On this page, articles about major news and topics will be presented. Feel free to skim through some and read anything you find interesting.
Article 1: Cloning
Could you imagine living with another copy of yourself? Waking up every morning just to see yourself looking back at you? That would be unnaturally odd wouldn’t it? But this is a possibility in the near future. Scientists across the globe are constantly discovering new and more efficient ways of cloning. But is it worth the risks?
Many people would be familiar with Dolly the sheep. She was born in 1996 in Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell and was the first mammal artificially cloned in history. However, she was the 267th attempt at cloning a sheep and those other 266 cloned sheep were either killed or died horrible deaths after extremely short lives. As well as this, Dolly died when she was only 6. Most sheep of her kind live to about 12. This is why people are beginning to doubt reproductive cloning and its few uses.
Their are three different types of cloning. Gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. Gene cloning (DNA cloning) is where a single cell or similar small organism is cloned. Reproductive cloning is the practice of copying an entire organism (fauna/flora), and therapeutic cloning is copying a piece of tissue or another visible part of the body for medical purposes.
Gene/DNA cloning is the simplest to conduct out of the three as it only requires splitting the cell and waiting for it to grow back to normal size. In reproductive cloning you have to get an egg and somatic cell and put the nucleus of the somatic cell into where the nucleus of the egg used to be (the egg nucleus has to be extracted). Then you have to replicate the fertilisation of the egg and then wait for it to grow. After this, it is re-introduced into the ovary of the surrogate (adoptive) mother.
Many people think that there isn’t such thing as a natural clone but this is incorrect. Identical twins are a perfect example of such. Twins occur when the embryo splits. As the original embryo was one, the two new embryos are identical in nearly every way.
Some people in the suburbs and towns of the world believe that cloning is not a good initiative and others think that it is a good thing. Cloning is a popular topic on debating websites and in the general community at the moment, so the writer went to Willetton Senior High School to view some of the students’ opinions on this matter.
Sergio Arellano stated that; “if we had a shortage of animals or food, it is OK but it isn’t ethical any other way.” When asked what he thinks cloning will be like in the future, he said; “I think that cloning is at some point going to be happening a lot and it is against human rights to clone people but eventually we will have to clone animals and other food sources.
But Aiden O-Brien disagreed. He said; “No (cloning isn’t ethical), because it is changing and duplicating peoples genes and what makes them unique. Cloning will become lethal and dangerous if it becomes a constant, everyday thing because it is against natures will.
After interviewing 70 people, the writer found that; 42% of people thought cloning was a good idea and 58% thought it wasn’t a good idea. It seems Aiden’s view is becoming the growing opinion of communities across the globe and people are beginning to doubt the usefulness of human clones. But some civilians are still convinced that cloning is a good initiative.In the end, the decision is up to you. But one can only wonder… “Is that me over there?”
Could you imagine living with another copy of yourself? Waking up every morning just to see yourself looking back at you? That would be unnaturally odd wouldn’t it? But this is a possibility in the near future. Scientists across the globe are constantly discovering new and more efficient ways of cloning. But is it worth the risks?
Many people would be familiar with Dolly the sheep. She was born in 1996 in Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell and was the first mammal artificially cloned in history. However, she was the 267th attempt at cloning a sheep and those other 266 cloned sheep were either killed or died horrible deaths after extremely short lives. As well as this, Dolly died when she was only 6. Most sheep of her kind live to about 12. This is why people are beginning to doubt reproductive cloning and its few uses.
Their are three different types of cloning. Gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. Gene cloning (DNA cloning) is where a single cell or similar small organism is cloned. Reproductive cloning is the practice of copying an entire organism (fauna/flora), and therapeutic cloning is copying a piece of tissue or another visible part of the body for medical purposes.
Gene/DNA cloning is the simplest to conduct out of the three as it only requires splitting the cell and waiting for it to grow back to normal size. In reproductive cloning you have to get an egg and somatic cell and put the nucleus of the somatic cell into where the nucleus of the egg used to be (the egg nucleus has to be extracted). Then you have to replicate the fertilisation of the egg and then wait for it to grow. After this, it is re-introduced into the ovary of the surrogate (adoptive) mother.
Many people think that there isn’t such thing as a natural clone but this is incorrect. Identical twins are a perfect example of such. Twins occur when the embryo splits. As the original embryo was one, the two new embryos are identical in nearly every way.
Some people in the suburbs and towns of the world believe that cloning is not a good initiative and others think that it is a good thing. Cloning is a popular topic on debating websites and in the general community at the moment, so the writer went to Willetton Senior High School to view some of the students’ opinions on this matter.
Sergio Arellano stated that; “if we had a shortage of animals or food, it is OK but it isn’t ethical any other way.” When asked what he thinks cloning will be like in the future, he said; “I think that cloning is at some point going to be happening a lot and it is against human rights to clone people but eventually we will have to clone animals and other food sources.
But Aiden O-Brien disagreed. He said; “No (cloning isn’t ethical), because it is changing and duplicating peoples genes and what makes them unique. Cloning will become lethal and dangerous if it becomes a constant, everyday thing because it is against natures will.
After interviewing 70 people, the writer found that; 42% of people thought cloning was a good idea and 58% thought it wasn’t a good idea. It seems Aiden’s view is becoming the growing opinion of communities across the globe and people are beginning to doubt the usefulness of human clones. But some civilians are still convinced that cloning is a good initiative.In the end, the decision is up to you. But one can only wonder… “Is that me over there?”
Article 2:
Have you heard of Raddulan Sahiron? How about Adam Yahiye Gadahn? What about Joanne Deborah Chesimard? No? Well you probably would if we had terrorism education programs. Raddulan is convicted for kidnapping a United States civilian and maintaining contact with the terrorist group Al Harakat al Islamiyyah. Adam Yahiye is convicted for aiding the terrorist group Al Qaeda. And Joanne is convicted of escaping prison while on a life sentence for murder. Sounds pretty dangerous doesn’t it? So why don’t we know about it? You could blame the government for not letting us know about these people. If we did, we could be better protected against sudden terrorism acts and relax knowing we are safe if we are prepared.
Why is terrorism bad? According to the Online Oxford Dictionary, terrorism is: The unofficial or un-authorised use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. So basically, it is someone who is attacking someone else or another country in pursuit of power and influence or to topple a leader. So again, if we knew more about terrorism, we would be safer.
Terrorism is a horrible act because of three main reasons. One, terrorists don’t usually negotiate so they aren’t easily talked to or manipulated. Two, terrorism has no legal binding(s) so it doesn’t have any rules, regulations or conducts and three, it can ruthlessly and emotionlessly target innocent civilians therefore endangering people’s lives that aren’t even involved in the fighting. If we were educated, these people wouldn’t have to be injured.
Terrorism is even more dangerous when people aren’t let in on information that could save their lives. The government doesn’t make lessons on terrorism in schools and the community. This is evident because a lot of people wouldn’t know a terrorist if they standing next to one and we don’t even know a lot of terrorist group’s names.
Another issue is that the internet, whom would usually provide the world’s answers, is being traced by the government on certain websites and people can be prosecuted because of them. If the websites are so bad, why not just eradicate the website? People like myself have tried to access the government files for information and found that they provide nothing but but more questions. Is this really necessary?
The best website for terrorist information is the FBI’s website. This method of trace-and-capture played by the Australian Government is almost entirely useless. Surely a hardcore wanna-be terrorist can find a way around the websites through other people and get details to get into terrorist groups. If we were better educated, we wouldn’t have any purpose to join these dangerous groups. However, the world is beginning to realise that the community isn’t being let in on enough info and they are beginning to act on it. New websites are being released online for the public’s benefit and the communities are beginning to complain to people in power that we aren’t receiving enough education on terrorists and terrorism.
But even still, the governments are not acting. A simple solution would be to not trace website visitors and to introduce terrorist education programs into schools and communities across the world but this isn’t happening because they aren’t listening to the people in the community. If they don’t listen, they become a dictator, not a democratic leader.
The writer went out and interviewed several people and discovered that 75% of people interviewed thought that terrorists were mindless and violent people. This simple figure shows that people think that terrorist are evil but don’t know their intentions and the people themselves as different terrorists are different in their aspirations and goals for the future.
Carmel Hawking said that, “They do this (commit acts of terrorism) because they like violence and don’t wish to live in a peaceful society.” Faced with the question of what to do about terrorism, Aiden O’Brien explained that, “We should stop intruding everyone else’s privacy and terrorism will probably cease. Resist the terrorists and they might calm down.”
So what should we do about terrorism? According to expert opinion and public statistics, an appropriate method of subduing terrorism would be to identify terrorists and monitor them closely and if they commit any crimes, punish them accordingly and appropriately. Also, assure that countries don’t provoke terrorism by intruding into other countries’ business and privacy.
In short, we should be more educated about terrorism and we should be doing more about terrorism itself. As Felix Frankfurter said, “It was a wise man who said that there is no greater equality then the equal treatment of unequals.” So we should receive the same amount of information and privilege as the man (or woman) above. Our education about terrorism should be paramount in the books of officials because it regards civilian’s safety.
Bibliography
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/terrorism
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-war-conflict/statistics-on-terrorism/
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications
http://www.fbi.gov
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=terrorism+stats&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=x-DqU-6JEZKgogSp4IGADA&ved=0CBsQsAQ&biw=1242&bih=588
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Securityandyourcommunity/Pages/NationalTerrorismPublicAlertSystem.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism
http://www.afp.gov.au/policing/fighting-terrorism.aspx
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_equality.html
http://parade.condenast.com/311401/viannguyen/20-inspiring-quotes-about-equality-for-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-civil-rights-act/
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/equality'
Have you heard of Raddulan Sahiron? How about Adam Yahiye Gadahn? What about Joanne Deborah Chesimard? No? Well you probably would if we had terrorism education programs. Raddulan is convicted for kidnapping a United States civilian and maintaining contact with the terrorist group Al Harakat al Islamiyyah. Adam Yahiye is convicted for aiding the terrorist group Al Qaeda. And Joanne is convicted of escaping prison while on a life sentence for murder. Sounds pretty dangerous doesn’t it? So why don’t we know about it? You could blame the government for not letting us know about these people. If we did, we could be better protected against sudden terrorism acts and relax knowing we are safe if we are prepared.
Why is terrorism bad? According to the Online Oxford Dictionary, terrorism is: The unofficial or un-authorised use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. So basically, it is someone who is attacking someone else or another country in pursuit of power and influence or to topple a leader. So again, if we knew more about terrorism, we would be safer.
Terrorism is a horrible act because of three main reasons. One, terrorists don’t usually negotiate so they aren’t easily talked to or manipulated. Two, terrorism has no legal binding(s) so it doesn’t have any rules, regulations or conducts and three, it can ruthlessly and emotionlessly target innocent civilians therefore endangering people’s lives that aren’t even involved in the fighting. If we were educated, these people wouldn’t have to be injured.
Terrorism is even more dangerous when people aren’t let in on information that could save their lives. The government doesn’t make lessons on terrorism in schools and the community. This is evident because a lot of people wouldn’t know a terrorist if they standing next to one and we don’t even know a lot of terrorist group’s names.
Another issue is that the internet, whom would usually provide the world’s answers, is being traced by the government on certain websites and people can be prosecuted because of them. If the websites are so bad, why not just eradicate the website? People like myself have tried to access the government files for information and found that they provide nothing but but more questions. Is this really necessary?
The best website for terrorist information is the FBI’s website. This method of trace-and-capture played by the Australian Government is almost entirely useless. Surely a hardcore wanna-be terrorist can find a way around the websites through other people and get details to get into terrorist groups. If we were better educated, we wouldn’t have any purpose to join these dangerous groups. However, the world is beginning to realise that the community isn’t being let in on enough info and they are beginning to act on it. New websites are being released online for the public’s benefit and the communities are beginning to complain to people in power that we aren’t receiving enough education on terrorists and terrorism.
But even still, the governments are not acting. A simple solution would be to not trace website visitors and to introduce terrorist education programs into schools and communities across the world but this isn’t happening because they aren’t listening to the people in the community. If they don’t listen, they become a dictator, not a democratic leader.
The writer went out and interviewed several people and discovered that 75% of people interviewed thought that terrorists were mindless and violent people. This simple figure shows that people think that terrorist are evil but don’t know their intentions and the people themselves as different terrorists are different in their aspirations and goals for the future.
Carmel Hawking said that, “They do this (commit acts of terrorism) because they like violence and don’t wish to live in a peaceful society.” Faced with the question of what to do about terrorism, Aiden O’Brien explained that, “We should stop intruding everyone else’s privacy and terrorism will probably cease. Resist the terrorists and they might calm down.”
So what should we do about terrorism? According to expert opinion and public statistics, an appropriate method of subduing terrorism would be to identify terrorists and monitor them closely and if they commit any crimes, punish them accordingly and appropriately. Also, assure that countries don’t provoke terrorism by intruding into other countries’ business and privacy.
In short, we should be more educated about terrorism and we should be doing more about terrorism itself. As Felix Frankfurter said, “It was a wise man who said that there is no greater equality then the equal treatment of unequals.” So we should receive the same amount of information and privilege as the man (or woman) above. Our education about terrorism should be paramount in the books of officials because it regards civilian’s safety.
Bibliography
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/terrorism
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-war-conflict/statistics-on-terrorism/
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications
http://www.fbi.gov
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-terrorism-statistics-every-american-needs-to-hear/5382818
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=terrorism+stats&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=x-DqU-6JEZKgogSp4IGADA&ved=0CBsQsAQ&biw=1242&bih=588
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Securityandyourcommunity/Pages/NationalTerrorismPublicAlertSystem.aspx
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism
http://www.afp.gov.au/policing/fighting-terrorism.aspx
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_equality.html
http://parade.condenast.com/311401/viannguyen/20-inspiring-quotes-about-equality-for-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-civil-rights-act/
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/equality'