ENG 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Soundscape, Eviction, Homeric Hymns

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Geraldine Arbach

Document Summary

Corbeil: the advertised infant: ivan"s adventures in babyland. Jackson: gals and dolls: the moral value of bad toys. King: how i spent my summer vacation: history, story, and the cant of authenticity. King jr. : letter from birmingham jail in response to public statement by eight alabama. Murray: the maker"s eye: revising your own manuscript. Chromos: company arti cially producing arti cial chromosomes that can be instilled with functional genes for therapeutic/drug production purposes. Eugenics traces at least as far back as the ancient greco-roman world, when deformed or weak newborns were often killed. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (pgd): after ivf and the embryo has divided into 8 cells in a dish, one cell is removed and analyzed for disease-causing mutations. Technology has pushed the eugenic moment almost to the point of conception. There are debates over using pdg for sex selection or for enhancement.