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Research Project Worksheet
ReplyDeleteName: Erin Fannin
Topic: Genetic engineering in humans at the embryonic stage.
Research Questions:
1. What is genetic manipulation and engineering? What does it entail?
2. How can genetic manipulation at the embryonic stage change the outcome of the development of the embryo? Why would this be done?
3. What are the ethical issues with the issue of changing the genetic makeup of humans?
4. What are the practical issues, such as medical and financial, of this issue?
5. What are the main arguments, both for and against the use of genetic manipulation of human embryos?
Temporary Thesis:
While human embryonic genetic manipulation might have the potential to be beneficial, this issue opens to many doorways for this technology being misused or otherwise exploited to the benefit of a small minority of people.
Key words
1. Genetic manipulation
2. Genetic engineering
3. Designer babies
4. Human genetic enhancement
5. Ethics of genetic intervention
6. Playing God?
7. Genetically superior race
8. Choosing genes
9. Human embryos
10. Selective breeding
Scratch outline
I. Introduction
II. Explanation of what genetic engineering is
III. Explanation embryonic genetic engineering in humans
IV. Discuss the ethical arguments of this topic
V. Discuss the medical, financial, etc. arguments presented for this topic
Sources
Barash, Carol Isaacson. Just Genes :The Ethics of Genetic Technologies. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008. Print.
Hayes, Richard. "In the Pipeline: Genetically Modified Humans?" Multinational Monitor 21.1 (2000): 29. Web.
Mertens, Thomas Robert. Human Genetics :Readings on the Implications of Genetic Engineering. New York: Wiley, 1975. Print.
Peters, Ted. Playing God? :Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003. Print.
Peterson, James C., and Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. Genetic Turning Points :The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2001. Critical Issues in Bioethics. Print.
Peterson-Iyer, Karen. Designer Children: Reconciling Genetic Technology, Feminism, and Christian Faith. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2004. Print.
Powell, Russell, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu. "Evolution, Genetic Engineering, and Human Enhancement." Philosophy & Technology 25.4 (2012): 439-58. Web.
Steinbock, Bonnie. "Designer Babies: Choosing our Children's Genes." The Lancet 372.9646 (2008): 1294-5. Web.
Tudge, Colin, and Colin Tudge. The Impact of the Gene, from Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies. 1 American ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000. Print .
-Sources from Books, magazines and journals.
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ReplyDeleteJon Griggs
Doping in Professional Baseball
Research Questions
1. Should doping be allowed in baseball?
2. Should players that tested positive be allowed into the hall of fame?
3. Are baseball’s current punishments for doping too soft or too harsh?
4. Does doping in baseball lead a bad example for the nation’s youth?
5. Does doping have a negative impact on baseball?
Temporary Thesis: Doping in baseball has become a major black eye for the sport known as America’s past time. Players using performance-enhancing drugs have a negative impact on the sport and continue to hinder the reputation of the game.
Key Words:
1. unintended advertising of a dangerous anabolic steroid (Mark McGuire and andro)
2. promotes a new teenage drug subculture
3. Steve Bechler, pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, had died as a result of multiple organ failure caused by heatstroke, and that ephedrine, a stimulant designed to minimize fatigue, control weight, and enhance athletic performance, contributed to the heatstroke.
4. For steroids, the penalties are a 50-game suspension for the first positive test, 100-game suspension for the second, and a lifetime ban, with reinstatement rights retained by MLB, for the third.
5. MLB must also strike any records held by players who have been found to have used performance-enhancing drugs to send a message that records may not be held by “cheaters.”
6. MLB must take a tough stance and severely punish any player who violates the substance abuse policy for the policy to be considered credible by Congress, the media, and the public.
7. an appropriate resolution that saves lives, steers youngsters in the right direction, and allows the fans to once again believe in their sport is on the horizon
8. A change in the nature and frequency of injuries also pointed to increased steroid use. The number of players on the Disabled List (DL) increased 31%, from 266 in 1989 to 349 in 1998, and the average stay on the DL increased 13% over the same period
9. This year, not a single contemporary player was voted into the Hall of Fame because so many eligible players were suspected of steroid use. Never mind that Cooperstown has its share of racists, wife beaters and even a drug dealer.
10. More to the point, baseball seems simply to have fallen out of the national conversation (unless the conversation happens to be about steroids, that is).
Scratch Outline:
Intro - hook
Body 1: Baseball losing fans due to doping
Body 2: Baseball’s negative perception
Body 3: Baseball doping creating negative role models – health and youth
Body 4: Steroid era sluggers and the hall of fame
Body 5: Need for harsher punishments
Conclusion
Sources:
1. Mark and Me – book written by Mark McGuire’s brother, Jay
2. Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping – book written by John M. Hoberman
3. Performance Enhancing Substances. Effects, Regulations, and the pervasive efforts to control doping in Major League Baseball – Jarred R. Tynes
4. Steroids and Major League Baseball – Mitchell Grossman, Timothy Kimsey, Joshua Moreen, Matthew Owings – Berkeley Faculty and Research
5. Is the game over? – NY Times. Jonathan Mahler
Name: Xuzhou He
ReplyDeleteTopic of your research paper: biological and chemical weapons
Research questions:
1. Why the biological and chemical weapons are existed in the world?
2. What the principles of the chemical and biological weapons?
3. What are the damages of the biological and chemical weapons for people?
4. What are the damages of the biological and chemical weapons for environment?
5. What is the application of the biological and chemical weapons in contemporary world?
5. How many resources it needs to develop the biological and chemical weapons?
Temporary thesis:
The biological and chemical should be banned in the world.
Key words:
1. Biological and Chemical weapons
2. Principle of the weapons
3. The damage of people
4. Humanity
5. Resource
6. Sustainable development
7. Environment
8. The function of biological and chemical weapons
9. Demand
10. policy
Scratch outline:
1. introduction
2. explain the birth of biological and chemical weapons
3. explain the principles of biological
4. discuss the damage and treaty for people and nature
5. discuss the necessity of the biological and chemical weapons
6. conclusion
Sources:
1.Publication Details For "Public Health Response to Biological & Chemical Weapons: WHO Guidance" Publisher Information: World Health Organization
2. Author Spiers, Edward M. Title A history of chemical and biological weapons / Edward M. Spiers
3. Chemical and Biological Weapons. Authors: Harris, Elisa D .
4.Pentagon: threat of chemical, biological weapons emerging BYLINE: By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER, AP Military Writer
5. Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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ReplyDeleteName: Mallory Torr
Topic of Research Paper: Chernobyl Disaster
Research Questions
1. effects did the radioactive material have on the environment?
2. What effects did the radioactive material have on people?
3. What effect did the radioactive material have on the animals?
4. What clean up process did that Soviet Union use?
5. How can things like these be prevented?
Thesis: The long terms effects of the radioactive material on the surrounding environment, people and animals.
Keywords
1. Chernobyl
2. Soviet Union
3. Radioactive
4.Mutations
5.Ukraine
6. Nuclear event
7.Evacuation
8. Disaster
9. Large Fire
10. Thyroid Cancer
Scratch Outline
Paragraph 1:Opening
State Thesis
Work on creating hook
Paragraph 2: Body
radioactive effects on environment
Paragraph 3:Body
radioactive effect on humans
Paragraph 4:Body
radioactive effects on animals
Paragraph 5:Closing
restate thesis
Sources: (informal)
1.) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/chernobyl-bg.html
2.) http://www.greenfacts.org/en/chernobyl/
3.)http://chernobyl.undp.org/english/