Bac/ idea of progress Bonjour, Je passe mon oral d'anglais dans 1 semaine et je ne suis pas très sure de ce que j'ai fait. Pourriez-vous me donner vos avis s'il
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Bac/ idea of progress
Bonjour,
Je passe mon oral d'anglais dans 1 semaine et je ne suis pas très sure de ce que j'ai fait. Pourriez-vous me donner vos avis s'il vous plait ?
Merci pour vos réponses.
I'm going to talk about the notion idea of progress. First of all, progress can be defined as an improvement, a develpment or a changements for example in politics with democraty, transport, technologie or medicine with the discovery of cures for illnesses. All of these improvements are realised to make the world a better place. So we may answer the question : is progress always positive? To answer this question I chose two documents. The first one is a cartoon entitled "odd man out" and the second one is a text extract from USA today. I have chosen these documents because they offer different points of view about progress.
The first document "odd man out" shows a factory who creates humans. In this factory all the humans are the same, same face, eyes, mouth, underpants and we can suppose they also have the same temper. These similarities are possible thanks to eugenics, a science which studies methods of improving the genetic composition of the human race by selective breeding. And if there are men who aren't conform to the regulation because they are too small, pale, don't have the right hair colour or have a disproportional member in their bodies for example they will be thrown into a dustbin. This cartoon is very interesting to illustrate the notion idea of progress because the artist denounces the idea of perfecting human genetics and the resulting dehumanization.
We saw a bad vision of progress through a cartoon. Now I'm going to approach an other side of progress.
The second document is a text about a girl, molly, who had been saved by her brother, Adam. Indeed molly had a rare illness and she was destined to die before the age of seven. So molly's parents decided to turn to PGD a science wich consists in creating embryons in a lab by fertilizing a woman's eggs with sperm and selecting the embryo which has the requiered characteristics. Thanks to PGD Adam was an ideal bone marrow donor for his sister and thanks to that molly was cured. She was the first child cured thanks to PDG. So this text perfectly illustrates a type of progress, the medicine improvements.
In my opinion progress is a very good thing when it's used to cure or improve and facilitate daily life but progress can have perverse effects like in the first document where all human are the same, for me it's a really awful thing because the physical and moral differences are important to talk, to exchange opinions and to differentiate one another. Moreover, it's a kind of freedom to be different.
To conclude, progress is very important to live in better conditions but it shouldn't be used for anything and all the time otherwise it can be dangerous. We can also relate these documents to the notion places and forms of power because these improvements, harmful or not, are a kind of power.
Bonjour,
Je passe mon oral d'anglais dans 1 semaine et je ne suis pas très sure de ce que j'ai fait. Pourriez-vous me donner vos avis s'il vous plait ?
Merci pour vos réponses.
I'm going to talk about the notion idea of progress. First of all, progress can be defined as an improvement, a develpment or a changements for example in politics with democraty, transport, technologie or medicine with the discovery of cures for illnesses. All of these improvements are realised to make the world a better place. So we may answer the question : is progress always positive? To answer this question I chose two documents. The first one is a cartoon entitled "odd man out" and the second one is a text extract from USA today. I have chosen these documents because they offer different points of view about progress.
The first document "odd man out" shows a factory who creates humans. In this factory all the humans are the same, same face, eyes, mouth, underpants and we can suppose they also have the same temper. These similarities are possible thanks to eugenics, a science which studies methods of improving the genetic composition of the human race by selective breeding. And if there are men who aren't conform to the regulation because they are too small, pale, don't have the right hair colour or have a disproportional member in their bodies for example they will be thrown into a dustbin. This cartoon is very interesting to illustrate the notion idea of progress because the artist denounces the idea of perfecting human genetics and the resulting dehumanization.
We saw a bad vision of progress through a cartoon. Now I'm going to approach an other side of progress.
The second document is a text about a girl, molly, who had been saved by her brother, Adam. Indeed molly had a rare illness and she was destined to die before the age of seven. So molly's parents decided to turn to PGD a science wich consists in creating embryons in a lab by fertilizing a woman's eggs with sperm and selecting the embryo which has the requiered characteristics. Thanks to PGD Adam was an ideal bone marrow donor for his sister and thanks to that molly was cured. She was the first child cured thanks to PDG. So this text perfectly illustrates a type of progress, the medicine improvements.
In my opinion progress is a very good thing when it's used to cure or improve and facilitate daily life but progress can have perverse effects like in the first document where all human are the same, for me it's a really awful thing because the physical and moral differences are important to talk, to exchange opinions and to differentiate one another. Moreover, it's a kind of freedom to be different.
To conclude, progress is very important to live in better conditions but it shouldn't be used for anything and all the time otherwise it can be dangerous. We can also relate these documents to the notion places and forms of power because these improvements, harmful or not, are a kind of power.
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I'm going to talk about the notion of the idea of progress. First of all, progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change in a given area such as in politics with democracy, transport, technology or medicine with the discovery of medicine for different illness. All of these improvements are realized to make the world a better place. So we may answer (ask) the question : is progress always positive? To answer this question I chose two documents. The first one is a cartoon entitled "odd man out" and the second one is a text extract from USA today. I have chosen these documents because they offer different points of view about progress.
The first document "odd man out" shows a factory which creates human beings. In this factory all the humans are the same, same face, eyes, mouth, underpants and we can suppose they also have the same temper (why be so specific to temper). These similarities are possible thanks to eugenics, a science which studies methods of improving the genetic composition of the human race by selective breeding. And if there are men who aren't conformed to the regulation because they are too small, pale, don't have the right hair color or have a disproportional member in their bodies, they will be thrown into the dustbin. This cartoon is very interesting to use in the illustration of the notion idea of progress because the artist denounces the idea of perfecting human genetics and the resulting dehumanization.
We saw the bad aspects of progress through a cartoon. Now I'm going to approach another side of progress.
The second document is a text about a girl, Molly (name of a person begins with a capital letter), who had been saved by her brother, Adam. Indeed molly had a rare illness and she was destined to die before the age of seven. So molly's parents decided to turn to PGD, a science which consists of selecting the embryo that has the required characteristics. Thanks to PGD Adam was an ideal bone marrow donor for his sister and hence they were able to cure molly. She was the first child cured thanks to PDG. So this text perfectly illustrates the right kind of progress; advancement in medicine.
In my opinion progress is a very good thing when it's used to cure or to improve and facilitate daily life but (no need of repeating the word progress after you mentioned it earlier) can have perverse effects like in the first document where all human beings are the same, for me it's a really awful thing because the physical and moral differences are important to talk, to exchange opinions and to differentiate one another (sentence very long, you need to break it down). Moreover, it's a kind of freedom to be different.
To conclude, progress is very important to live in better conditions but it shouldn't be used for anything and all the time otherwise it can be dangerous. We can also relate these documents to the notion places and forms of power because these improvements, harmful or not, are a kind of power.