topic selection

The topic I chose for this essay has to do with animal experimentation. More specifically animal testing in the medical field. I want to look into how ethical it is and how people view it. I have always had a hard time supporting animal testing. I have always grown up with pets and I just care about animals and I believe that they have rights as well. I have done research about animal testing in the cosmetics industry. The only reason that many companies test on animals is because it is required to sell anything in china. I don't buy makeup from company's that test on animals for any reason. This is something I am very passionate about, I am wondering if it more acceptable in the medical field. I know that medicine is different than makeup because we are trying to find cures and things that we don't already know about. However I am wondering if there is a better alternative solution to it.

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This is the link to my first article that I found. This one presents both sides of the argument. One of the main points that supports my side is that testing on animals doesn't give us an accurate guess of what a treatment will do to humans. We are so anatomically and genetically different from animals that it does us no good except telling us how a treatment affects the animal. The other side of this argument is that there is nothing that we can use to replicate the complexity of the human body except for another living thing.

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Here is the second article. This one talks about the different laws that are in place and the loopholes and inconsistencies of them. It also talks about recent studies bout how much animals can feel pain and distress. It talks about all of the countless ways that animals are abused and all of the things they are deprived of to eliminate confounding factors in the experiments. It also mentions how testing on animals is a poor representation of how a treatment will affect humans.

Kincaid

This weeks reading was an article by Jamaica Kincaid titled "Girl".  It is unclear to me who is narrating this story, I think it is just the author, Kincaid. It could be anyone who is telling someone else how to be a girl and all the "rules" associated with such a role. The speaker is suggesting that girls and boys are completely separate and cannot do the same things. Girls must be concerned about making everyone around them comfortable and make sure they perceive them in a way that is proper or acceptable. I do not agree with many of these. I think that girls, or women, can do whatever they want. If a girl wants to play with the boys, she should be allowed, if she doesn't want to wash her fathers clothes she shouldn't have to. Many of these thoughts are older and don't pertain to American life or ideals anymore. Many of these examples of things girls "need" to be taught or "need" to know how to do may still be applicable in other areas of the world. This list suggests that at this time in the West Indies, girls and women were expected to take care of everyone. They were to know how to cook, clean and make home remedies. All of this was for the benefit of the men that surrounded them. I think there are many social and political implications. All of the examples given in this list are about how it is socially acceptable for girls to act. In this area and at this time there very possibly could have been laws in place to keep things this way. I'm not completely sure but there is that possibility.

Staples

In the staples article he describes how he often perceived as a threatening person in certain situations. I have been in similar situations as the ones he describes in the essay. I don't think I have ever reacted in the same way that the people in the essay did.
I was in New York with my little sister late at night. It was just the two of us. We were walking from a store back to our hotel. It was dark and we couldn't see very well. There was a group of men waking towards us and I was nervous because we were just two girls that were young and we had no form of protection. You never know if someone has intentions of harming another person. Our thought in this moment is that it is better to be cautious and have nothing happen than to not be careful and potentially get hurt. We linked arms and I pretended to be on the phone with my dad. I think I would still react the same way. I didn't want to make the men feel uncomfortable but as a woman I feel like I do need to be cautious. There are so many stories of bad things happening to women who aren't cautious an it is better to be safe than sorry.

Gansberg

One evening, Catherine Genovese came home from work as she did every night. She parked her car and started walking to her apartment door, about 100 feet away. As she was walking she was grabbed and stabbed by a man she had noticed before she began walking from her car. Her screams alarmed several neighbors, one of whom shouted at her attacker who walked off. She got up and continued towards her apartment. As she was walking she was attacked again by the same man. Again her screams alerted the neighbors who turned on their lights which scared away the attacker. This time crawling to try to make it home her attacker found her and delivered the final blow. There were thirty-eight people who had witnessed the attack and none of them did anything. One man called the police but it was very much too late.

Orwell

Over the summer I went on a trip to French Polynesia where I learned about the dying reefs. I knew they weren't in great shape but I didn't know just how bad it was or how horrible the consequences would be if we didn't do anything. I learned about what is causing the coral to die and what I can do to help. They taught us about what they were doing to help save the coral that is almost dead and let us help them plant new coral. I saw first hand what is happening to the coral and what that is doing to the oceans ecosystem. This issue is bigger than just one person or one group. I realized that not very many people know about it. It is simply unawareness that is a huge part of the issue. I learned so much about how our world is taking a turn for the worst. I also learned a lot about myself. I asked myself why I didn't know about this sooner or why people don't talk about it. I realized that if I wanted to help make a difference there were things that I could do. There were things in my life that I could change just a little bit that would help in the long run. Whenever I was asked what I am passionate about I always got nervous because I didn't think there was anything. But now I can confidently say that I a m passionate about saving the reef!

Satrapi

In a school for girls it is the first day of class. The girls attend their anatomy class where the teacher is telling them about what they are going to be doing in class. He explains that due to the recent changes in government, the curriculum has been changed. They can no longer learn by drawing nude people, their model must remain completely covered. All of the girls look confused and disappointed. They try to make the best of it but they don't learn anything about anatomy, they only learn how to draw drapes. This is the beginning of many more changes to come.

Writing Process

The writing process begins with arguably the most important step, invention. In this step you find all the relevant information that supports your claim. You then have to organize your information so that its order makes sense. This is when you start to write drafts. You keep revising until you find the perfect way to present your thoughts. This way you have all the relevant information that you want to share and how you want to present it. You do all this and then at the very end you start to focus on editing your grammar and punctuation. This stage is so so important. This is where you get rid of typos and correct your word choice. I loved that in the introduction of this section in our book, they explained that a piece of writing "is the result of a struggle between a writer and his or her material," It is a process, you can't just sit down and write an essay in an hour, it takes time and effort.