In my first post I spoke about robots existing as their own entities. 

It's not just organic hearts being booted. A plethora of other organs are having mechanized versions of themselves made to take their place. Body parts such as eyes, legs, arms, and even ears have been remade with plastic and metal. Actually, I think this is great. So far people have only received these transplants if their lives or livelihoods depended on it. 
   
Society is riddled with new health problems that a greater number of people are developing, it is possible that these robotic organs will become conventional. At that point, what is to stop someone from going out and getting a body part removed and replaced for kicks? 

I think that the moment something that was originally for medical purposes suddenly becomes an item of vanity, a fault in the community has developed. As an example think of plastic surgery. Yes it is used for reconstructive purposes after an accident, but it is more well known as something cosmetic. It creates a fractured body image in people without, and it is very possible that people getting their surgeries can take it too far. 

  

There is a genuine part of me that would love being a cyborg... but shouldn't we put certain parameters and boundaries in place before there is even a possibility of these enhancements getting out of hand?

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For those interested, please feel free to fill out this survey. The results will be posted in the third and final blog, as well as my fun, incredibly distorted, and Martian view on what it could mean. 

This picture is a picture of a guy name Viet Khang who wrote songs expressing his feelings towards the situation of Vietnam trying to sell themselves to China.

​Here are some of the newspaper articles that are about this topic in this blog.
Here is the google translator to translate these articles.

​Here is the hyperlink to my first blog. I hope you will enjoy reading my article

Human Trafficking, a story that never ends…

 

Why does this continue? Will this ever end? Why does this happen? Is it for greed or do the Traffickers do this to feel superior? What are the reasons behind this? Is there a way to stop this?

         Human Trafficking is not just making people work in farms, orchards and factories; Human Trafficking puts women and children into prostitution. These people are sold into sex trafficking and their scared because they know that the place that they are being taken to is not going to make them happy.

         These children, women and men who become Victims are forced to work and are tortured if they slow down. They are even raped and treated like trash. This is beyond Human Understanding of why captors would do this. What is it that makes them think this?

         Human and Sex Trafficking is an underground trade. What I mean by that is that the underground is like a black market, it’s all done in secrecy. I found out that women that are aggressive towards their Captors are treated work while does their “work”. There is an interesting Blog Post I found that talks about not just women in Sex and Human Trafficking but men too. The comments show what people think about Human and Sex Trafficking. 

The Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement is a Movement that allows young free wild and DOPE poets to expreses them self using words. One day I attend one of there big slams and was amazed on how students from different school came up on a stage and told the crowd a story.  Not any old story, but one that they felt deep down inside. And when one of the students would get thrown off or stubble the crown would stop and cheer them on I though this was amazing. I later on joined the PYPM team. I stand for our SLA poetry club along with others.A poetry slam is where kids from different school come on stage and performs a poem and judges rate them from 1-10. But all students already know that no matter what the score is we know that they did good. Slams are at the franklin insitituted. PYPM is good place for kid to let there voices be heard. I think that everyone should go to one of the slams because there big and good.Which schools speaking words?

Capa                                                        Girls High                           OverBrook             Youth Build

Plymouth WhiteMarsh                            Constitution                        Upper Darby

See more here -https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1U9TUE2fp73VKxNASgS9NLLJkJC0KgPPtVNfoJuoOZRQ/edit 

    

 

     The you and the world project is important. My project tells about homelessness in Philadelphia. Homelessness affects many people, because it can happen to anyone. Homelessness is a big problem, and many don’t recover from it. The ways people recover from being homeless is getting help from shelters. Homelessness is defined as not having a fixed residence to sleep at in the nighttime. In Philadelphia, experts estimate that at many 4,000 people are homeless.

     The homeless population in Philadelphia has risen in the last two years. The population of homeless people is rising, and people are becoming homeless everyday. It is estimated that 4,000 are homeless and living on the streets. The homeless people would be getting food if it weren’t for mayor Nuttter. His ban stops all public feeding of the homeless.             

     People in parks and food corners downtown gave homeless people food. After the ban by Mayor Nutter people will not be able to feed homeless people. Homeless people were being feed, but now they won’t be. Mayor Nutter is currently trying to change feeding in city parks. He is trying to make them go to shelters to get food, but really he is trying to make them leave. Making the homeless people leave is degrading to them, and is going to make them leave.

     My issue is a big problem, and can be contained easily. The only problem is the effort that people want to put in. When the city works together, we can make a big difference. If the citizens of Philadelphia work together we can give lots of people home, and cut a big gap out of homelessness. When people work together they can do great things, so why don’t the citizens of Philadelphia help the homeless. If we work together we can make a big difference for the Philadelphia homeless.

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These are pictures from the movie, Bully.

This is just really harsh. Kids are becoming so violent.

Here is a picture trying to get people to stop bullying.

This project exists to publicize an issue of my choosing and also allow me to spread my opinion. 

I happily confess my belief that without machines life would be quite dismal. And with that sentiment floating in the back of my head, I have very mixed feelings about the advancement of those machines. Especially the ones that are being created to take the place of humans, because honestly, how can a person compete with something that performs perfectly, calculates perfectly, and never initiates a dispute?

The answer is, you can't. 

The phone apps, computer apps, and the internet serve their purpose by making stuff easier for their users - encouraging the mindset of 'why remember if I can look it up again'. Instead of daily sweeping there is the Roomba. For some, a plastic dog is more fun than a real one. The issue with all of this technology is that it is changing the way we think, in a big way: People are relying on these machines to do things they can't, won't, or don't know how to do. This is important to me because I don't want to live this way, and the future is likely to be even more intense.


In Japan there is a robot called SAYA who used to 'work' as a receptionist. Recently, "she" acted as a teacher for a group of middle schoolers. Her producers assure the public that she won't be bumping any teachers off of their jobs, but then the question is now why was she made? To digress a bit, robotics is advancing along two paths: artificial intelligence and physical movement and appearance. A lot of research goes into making machines that look and move like humans. For the most part, these eerie metal homunculi can only move with a remote control. 

The progression of artificial intelligence, on the other hand, is incredibly complicated. We humans are striving to give intelligence to our machines, constantly make them more efficient, and possibly more like us. That is why ethical questions must be answered - otherwise we won't be able to coexist with our creations.

How far will are we willing to take it? Does the ability to make decisions constitute person-hood? What about personality?


 But when each person has their own interpretation it is almost like out species is going backwards. 

Organic brain and computer circuitry: a controversial marriage.
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​   Hello reader, my name is Jules James. I am from Science Leadership Academy. I’m here to talk about my You and the World project. This project is referring to the benchmark about the critical problems in the society.  Now I know you’re wondering, what is a You and the World project? Well, You and the World is a project where I’m talking about a current event that is interesting to me and hopefully to you too. I am here to inform you about my current event and how I feel about it. I will also share with you the research I gathered or gathering and tell you what our people opinion on my topic. But today I’ll just tell you the research I have so far and I my opinion.

   My current event is the closing of schools in Philadelphia. This caught my attention because I was very interest in why they are closing the schools and is it a pro or con to other people and the district.

   The details I found on this website was:

• ·      The Philadelphia School District is planning on closing 40 schools and 6 schools per year until 2017 because of the huge debts they’re in
• ·      25% of students in the Philadelphia School District goes to charter school

   On this website, it tells us that:

• ·      The School District want to divide up into 8 different corporations with 30 school per corporation
• ·      The employees would go from 650 to 200
• ·      Some principles like what’s going to happen but some of them think it would mess up the School District
• ·      Someone think that Philadelphia will take the same path that New York has took and the academic skill might not increase

   As I read and took notes about closing of schools I was filled with a lot of questions and comments. So some of my questions were:

• ·      Instead of closing the school, why don’t they close small or poor businesses to save money?
• ·      Where is the school district going to send the kids that are in the schools that are closing?
• ·      Why are they acting on paying their debts now?
• ·      If Philadelphia keep closing schools, is there going to be enough school left for us, children or when the future comes (our kids)?
• ·      What’s going to happen to the public schools?

These are question that I wondered about when I was reading these articles. I feel that the articles give information but not as much as I wanted.

 

   Some comments I have about this current event is to be honest, I think it’s idiotic. They’re too busy thinking about the debt they’re in, they are not even paying attention to the children. What if one of the schools they’re closing is a child’s only chance of graduating because that child has a learning disorder, what are they going to do about that? Just because you send them to a school that you think would be good for them doesn’t mean they’re going to catch on quickly. But other than that issue, I have other opinions. Another opinion I have is I don’t think other people are seeing this as an issue like I do cause if they did I believe some one would had protested or tried to do anything they could to prevent this from happening.

   As the years go on everything is going to get worse. People might not see it now but they’ll see.

 

Years ­increasing = Academic skills decreasing

 

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  Animal cruelty happens all around the world. There are hundreds of thousands of recorded cases just in the U.S (that’s not including the global animal cruelty or the cases not recorded). We take what we need to survive from them. We take over their land and there homes. We take away their families. When will we ever stop taking and start treating them right? In my opinion animal cruelty and abuse is just disgusting.

  I am interested in animal cruelty because I am an animal lover, just like millions of people around the world. The animals need a voice to stop this abuse. There are many types of animal cruelty that people aren’t even aware about. People fail to recognize and report animal cruelty. The only reason this happens is because people are not aware of the laws. The thing is, laws differ from state to state. This makes no since there should be no animal cruelty period!   

  Once I saw videos of abused pigs, killed whales, and dog fighting I had to contain the tears. Dog fighting is a local case in Philadelphia where dogs are put into an arena to have vicious fights. This most of the time ends with serious injury or in some serious cases death. The dogs that are mostly used are pit-bull and Rottweiler, which are very power majestic animals.

    Pig farming abuse is highly known in the state of Iowa where there was an undercover video footage of abuse to the pigs. The company that was doing this crime was the Hormel Food Company. In this horrible caseworkers were videoed jabbing piglets and throwing them around. They beat and hit Pigs until they were not capable of walking or protecting their selves. They also were held in living conditions that were just not suitable for any life. The investigators were from the PETA and that witnessed one worker kicked the pig in his face and genitals to make the pig move. It was recorded that the worker said, “You got to beat on the bitch. Make her cry."

     The Denmark whale slaughter is a dragged on tradition by the local citizenship. The whales come close to the shore because they are friendly creatures that feel comfortable with interacting with humans. The young men of the town to prove that they are men kill them.

      Whale, dog, and pig cruelty are just a taste of the animals around the world that have been tormented.

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This picture is a glimpse of how bullying occurs in school. 

This picture shows how bullying can affect someone mentally and physically. 

This image conveys how helpless children can be if they are being bullied.