though it might not be the best thing for that participle child, “even if it’s just to get a liberal arts degree.” Lachimaa states.

Humanity needs to change before all information is censored. In “College at Risk,” Andrew Delbanco discusses liberal learning and the “whole person” that may not be developed in college due to a lack of income. Liberal learning develops the “whole person” by teaching the basic ethics and morals a person should have. Anne Applebaum presents examples of censorship in her essay, “The Decline of American Press Freedom.” She uses China and Yale to make the point that differing forms of censorship are doing more harm than good.

I agree with this article. For-profit colleges help people in their education in a lot of different ways. However, many people earn a degree to get a job. If the debt that they procure while doing so is more money than that which the degree can help pay off, that degree will have lost its meaning. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus support this argument in their article “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?”

The novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, examines a future where embryos are chemically engineered to ensure they conform to a certain class within a strict caste system. It invokes a future where babies and children are conditioned into certain lifestyles to establish “stability in society” and “make people like their unescapable social destiny.” A future where self-discovery, individualism, and the idea of family have become mysterious concepts. Knowing this novel was published in the 30’s, it is unsettling to realize society has already initiated a shift in this direction. Today genetic engineering is increasingly explored, and mass consumerism, capitalism and the ever prominent social class struggles have

In Carey 's argument there 's one reason why for profit colleges have an advantage and that is because these colleges provide courses that bankrupt colleges can’t provide (par.12). In the article by Clark, Jane Bennett points out that other vocational students, for-profit schools represent a forceful option to public and nonprofit colleges. Also in the article by Surowiecki, James he claims that “The schools offer classes at night, online and in weeks-long sessions year-round, making them "much more flexible" than traditional colleges for-profit colleges looked like the future of education. Targeting so-called “nontraditional students”—who are typically older, often have jobs, and don’t necessarily go to school full time—they advertised aggressively to attract business, claiming to impart marketable skills that would lead to good jobs”. Another reason from Carey 's Argument“The federal government has every right to regulate the billions of taxpayer dollars it is pouring into the pockets of for-profit shareholders.(para 11) “The sooner abusive colleges are prevented from loading students with crushing debt in exchange for low-value degrees, the better.”.