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Im going to talk about the notion of progress and more precisely about progress
in science. We can wonder why progress in science is a controversial topic. In
order to illustrate the notion I have chosen 3 documents which I think best
explain the progress in science. To my mind, the document that seems to best
illustrate the notion are The Odd man out, the trailer of My Sister Keeper and The
text A of Design your baby.
The Odd Man Out raise the problem of human cloning. It shows 5 clones, built like
a tank on a conveyor belt. Theyre all the same they all have the same grin,
theyre tall, muscular and brown-haired. All, but one who seems to be defective.
We can say that the man in the middle is defective because he isnt as flawless
as the others. Contrary to the other ones, hes not muscular at all, hes regarded
as a defective clone and will be put into a dumpster.
This cartoonist opposes cloning. We cant play god, human lives are not to play
with. Nobody is perfect so we should be tolerant with people who are different
from us. If cloning existed we would all look like robots and it would be
dehumanize mankind. This cartoonist wants to draw our attention to cloning
human beings is risky and more harmful than useful because anyway there are
already too many people on Earth and cloning is unethical. However, clones could
give us an organ in case we have a life-threatening disease or they could keep
company to elderly people, which Is a boring stiff thing to do.
The trailer of My Sister Keeper indicates the job of a person whose must look
after someone. This trailer shows Annas life and her sister who is bald and elder
contrary to Anna who has long brown hair and who is healthy. Her sister has a
serious disease. Some babies are accident, but not Anna. She was born to save
her sisters life. If she hadnt been conceived her sister might be dead now.
Annas sister must have spent 13 hours a week in hospital and been missing
school a lot. So Anna is a designer baby.
The text A of Design your baby describes the imaginary processes to choose your
future babys traits. A customer is speaking, but its also a mother to be. It
reminding of a fast food restaurant because the customer passed a command but
he is speaking to a geneticist or a fertility expert. He wants to choose what the
twins will look like or choose his baby from the A la carte menu. It can also
protect his baby from life-threatening diseases thanks to PGD ( pre-implantation
genetic diagnosis) or make sure that the embryo is healthy, but in reality its to
choose physical characteristics or the baby, IQ or for a gender selection. The
consequence of this could lead to rise of such individuals becoming 2 nd class
citizens. But, choose the characteristics of our baby is not possible now, its
science fiction.
I have the feeling that progress in science is important to save lives, protect the
health of people and discovered the disease faster and more precisely. But we
mustnt forget that progress in science can make improbably things like cloning,
which can be frightening.
The lyrics of the song Ka-Ching by Shania Twai dates back to 2002. The main
activity described this song is shopping which seems to be a hobby. In this song,
Shania Twain denounces the people who are superficial and materialistic. A
materialistic person is more interested in objects than in people or relationships.
She criticizes the people who think that money is what matters most. This song is
about the excess of our consumer society urges us to consume more and more
even if it doesnt make us happy.
I have the feeling that money is not a very important thing, because money cant
buy happiness. Money can hit and can separate a lot of people; we can have a
disease and be alone.
Sombrero. We can suppose that the man in the wall is for consumption society
because next to him we can see the golden Arch that stands for Mc Donalds.
Americans doesnt want Mexican in their country. We can see an American flag on
the wall. The Mexican is desiderated because he is sweating. He feels like
drinking. We can see a skeleton on the Mexican side which can represented that
the social life in Mexico or the work is dead. The Americans have mixed feeling
about immigration. Indeed, they dont want Mexicans to live in their country but
the just want them to consume. In other words theyre just interested in selling
their goods no matter if the Mexicans are legal or illegal.
I have the feeling that Americans dont want admit that they need Mexicans
people for the American economic growing.