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D.W Brock assesses the ethical issues amongst human clothing, he looks into the pros and cons that come with cloning. Brock belives that human cloning will change the way that people think of human life. He believes that human life will be seen as something that can be manipulated and adjusted for what a person desires. Some human lives as well as some clones might be viewed as having lesser values then others. If genetic cloning occurs, then the value for human life starts to degrade.

    Brock argues that when human cloning occurs the clone is given specific abilities and has desirable attributes given to them, so human life will be seen as something that can be easily manipulated and controlled. This can create the clones as being seen as objects and is what causes the degradation of human life since clones are copies of human forms.

The first method used was finding the height of the library using a ruler and measuring it up to the white line of the library. The library has about ten white lines throughout. The first white line is around half the size of the following white lines. So for the calculations the first white line half the rest. The measurement we got for the first white line was then multiplied accordingly. A ruler was used for this measurement, the width and length were then measured by placing a ruler on the ground from one end to the next. The ruler was a meter stick.

The next way the library was measured was by measuring a square that was along the side of the library. The square was fairly large and started along the side of the library, and another ended at the other side of the library. For this measurement a meter stick was also used and the length of a square was measured. The amount of squares that were on the floor of the library were then counted and multiplied by the length. This measurement gave us the width and the length. In order to calculate the height of the library we measured a window that took up the majority of one of the floors. After that we counted how many windows there were going up the library. We multiplied this number times the length of a window in order to calculate the height of the library.

The other method that was used was to measure the height of someone then the person's height was used in reference to the white line that surrounds the building. Then this height was multiplied accordingly. In order to find the width and the length of the library we measured the size of a person’s foot. Then the same person walked along the library one foot in front of the other in order to count how many steps it took them to walk along. This was then multplied by the size of their foot.

D.W Brock assesses the ethical issues amongst human clothing, he looks at the pros and cons that come with cloning.  Brock sees human cloning as something that will change the view on human life. He believes that human life will be seen as something that can be manipulated and adjusted for what a person desires. Cloning may change the way that human life is seen and the value of humans or clones may seem lesser than the other. If genetic cloning occurs, then the value for human life starts to degrade. Genetic cloning occurs. Therefore the value for human life is degraded.

    Brock argues that when human cloning occurs the clone is given specific abilities and has desirable attributes given to them, so human life will be seen as something that can be easily manipulated and controlled. This can create the clones as being seen as objects and is what causes the degradation of human life.

Actual human life outweighs potential life. A fetus has potential life. Therefore, a woman's life outweighs a fetus’ life.  This argument can be seen throughout section 4 and is explicitly stated on page 18, “The rights of any actual person invariably outweighs those of any potential person.” The reason for this argument is because Warren believes that a woman has the right to have an abortion in order to “protect her health, happiness, freedom, and even her life.” It’s important for a woman who already has a life to be able to live it the way she wants to and be able to make decisions that will effect her own happiness and freedom. She reasons that just because a fetus has some “resemblance to a person” or just because a fetus will become a person that it does not mean that this fetus has the right to life. This is because the fetus may not be of any importance in the future, his or her life may not be of any significance compared to the life that the woman already has.  

“Some opponents of active euthanasia do not oppose it morally but worry that if doctors have the power to kill patients, they may use it too freely. Thus, much of the opposition to active, voluntary euthanasia comes from the fear that, if it is legalized, it will be abused. (1)” Giving a doctor far too much power and control gives humans a large sense of vulnerability. Doctors already have a control over other’s lives; euthanasia would not be any different. For euthanasia a patient must be the one to decide what will happen to them as well as have to sometimes undergo a psychological test to ensure that their decision is definite. “Advocates of physician-assisted suicide insist that it is inherently voluntary. The doctor prescribes the lethal medication, but the patient must choose to swallow the pills. (1)” Both of these versions it is the patient who is the one who desires to end their life and who makes the ultimate decision in going through with the process. These people are willing patients who have gone through a life that will not get any better, usually having an incurable disease.

Momentum is always conserved in elastic and inelastic collisions. In the simulations that were conducted what was changed was the mass of object 1 and 2, the velocity with the both objects, and whether or not the collision was elastic and inelastic. In all the trials that were conducted what was found was that the total momentum throughout the collision stayed the same. In the first trial the mass for both objects was 1 but the velocity for one was 1 and the other was 0, what happened to the total momentum was that it was one before and after the collision. With this trial it was an elastic collision which mean the objects would bounce apart. For the second trial it was an inelastic collision, which meant the objects would stick together, using the same masses and velocity as the previous trial what was found was that the total momentum in the beginning was 1 as well as in the end. In the next trials the mass was changed but the momentum was not because it stayed the same. From all the data that was collected it can be concluded that momentum is conserved in elastic and inelastic collisions.

There are three different ways which are mainly used to treat this disorder which are: Medications, Therapy, and Electroconvulsive therapy. The medications used are anti psychotic drugs which shows substantial improvement in a patient when taken.. Using medications is a lifelong commitment for the patients, if the medications are stopped a relapse may occur.(Drugs) There are four main types of therapies used for schizophrenic patients, these are: individual psychotherapy, rehabilitation, family education, and self-help groups. Individual psychotherapy involves sessions between a therapist and patient in which they discuss past problems as well as current ones. This sometimes leads the patient to be able to differentiate between reality and what is not reality which is just occurring in the patients mind. Those with schizophrenia can become better if they have families who are involved with them, that is family education. Self-help groups also help a person with schizophrenia since it gets the patient more socially involved as well as giving them access to outside sources in which it enables them to get the help they need from others. With help from others they can receive information that they had not previously had. (Therapy) Electroconvulsive therapy is when, “pulsed electricity is sent through electrodes that have been placed on a patient’s head, inducing a brief seizure.” (Roleff) This form of treatment has some side effects which include temporary memory loss. Though this is a form of treatment, studies have shown that using electroconvulsive therapy is rarely effective when treating chronic schizophrenia. This makes electroconvulsive therapy not the best choice if  looking for recovery or stability.

The pupae has stayed in its shell for a week leading me to believe that it was dead. On February 10th at around 11 am the fly emerged from its enclosure. The pupae has been black and and a half an inch in length. It had a cylindrical shape to the shell with small ridges circling the exterior. On one end of the pupae there was a white ridge. When the fly emerged from the shell it emerged from the side that did not have the white ridge. There was a small slit on the side where the fly left. The fly has three legs on each side of its body for a total of six legs. It’s abdomen was black and it had two translucent wings. The fly spent some time exploring the small container and was able to walk on the sides of the container that as a larva it was unable to explore. After three hours I took the fly to the trash room and this is where I opened up the container and let the fly out. The fly struggled at first and barely made a few inches off the ground. It wobbles around trying to gain some balance before it finally was able to succeed and fly away.

Gel electrophoresis is a method for separation and analysis of macromolecules and their fragments, based on their size and charge. The fragments are negatively charged due to the phosphate groups moving them from negative to positive. Smaller fragments move faster than larger fragments because they move more easily through the pores of the gel. Most commonly, the gel is cast in the shape of a thin slab, with wells for loading the sample. The gel is immersed within an electrophoresis buffer that provides ions to carry a current and some type of buffer to maintain the pH at a relatively constant value. The gel itself is composed of either agarose which is extracted from seaweed or polyacrylamide which is a cross-linked polymer of acrylamide.If we add the DNA fragment onto the negative side of the gel electrophoresis than the DNA fragments would move across the gel because of the DNA's phosphate backbones negative charge.

The ancient enviornments preserved in the orange rocks that form the cliffs around Bay of Fundy are those that contained lake beds, streams, and deserts. Where the fossils were found was not the normal enviornment that fossils were preserved in which was basalt, rock formed from cooked lava. But it was among this rock that a jaw was found that belonged to a creature called the Tritheledont. This animal was extremely mammal like but it still retained many reptilian traits. One way that mammal's skin differs from that of a reptiles is that mammal's skin keeps the skin moisturized unlike reptiles, the skin is a lot softer while a mammals is a lot dryer. The tritheledont have teeth that have cusps made for chewing food while the gorgonopsid does not. The gorgonospid is over 250 million years old and have giant elongated canines that are used to pierce skin.