The idea of progress - LaurieTES2

The idea of progress 

      My presentation is going to deal with the idea of progress. The notion of progress is very important in the 21st century. There is a lot of evolution : both social and scientific... I will present this notion with 3 documents. 

 First, the cartoon « Odd man out » represents tall muscular men. Only one is different because he is skinny, short and weak. He is rejectd in a bin by the factory since he doesn't have the same body and isn't as muscular as the other men. This document represents social progress in an imaginary society. Here, the progress is very negative since everybody have differents and flaws. I'm desagree because i don't want society to become like that. It's unfair for the little boy as is throw away. There wouldn't be any differents between people.
 

Then, we can see an article from USA today (B page 64). It was published the first on october, 2010. It's a true story of genetic selection. Moly have an illness and she is alive due to his brother. He make a genetic selection when he was a baby. Now, Molly is save, but we don't know side effect (for the future). It's a breaktrough for the medical progress. This true story give hope about the end of illness. People are optimistic because it's a real progress. In my opinion, it's very positive ( since a life is to save !). If medical progress continue, a lot of people can cure of illness. 

 To finish, we can see a segment from the movie « The sixth Day ». This movie is about cloning. It's the story of Adam (a father) who go in the shop « RePet » for clone his daughter's dog. The salesman tries to explain the situation and to convince Adam to clone is dog. Adam want to have the same dog. This document shows a proven technology. I think it's very dangerous and negative. In this imaginary society, everybody is alive and the « true » isn't here. So, this true person is dead. Cloning is dangerous for the real life. For me, this innovation for to brnig back to life is negative. We must dead a day. 

     In conclusion, the idea of progress is mixed. A part is very positive progress because people are alive for a long time and they are in good health. But in an other part, it's very dangerous since the life isn't a movie : we can't to bring back to life, humans must dead a day.