If it wasn't for Rosalind Franklin, the concept of DNA is something that I honestly think would have not been discovered. She seemed to be a woman that was really dedicated to her work. She was someone that really cared about her research and let nothing get in her way of her studies. I hate to admit that during the time, this brilliant mind was discovering something that got put on the map, society was more of a dominant man thing. Hearing a woman playing a role as a leader in anything was viewed as absurd to the make crowd.
She was taken away from something she managed to spend hours on and got no credit for it. Instead others who acted as if they were in a team with her, used her data for their own benefit and became popular taking all the credit Franklin was suppose to have. To me that is just sick, not only being a female myself but morally that's just wrong for anyone to do to others and completely unethical. It is a shame that all that hard work put into something that became to be so amazing, was congratulated to the man that robbed her idea and she had to sit back and take the mental abuse.
I'm sure there are other scientist currently who spend many hours in the lab and are not recognized for all the work they put into the matter however, I hope they do have the option to speak up and hold on to all the accomplishes they have made and have to not go through what Rosalind Franklin went through. She is someone special who has made an amazing contribution within the science field and without her findings, I'm sure DNA would probably not be the way it is today.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2 Sources Used for Paper
1.http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/25/apple-product-refreshes-boost-foxconn-to-record-32b-profit
The above link represents one of the sources that I will be using for my research paper. This article gives a brief incite on a major increase on Apple products in year 2012. As mentioned in this article, due to much criticism on Chinese working wages and working conditions, Foxconn (the company that manufactures these products) are being pressured to improve any necessary changes that have to be made so that Chinese workers can have a healthier setting and satisfying position that pays decent money.
The above link represents one of the sources that I will be using for my research paper. This article gives a brief incite on a major increase on Apple products in year 2012. As mentioned in this article, due to much criticism on Chinese working wages and working conditions, Foxconn (the company that manufactures these products) are being pressured to improve any necessary changes that have to be made so that Chinese workers can have a healthier setting and satisfying position that pays decent money.
. 2.http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/25/apple-child-labour-supply
This is another source that I plan on using for my paper. It depicts an investigation that took place based on claims brought about child labor. Despite these unknown allegations, Foxconn had to be investigated to see exactly what has been going on in their factories. For such top notch products, having underage children working is something that seemed to be unbelievable to many and the fact Apple had no clue, was odd.
This is another source that I plan on using for my paper. It depicts an investigation that took place based on claims brought about child labor. Despite these unknown allegations, Foxconn had to be investigated to see exactly what has been going on in their factories. For such top notch products, having underage children working is something that seemed to be unbelievable to many and the fact Apple had no clue, was odd.
Midterm Practice
Suppose we all ran on electricity, how would we really be? Better yet would we still be considered human beings or machines that can actually think and have a mind of its own? How would we all function? Those are questions that come to mind when I hear that robots will once conquer mankind. Indeed robots seem to be extremely intelligent yet what most don't seem to understand, is that if it wasn't us, they would have never been created in the first place so how can they be smarter than us? In "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick believes robots will one day surpass humans in intelligence, however I disagree with him. I feel that in order for one to have intelligence, there should be a sense of emotion.
In Dick's graphic novel, he uses a character named Rachael who by the way is an "Android" to show how robots can be "human-like." Throughout the scene, a Bounty Hunter, Rick tries to test Rachael to see if she is really a human or not. He asks her many questions with weird scenario's that would sound crazy to the everyday norm. After answering a question based on something that would be considered unethical, Rick realizes that Rachael is an android. Rachael answers the question with no emotion which gives it away that she isn't human and everything from there on goes in disarray. Yet not human-like, Rachael seems to show that she is confused about what she is and doesn't want to be turned off.
Throughout the rest of the story, by seeing how she reacts, it does make me question in a way if robotic intelligence can surpass how humans thinking but then again, how can that be possible if, we are the creators? They would never have something that we have and that is a natural emotion. If there were even able to have some type of feeling embedded inside them, that means they're programmed therefore, there wouldn't be any natural control center from a "brain" that would be triggered for them to think on their own.
In Dick's graphic novel, he uses a character named Rachael who by the way is an "Android" to show how robots can be "human-like." Throughout the scene, a Bounty Hunter, Rick tries to test Rachael to see if she is really a human or not. He asks her many questions with weird scenario's that would sound crazy to the everyday norm. After answering a question based on something that would be considered unethical, Rick realizes that Rachael is an android. Rachael answers the question with no emotion which gives it away that she isn't human and everything from there on goes in disarray. Yet not human-like, Rachael seems to show that she is confused about what she is and doesn't want to be turned off.
Throughout the rest of the story, by seeing how she reacts, it does make me question in a way if robotic intelligence can surpass how humans thinking but then again, how can that be possible if, we are the creators? They would never have something that we have and that is a natural emotion. If there were even able to have some type of feeling embedded inside them, that means they're programmed therefore, there wouldn't be any natural control center from a "brain" that would be triggered for them to think on their own.
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