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Oh my got!!! I was wondering why my coment didn't come up on this, even though I DID bloged on 3o,Januarty...Now I understand. I bloged on CM FALL term one. I'm so sorry. I'd like to apologise for people who had ti blog me at that week.


I had my presentation on last Friday. I had many oppotunities to do poster presentation since I have entered ICU, so I think it became much better compare to my first poster presentation. I was quite satisfied with my presentation :)

Feed back Questions

1. How did this exercise help you improve your communication skills?It improves my skills to speak crealy in front of the audience. Since my presentation has to be understood by the audience, I have to carefully see the audience's reaction, and if it seems that they are not following me, I have to try to make them understand by expalining in other words, or speking more slowly. So, it also improves my skill to see the audience. Moreover, by experiencing such presentations, I can be less nervous in next presentation.

2. what advice can you give classmates about poster design?I saw to presentation and both were excelent!! One had little too many texts, but it was still easy to see. Both of them "speak" to me, rather than just to "read". I think we have to have a poster which does not have much text, and we have to speak. And I think it is important to "speak" in other words, having eye-contact.

Interview Questions

My interview Questions is about designer babies.

1) What kind of image do you have toward genetic enginering?(If there is a context that it is legitimated)　

2) Suppose you are having baby in near future, would you do genetic engineering? Why or why not?

3) ① for people who answered yes... Would you want to add positive apects, such as inteligence, or good looking and so on? (If people talk about thin in question 2, I would not ask this)

②　for people who answered No... If you are a child who lack legs becouse of genetic problem, or carrying fatal diseases, then your parents tell you that " We could make you a healthy boy/girl as others by genetic engineering, but we thought it is {I put reasons which came out from question 2} , so we did't it.

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+② Again, ask the same question as 2)

In order to get accurate deta, I need quite large amount of interviewees, so i'm planing to interview to my ELP class, or a soccer club which I belong to.
I'm not sure my interview question is good or not.
Please tell me your opinion!!

Practicing Interview Skills.

To get nice skills of interviewing, I interviewed ken that "If you could genetically engineer your child, would you do so?" on 14th, December, 2007 in CM class.

He answered yes. He said that by engineering his child, unfortunate cases, such as having congentional diseases, or lacking some parts of his body can be avoided.

I also asked if he belived in any religions, and he said no. I assumed that not believing in any religions might affects little bit on his answer.

After I interviewed him, I was interviewed , and asked the same question by Mio, and I answered No.

I just feel it is unethical. Moreover, if I engineer my child, and change every single parts that I don't sutisfy, she/he will be an perfect child! I don't think it's fun to bring up the perfect child. Everyone has defects, and the role of parents is that to make their children overcome defects.

I thinkI am interested in "cloning".

As you know, cloning is such a tough issue in today's world. There are various ideas about cloning.

I herad that some scientists are trying to clone "headless human" in ARW class. Organs of headless human can be donated to patiants. In my ARW class, most people disagree with this idea because it wierdo, or the idea of clonig invades human rights. However, image you lose some parts of your organ by accident, and there is no donor. Then you hear news about headless human. You would probably agree with it.

So, I guess cloning is not a simple "agree or disagrre" problem.

Thank you.