The Human Voice

The human voice is a very powerful weapon, especially when it comes together. The human voice may not be as powerful as it use to be in the 1960’s but it is still in the atmosphere. Here is a flashback, in the 1960’s during the civil right movement; many African American marched on the streets chanting for equality and human rights. Now 50 years isn’t everyone treated equal and has the same rights as the person next to them.  The human voice can take on any cause to achieve victory. No to long ago the president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak said that wouldn’t resign and that he would remain empower until next elections. The Egyptian people continued to let their voices be heard for a change and now the president of the country step down.  According to video by Studs Terkel ”The Human Voice" Children see the world with innocent eyes were as in adults society has built us to become so serious. For example, in the video when the train was delayed thirty seconds, because of a young couple entering the train too late, everyone stared at the couple with so much hated. However when the old man “Gabby” ask the little baby, for its opinion on  the human voice the baby starts giggling. This example shows how society and the human voice is decreasing as we get older. All in all the human voice is still here is not being put to into good use (like the people on the train).  

Can You Tell the Differences?

How can we stop counterfeit selling from online websites, especially sports jerseys? This has to stop one way or another, because millions of people uses the web to do there shopping. This type of shopping is huge during huge events such as the “Super Bowl”. According to National Public Radio they “estimated 800,000 counterfeit jerseys are sold online each year.”  Lets multiple that to an average team jersey that cost 80 dollars, that’s roughly around 65 million dollars that is stolen each year. The hard thing to believe is that it is being done by some of the most popular online shopping websites such “EBay”. Nation Public Radio infers that “there are probably 500,000 fake jerseys floating on eBay right now”. I even go on EBay to buy all sorts of things.

            This problem can be solved a couple different ways. First, all sports to team should make symbol that stand out and cannot be duplicated, unless it is made from their league. For example, the logo can be copied and you wouldn’t be able to tell the differences, from a counterfeit and an authentic jersey. Instead they should make the logo with a certain material that react a certain way in water. Another solution is that the government should have computer scientist, create software’s that detects counterfeit websites. Last but not least, to all online shoppers if you see a price that is hard believe online, such 20$ for a jersey it is fake and don’t buy it, or you will get your money worth.  Counterfeit websites should be observe, and the person who us running the website should be caught and taken to jail.

Blog#2 "Supersize Your Child"

There is a mathematic rule that states “what you do to one side you must do to the other side”. Well in the essay “Supersize Your Child” Richard Hayes states “Scientists began predicting that someday we’d be able to genetically engineer our children” (pg85). He argues that if we change the genes of our future generation, then we are changing life itself.  In 1859 Charles Darwin came up with a theory of how earth evolves called “Natural Selection”. Now Biologist has used this for several years, to comprehend how living things are produce.  So therefore by creating this type of technology to create our children we are throwing away all the science that was ever invented (such as Natural Selection).

            As a child, I grew up in a household, where nothing was just handed to you. You yourself had to earn what you wanted. So to me creating a human that is un-Godly, is insulting to me, because I work hard to get to where I need to be and then for someone who will never have to sacrifice a day in their life just get life handed to them. It is similar to playing someone in a sports video game and they have created players (their best player of all time) and you just have the normal players. How would you feel? On that note I am staying on Hayes side. No one was created perfect and it should stay that way (you have to learn from your mistakes remember).

            In my opinion we need to let life be itself and that means letting it evolve. There is no need to let “humanity take control of its own evolution and kick it into overdrive” (pg85). So just let the earth keep spinning around the sun. I know this issue will continue in the world and there is going to be scientist out their continuously experimenting to make this possible. Well they need to stop and go do experiments to cure cancer for those who aren’t perfect.