num=int(raw_input("Enter a number greater than 2: "))
my_list=[]
prime=1
print 2,
i = 3
gettingmultiples=3
while i <= num:
if not i in my_list:
print i,
prime=prime+1
while (gettingmultiples<=(num / i)):
my_list.append(i*gettingmultiples)
gettingmultiples=gettingmultiples+1
i=i+2
print
print "Primes Numbers: ", prime
Friday, April 13, 2007
CSE 110 - LAB 5
ans=["B","D","A","A","C","A","B","A","C","D","B","C","D","A","5","C","C","B","D","A"]
user=[" "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "]
ques=0
correct=0
wrong=0
#print ans[4]
while ques<16:
user[ques] = raw_input("What is the answer for question # ") ## CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DISPLAY NUMBER
if user[ques]==ans[ques]:
correct=correct+1
else:
wrong=wrong+1
ques=ques+1
print
if correct > 15:
print "Yes you have passed the test. YAY!"
else:
print "Sorry, you have failed the test! HAR HAR YOU LOOSE!"
print
print "Number Correct " , correct
print "Number Wrong ", wrong
user=[" "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "," "]
ques=0
correct=0
wrong=0
#print ans[4]
while ques<16:
user[ques] = raw_input("What is the answer for question # ") ## CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DISPLAY NUMBER
if user[ques]==ans[ques]:
correct=correct+1
else:
wrong=wrong+1
ques=ques+1
if correct > 15:
print "Yes you have passed the test. YAY!"
else:
print "Sorry, you have failed the test! HAR HAR YOU LOOSE!"
print "Number Correct " , correct
print "Number Wrong ", wrong
CSE 110 - LAB 4
start=int(raw_input("Please enter a starting value: "))
value=start
while value>1:
print value
if (value%2)==0:
value=value/2
else:
value=3*value+1
print value
value=start
while value>1:
print value
if (value%2)==0:
value=value/2
else:
value=3*value+1
print value
CSE 110 - LAB 3
times = int(raw_input("How many times do you want to transcribe DNA into RNA? "))
count=0
while count < times:
count=count+1
dna = raw_input("Enter the original DNA sequence: ")
rna=""
for base in dna:
if base is "A":
rna = rna + "U" # Adenosine is transcribed to uracil
elif base is "G":
rna = rna + "C"
elif base is "T":
rna = rna + "A"
elif base is "C":
rna = rna + "G"
print rna
count=0
while count < times:
count=count+1
dna = raw_input("Enter the original DNA sequence: ")
rna=""
for base in dna:
if base is "A":
rna = rna + "U" # Adenosine is transcribed to uracil
elif base is "G":
rna = rna + "C"
elif base is "T":
rna = rna + "A"
elif base is "C":
rna = rna + "G"
print rna
CSE 110 - LAB 2
on = int (raw_input("How many times do you want to calculate this? "))
count = 0
while count
total_apples = int (raw_input("How many apples are there in all? "))
ask_user = int (raw_input("How many apples should Alan have more than Donald"))
apple_split = total_apples-ask_user
divide_apples = apple_split/2
final_apples = divide_apples+ask_user
print "Alan has" ,final_apples, "apples and Donald has ", divide_apples , "apples."
AIM 104 - Death Comes For The Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop Reading Log
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a narrative by Willa Cather that focuses on the details of their travels of Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant. I personally think there is too much description of scenery in the text, it forced me to read everything slowly and sometimes even two or three times to understand what is being described. This book compares with another novel that we have read, Huckleberry Finn in which they travel long ways to accomplish something. Another thing that bothers me in academic readings is the mention of religion. Being Asian American, I was not raised up with the specific background and it’s sometimes hard to comprehend certain words, proverbs, and biblical meanings. This text had everything to do with the Catholic religion, a branch of Christianity that I’m slowly learning about now.
Similar to Huckleberry Finn, both Latour and Vaillant encounters a lot of obstacles, they take a total of a year to get from Ohio to New Mexico, a trip which in modern times would only take a couple of hours. What is worst of all is that upon arrival, Latour has to acquire authority which sets him on another adventure away from his goal of going to
The whole reason for their travels to the new world is because of religion and their faiths. They wanted to travel to
I personally dislike this book because of the detailed description of the landscape as they travel and the many characters that are presented to us. Most of them come from a religious background and it’s hard to differentiate and keep track of. I had a hard time understanding why these religious men went though all the trouble and how their faith was so strong to move them to do these things. The whole theme revolving around religion bores me, but as long as that medium helps civilize people then it’s a good thing that religion exists but I never found any interest in it. I’m more of a science type guy, life is based on facts.
AIM 104 - The Killer Inside Me Reaction Log
The Killer Inside Me :: Reaction Log
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson is a very well planned out story about a man who murders and hurts many but gets away with all of it. The killer himself, Lou Ford is a cop from Texas and due to an earlier incident involving his brother, he develops this killer instinct however he was able to control it until now. Throughout his killings, he was never able to get caught because of his reputation as a good cop and a good investigator, no one ever suspects of him as the killer until the end. That makes a good alibi when killing people especially when the killer is the one of the end of the table asking the questions. The story is told through a first person narrative to give readers a better insight about Lou Ford’s real thoughts and feelings.
Lou Ford, as good of a guy he seems, also has some fetishes; he is a sadist, one who likes to inflict pain on others. While doing his job and trying to take care of prostitutes in town, he meets Joyce, a prostitute. It turns out coincidentally that Joyce is the opposite of Lou, which she likes to receive pain, a masochist. During the belt beating incident, Lou beats Joyce with a belt while he tied her up, and she liked it. I don’t know what is wrong with them but apparently it works out between the both of them. Joyce finds love and wants to be with Lou, but Lou doesn’t feel the same way about her.
The killer inside Lou let loose when he tries to get revenge for his brother’s death; he goes after the wealthy
Lou’s addiction causes him to commit more murders before his own demise. He kills Amy, his true lover and childhood friend and John a homeless man, both who could provide the evidence to uncover his actions. Therefore, in order to protect himself, he had to get rid of them. Being a sadist, he never kills his victims with a gun or anything quick that will resolve in a quick death, he wanted to prolong the pain before someone could die; he takes pride and pleasure in doing those things. At the end, evidence finally catches up to him and he has no where to run. To end the consequences of his actions, he commits suicide and takes his house with him in a deadly fire.
This story is “the” suspense thriller, seeing him murder through his own eyes makes the slow torturing killings more realistic. At the end, he gets what he deserves.
Monday, February 12, 2007
AIM 104 - Huck Finn Reaction Log
Huckleberry Finn Reaction Log
After spending the weekend reading the book, I was able to conclude it with many questions and thoughts. Many of these questions and thoughts can be easily answered by the difference in time between when the book was written and now. One thing I noticed was the amount of education the main characters have, Huck who is a young boy and Jim who was a slave both did not have an adequate education. This can be proven by their language or the way they speak which is quoted in the text. On page 18, Jim says “Say-who is you? Whar is you”, he does not speak properly. I did take into consideration that again, the time eras were different but still, the word choices and grammar were way off. They way Huck and Jim conversed was improper. Huck with no proper schooling isn’t without help, the Widow and Aunt Sally teaches him how to read, manners, and religion but he just wouldn’t take it.
The reason why this book was banned from certain libraries is because of the use of the word “nigger”, a word associated with racism. At our modern times, it is considered racist, but in the pre-civil war era, it was a word used very commonly to simply say a black person. That word was used both in racist terms and in not racist terms back then. When Huck refers to Jim as “nigger”, I don’t believe he was being racist simply because of the fact that it was only proper in those times to use that word. In their adventures to the
In the previous paragraph, I said that Huck and Jim gets along in general, this well relationship alternates as they travel, when they are on foot, Jim gets treated more like a slave, when Jim’s on the raft with Huck, they are more bonded. This is for several reasons. One, because Huck doesn’t want the public to know their identity, Huck acting more like a slave owner makes it less obvious that they are running away. Two, while they are on water, they have a chance to really talk and work together within their own private vicinity, they become more unified. They both have a common goal of leaving their homes and possibly making some money but with different reasons; Huck’s was to leave his drunk, son beating father, and Jim just wants to be free.
Overall, Huck seems to be a good kid, however it seemed so normal for him and other good people to own slaves, no one ever questioned whether it was wrong or right; however, we see it today as morally wrong of course. Slavery was so apart of society that people so often looked past it. No one saw it as wrong. That was difficult to believe even considering their time period.
Throughout his adventures, I questioned about why there was so much trickery in the story. I know that this book was a follow up book to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I think Huck got some of his characteristics from his friend, Tom. Huck always goes for the challenge and takes the harder way out of a situation regardless of obstacles.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
SOC 247 - Gender & Media
Gender and the Media
Men and women in society have been given a hidden guideline to follow right in our everyday lives. From the moment we wake up to the time we sleep, we are being slowly but surely shaped by the media. The media consists of advertisements, television, radio, newspapers and magazines. In our everyday lives, we are exposed to millions of advertising. A significant amount of those are slowly brain washing us towards how we should live as males and females in this society. The media is doing this intentionally by displaying females as weaker figures on ads and making males as the more dominant.
In Killing Us Softly by Jean Kilbourne, we saw how women we being used as objects rather than the subjects. Females were being used to sell products with their sex appeal and to a point, it works but at what cost? If advertisers keep using women’s sex appeal to sell, our minds will be set to seeing women as nothing more than just their appearance. The idea of “a woman is worth as much as their appearances” will ultimately become inequality between the sexes. However, if we want equality between men and women, we cannot shape our society to have that mindset. There is defiantly more to a woman than her appearance. In the eye opening documentary, we saw women dressed partially nude, selling cigarettes, cars and other products directed at a male audience. There is nothing wrong with that, but there is something wrong with the way women are being used as objects to sell these products. It says a great deal about the respect we have for women even in today’s times.
There is a commercial airing right now for DirectTV, it features Jessica Simpson dressed in revealing clothes as her character in The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). She says that the quality of DirectTV is superb, saying that the TV displays a resolution of 10,000dpi (a technological term). Then she goes on to say in her southern Texan accent that she doesn’t know what that means but she wants it. This commercial deliberately portrays her as being stupid but the way DirectTV hopes to sell its products is by using Jessica’s sex appeal. If she wants it and its good enough for her, it should be good enough for me, that is the notion they are trying to give.
Further research in female portrayal in media shows evidence that young girls are “seduced by advertisers” to loose their essence of childhood. According to Jean Kilbourne, girls are told to wear revealing clothes such as bras and thongs in advertisements. What is happening is that these girls are being exploited and being used, again, as objects. Unfortunately does sex sell and it’s proven by statistics. Advertisers only select females who are usually tall and skinny. In our society, tall and skinny is considered a beautiful model but the fact is that many young girls look up to these models, and want to be just like them. We have girls who now starve themselves in order to look like the beautiful models they see on television. Most of the time they over do it and become obsessively anorexic.
There are several controversies that say that most of us overanalyze ads and take them for things they do not mean. Those who argue against the fact that how women are portrayed in ads affect society might believe in some of these following things. Some will argue that ads are harmless and no one really pays attention to them. This is absolutely false because popular culture ads affect people’s decisions more than any other source. So if women are seen has inferior, given time, society will treat women as inferior. In fact, the majority of domestic violence against women derived from the male seeing women as inferior to them. A quick comparison in a magazine shows clearly how each sex is portrayed differently in ads selling the same things. In December’s issue of Maxiam magazine, a woman is advertising a Verizon Wireless mobile phone but when the phone half way tucked on her swimming suite. However, the same mobile phone with a male model shows the male using it in a business environment.
Another growing problem with the media is black entertainment music videos. Many say that black young adults are being exploited without them even realizing it. When you turn on the BET (Black Entertainment Today) channel, all you see is black women throwing themselves at rap artists in hip-hop music videos. The complex of sex and inferiority of women is strong in those videos. Despite what you see, what you hear is also amazing; lyrics are almost always about guns, sex and drugs. These are certainly not the things we want to put into our young minds of America but the trend has started and the hip-hop population is growing larger. By watching these videos, teenagers might assume its okay to be violent, use drugs and disrespect women. Young black women today are putting up this attitude that is unnecessary for this society, and this clearly comes from the influence of these music videos. Not only do the videos influence males to be more violent, it also tells the females that it’s okay and it’s normal to accept violence inflicted on them.
No matter where you look in modern advertising, you can still see reminisces of inequality between males and females. Don’t get me wrong, it has improved but still exists. No longer do we have racial injustice in our ads but sex issues are still present. Killing Us Softly took use through a journey of ads portraying women negatively, to this day; some of those ad tactics are still used. Tactics such as using women as sex objects. In The Dukes of Hazzard’s commercial with Jessica Simpson, the advertisers made her sound so stupid, this was intentional of her character in the movie but the point is that women are still portrayed as inferior in today’s ads. Young girls are taught to look slender and wear revealing clothes by our ads. Black women are getting the wrong messages in today’s hip-hop music videos. Women’s portrayals in ads have improved but can still get a lot better, there are lots of room for improvement.
Works Cited
Jean in the Media
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Gender Ad Controversies
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Killing Us Softly 3 – Advertising's Image of Women (2000 with Jean Kilbourne)
Maxiam – December 2006 – Verizon Wireless Ads
GenderAds.com - Side By Side Comparisons of Ads Portraying Women Negatively
<>
Men and women in society have been given a hidden guideline to follow right in our everyday lives. From the moment we wake up to the time we sleep, we are being slowly but surely shaped by the media. The media consists of advertisements, television, radio, newspapers and magazines. In our everyday lives, we are exposed to millions of advertising. A significant amount of those are slowly brain washing us towards how we should live as males and females in this society. The media is doing this intentionally by displaying females as weaker figures on ads and making males as the more dominant.
In Killing Us Softly by Jean Kilbourne, we saw how women we being used as objects rather than the subjects. Females were being used to sell products with their sex appeal and to a point, it works but at what cost? If advertisers keep using women’s sex appeal to sell, our minds will be set to seeing women as nothing more than just their appearance. The idea of “a woman is worth as much as their appearances” will ultimately become inequality between the sexes. However, if we want equality between men and women, we cannot shape our society to have that mindset. There is defiantly more to a woman than her appearance. In the eye opening documentary, we saw women dressed partially nude, selling cigarettes, cars and other products directed at a male audience. There is nothing wrong with that, but there is something wrong with the way women are being used as objects to sell these products. It says a great deal about the respect we have for women even in today’s times.
There is a commercial airing right now for DirectTV, it features Jessica Simpson dressed in revealing clothes as her character in The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). She says that the quality of DirectTV is superb, saying that the TV displays a resolution of 10,000dpi (a technological term). Then she goes on to say in her southern Texan accent that she doesn’t know what that means but she wants it. This commercial deliberately portrays her as being stupid but the way DirectTV hopes to sell its products is by using Jessica’s sex appeal. If she wants it and its good enough for her, it should be good enough for me, that is the notion they are trying to give.
Further research in female portrayal in media shows evidence that young girls are “seduced by advertisers” to loose their essence of childhood. According to Jean Kilbourne, girls are told to wear revealing clothes such as bras and thongs in advertisements. What is happening is that these girls are being exploited and being used, again, as objects. Unfortunately does sex sell and it’s proven by statistics. Advertisers only select females who are usually tall and skinny. In our society, tall and skinny is considered a beautiful model but the fact is that many young girls look up to these models, and want to be just like them. We have girls who now starve themselves in order to look like the beautiful models they see on television. Most of the time they over do it and become obsessively anorexic.
There are several controversies that say that most of us overanalyze ads and take them for things they do not mean. Those who argue against the fact that how women are portrayed in ads affect society might believe in some of these following things. Some will argue that ads are harmless and no one really pays attention to them. This is absolutely false because popular culture ads affect people’s decisions more than any other source. So if women are seen has inferior, given time, society will treat women as inferior. In fact, the majority of domestic violence against women derived from the male seeing women as inferior to them. A quick comparison in a magazine shows clearly how each sex is portrayed differently in ads selling the same things. In December’s issue of Maxiam magazine, a woman is advertising a Verizon Wireless mobile phone but when the phone half way tucked on her swimming suite. However, the same mobile phone with a male model shows the male using it in a business environment.
Another growing problem with the media is black entertainment music videos. Many say that black young adults are being exploited without them even realizing it. When you turn on the BET (Black Entertainment Today) channel, all you see is black women throwing themselves at rap artists in hip-hop music videos. The complex of sex and inferiority of women is strong in those videos. Despite what you see, what you hear is also amazing; lyrics are almost always about guns, sex and drugs. These are certainly not the things we want to put into our young minds of America but the trend has started and the hip-hop population is growing larger. By watching these videos, teenagers might assume its okay to be violent, use drugs and disrespect women. Young black women today are putting up this attitude that is unnecessary for this society, and this clearly comes from the influence of these music videos. Not only do the videos influence males to be more violent, it also tells the females that it’s okay and it’s normal to accept violence inflicted on them.
No matter where you look in modern advertising, you can still see reminisces of inequality between males and females. Don’t get me wrong, it has improved but still exists. No longer do we have racial injustice in our ads but sex issues are still present. Killing Us Softly took use through a journey of ads portraying women negatively, to this day; some of those ad tactics are still used. Tactics such as using women as sex objects. In The Dukes of Hazzard’s commercial with Jessica Simpson, the advertisers made her sound so stupid, this was intentional of her character in the movie but the point is that women are still portrayed as inferior in today’s ads. Young girls are taught to look slender and wear revealing clothes by our ads. Black women are getting the wrong messages in today’s hip-hop music videos. Women’s portrayals in ads have improved but can still get a lot better, there are lots of room for improvement.
Works Cited
Jean in the Media
<>
Gender Ad Controversies
<>
Killing Us Softly 3 – Advertising's Image of Women (2000 with Jean Kilbourne)
Maxiam – December 2006 – Verizon Wireless Ads
GenderAds.com - Side By Side Comparisons of Ads Portraying Women Negatively
<>
BIO 101 - Presentations
Our first presenter up was Christine, she was born with a condition called Nystagmus. It is the involunteery movement of the eyes and it somehow seems to be related to the environment shes in. Sometimes the eyes will moves around under stress but several things have helped her. Christine says that when her head is tilted at a certain angle, that it helps her focus and see better. This condition reduces her vision slightly but it's not like shes blind. Glasses has also helped made her eyes better. Another thing she tried to make better of the condition was to use acupuncture. This is done but putting tiny needles in her eye brow area. This condition is said to be perminat and is common in people who are albinos. Nystagmus happens in 1/several thaosand children.
The second presenter which I found to be pretty entertaining was Ed. He was born with mild autism syndrom. 1/166 people are born with it but back when Ed was born, it was estimated that 1/2000 children are born with autism. Autism is a condition where your brain is 8% bigger. The conditions that go with autism might be having a slow response towards things and limited speech. However I was amazed when Ed said he read the last Harry Potter book in about 9 hours, that had to do with his faster processing of information. Autism comes with weak social skills but in a mild case like Ed's, he can do pretty well. One incident he told us about was when he was hiding under the bus in Kindergarden because some kid bullied him. He also said that kids with autism are often more affected by negattive remarks and is damaged by it.
The last presenter was a girl who was born with Congenital Heart Disease. Her name was Jenna. She says that 1% or 8/1000 has her type of heart disease at birth. She was born in September 19th of 1984 and just 2 days later, she had her first heart surgery. Jenna called herself a blue baby and even showed us a picture of it. Technically she was that color because not enough oxygen was allowed in her body, therefore turning purple/blue. He oxygen level was 39 when the norm should have been near 100. Her heart was missing critical vessels that allowed blood to correctly transfer to the heart and some heart tissue was simply not present. The doctors had to use the veins in her arm to repair the heart. Several procedures was done including the recent one of replacing a calciumated tissue of the heart. She is due for another surgery soon. Dispite her condition, she is very happy about being able to still do the things she does, she still parties and eats anything she wants. She looks really healthy for someone with these problems and I wish her the best of luck with her health.
The second presenter which I found to be pretty entertaining was Ed. He was born with mild autism syndrom. 1/166 people are born with it but back when Ed was born, it was estimated that 1/2000 children are born with autism. Autism is a condition where your brain is 8% bigger. The conditions that go with autism might be having a slow response towards things and limited speech. However I was amazed when Ed said he read the last Harry Potter book in about 9 hours, that had to do with his faster processing of information. Autism comes with weak social skills but in a mild case like Ed's, he can do pretty well. One incident he told us about was when he was hiding under the bus in Kindergarden because some kid bullied him. He also said that kids with autism are often more affected by negattive remarks and is damaged by it.
The last presenter was a girl who was born with Congenital Heart Disease. Her name was Jenna. She says that 1% or 8/1000 has her type of heart disease at birth. She was born in September 19th of 1984 and just 2 days later, she had her first heart surgery. Jenna called herself a blue baby and even showed us a picture of it. Technically she was that color because not enough oxygen was allowed in her body, therefore turning purple/blue. He oxygen level was 39 when the norm should have been near 100. Her heart was missing critical vessels that allowed blood to correctly transfer to the heart and some heart tissue was simply not present. The doctors had to use the veins in her arm to repair the heart. Several procedures was done including the recent one of replacing a calciumated tissue of the heart. She is due for another surgery soon. Dispite her condition, she is very happy about being able to still do the things she does, she still parties and eats anything she wants. She looks really healthy for someone with these problems and I wish her the best of luck with her health.
BIO101 Extra Credit Gatacca Review
Gattaca Movie Review
This wasn’t the first time I have seen the movie but the last time I’ve seen it was a while ago. I managed to find things I have not picked up the first time I watched it so YES, I did learn a few things. I felt like after our biology lectures, I understood the film more clearly. There was one thing that isn’t relevant now but it was before. In the beginning of the film, Vincent-Anton mentioned that the apple was the ninth planet Pluto. This is no longer true, scientists have ruled out Pluto as a true planet this year. Enough about I understood the film and how relevant to me it was, let me give the synopsis of the movie.
This film takes place some time in the near future, where we have genetic doctors who artificially conceive a baby with absolutely the best genes of both parents. Vincent-Anton was conceived naturally the traditional way by sex. However, he was born with a high probability of problems, heart diseases, mental retardness, etc. Society at that time ran a space program that sent “elites” to space and to distant planets. Elites were those with the best combination of genes. Elites were those who were almost physically perfect. Although Vincent-Anton was no where near elite, he had a dream and a vision, to one day be abroad a ship and travel to space. To accomplish his dream, he would have to train physically and push himself to become as strong as an “elite”. In the movie, the future is portrayed as this place where everyone only cares about your genetic make up and that a sample of blood was good enough for a resume. Your genetics had to be good enough to join the force of elites. Of course, Vincent-Anton’s genes were not close to perfect so he makes a deal with Jerome. Jerome has the best of the best genes but he was involved in an accident and decides to help Vincent accomplish his goal of going up to space. Everyday, Jerome prepares blood samples and urine samples and for Vincent to use so he can enter Gattaca as an elite using Jerome’s blood for validation.
This wasn’t the first time I have seen the movie but the last time I’ve seen it was a while ago. I managed to find things I have not picked up the first time I watched it so YES, I did learn a few things. I felt like after our biology lectures, I understood the film more clearly. There was one thing that isn’t relevant now but it was before. In the beginning of the film, Vincent-Anton mentioned that the apple was the ninth planet Pluto. This is no longer true, scientists have ruled out Pluto as a true planet this year. Enough about I understood the film and how relevant to me it was, let me give the synopsis of the movie.
This film takes place some time in the near future, where we have genetic doctors who artificially conceive a baby with absolutely the best genes of both parents. Vincent-Anton was conceived naturally the traditional way by sex. However, he was born with a high probability of problems, heart diseases, mental retardness, etc. Society at that time ran a space program that sent “elites” to space and to distant planets. Elites were those with the best combination of genes. Elites were those who were almost physically perfect. Although Vincent-Anton was no where near elite, he had a dream and a vision, to one day be abroad a ship and travel to space. To accomplish his dream, he would have to train physically and push himself to become as strong as an “elite”. In the movie, the future is portrayed as this place where everyone only cares about your genetic make up and that a sample of blood was good enough for a resume. Your genetics had to be good enough to join the force of elites. Of course, Vincent-Anton’s genes were not close to perfect so he makes a deal with Jerome. Jerome has the best of the best genes but he was involved in an accident and decides to help Vincent accomplish his goal of going up to space. Everyday, Jerome prepares blood samples and urine samples and for Vincent to use so he can enter Gattaca as an elite using Jerome’s blood for validation.
BIO 101 Extra Credit - Harry
BIO101
Gattaca
In the near future, discrimination is based on genetics, not race or class. Parents at the time went to see their geneticist to filter out undesirable traits in their future child. Vincent's parents decided to go trust mother nature and conceive naturally. Vincent was born as an unhealthy baby. Vincent is seen as genetically inferior and had a 99% chance of heart disease. His parents wanted to have a second child and chose to consult a geneticist. Anton, their second child had the best of both parents’ genes. Vincent is treated as if he's fragile and will die any moment. No childcare center would provide him service because of the possible risk of premature death. However all that changed when he one day beat his brother in the game of chicken where both of them would swim out to the sea as far as they could knowing “each stroke was another [they’d] have to take back”.
Vincent dreams of going into space but he is seen as unfit. He was known as an invalid in his society, those who are unfit. He uses Jerome’s “valid” genetics to deceive Gattaca to let him train to go to space. Jerome was known as an elite. He decides to use one of the genetically elites identities to get into the space program. It's a complex procedure, in which he uses the donor’s body fluids to fool gene testing machines.
He completes his training successfully regardless of what the science told him. The science at birth told him that he would have a 99% chance of heart disease and that he would never be qualified for space. But despite that, science was wrong about him or maybe luck was on his side. He beats the odds and finally is launched to the planet Titan.
Gattaca
In the near future, discrimination is based on genetics, not race or class. Parents at the time went to see their geneticist to filter out undesirable traits in their future child. Vincent's parents decided to go trust mother nature and conceive naturally. Vincent was born as an unhealthy baby. Vincent is seen as genetically inferior and had a 99% chance of heart disease. His parents wanted to have a second child and chose to consult a geneticist. Anton, their second child had the best of both parents’ genes. Vincent is treated as if he's fragile and will die any moment. No childcare center would provide him service because of the possible risk of premature death. However all that changed when he one day beat his brother in the game of chicken where both of them would swim out to the sea as far as they could knowing “each stroke was another [they’d] have to take back”.
Vincent dreams of going into space but he is seen as unfit. He was known as an invalid in his society, those who are unfit. He uses Jerome’s “valid” genetics to deceive Gattaca to let him train to go to space. Jerome was known as an elite. He decides to use one of the genetically elites identities to get into the space program. It's a complex procedure, in which he uses the donor’s body fluids to fool gene testing machines.
He completes his training successfully regardless of what the science told him. The science at birth told him that he would have a 99% chance of heart disease and that he would never be qualified for space. But despite that, science was wrong about him or maybe luck was on his side. He beats the odds and finally is launched to the planet Titan.
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