Art is a powerful medium that can reflect political and societal issues, but it is not art’s duty to reflect the times. Nate Mancini, video producer at Steven James Media Group, explains that “If all art is political, it will always be polarizing. But if art connects us with our humanity, it can be unifying”(Mancini). This means that if all art were to be political, there would never be anything to unify a divided world. Mancini also states that “Art…
Three helpful hints that I learned from this book include using metacommentary to further explain my ideas so that they are not misinterpreted, and I can incorporate this into my working draft by using the templates given to help reiterate my ideas. Second, I want to use the tips given about transitions to help not only my paragraphs flow, but also my sentences. To do this I will look at each of my sentences and make sure that they connect…
While reading chapter 7 of They Say I Say, one helpful hint I came across was a template to incorporate both the question of “so what?” and how it relates to the question of “who cares?” The template was “Although X may seem of concern to only a small group of Y, it should in fact concern anyone who cares about Z.” I found this helpful because it is a straightforward template that I can incorporate into my next draft,…
In order to prevent any one individual from holding too much power in terms of genome editing there must be regulations. With so much uncertainty on the effects of genetic editing, both short and long term, it is vital that we do not take the new technology and run with it, but instead proceed with necessary caution. Karen Yeung, Professor of Law, Ethics and Informatics at the University of Birmingham states that, “the Council have recommended genome editing should only…
Humans with too much power cross lines without thinking and try to fix the atrocity after. Of course, many will probably disagree on the grounds that some power is necessary for control and structure. In many instances, people with specialized knowledge have specialized jobs that they can use their knowledge for. In the case of genome modification, the specialized knowledge is knowing how to use the technology and how it works, while the people with this knowledge are scientists. On…
Comment: MLA format! 24 September 2021 My MLA format for the date at the top of the paper was incorrect. It should have been 24 September 2021 instead of 9/24/21, which is what I had put. I agree with this comment. I know that I was very concerned with going over the details in my paper and overlooked editing the headings. Next time, I will make sure I check everything more thoroughly.
