Science Meets Real Life
Humans are naturally inquisitive and have always asked questions about the world around them. Many questions could not be answered due to a lack of available technology, but many others could be answered through the process of trial and error. Over time, the way humans ask and answer questions about the natural world was developed and shaped into what is now called the scientific method. It allows scientists to conduct research in a systematic, organized fashion.
As humans make new scientific discoveries, they are able to develop additional technologies. For example, historically people used the bark and leaves from the willow tree to treat fevers and pains. This was a traditional medicine that people shared with one another via word of mouth. As technology advanced, the materials from the willow tree could be analyzed in a lab and the components could be studied to see which natural chemicals were responsible for reducing the fevers and pain. Research showed that the willow tree contained a form of salicylic acid that gave it its’ healing powers. This scientific research led to the development of the aspirin we use today which is now mass produced (and that you have probably taken at some point in your lifetime).
You depend on many technologies throughout your day that make your modern life possible. In this assignment you will look at some of these technologies and the scientific discoveries that made them possible. You will evaluate both the negative and positive impacts of these discoveries. You will also broaden your scope to look at how different cultures with different levels of access to technology approach the same problem – health care.
Part I Science in your personal and professional life
Think about your day from the time you wake up to the time that you go to sleep.
List four technologies that you rely on and would find it difficult to get through your day or night without. Discuss any negative impacts these technologies have on your life, society, and the environment.
Think about your day from the time you wake up to when you go to sleep. Describe the one scientific discovery that you think is the most important for making modern life possible.
List as many negative and positive impacts you can think of that this scientific discovery and the technologies that it allowed to be developed may have. Evaluate and discuss if the positives outweigh the negatives overall, or whether the negatives outweigh the positives.
Part II Science and technology in a multicultural world
Many research programs around the world focus on the discovery of cures to ailments from cancer to mental illness. Modern society invests a great deal of money, and time while pushing the boundaries of modern technology to develop new cures and improve existing treatments.
Review the Unit 9 Assignment Resources.
Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to the westernized high-tech research approach to medical treatment.
Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to using traditional medicine as an approach to medical treatment.
Are there benefits to having multicultural approaches to medical treatment? Explain your answer.
Could these two cultural approaches both be improved by drawing upon the other? Why or why not?
Discuss any challenges there may be in combining these two different cultural approaches to treatment that have a very different level of reliance on scientific research and technology.
Basic Writing Expectations:
Adonis is the second structure that hangs out in the etching. His body has considerably more detail related with it, including all the more garments, an outward appearance, and different adornments associated with his hands and feet. The lines that make up his body are viewed as cross-brought forth in a greater number of zones than are seen on Venus. The texture he is wearing as garments has complex overlays in it over his legs and arms. They are molded and definite utilizing a similar style as on Venus, with the edges being dull and the encompassing regions being a lot lighter. The impression of room and mass is given by the lance and chains Adonis is holding. The rope hanging over Adonis’ arm give a feeling of gravity, just as Adonis holding up the lance. The chains and lance are both littler than Venus and Adonis, giving a feeling of scale to the picture too. The lance facing up and to the privilege permits our eyes to tail it along the picture, moving our concentration to various zones.
The rope fill a comparable need as they attract our eyes descending to the mutts and pig’s head. The mutts likewise adding to the way that Adonis is going to set out on a chasing strategic. The lance is unbelievably nitty gritty, with slight cross-brought forth lines framing the surface. There is another tie contorted along the length of the lance drawing our eyes upward. The hog’s head is additionally nitty gritty with covering bended lines to give the impact of the hog’s hide. Adonis is additionally wearing an elaborate shoe with the mouth of a creature appearing to be folded over it. The hide of the creature likewise conveys the covering bended lines. Adonis’ structure is portrayed by darker concealing and a more noteworthy feeling of room and nearness.
Venus and Adonis are set in a thick backwoods. The trees are made out of many flimsy flat lines. The lines make up the bark of the tree and serve to recognize the trees also. Notwithstanding the flat lines there are many bended lines to detail bunches and burls in the wood. The leaves have a light measure of concealing as equal lines and show a huge level of redundancy. The leaves include a level of room and mass to the trees just as the picture all in all. The leaves are indicated slanting descending to give the feeling that there is some weight to them. They additionally serve to fill in a lot of void area that would have been available something else. They help strengthen the story being told by the etching also. The backwoods setting loans to the way that Venus is charmed by Adonis, given that couples will in general incline toward the protection a woodland gives. The woods is additionally a spot that somebody would commonly go chasing too.
The two angels, one being Cupid, indicated have generally less detail when contrasted with both Venus and Adonis. Cupid is appeared on a slight height and behind Venus and Adonis. He is made out of cross-brought forth bended lines. The legs are shaped and adjusted to stress the human and strong nature of him. Cupid is set in space by Ghisi’s utilization of a littler scope for the scene behind Venus and Adonis. His bolts and quiver are swinging from his such that gives us a feeling of mass. Then again his wings are skimming off his shoulder bones to give us that he is for sure a divine being. He is additionally shown holding a drapery up, which may have been utilized to give Venus and Adonis some security given its area. The drapery is made out of meager equal lines that pack up around the wrinkles and overlays.
There is a nonappearance of lines in places where the texture is smooth. The reality Cupid is holding the texture up causes us to accept that it has some mass to it. It is likewise obvious that Cupid’s left hand is further out of sight because of the shadow on it. To make this shadow Ghisi utilizes equal bended lines that mix together, however are not as dim as a portion of different lines. Cupid’s face is arranged marginally towards the watcher with the eyes centered out of the page. The face is concealed with lines that mix together and sketched out with a solitary extremely thick and dim line. The frameworks around the eyes and mouth are made along these lines. Cupid’s hair is fundamentally the same as Adonis’, with similar twists and dull lines signifying the edges of the twists. The seraph in the lower left hand corner of the etching utilizes indistinguishable systems from Cupid, yet is put in a squatted stooping position clutching a creature. Cupid has been set behind Venus and Adonis to show that he isn’t the point of convergence of the story, yet at the same time a significant segment.