Opposing Viewpoints and Topic for Life the Book

The health care debate doesn't affect my topic for Life the book. My topic relates more to ethical debates.

I feel neutral in the health care debate. Universal health care seems like a good idea but it might be too expensive.

Life the Book Humanities

1. stage of life- childhood
interesting genetic technology- xenotransplantation

2. Research is done by pharmaceutical companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenotransplantation

3. Xenotransplantation is a form of organ transplantation which has been done for over sixty years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/parts/organ-transplant.htm

4. stem cell research

Research is not funded by the government.

This has been researched for over fifty years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/

Life the Book American History

Hospitals and doctors are funded by patients. Some people have employers who pay for health care. The government does not provide insurance for everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States

1. A compelling character is developed, has background information, and has a personality.

2. An interesting plot is well written and has a beginning, middle, climax, and an ending.

3. They would replace any sort of scientific terms with words that that an average person would understand.

4. A writer would probably write an interesting intro to get the readers attention.

Life the Book Ideas

1. Beyond
Passing on genetic information.



2. Adulthood
having kids



3. Childhood
vaccination

Beginning the Internship

1. The environment I would work in would probably involve working on computers in an office like building. Either that or I would like to work with animals.



2. The type of skills I would like to use are computer skills and creative abilities. I see myself having a career in film making and animation.



3. I would want to see how movies and things are made.

Twitter

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10rich.html?src=tptw

I found it interesting how politics has managed to make its way into social networks on the internet. At first this article seemed like a review of the movie "The Social Network". A movie about Facebook doesn't seem very interesting.

Politics on social networks
http://www.infoworld.com/t/architecture/social-networking-sites-next-big-thing-in-politics-307

Dying for Dixie

The main cause of Michael Westerman's death was he was flying a confederate flag out of his truck. Doing something such] as that would obviously be concidered offensive and would provoke hostility. In the article it is stated that Michael had acquired the flag from his family when he was very young. The article also makes it seem like he was raised in a racist environment. Michael Westerman was probably raised by racists and this eventually led to his death.