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My English Experiences Mishell Concha English Language Program Level 6 Yachay, Ecuador
My English Experiences By Mishell Concha English Language Program Yachay Tech University Level 6-009 Teacher: Josephine Javens January 08, 2017 Ecuador
Contents 1. Portfolio letter 2. Response essay 3. Interpretation essay 4. Argumentation essay 5. Final research project essay 6. Additional materials (pictures/videos/other works)
Mishell Concha University Yachay Tech Urcuqui, Imbabura, Ecuador
December 12, 2016
Dear Portfolio Reader,
My name is Mishell Concha. Thank you very much for reading my English Language Portfolio. It is a summary of my best work in English, and it would demonstrate my ability and skills as an English language learner at Yachay Tech. My portfolio is contained in six essays and a research project that I did during level 6 English course. I am proud and happy for my work during this semester and I feel ready to continua with new academic challenges in the language. Since the beginning of this semester I feel that I have improved. When I started at level 6, I had trouble organizing my tasks, and my biggest challenge has been and I believe I will still be able to organize my time as a mother and student. As a mother I have to be present with my son and more even when he needs me but as a student the challenge is greater. When I started to write my first essay I remember that I had difficulty writing my thesis, which over time and practice I learned that is the strong and key point of an essay. My strength is myself, because only I now my feelings , when I’m happy, sad or something like that, why I’m refer it, because at the moment of write something my perspective depend of my way of feel, for example if I’m sad the thing that I write maybe be pour or vice versa . I learn more about how I have pronounced some words and the
correct form of use this. When I speak with other person I feel that they try to understand me and they put attention. About my writing and my presentation I maybe could achieve the mind of some person depending of the form of express me in front of them. A good form to call the attention is relating the experience that I have in class, during this semester. Other good idea by the presentation will be bring a cake for call the attention of the viewer.
Gratefully
Joseth Mishell Concha Cevallos
Response essay
Ethics in Manipulation of Genetic Code in Humans Mishell Concha Cevallos Yachay Tech University
Ethics in manipulation of genetic code in humans Are correct the manipulations in the genetic code? Genetic engineering is a science that made great strides and created great expectations that have caused a great public outcry. Although genetic engineering is a new technique, humanity has intervened in the genetic makeup of other organisms for many centuries. With the development of science have appeared all genetic engineering techniques known and ambitions to treat human genetic diseases and start acting on the DNA of man is when they begin to emerge ethical questions about these techniques, whether or not respect human dignity. According Andy Miah (2016) “Humanity is entering a "trans - human" era, where biology is treated as something to be manipulated at will, depending on one's lifestyle interests rather than health needs� (p. 2); So I’m agree with her and I think the majority of the rich populations might play with the genes of their future generation only for vanity and maybe to make perfect humans. When Andy Miah concerns that access to technology reduces the effort of people to achieve a goal, the example of taking drugs to forget some memories do not nix gift comes to my mind. I mention this example because people instead of deciding to have a better way of life every day, beating and facing the daily problems we face in life, decide to take a drug to forget and shorten self-help self-improvement, accepting and looking for a way to solve the present problems. But what would happen if that person is dependent on the "enhancement treatment" means? Well I would think the ethics aside when relying on a drug to overcome a problem, since ethics, to my way of thinking helps us decide between good and evil. It is so if we ignore ethics, we would not be aware of the good and bad things. Recall that the problems we face sometimes give us life lessons and perhaps help us realize our faults. Upon overcome these adversities learn for the next time something
happens like we know how we face our day to day problems. Therefore, be dependent on any drugs to avoid adversity of life I think it is unethical. As a result of the environment in which we live, where physical appearance is more important than personality, the idea of taking care of ourselves (food, sport, studies) is still a priority. But what would happen if people start to choose how they would like their future generations? Ramez Naam (2015) says that
“if certain individuals are willing to
genetically manipulate their children to make them better athletes, then it is possible that they are willing to manipulate to make them smarter, better looking, better ear for music, or anything that parents create they will give an advantage. Opponents of genetic engineering argue that by allowing this we run the risk of creating a race of super humans, changing what it means to be normal and increasing the growing gap between the haves and havenots. Proponents of genetic engineering argue that parents can now give and, in fact, give their advantages children to send them to better schools or giving them growth hormones, and that the prohibition of genetic manipulation is a rejection of freedoms individual”. But what happens to people who really need it? Such as those suffering from an abnormality in their DNA. For example, my great-grandfather died from a disease called beta-thalassemia. He was the third person in Ecuador who died because of this genetic anomaly approximately 6 years ago. Since I found out about this disease, I have learned and I have gained some knowledge about the Beta-thalassemia. According Evelyn B. Kelly (2013) “Beta thalassemia is a genetic alteration in the DNA, specifically on chromosome 11. This anomaly is an anemia that cannot be treated with iron and goes from generation to generation” (pag. 117). “A group of Chinese scientists at the Sun Yat-sen University in 2015 took the first step in genetic intervention of human embryos” (Sample, 2015). I think in this type of case by ethics should agree to procedures like this. If any of my children
present this anomaly in their genetic code, agree to perform the procedure. Is it ethical to access this procedure to give a better quality of life for future generations? In conclusion, it should take into account the problems caused DNA manipulations. The question is not whether you are for or against science and technology in general, but what kind of science and technology we agree. I am in favor of those medical applications that contribute to the healing of people who have become ill, to correct anomalies and halt the progression of the disease. Furthermore, manipulations in the human genetic code are correct, as long as it to bypass some kind of disease; but not out of vanity or perform perfect human stereotypes in society.
References Kelly, E. B. (2013). Encyclopedia of Human Genetics and Disease. Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, LLC. Miah, A. (2016). The Ethic of Enhancement. BBVA, 2. Naam, R. (19 de May de 2015). Marginal Revolution .Retrieved from Genetically Engineering Humans Isn’t So Scary (Don’t Fear the CRISPR, Part 2) Retrieved from: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/dont-fear-crisprbabies-2.html Sample, I. (23 de April de 2015). Genetics. Retrieved from Scientists genetically modify human embryos in controversial world first, Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/23/scientists-genetically-modifyhuman-embryos-in-controversial-world-first
Interpretation essay
Interpretation of The Persistence of Memory by Salvador DalĂ Eva Lozada Mishell Concha Yachay Tech University
Interpretation of “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dalí Surrealism as well known for his shocking images, shown in this painting that the mortal, consumable, substantially, ends when the time factor exists. “A surrealist painter, the Spanish Salvador Dali is one of the most enigmatic artists of the twentieth century. Known for his weird and outlandish subject matter, Dali's most famous work of art is probably The Persistence of Memory (1931), often called just "Clocks" and widely regarded as a Surrealist masterpiece” (Shabi, 2013). “Probably in this time of Dali's life he read a book about how memory works and was fascinated by the concept so much that he decided to use it as one of the subjects when this idea suddenly occurred in his imagination” (Society, 2012). The picture shows psychological aspects that people carries in their subconscious: the concern by the time factor. The author shows elements of everyday life, but the lines and figures that used in the painting, explains a non-real perspective. Probably, the clocks call your attention, because are bent out of shape, appearing to be in the act of melting away. The time is traveling without a fixed course, and above all when we are in a state of drowsiness where the clock lose their power, the ants eating away the face of the red clock symbolizes the weaken of unstable nature, the persistence of memory since prenatal life plays an important role in the decisions of the people. The clocks play a role important in the picture. Exist a lot of different meanings to those clocks, but for understand the real meaning you need understand the role of the dreams (state of drowsiness). When you are in a dream you can’t control the events that you see, and for this reason the time (clocks) lose the power, the control that exist in real life. “If Persistence of Memory depicts a dream state, the melting and distorted clocks symbolize the erratic passage of time that we experience while dreaming. In Persistence of
Memory Salvador Dali illustrates how useless, irrelevant, and arbitrary our normal concept of time is inside the dream state. The Surrealists laughed at most things middle-class society takes seriously, and that includes the importance we place on things like pocket watches that mark passage of time.� (Shabi, 2013) If you think in daily days during our lives, we will notice a pattern of busy and hurried lives, trying to control our dreams that are where surrealism enters the clocks melting in time and mixing different contexts uncontrollable and perhaps meaningless in a real world.
Ants eating away the face of the red clock symbolizes the weaken of unstable nature. This means that the effects of nature and the physical (material) things will not be affected by the course taken by our life, since if a person dies, material things will persist over time and life will continue, not it will stop. And so the material will not be affected. The persistence of memory since prenatal life plays an important role in the decisions of the people. If we put a little attention in the landscape, we will notice that the landscape is desolate; we could even say that it is an infertile place, without any life. “Some art scholars notice the resemblance that this and other Salvador Dali landscapes have to his own beachfront hometown of Port Lligat. The possibly autobiographical meaning of the painting's title Persistence of Memory could very well refer to Dali's own memory of his own childhood surroundings. An autobiographical reading could account for the abandoned and uninhabited quality of the landscape in the painting, not visited since Dali's childhood� (Shabi, 2013). The baby abandoned on the beach with the melting clock, refers to the memory of the intrauterine life, and the trauma of birth. In this interpretation the melting clock located on the fetus evokes the feeling of timelessness of prenatal life.
References Shabi, K. (29 de May de 2013). LEGOMENON. Retrieved from Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory: Meaning of the Melting Clocks: http://legomenon.com/salvador-dali-persistence-ofmemory-melting-clocks-meaning.html Society, A. (2012). Authentic Society. Retrieved from Meaning and interpretative analysis of a surrealist oil-painted artwork "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali from around 1931: http://www.authenticsociety.com/about/thepersistenceofmemory_dali
Argumentation essay
The use of technology makes people less smart Mishell Concha Cevallos Yachay Tech University
The use of technology makes people less smart The speed of founding anything in technology like computers, smart phone, internet and others make people lose interest in reading book that help in intellectual coefficient. The development of technology makes people who depend on it. According with Coopersmit (2016) “Technology has made us individually dumber and individually smarter and collectively smarter” (pag. 1.2). So, the indiscriminate use of technology doesn’t help us to develop skills; only it makes people on technology and all that we can found on it. The use indiscriminate of technology is something real that we can see day to day in the different places of the word. If you need information about the history of America for example, you log in the internet and it provides a lot of information, but how do you know that isn’t always true, and this is a reason why people become dumber because they would that anything found in internet is true. This didn’t happening if people search information in books or use the technology in a good way searching sources and not only taking the first or quality second information that internet provides. “Dr María Wimber believes the internet simply changes the way we handle and store information…….., because we know that the internet know everything” (Roberts G., 2015). The information existent in internet many times that the way of use a manipulated it is right. The speed of do anything since do a coffee until listening a book make people know how to do this, and consequently that depends an development by technology. If we say 30 year being, we can note that the people know how to do thing, we can note that the people know how to do thing that in the actually some people doesn’t know and the dependence on technology had been changes in the development of us skills. In actually what means to have new technology? For some people it means to have a better way to do an activity because are less the step that they has to do; and for other people that the facility make
person dumber. The capacity of the memory of human is less with technology, because the human be confidence in computers or smart phone whose has the information required for us. For example “a recent study suggests 90 per cent….. their partner’s number” (Roberts, 2015). This is a clear example for now or predicts that in the future the mayor of the population is going to depend of the technology and probably we going to do machines dependence of it. In conclusion the use of technology make people dumber or less smart, because depend of a cell phone, internet, computer. So, the natural skill of the people can disappear and consequently their depend more on the technology.
References Roberts G, 2015; Google effect is technology making us stupid? Retrieved from Forrester’s Digital Transformation Report.
Final research project essay
Ethic in Genetically Modify Human Embryos Mishell Concha Cevallos Yachay Tech University
“Experts estimate that one us out of every 20 babies is born with a discernible genetic deficiency, of all chronic diseases, between 20 and 25 per cent are predominantly genetic in origin” (Smith, 2012). Around the world has created a great problem as to whether it is right or wrong to manipulate the genetic code. Since the cloning of Dolly, the sheep, people have wondered if it is possible to perform this procedure in humans, and the scientific community to set up some experiments to know if is possible to clone humans. Together with the concern it’s possible to clone humans, there have been new concerns about the manipulation of the genetic code; one of them is whether it is possible to manipulate the genetic code of the embryos. "Britain’s first genetically modified human embryos could be created within months, after scientists were granted permission by the fertility regulator to carry out the procedure" (Siddique, 2016). So, Bioethical debates have taken place and human dignity has been discussed in order to justify the possible application of Genetically Modify Human Embryos. However, scientists ignore the risks that can be had when manipulating genetic code and not only that, but also the hazards of use un ethical such as for utilitarian, commercial or whimsical. There are many couples who spend their money on fertility treatments to be able to have a child, who would be willing to pay the money that is necessary to fulfill their goals and even more if there is a possibility of choosing the physical and intellectual characteristics of their children. We live in a social context in which people are more superficial, more perfectionists, and that is why they would be willing to make alterations to the genetic code of their children to "improve" their quality of life and even more if they have the possibility Access to these genetic procedures. Couples, who do not have the possibility of having children, ignore the option to adopt. If the money they invested in fertility treatments would invest in giving a child a home the world would be different; but
no, unfortunately very few couples think so, while others prefer to try and spend their money on expensive treatments. The possibility of being able to choose the physical and intellectual characteristics of our generations is tempting, and even more so when this "fiction" of little is combined in a reality. "The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) regulator approved a license application by Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, to perform so-called genome editing - also called gene editing - on human embryos. Permits Niakan to study the embryos for 14 days for research purposes only" (Siddique, 2016). This proves that in the not too distant future the chromosomes could be altered to create genetically "improved" babies. But how far will this go? The value of people would be adding to their physical appearance?, Well, scientists still do not know what would happen if this is possible, because if a chromosome is altered would alter the genetic inheritance that has been for years Which gave us our identity and our value as humans. What happens to people who really need it such as those suffering from an abnormality in their DNA? For example, my great-grandfather died from a disease called beta-thalassemia. According Evelyn B. Kelly (2013) “Beta thalassemia is a genetic alteration in the DNA, specifically on chromosome 11, it is an anemia that cannot be treated with iron and goes from generation to generation� (pag. 117). I think in this type of case by ethics should agree to procedures like this. If any of my children present this anomaly in their genetic code, agree to perform the procedure. Is it ethical to access this procedure to give a better quality of life for future generations? The Genetically Modified Human Embryos should be specifically targeted to people who need it, that is; to people with genetic diseases in order to provide them with a better quality of life. There are different studies on how to eliminate the different anomalies present in the DNA of some
people. "The Chinese group used the genome editing procedure called Crispr to modify an aberrant gene that causes beta-thalassemia, a life-threatening blood disorder, in faulty IVF embryos obtained from local fertility clinics." This is an example of the advances that scientific research has made in "eliminating" genetic diseases, but it is possible to say that most related studies do not allow the treated embryo to culminate its embryo stage and to be born, for ethical reasons and for the Present risks in case the experiment fails. However studies of this type are extremely beneficial to society. Advances in biotechnology in its application to humans, capable of altering its integrity, make it necessary to consider the limits of these applications and which are the hereditary aspects that intervene in the formation of the individual. Given the genetic inheritance that shapes development Ethical issues have been raised not only in terms of physical health, but also taking into account the cultural values that the human being needs and considers fundamental in his life. In addition, given the immense capacity to manipulate the human genome, it is urgent to articulate a bioethical code that imposes itself as guarantor of human dignity when applying the effects of the manipulation of the people's code to human welfare. Code that should advance to the great problems that will be presented in the future if this problematic is accepted by the humanity.
Referencies Siddique, H. (1 de February de 2016). theguardian. Retrieved from British researchers get green light to genetically modify human embryos: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/01/human-embryo-genetic-modifyregulator-green-light-research Sample, I. (23 de April de 2015). Genetics. Retrieved from Scientists genetically modify human embryos in controversial world first, Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/23/scientists-genetically-modifyhuman-embryos-in-controversial-world-first Smith, G. P. (2012). SSRN. Retrieved from Manipulating the Genetic code: Jurisprudential Conundrums: file:///C:/Users/Intel/Downloads/SSRN-id2133298.pdf
Additional materials
Thank you for reading my portfolio. Sincerely, Mishell Concha