To Resist Hitler and Survive

Last year, in 2008 it had been the 75th Anniversary of Hitler Seizure of power. The Germans had spent millions of dollars on remembering the Holocaust with monument, museums, and educational initiatives. It was said to have been impressive for a country dealing with their darkest past. The courage of the people that had died are now remembered and their stories are cherished because of what they had went through for just being who they were. After all these years it is time for all the German people and those to come to stand up against and mourn the ones that have past, so they won't have died for nothing, they will have died for something great, they will have died for those to rise up and make a change and stand up for who you are, no matter what. 

Iraqi Kids Play Make-Believe War Games

Today in Iraq with the war going on between the Sunni and Shiite. The kids in Iraq are just like the kids over here in America, they follow what they see. So, they end up playing war games with each other and ducking behind cars and pretending to fall dead somewhere just like in the real war. Their parents discourage them from playing these games because they fear it will only contribute to sectarian hatred, of course the kids don't listen to them and they continue to play their war games. Many people in Iraq believe that these games increase the aggressive behavior in these kids. They are less focused on school work and more worried about being killed or displaced. They figure what's the point in studying if they are going to die anyway, before they can use it. It seems to me they are another country that is mixed up with what is going on. They need some help to try and straighten what is going out, so their children can be more focused on living life, rather than fearing when their going to die. 

The Butterfly Effect

The butterfly effect is said to when a butterfly flaps its wings, it might create tiny changes in the earth's atmosphere, that may alter the path of a tornado, delay, accelerate, or even all together prevent the occurrence of the tornado in a certain location. When the butterfly effect is talked about in popular media it is dealing with time travel, usually inaccurately. According to the actual theory it says that history could be "changed" at all(so that one is not invoking something like the Novikov self-consistency principle which would ensure a self-consistent timeline), the mere presence of the time travelers in the past would be enough to change short-term events and would have an unpredictable impact on the distant future. Therefore, no one who travels into the past could ever return to the same version of reality they came from the first time, and wouldn't be able to go back. 

Think about what would have happened if someone went into the past and prevented Hurricane Katrina from ever happening, our world would be a lot different. Think to your self what would happen if butterflies disappeared? Children of all ages would be worse off. There would also be no more flowers, and more species would become extinct, due to that everything is connected. That being said, a Harvard Biologist predicts that if things don't change, a half of all plants & animals will be extinct by 2100. Also, 7 in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a much dire threat to humans than Global Warming does, and they believe that we are in the midst of the sixth extinction event. Technology can help us buy time and help protect us from adverse conditions and even reverse some of the damage.

I think that it is sad to hear the human life will be extinct, from earth soon. Some descendant's of prehistoric animals are still around and will probably outlive humans. Some people don't even care though, since they won't be here on earth and it won't affect them personally. But what the article is saying is that we brought this on ourselves, by all our luxuries and advances in technology that we can't live without. Our generation has this attitude that they don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally, so they won't do anything to help our planet now and don't care what is to come of earth or our species.

DNA Test Gives Students Ethic Shocks

I think that it was interesting how it can be found out what your genetic make-up consists of. I also liked how some people thought they knew their cultural background and they found out that they weren't not only black, but also asian and white to. If they offered this test here I know I would want to take it to find out more about my genetic make-up. All I know about my background is that basically that I am everything ,but Italian and latina. Also, I am not that sure of what percent I am of my background. In Conclusion, I think that many people would invest in a DNA test to find out their own cultural background.

The Genome Project

Every person has faults, and genetic risks that they are born with. That has always been the way it was for babies when they were born. Later, they turn into adults, and their faults and genetic diseases they have in their gene pool begin to be a problem for them. Recently, scientist have been working on unlocking the genetic code for humans. What they are trying to do is rule out diseases that we receive through our genes. Since, these scientist will be familiar with how our genes work; they will be able to make "Perfect Humans". By this they will be able to chose different qualities of the child. They will be able to choose the sex, color of eyes, color of hair, and right-handedness of their child. Some of these options these scientist are offering seem sensible, and the others seem like their playing God. I think that its good that scientist will soon be able to eliminate the risk of genetic diseases in children to come. It will be good there will be less sickness we will have to worry about. I don't agree with the fact of choosing what your child be. I don't think it is right to be able to choose what traits your child will have and what they will look like. I don't believe that is the way life is supposed to be; everything in life is left up to chance and fate; now it is being changed by people with money and people who want a perfect kid. First, it starts by changing the physical characteristics of a kid; next you will be able to choose their IQ level; and be able to choose their dominant subjects in school; which will lead to choosing their career before they are even born. The way I see it is kids will end up resenting their parents even more than they already do; because of the way they planned out their whole life; and will be someone they don't want to be. They will have a passion for something that their parents didn't choose for them; which will lead to more resentment. Furthermore, I think it would be better for kids lives to be left up to chance like it always has been, since the beginning of time.

Youtube Response

It appears to me that most of the articles are saying that with technology, we have become lazy. They say that we have no skill and we are not as smart as kids our age in the past. Everyone has heard of youtube; and chances are they have used it. Sometimes we can be careless and not think about what we are doing, so we post things on websites that could have consequences for us in the long run. For example some people record themselves doing something the shows them breaking the law. They think they are safe because no one will be able to trace who is in the video, because they think they are protected by their usernames. Chances are when you are on the internet you leave a trail behind and thats how the authorities catch you. I think that the reason other countries are getting banned from youtube is because they are just being careless, just like everyone can be at times. It makes me think that since these countries have been banned from youtube, who is going to be next? Possibly the U.S. I don't think that it is fair for everyone of one country to be banned from any site; just because someone was careless about what they put online. Now we all have to suffer, because of their mistake they made. I think that we all should be more careful on what we do when on the internet and also what we put up for others to see, because you never know who might read it, and it might come back to get you in the end.