From the sandy oceans 

I am from the green-toned grass in the fields

I am from the city of orange trees 

From delicious and tasty treats

The  California poppies  on the hills

Beautiful  fragrances spread everywhere

 as if they’re still in the air

I am from yellow sands and green Hills

From the quilts and persian carpets

From high altitudes to sea level

I restoreth my energy 

Through the fluffy furred canine

And thirty pats I can give 

I’m from caring people

Who love to help others

I am young, kind, and strong 

From a town of kindness and giving

They all have a purpose in life

To live life to the fullest

In the closet was a book full of memories

A book of all the people 

I am a picture in the photo album

Both past and present 

The times their  influence  affected me

From the roots of the tree that I was cut.

Animal testing is ethical because it can help stop viruses and cure other illnesses. It can also benefit animals because the same medicine cures animals. In the article my lupus story: how animal research saved my life it says ¨ animals being used in lupus research today includes mostly mice, and also some rats and rhesus monkeys. A fair amount of veterinary research with dogs also occurs, as they suffer from arthritis and lupus as well¨. When they use the animals, they would also be developing a cure for them while making a cure for the humans. The animals being used may be the key to saving thousands of human and animal lives. In this excerpt from animal research: is it necessarily evil?  The researchers say ¨Maintaining the welfare of animals is also of considerable benefit to researchers. For example, where animals are sick or in discomfort, results will be highly flawed. Animal research can be a costly business, so a lack of provision of humane conditions can also lead to major financial losses. Finally, there are major legal implications to consider. Anyone not adhering to regulations can face penalties ranging from the loss of research licenses to imprisonment. This excerpt proves that they try to maintain their health when testing animals. Because if the animals are sick, their results won't be as accurate when the animals are healthy. Animal testing has some downsides for the animals, but it has tremendous benefits for many more animals and humans.

When people discuss the alternatives to animal testing, they talk about things like human and digital testing to try and find the solution to create vaccines for viruses. But some people view human testing as cruel and digital testing’s results as insufficient, so they believe animal testing is the only correct answer at this point. The article “animal testing-pros & cons,” states “Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. All mammals, including humans, are descended from common ancestors, and all have the same set of organs (heart, kidneys, lungs, etc.) that function in essentially the same way with the help of a bloodstream and central nervous system. Because animals and humans are so biologically similar, they are susceptible to many of the same conditions and illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.”This evidence from the article shows that when animal testing is conducted, the animal’s genes are very similar to human genes. There will be little to no difference in the outcome when testing medicines. In “Animal testing pros & cons,” it states, “Laboratory mice, for example, live for only two to three years, so researchers can study the effects of treatments or genetic manipulation over a whole lifespan, or across several generations, which would be infeasible using human subjects. Mice and rats are particularly well-suited to long-term cancer research, partly because of their short lifespans.”Scientists prefer to use mice, guinea pigs, rodents, and rabbits because of their shorter life cycles than humans. That way, they can observe the effects of the product from when it was administered to the animal, when it was younger, then they can watch the results when the animal is older to see the side effects. Despite the many advantages there are downsides to animal testing too.

Many people believe that animal testing results aren´t accurate and that it doesn’t work on humans. For example, in the article ¨Animal testing provides a flawed model, so why not stop¨? in the section ¨Animal testing gone wrong¨, it says ¨The thalidomide tragedy of the late 1950s and early 1960s is a well-known example for the inappropriateness of animal research. Thalidomide had been tested on several animal species and found to be safe, even in large doses. Yet thousands of children worldwide were born with missing or shortened limbs after their mothers took the drug for morning sickness.¨ When thalidomide was tested, the animals didn't react badly to the medicine, so the scientists thought that the treatment would work on humans. But if you experimented now, with our current level of technology, the outcome could prove different, and you could get different results. Even though thalidomide was flawed doesn’t mean that all medication tested on animals is useless. For example, in the text ¨animal testing provides a lousy model, so why not stop¨ it states In contrast, penicillin may not have seen the light of day if it had been tested on guinea pigs or rats – it kills guinea pigs and produces birth defects in rats¨. This evidence proves that some medications may have side effects on certain animal species compared to other animals.  That is why it is important to plan experiments carefully. With current technology and the understanding of human biology, it seems clear that animal testing will be the only viable option for years to come. 

The primary purposes of animal testing are to understand biology and find cures for illnesses that threaten the lives of countless people. The more animal testing conducted, the more insight we have about our and animals’ genetic codes and how to stop illnesses. We also learn more about human and animal biology to help us prevent the outbreak of illnesses. With the advancement of technology, we will eventually find a substitute for animal testing.

   

 

The world is full of propaganda created by governments to make the people have the same beliefs. Propaganda is the spreading of ideas, rumors to promote the hate of a group of people or country, or information to promote a certain group of people’s ideas and beliefs. Governments use propaganda to try and brainwash the people of their country to have certain beliefs or to show their dislike for other people or countries. The way they use propaganda to create a bad image of the other is by using posters with messages that encourage the discrimination of the other, they put public broadcasts on the radio or the tv, and they make laws or acts against the minority. 

The German government would prohibit the listening of any news that was not in favor of Hitler's regime. The article “twisted tongues” says “ Under the Nazi regime in Germany, it was a crime to listen to the BBC, broadcast from Great Britain, or to read an American newspaper. Germans only had access to the messages Hitler wanted them to hear. During WWII the German government made several laws that prohibited the listening to any media that was against Hitler's beliefs. The German government would keep the people of Germany from knowing the events in the world other than the things that would make the people think Germany was a great and amazing country. On the “US Holocaust Museum” in the german propaganda section, it says “Nazi propaganda often portrayed Jews as engaged in a conspiracy to provoke war. Here, a stereotyped Jew conspires behind the scenes to control the Allied powers, represented by the British, American, and Soviet flags.”. The German government would use propaganda to make the Germans believe that the Jewish people have large noses and that they were the reason that the Germans lost WWI. The Germans believed that the Jewish people would hide behind the allied powers and they thought of them as cowards. The German people were using propaganda in the newspaper, radio, and even movies to brainwash the German people into believing that Jewish people were disgusting creatures.

throughout WWII the german people would create all forms of media that depict the Jewish people as evil and those movies brainwashed the people of Germany to believe that they were the reason Germany lost WWI .  in the “ US national holocaust museum” website in the propaganda section it stated0 “Newspapers in Germany, above all Der Stürmer (The Attacker), printed cartoons that used antisemitic caricatures to depict Jews” the german newspapers would depict the Jewish people to be rats and portray them as evil. they would also create messages and advertisements that would encourage the german people to hurt Jewish people and destroy their stores, cars, and houses. The “US national holocaust museum,” states “Nazi films portrayed Jews as "subhuman" creatures infiltrating Aryan society. For example, The Eternal Jew (1940), directed by Fritz Hippler, portrayed Jews as wandering cultural parasites, consumed by sex and money.” during WWII the germans made movies that portrayed Jews as lesser beings compared to the Aryan race. These movies were broadcasted on tv an shown to the german people to get them to think poorly of jews.Throught hittlers brain washing of the german people it took many years to change their image of the jewish people.

Propaganda is used by the government to create a nation of the same beliefs.Their methods of brainwashing their countries people through propaganda.The german government would create posters,newspaper,radio,and television podcasts that incriminate the jewish people.During WWII propaganda was a great weapon to hittler and his regime it let him voice his beliefs and control a group of people.

From the start of order 9066 me and my family have been witnessing the horrible environment that we are living in. We have been trying our best to make the most out of our time in the internment camps.  We understand that you are fearful for the country but even though it is unconstitutional to hold us in these camps with terrible living conditions.You should change order 9066 because this act is unconstitutional and inhumane it is not right to hold a group of people in a camp and treat them differently because of our race. You should at least improve the living conditions of the camps by adding insulation so we aren't dying of heat stroke.  Even before we were taken to this camp my class mates treated me diffrently and then once pearl harbor was bombed they blamed it on me.Then on the bus ride people would stare at us and I could hear them speak ill of us for somthing we didn´t do. Mr.President Roosevelt please look at the situation and environment that we are currently in and please consider adding insulation, treating us better , and change the opinion of us  the country has. And please don't blame the actions of the Japanese people from across the sea on us.We are not Japanese, we all believe that we are Americans and we will wait in the camps to prove ourselves  our country. -Mitsuo Nakano

The story “The Machine Stops” analyses the rise of technology and gives an interpretation of how our lives would be if we let technology use us instead of us using it. In “The machine stops” section 2 The mending apparatus says “You know that we have lost the sense of space. We say ‘space is annihilated,’ but we have annihilated not space, but the sense thereof. We have lost a part of ourselves”. When Kuno is saying this he is showing that the machine had taken away their sense of space and the machine has taken other gifts that nature gave them. For example in section 2 The Mending Apuratus it says “Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man’s feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further” This is how Kuno is throwing the machine aside and regaining the gifts that nature gave them.

The excerpts that we read from “ready player 1” show how the virtual world could take over a person's life and make them do things just for a prize. In part 187 it says “And a small army

of Sixers was now pouring through it, swooping into the club on jet packs, firing blaster pistols as they came. Total chaos broke out. Half of the avatars in the club swarmed toward the exit, while the other half drew weapons or began to cast spells, firing laser bolts, bullets, and fireballs back at the invading Sixers. There were more than a hundred of them, all armed to the teeth.” This excerpt proves just how far people are willing to go to gain a prize for themselves and how people are motivated by greed. The Sixers were willing to cause chaos and havoc at an event just to take out the other gunters and also find out some information about the egg. In section 182  it says “I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis. The DeLorean came outfitted with a (non-functioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT 

(purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill.”This excerpt proves that in the virtual world you can have anything you could ever want or ever do. The fact that you can do anything you'd ever want to do could mean that some people will use this power to terrorize casual players.

The metaverse is being designed in the real world by facebook’s parent company meta and it's gonna revolutionize the education system and the work system. In the article “Meta Opens up Access to its VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds” it says  “Meta employees have been making the script blocks at the request of beta testers and that the company eventually plans to release a free library of them. An asset library of objects is also coming. Right now, the coding for script blocks is done entirely in VR, but eventually, Meta plans to let them be built from a desktop computer.” This shows how versatile VR is for learning and the work environment. If this becomes the future of the workplace it could take away the time needed to drive to work so the workers can wake up have breakfast and then put on their helmets and be at their desks in an instant. In “Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds” it says “Safety is a big concern for a VR environment like Horizon Worlds, where you can easily interact with someone you don’t know. Earlier this month, a beta tester posted in the official Horizon group on Facebook about how her avatar was groped by a stranger. “ with the greatness of VR there are some downsides, unfortunately, the virtual world will still have some problems but there are solutions such as blocking that individual so where they can’t hear, see, or find you, therefore, protecting you from any people bothering you.

In conclusion all of the articles, we have read have changed my view of virtual reality and shown me that if we become too reliant on technology we will become disconnected from the world like how the people in “the machine stops” lost their sense of space and became disconnected from the world around them. And how like in “Ready Player 1” the gunters are disconnected from reality and obsessed with finding the egg and figuring out the clues. But in The metaverse articles that we read they showed how technology and VR could change your life for the better and create a whole new world. Technology is a useful item and VR is even more useful for everyday life but if we use and rely on technology too much we will become disconnected from our relationships with our, friends, family, and coworkers.