My Favorite Quotes


"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox



"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
~ Tommy Lasorda





"Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life."Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."~ Lance Armstrong




Monday, April 23, 2012

Designer Baby: Right or Wrong?

With the new age of science and technology comes issues with controversy and opinions about all the new advances happening. One of the big issues is test tube babies or the nickname, designer babies. Scientists can now match up a parents sperm and egg cell to see what the DNA would be. Now why is would we even need this? Well in many cases an older sibling has a disease where they need an exact donor, which can be filled by these test tube babies to exactly match their older sibling to save their life. Now the argument is whether or not this scientific method of choosing you baby's DNA is ethical, moral, even natural. In my opinion I think that in the cases where this child can save their siblings life then it is completely ethical. Neither of the children are being hurt and they are actually saving a life. In the face of whether or not the child was born from love I think it all starts and comes from love and in turn when the child is saving it's older sibling the parent will love them even more. I know for certain I would do anything to save my sister if she needed it no matter what so even though some say these kid's don't have a choice when saving their sibling they would probably volunteer if given the chance.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Denying the Holocaust. Really?

How can you deny the fact that the Holocaust was a real and terrible event that happened in history when there is sources upon sources of information that proved it happened? There are a number of survivors that lived through this horrific event that can assure you that it happened. There are an endless amount of historical books that describe the devastating things that happened in the concentration camps. There are camps and gas chambers still standing today holding the memories of the human lives lost  in those places, hard proof that what the Germans did to these people were very much real. How can someone say it never happened? The fact that people can and would believe this scares me for the future. If we try to cover-up something like this it will happen again. We need to acknowledge our mistakes as a human race and to learn from them, not make up lies and conspiracies trying to cover them up. There is a colossal number of sources and proof that shows that this event happened in history and that it should never be forgotten, there is no reason for someone to believe the Holocaust never happened if you just did your research.