Response blog

For this post i responding to James McGuire's blog post titled, Ethics and Medicine. In his post he used Post Tramatic Stress Disorder as a topic that involves ethics and medicine. PTSD as a common condition in military veterans and especially war veterans who have experience traumatic events in during their time serving in the war. In his post he also linked the cause of PTSD with highly stressful jobs or traumatic events in peoples lives where they are scared with the painful memories. A conflict arises when it comes to the methods of treatment for this disorder. There is a drug that they use called Propranolol, which helps the sufferers of this disorder but also has harmful side-effects such as loss of emotion and loss of who they really are. James had two articles that he used as references for his post, http://bioethics.net/journal/j_articles.php?aid=1338.,  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/729444. Over all i think he did a good job explaining both sides of this topic and how it connected with the ethics and medicine.

Ethics and Medicine

A current situation in medicine today where ethics and medicine conflict is in the case of abortion. The conflict resides in peoples morals and beliefs whether to have abortion legal or illegal. Abortion, which is the termination or removal of an embryo, is highly debated and controversial for the fact that a life is being taken away. The conflict of abortion is viewed differently among people and this has to do with their beliefs, morals, and in most cases their religion. The thing that separates people on this topic is justifying taking away the life that is the embryo or fetus when in the mother. There are reasons that people have for defending abortion the big one would be rape which is not the most common and is almost another argument in itself. Other reasons include the mother not being able to raise the child due to their economic status or because they simply are too young and are caught up in school and the idea of raising a child wouldn't seem possible. The list goes on. However on the other hand of the argument there are many arguments that oppose abortion the main reason being that a life is being taken away from someone who never had a say in whether they live or die. Other arguments include that the child should be given up for adoption or the mother should make arrangements for taking care of the child. All of which seem like the right choice in the eyes or the people who oppose abortion. I know about abortion just from hearing about it my whole life through the media, school religion and many other places. I think that both sides of this argument have plenty to say and their views are clear. A Defense of Abortion.
Why Abortion is Immoral. Both of these articles had a different view on the topic of Abortion and why it involves ethics. However i feel that Why Abortion is Immoral is more compelling because it appeals more to my morals and what i believe in.

 

Demonstration Speech Evaluation

This post is to evaluate myself on my my demonstration speech. My speech was on a football play Fire/Ice Panther and how it is executed. I will point out three things i think i did well and three things that i need improvement on. First off with the areas that i need improvement, one being that i used fillers such as um and also i said and a, which should not be used. Secondly my transitions were not the best i needed to work on having what i needed to say in mind instead of stalling because i had forgot what to say. Lastly something else that i need to improve on is body language. Now to the areas that i did somewhat well. My introduction was a little shaky but i think i had the right idea to get the audiences attention. Secondly my use of a visual was good in the sense that the audience could follow along with what i was talking about. Lastly i my steps weren't the best but they were somewhat in order and i think that they were somewhat easy to follow. Here is a link to watch my speech. Demonstration speech

Response blog

For this response blog post i am responding to the post written by Jonathan Renk titled Technorati Search. His post was on the use of bio fuels and he elaborated about this, he also used two articles he had found to further explain bio fuels. (.bio fuel article bio fuel article )  He chose bio fuels because it was the topic of his informative paper. I think that he had written the post quite well and had used some good articles in his post. Also the authors and sites he used to find his articles seemed quite credible and legitimate.