CONTROVERSIAL ARTWORK

-Intention of the Artist: ”The artist behind a controversial work depicting terrorism mastermind Osama bin Laden morphing into Jesus today invited those considering her work to look a little more deeply than the obvious comparison of good and evil.”(http://kafee.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/morphing-jesus-into-osama-bin-laden/) "When you observe these two people, Osama Bin Ladin and Jesus, their ethics could not be more different. But they were both pursued by two of the world’s most powerful armies – the US and the Roman armies. Jesus is clearly defined by history, but I am interested in how history will treat the image of Osama." (http://kafee.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/morphing-jesus-into-osama-bin-laden/) The artist is not only using Obama and Jesus as symbols of good and evil, but she is also referring directly to each of them: She is trying to show how two important, and famous figures such as them, are so different but at the same time do have similarities
-Quality of the Work: " a diverse array of media, including photography, digital illustration, and installation, have been co-opted by this artist for their particular effect: the lenticular photographic process, for example, insistently incorporates two viewing positions into a work, and is seen to change from different angles. The effect is to destabilize the image, and render as problematic any ideas of prescribed meaning" (http://www.edwinacorlette.com/artists-view?aid=16)
-Response of the audience: The artwork caused a furious response from politicians and church leaders. Many catholic people are offended by this image because they feel that the intention is to make someone evil like Osama seem alike to Jesus. "The Prime Minister Johns Howard (Australia) has branded the work “gratuitously offensive” to Christians” (http://kafee.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/morphing-jesus-into-osama-bin-laden/)



-Imitation: the artwrok depicts the side of reality that many followers of Osama Bin Laden viewed him like this. They thought that he was their saviour and he was complying with thir religion by doing this. They viewed what he and the others who helped them did, as a holy sacrifice.
-Communication: this piece transmits the message of a comparison between good and evil. Osama bin Laden, a terrorist, is morphing into Jesus a religious symbol of good and peace.
-Education: this artwrok is influencial because first of all it depicts the views of some like the peopple who follow Osama Bin Laden and thought that he was divineley inspired to do what he did, also it makes a comparison between evil acts and good. It make cause people to continue this depiction of Osama or to do an artwork that disproves this view of him.



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HUMAN SCIENCES EXPERIMENT

NANOTECH ROBOTS DEPLOY CANCER


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1. RNAi, also known as "gene silencing," is a cellular mechanism that blocks the production of proteins, and has tantalized doctors as a potential medicine for a number of years now. However, by placing payloads of RNA in a polymer nanobot, scientists have finally shown that this technique can work against tumors in human patients. ((http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/nanotech-robots-deploy-cancer-fighting-rna)

2. Specially constructed molecules could potentially block the expression of genes critical to the reproduction of viruses and the spread of cancer. But until now, doctors had been unable to direct those molecules to the right cellular nuclei. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology solved this problem by placing the RNA molecules in a specialized polymer robot with a chemical sensor. When the environment of a cancerous cell triggered the chemical sensor, the robot releases the RNA.

The trial involved three people with melanomas who received the RNA-load nanoparticles intravenously four times, for 30 minutes, over three weeks. At the end of that time, samples taken from the melanomas showed both the presence of the RNA, and a reduction in tumor gene expression. (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/nanotech-robots-deploy-cancer-fighting-rna)

3. The experiment can work against tumors in human patients.Plus, since RNAi can work against any transcription, RNAi nanobots could potentially disable both DNA viruses, like smallox, and RNA viruses, like SARS. (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/nanotech-robots-deploy-cancer-fighting-rna)


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PRO-ASSISTED SUICIDE VS. PRO-LIFE



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-Every competent adult has the incontestable right to humankind’s ultimate civil and personal liberty -- the right to die in a manner and at a time of their own choosing. Medically hastened death by request should be made lawful as it is now in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the American states of Oregon and Washington (each has different rules).
(http://www.assistedsuicide.org/liberty_and_death_manifesto_right_to_die.html)

It is correct that Sweden has no law specifically proscribing assisted suicide. Instead the prosecutors might charge an assister with manslaughter – and do. In 1979 the Swedish right-to-die leader Berit Hedeby went to prison for a year for helping a man with MS to die. Neighbouring.

Norway has criminal sanctions against assisted suicide by using the charge "accessory to murder". In cases where consent was given and the reasons compassionate, the courts pass lighter sentences. A recent law commission voted down de-criminalizing assisted suicide by a 5-2 vote.

France does not have a specific law banning assisted suicide, but such a case could be prosecuted under 223-6 of the Penal Code for failure to assist a person in danger.
Denmark has no specific law banning assisted suicide.

In Italy the action is legally forbidden, although pro-euthanasia activists in Turin and Rome are pressing hard for law reform.

Luxembourg does not forbid assistance in suicide because suicide itself is not a crime. Nevertheless, under 410-1 of its Penal Code a person could be penalized for failing to assist a person in danger. In March 2003 legislation to permit euthanasia was lost in the Luxembourg Parliament by a single vote.
(http://www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_laws.html)

The only four places that today openly and legally, authorize active assistance in dying of patients, are:
1. Oregon (since l997, physician-assisted suicide only);
2. Switzerland (1941, physician and non-physician assisted suicide only);
3. Belgium (2002, permits 'euthanasia' but does not define the method;
4. Netherlands (voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide lawful since April 2002 but permitted by the courts since l984).
(http://www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_laws.html)

I personally believe that assisted suicide should not be legal because even though that yes it is true that someone may be suffering and going through a lot of pain but God gave him/her life and only he can take it away.