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GS101 Chapter : Course Reading 9 GS101

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plumbeaver231
17 Oct 2012
School
WLU
Department
Global Studies
Course
GS101
Professor
Ali Zaidi

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The suicide warriors who attacked the us did not than kill thousands of civilians and demolish the wtc, they destroyed the west"s ruling myth. Western societies are governed by the belief that modernity is a single condition, everywhere the same and always benign. As societies become more modern, so they become more alike. There are many ways of being modern, some of them monstrous. Yet the belief that there is only one way and that it is always good has deep roots. From the eighteenth century onwards, it came to be believed that the growth of scientific knowledge and the emancipation of mankind marched hand in hand. The positivists believed that as societies came to be more based on science they were bound to become more alike. Through the use of technology, humanity would extend its power over the earth"s resources and overcome the worst forms of natural scarcity.

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This chapter states that most economists would probably maintain that new technologies are the single most important source of productivity improvement, hence, economic growth in general. Which of the following is correct regarding advances in basic science translating into improvements in standards of living?

a)Any scientific improvement will benefit poor countries to the same degree as rich countries, as globalization has allowed all countries to have access to essentially the same basic scientific information at a given time.

b)The impact of new scientific knowledge is usually greater in poor countries where the existing knowledge is much lower, as there is much more opportunity for improvement as compared to rich countries.

c)Poor countries do not benefit from new scientific knowledge to the same degree that rich countries do, since they lack the resources required to apply the knowledge widely in a beneficial way.

d)Economic growth automatically follows from breakthroughs in basic science regardless of an economy’s availability of other resources or its legal and political environment.

Re-write the following passages from a student essay so that they no longer contain instances of plagiarism.  Add quotation marks and parenthetical citations when necessary.  Add in-text attributions to alert the reader to upcoming quotations and be sure to differentiate between a source’s voice and the student’s.

  1. Americans have always had high expectations about their possibility for success. Though they may not have thought they would reach nirvana, 19th-century Americans believed that they would ultimately have fulfilling lives because they lived in America.
  2. The American Dream means that anyone living in this country can rise to the level of his aspiration.
  3. Throughout American history, Americans have believed that through hard work they could rise to the level of their aspirations.
  4. In the 19th century, the American Dream reflected the belief that anyone in this pragmatic, un-class-conscious society of ours could, by dint of hard work, rise to the level of his aspiration.
  5. The American Dream used to mean that people in this pragmatic society could rise to the level of their aspirations.
  6. The American Dream seems now to not be about seizing opportunity but about realizing perfection and entering the fabulous worlds Americans see in the movies.
  7. Americans are encouraged by what they see in Hollywood: the mere existence of movie stars proves the perfectibility of any man or woman.
  8. Though Americans of the 1960s may have been the first generation to live within its illusions, today’s Americans certainly believe from seeing social media posts and digitally perfected images that perfection is possible in their own lives.
  9. Though people have always wanted to be rich and famous, America is the first country to democratize dreams and allow Americans to believe in the perfectibility of any man or woman.
  10. Anyone perusing social media today can see that Americans have come to believe in their own perfectibility.

 

Please write down your response after reading the paragraphs. (At least 5 sentences long, 150-200 words.)

Technology has a positive impact on human innovation. Geraldine Hamilton’s innovation of imitating the smallest functional unit of an organ on a chip is a good start to finding the optimal alternative that is similar to the human body for drug testing. However, I would like to learn more about how the chip is able to regulate its environment. It is difficult to draw the line between technology and human innovation because technology plays a major role in our lives and we are becoming more dependent on it. I don’t want society to become very dependent on technology to the point that we can’t survive without it.

I do believe that human innovation is gradually becoming more dependent on technology because technology provides a less time consuming and wallet friendly alternative. It also allows us to complete tasks and activities more efficiently. For example, drug testing using Hamilton’s chip can save money as compared to in vivo experiments where resources are needed to keep the organism alive. New drugs are always on demand and a more convenient method is needed to test these new drugs. With the help of technology, the chip may possibly be the beginning of an efficient drug testing method.