I searched for Spiderman masks on Thingiverse and found one that was suitable however when I tried to play around with it on Tinkercad it proved to be more complicated than I thought because I’m not good with making objects out of shapes. After that I switched to the SketchUp program which seemed easier at first because I could draw the mask free hand and everything that accompanied it. The masked didn’t take the long, however, than I tried making the genes and the tools and put them in a form of a mask which took a very long time and in the end did not look right so instead I decided to take the easier route and absically just paste the words “DNA” symbolically on the side of the mask and then draw the tools and there was my 3D object.

3D Julia Art

During this break I found myself watching Spider-man and coming to realize I wanted to write my paper on genetic enhancing. I believe that most people would agree when I say that after watching a super hero in action on a movie screen at the end we come out wanting to be them. Peter Parker was bit by a genetically enhanced spider therefore his genes then transformed and became amazing. He got back perfect vision, enhanced senses, had immense strength, and could shoot webs out of his wrists. If there was such a program that could enhance my genes I would sign up in a heartbeat. However, what is shown in Spider-man is not reality. I come to realize through different articles and analyses by professors that genetic enhancement is not that simple not only on a scientific level but generally speaking. I plan to speak to you, Professor Kaufman to see if this idea is valid for the research paper. And if it is my digital component would either be a video or a 3D printing.

I was thinking of comparing how people who want their genes enhanced view their lives in comparison with for example Peter Parker’s life. And then switching it showing how it would be if reality took over the movie and then comparing that to the normal human’s life. I wanted to use actual Spider-man scenes to do this but I’m still not sure if it’s possible.

For the 3D printing I was just thinking of maybe doing half of Spider-man’s masked face and the other half sort of like genes in the shape of a human face with tools such as screwdrivers, hammers, and power tools in the midst of them.

Both of these ideas to me seem a little ambitious because I’m not talented but hopefully I can make it work if the ideas are valid.Thank you!

You know we live in a society that enforces that “technology is what makes this world go round” and how it’s so amazing and it brings about better lives for us. Of course the technology that we have today is amazing and the people that contributed can be considered geniuses and none of this is bashing against their bright minds. However, is society using technology in the best sense? I think not! To most people technology is just so accessible and easy to get that we don’t think much of it and we become spoiled towards it. Especially in today’s world, everyone that is in my age group will agree that they needed to work for their phone and when they got it it was not a top of the line one…I don’t know about everyone else but I kind of get pissed when I see a little child with the latest damn Iphone, Ipad, and Apple laptop walking around pretending like they are doing something worthwhile on it. What can a little child do with such a phone!!!! Play games, take thousands of photos of themselves, text, call mommy and daddy..wait sorry…TEXT mommy and daddy? It’s insane and then mommy and daddy bitch that their precious child isn’t healthy, doesn’t go outside enough, doesn’t do homework, gets cyber bullied. I mean you are giving them the right tools.

          Also in my most recent essay I said how people are more willing to destroy then create with this new technology. How it was so much easier. Why is it that we as humans take the easy way out? Why don’t we create with that technology something that we can be proud of? Yeah sure we build buildings and stuff that we would enjoy as humans but where is that selfnessness of giving back to others. Something that doesn’t entertain us? In the same essay I wrote how instead of helping out with animal habitats we just tend to destroy them if they get in our way. That ain’t right! Think about it 🙂

I do need a hero…to help me with this upcoming essay. Now, I am not entirely new to this whole long essay writing thanks to my Junior English teacher (Shout-out :)) And it’s so funny and deja-vu like because he had us focus on writing an essay about heroism from a book too! Of course I lost this essay so no help there but I was introduced to this whole “Hero Circle-of-Fun System” before. So when Professor Kaufman first proposed the original hero essay question a light bulb went off in my head, now these light bulbs are not always that bright meaning that if you are not me then there is a huge chance that you will laugh at my light bulb which to each its own so whatever. You know how the examples of who the hero is to you was given. Well I thought that a much longer essay could be written analyzing who the hero’s are to each individual person. See, I feel that since everyone is there own individual and everyone thinks differently there is bound to be some difference in the thought process of who is a hero. And, I think that it would be interesting to see through how an individual views the issue or states their point of view influences who they think is a hero.

I am a little hesitant about my thought process because I don’t know if anyone will like it especially the person grading it. And after hearing other people’s theses I’m just like “Damn, that’s deep.” I can’t come up with things like that. And I might be wrong in the way I think. I guess I’ll just have to bear my teeth, write that essay, and wait and see.

I’ve been really behind lately so I’m just going to catch up by writing this “free-blog” post first. Today was a horrible day. I got sick and for the life of me could not stay and go to the classes. So I left and went to the hospital instead pushing my way through the doors marked “Emergency”. Signed myself in, had myself checked by the nurse, filled out some paper work and started to wait. I waited and waited but since I’m a patient person (especially when I’m sick since I just don’t care about the world) it didn’t bother me. I know that hospital staff has it hard and I wouldn’t want to be the one to make their life any harder because I personally hate difficult people. So after waiting for over an hour the good doctor came out, called “Julia?” and led me to a room where she got right to asking me questions and examining what the hell was wrong with me. After she concluded whatever she concluded she informed me that the nurse would be right in and I would be hooked to an IV machine and all would be swell from there. So I’m thinking “Yay.” my suffering will soon be over. However, before it was I got to wait some more. I read some philosophy, played some games on my phone and finally the nurse came in, put a needle in me and left me there saying “I’ll see ya in a sec.” I don’t know what her definition of a “sec” is but it sure as hell is not the same as mine. I waited and waited and waited. It was crazy that day with a trauma patient and several arguments breaking out because other people were waiting too; but I was patient because again I felt bad. So I waited in that room for a total of five hours finding things to take up my time with but it’s kind of hard…actually it was impossible. My head started to hurt because I was so hungry but yet this IV machine would not come. By this time I have healed my own self, was freezing, and was praying to the good Lord to send me home. The Lord sends my father along and he being an impatient man that is not shy asks to see the doctor. The doctor comes and is shocked to see that nothing has been done to me. Of course, the nurse had forgotten about me completely. I wasn’t mad because I understood there were others there in much more critical cases but I did feel kinda hurt since me and the nurse had a nice, funny conversation and I trusted that she would take care of me. Bioethics much? When does the hospital system become impersonal? My doctor said “I can’t let you leave till you feel better because I’m your doctor it’s my job.” Shouldn’t every doctor have this mind-set? But I guess it is harder when you have so many patients during the day, but is it really OK to forget about one patient because another one is more ill or should we, as patients, all be treated equally in a system such as this one? Anyway moral of the story, speak up and remind people you’re there because being forgotten really sucks and can cost you A LOT of time. 🙂

Looking at the woman in the picture what do you see? I see a well dressed, well poised, happy African American woman in a very nice dress suit. The way her hands are on her hips and her feet are parted give an air of confidence and self-assurance. Looking at her feet it seems as if she has a size smaller than she needs. And going up to her waist it seems as if she is a little plump as also shown in her face. However, her legs looks thin maybe resulting from always walking and working. But look at her face. At first glance the smile looks nothing more than a smile portraying happiness. Look at it again closer and not just at the smile but at her eyes too. Now I might just be overseeing things but to me the smile looks forced because of the way her eyes are sort of drooped. Maybe it was just awkward for her keeping the smile while the photo was taken. Maybe that is her natural smile. Maybe this is an illusion since she is looking down. But maybe there is something behind it. And when reading the story there truly is.

We started off the book with the quote from Elie Wiesel and to me it meant that every person is unique because each has a story. And it came as such a shock to discover the big one to Henrietta Lacks.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

This first essay was very complex at least for me. Writing it became an issue because everytime I did I had to delete it and start over. It got annoying after a while. However, after I changed the topic I was going to write about it went about smoother. To be honest I have read my paper a few times and I know it is not perfect but I do not know how to revise it. It could use some tweaking but I’m scared that if I start tweaking I might mess it up or change the topic completely. I am struggling with coming into terms with my thesis. I don’t know if it’s strong or not. If it connects with my points.

I am excited to get this paper done, to see the “masterpiece” complete. I am excited to recieve positive criticism on how to make my paper better from those that know better. And I’m excted to see the grade; see if I wrote a good one or not. Hopefully people see my pooint of view through my points of arguments 🙂

While I was reading this case a thousand things were going through my head at once, I mean how can’t it when I’m a sucker for animals and believe in their right to life and being able to keep it. I feel like some humans are very egotistic; all they seem to do is worry about themselves and their own kind which drives me crazy. Don’t get me wrong heart transplants are no joke to me, if you can save a person save them but don’t sacrifice another living thing against their will to do it. I believe that sometimes when it’s time to go then leave life in God’s hands. Now a lot of people make the argument that animals are not comparable to humans or less in worth because they have no morals, I know because I hear it countless number of times and every time I have to give myself a second and count to 10 just so I don’t burst from anger. But you know what!? Some humans that treat animals like they do have no worth to me. How is it that everyone claims we are the smartest, most innovative and powerful people when we don’t even know the simple concept of respect; and I mean respect to everything including the smallest bug. I know that this reading is especially applied to chimpanzees and a chance to get more hearts for people in need but no, I don’t think this is right at all because it is violating animals to the hugest extent. Why is it that we look at animals as a whole while we look at humans as individuals? Why is it that we let animals gain trust and compassion just to mistreat them, why is it that humans can’t be as compassionate as animals and just treat them right, respectfully? For example, whenever i am walking on the street and see an ant I deliberately walk around it and make sure I don’t step on it because I believe that every life that doesn’t need to end shouldn’t. I really like animals, I worked at a zoo. 🙂

When you look online for the definition of bioethics you get something that says it’s “the ethics of bio research”. That might be a satisfying definition to some people but to people like me it’s not. When I ask myself “What is bioethics?” I think that it is exploring science and discovering new knowledge about life until it reaches the point that it becomes inhumane and scientists themselves should know what that point is. However, how can they? They grew up differently from each and every other person so maybe there definition of what’s humane is different from another scientists’. I think that’s where the problem arises to precisely define what bioethics really is because practically every reasoning that is given leads to a new question. UNESCO was gracious enough to make a guideline for health providers to use that thinks for them in regards to what is in the best interest of the patient. But do we have to worry about the patients when they usually decide on their own of what their fates should be? That’s why there are protests, fighting, and court cases on the issue that families and patients should be the sole decision makers of their destination of health or death. I believe that these guidelines should be applied more to research because that is most of the time a single person’s decison and actions and they might be confused on what they should do.