Oral and written communication is a critical skill to everyday life and in any professional field. This skill is essential to fully express thoughts and ideas to the people around us and society. Through this skill one can fully exercise their role in society for the betterment of political ideas in improving the lives of others and their own.
This skill is crucial to my major because it allows others and myself to comprehend my ideas and thoughts in other subjects and in my future work field.
This class strengthens this skill in daily writing, oral discussions, and rhetoric essays.
Communication skills Orally and written will help me in my future career by allowing others to completely understand the subject at hand that I am explaining and what others are trying to let me understand. For example, peoples wants or needs when it comes to dentistry.
1. Topic: The evidence on why de-extinction of the wooly mammoth is unethical.
2. Thesis: “I will build a case for why Church’s de-extinction of the woolly mammoth is unethical and shouldn’t be practiced in the future”.
3. Jacob Burgess list his arguments in a unique structure. Starting with the third paragraph entailing the philosophical evidence with two sub claims in the fourth and fifth paragraph. The sixth and seventh paragraph contain two practical arguments with evidence. The eight paragraph being the counterclaim and the ninth paragraph being the rebuttal.
4. Three pieces of evidence.
Ben Mezrich, the author of Woolly:TheTrueStoryoftheQuesttoReviveOneofHistory’sMostIconicExtinctCreatures, notes, “… I believe—and I think most conservationists agree—that bringing back an extinct species like the mammoth is less playing God than it is correcting something we did” (Worrall).
Ronald Sandler in “The Ethics of Reviving Long Lost Species” notes that whether or not a de-extinction project might be hubris depends on its intentions. Sandler contends that a de-extinction project could be considered hubris if, “… it is pursued as a tool to help design ecological systems as we would want them to be…” or to “… assuage our guilt without adequate respect for the value of nature…” Church’s de-extinction project appears to be motivated by both of these ideas. For one, he and his team intend to design a genetically modified, Asian elephant that will be only similar to a woolly mammoth – not a genetically identical one (Chung).
Zoology professor Matthew Cobb brings up a significant problem, “… the mammoth was not simply a set of genes, it was a social animal, as is the modern Asian elephant. What will happen when the elephant-mammoth hybrid is born? How will it be greeted by elephants?” (Devlin)
5. At first, I believed that bringing up the wooly mammoth from extinction had nothing to do with ethics and was ultimately in favor to bring them back, but when reading through the argumentative essay my opinion was immediately changed. The style was different yet flowed great and captivated my attention. The philosophical aspect engaged my attention and then what captivated my opinion was the evidence shown that proved why the de-extinction of the wooly mammoth is truly unethical.
Through the use of boosting local economy, creating jobs, and bringing tourism to places where there is none, gambling proves itself to be a great asset to the economy in which it should be legalized.
One rhetorical appeal is the appeal of logos in logic through my statement of gambling bettering the economy in a multitude of ways. This fact can be found in casinos across Nevada, where they brought in 14.8 billion in gambling revenue. A new all time high annual record, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Pathos is also used in the example of creating new jobs for those who have none. The poverty line has always been a tremendous problem but gambling aids in alleviating this crisis.
I know that people in congress or the state have been concerned about the youth getting into nicotine and have raised the age limit of vaping or purchasing a vape from 18 to 21.
I believe that it is entirely someone’s own choice whether they would like to put certain chemicals into one owns body if they are of the legal age to do such acts by law. Smoking in public is also terrible for those who inhale the second hand smoke and could be dangerous for people who are at risk of contracting diseases or with diseases. The restriction of age is a great factor to help the youth have some time to think about what they will be getting into, because of how highly addictive nicotine is.
People have their rights to do what they so chose to do if the law allows it. The restriction of requiring an adult of 21 years of age to purchase a vape has made it harder for the youth to acquire vapes.
Nicotine has been proven to be extremely addictive and harmful for the human body, when such chemicals are inhaled and entered the body. Flavored vapes have also been banned in California which makes it less appealing to the younger generations.
