10/31 citizenship reading

In terms of whether or not our government should help us out with our financial problems I have conflicting opinions. I agree that they should help us out if we get into trouble since we do help fund them through our taxes so it's only fair that they recipricate the favor. On the other hand, if it is a problem that was easily avoidable than they should have the right to say up yours your on your own. An example of an easily avoidable situation is all the people who go around and buy a crap-ton of stuff that they don't need and can't afford, like having 2 houses, 5 cars and only name brand clothes. If people are going to be that stupid they should have to deal with the consequesces themselves. It's not the governments problem that those people can't manage their money.

10/29 genetic engineering

I do not think that we should bring back the dinosaurs. Just because we can doesn't mean that we should. The movie jurassic park speaks for itself when you think about all the things that could go wrong. The dinosaurs died out for a reason, if they hadn't died out then humans wouldn't have come up. On that note, if we were to bring the dinosaurs back it would just be a struggle between two super-powers, them and us. And I get the feeling from the fact that they were bigger, stronger, and had better physical weapons that that would be a struggle that we would not win.

Mon. 20 - Social Change Wheel Activity

Today we did the social change wheel and i kind-of thought it was pretty dumb. I didn't really understand what was suppose to be accomplished by the activity. There were a lot of people yelling and i don't even know just because they wern't properly prepared. Better yet they said that on the one side of the card we're suppose to write how Wartburg can help us with the leadership skills shown at each station so that they can give it to the leadership comittee so that they can evaluate it. I don't think that would be advisable because i'll bet that most if not all of the studens just wrote down a lot of b.s. just so that they could have something down. That seems to me to be the worst way to gather information for any reason. Over all i would have to say that the entire activity was a complete waste of time and money for the college and ourselves.

Fri. 17 - Science in Jurassic Park

There is a lot of science in the movie Jurassic Park. One of the main scientific things was the genetic engineering that they had to do to make the dinosaurs in the first place. Hard as it was to believe in this instance with all the throwing in of random parts to make them. Then they had to be profficient at zoology, botony, palientology in order to be able to take care of the dinosaurs once they made them. Getting down to the smaller stuff they had to have, guns, electric fences, electric locks, electricity and motorized vehicles in order to maintain the environment where they kept the dinosaurs. From the big things to the small things science and technology played an important role in the movie.

Wed. 15 - Article in library

The article about the scientific flaws was very informative and interesting. As cool as it was though it wasn't really necessary. I mean we all probably know that the movie isn't really possible...it's a movie, it's just suppose to be an interesting piece of fiction. Even though it is fiction it can be accurate and most people preffer it to be, but we all know that movies can't be accurate or else a lot of the best movies made over the years never would have gotten off the ground. Even though it wasn't believable i think we all could enjoy the movie purely for its entertaining aspect.

Mon. 13-Jurasic Park

There are many pro's and con's regarded to the movie Jurasic Park. The pro's would be that if we really were that far ahead in the science field then we could also be a lot closer to curing aids and other genetic diseases. Another good thing about it would be that we would be able to study dinosaurs in their natural habitat, and im sure that would be benificial somehow. The con's to this movie would be if , like in the movie, the dinosaurs got out everyone would die, and thats probably not very good. Also you have to keep the butterfly effect in perspective. I mean the dinosaurs did die out for a reason, and so it's probably best to just leave them that way.

Mother Theresa as a roommate

I don't think i would like to have someone like Mother Theresa for a roommate, because you would always be stuck being known as 'the bad one'. This is because you know that they arn't going to be doing anything against the rules. Even if you did something that wasnt' that bad it would seem horrible compared to anything that they might do. On the other hand it might be kinda nice since you wouldn't have to worry about them doing anything to really piss you off.....