Blog #3: Essay 1 (early draft)

Santos Chavarria                                                                  

ENGL 101- 0768

Dr. Vasileiou

Essay 1 early draft

Oct. 1, 2012

Who are ‘The Others’

    Imagine a world with genetically engineered humans to be the best of their parent’s genes known as the super humans or the valid and the regular normal humans known as the invalids, according to George J. Annas one side will seek to control or destroy the other. I will have to say I agree with Annas because having just two sides with the world’s population rather than having over hundreds of others will lead to chaos because they are not just focused about that one other group. Having the super humans will bring all the normal humans together no matter where they might be from, what culture, race, etc. it will bring them together to seek back control from super humans once they have taken away all the good jobs. The movie Gattaca shows how the normal and super human’s way of life are different from each other and how super humans strive better than the normal humans.

     The normal humans would see the super humans as the others because they would see them as the ones who took over what was once theirs and are now the cleanup crew to clean after the super humans messes. In the movie Gattaca to get a high class job as an astronaut you would have to be genetically engineered to be fit to go to space. There was a normal human named Vincent who was born with a 99% chance of dying from a heart disorder at about the age of 30 who dreamed of going to space but no matter if he lied on his resume the employer saw he was an invalid by seeing his DNA profile.

Question: So far did i show some good details to support my thesis?

Blog #2

Dystopia

An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.

“thefreedictionary.com”   

When I hear the word dystopia the first thing that comes to mind is hell and how no one wants to be in a place like this. Today we have many people living in a dystopia and the only way they can stop it is by suicide and it’s sad especially when it was someone so close to you. Then you feel like you should of done something but how can you if they never wanted to speak about their problems and seemed happy all the time but in the inside they were living in hell.

Utopia

Often Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.

“thefreedictionary.com”

Utopia makes me think of heaven because it’s the opposite of hell, Heaven is said to be a place where everything is perfect and nothing bad can happen. Utopia can only exist in a person’s imagination of how they want to see the world in their perspective. Utopia can never exist in the world we live in today because everyone can never be satisfied at the same time. 

Blog #1

                                     Autobiography 

     Well to start of my name is Santos Chavarria but most of my friends and family call me by my middle name Andrew. I am 18 years old fresh out of S.T.A.R. high school @ Erasmus in Brooklyn and now starting my first year at LaGuardia Community College. I plan to transfer to John Jay to pursue my goal in criminal justice to become an FBI even though my mother like most parents wanted me to become a doctor or lawyer but I told her I wanted to be an FBI agent.

     I am Honduran, favorite color is green and a only child of only my mother never knew my father. I play pretty much play any sport mostly baseball and if I don’t know how to play a sport you can always teach me I am a quick learner. I like to have fun so I go with the flow with pretty much anything that comes up. I am a recently licensed Security Guard so I will be busy most of the time but I will try to find time to have some fun because that’s what I think life is all about especially being as young as I am and knowing I’m only getting older and won’t be able to change my child hood. 

     My favorite Baseball team are the Yankees because I remember when I was 6 years old I went to my first baseball game at the old Yankee stadium and it was a great experience and how I got into baseball. I fell in love with the game I started to play baseball all the time after that. I haven’t played much now but hopefully next year when LaGuardia starts to make sport teams they will have a baseball team and I sure will try out for that.

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