Persuasive Essay: The Folly Of Big Science Awards

Every year, the most successful musicians across the globe gather for the Grammy Awards. Ever since 1959, the world has tuned into their televisions to get a glimpse of the most popular awards show in the United States. Recently in 2016, the Grammys committee changed a very controversial rule. Traditionally artists that were unsigned to a record label were unable to be nominated for an award. The new rule, however now allows unsigned artists to be nominated for a Grammy. This used to be a controversial topic due to the fact that unsigned artists are making music just like everyone else and deserve the same opportunities as everybody else. Unsigned

Many argue that wrestling should be excluded out of the olympics. Some say wrestling is a boring sport to watch, unhealthy, causes injuries and leads to children being violent. I find this to be very false. I think that wrestling is one of the most important sports, mentally physically and just all around. Wrestling is a sport that creates character and has children and young adults working hard for what they want to achieve.

“Hey guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you” (Qtd. In Krakauer 69). After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned everything, gave his entire savings account to charity, and then hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wild. In the novel, Into the Wild, Was McCandless justified in shunning society? McCandless was justified in shunning society because he simply wanted to find himself and be independent without any distractions from his friends or family.

I support that the originator of a theory or method should be acknowledged for their work, but they should not receive accolades from an invention that vastly revolutionized and commercially utilized their method. For society to truly appreciate and benefit from a science, they must be able to have access to it. This can only come from providing physical applications of newly discovered sciences to the citizens of our nation. The importance should be placed on applied science because it provides physical evidence that we are truly advancing technologically and scientifically. I believe that we can never truly understand the structure and behavior of our world without utilizing science on a physical level within

Being a woman in the sciences has already proven to be a struggle in some aspects. For instance, guys often double check my work or do not take me seriously because “girls don’t do science”. It makes it hard to feel confident in what I do and its sad that men often get all the credit. Shetterly’s story reiterated to me even more how men are those recognized, and even though the events of Hidden Figures were many decades ago, the same phenomenon persists

This is only reinforced by Cassuto’s work, as it discusses at length the “publish or perish” (Cassuto, 228) nature of scientific research. In an environment where highly visible success—the type of success that Schön embodied before his fraudulence was revealed—is needed in order to sustain a career, it seems that the system which dictates success should have nearly impassable safeguards against fraudulent achievement of that success. However, despite all that is both fiscally and less tangibly—chiefly by way of reputation and public trust—at stake, that may not be the case.

Scientists do not use their talents to help civilization, they are “Pure research men” who “work on what fascinates them, not on what fascinates other people” (49). They focus on continuing research just for the sake of science and are self-centered. They do as they please without helping society with it’s actual problems, like how the entire island of San Lorenzo is starving and living in poverty. Rather than working on something that could benefit others, the scientists continuously work on research that is not always even necessary. Science also does not care how their inventions effect other people, even if their inventions could potentially be harmful. After Dr. Hoenikker wins the Nobel Prize, the Hoenikker children use the prize money to buy their mother a tombstone and a summer home. John ponders why someone would receive a Nobel Prize for such a damaging invention and thinks, “‘Dynamite money,’ I marveled, thinking of the violence of dynamite and the absolute repose of a tombstone and a summer home” (65). People grant science rewards for creating damaging innovations that are ruinous. Dr. Hoenikker does not think about the harm his inventions could cause because he does not care. This negligent attitude causes the destruction that occurs at the end of the book when it says, “The moist green earth was a blue-white pearl. The sky darkened”, and, “the sun became a sickly yellow ball, tiny and cruel. The sky was filled with worms. The worms were tornadoes” (261). Dr. Hoenikker and his children are to blame for this demolition of the world because they are careless with how they use science. Science kills the majority of life on Earth, all because the Hoenikker’s treat the ice-nine with neglect. Science is irresponsible with how it treats the devastating inventions it

The first part of Sandra Harding’s Science and Social Inequality is comprised of 6 chapters that situate science firmly within the social and political world and ultimately serve to question the outcomes of its research

We should prepare ourselves for unusual times. Our country is involving to become more inclusive, but some oppose the change. Ultimately, only time will reveal who was on the right side of history.

About 57% of parents say that kids should not receive a trophy for losing a game. Most kids who play on a sports team, receive trophies at the end for winning. However, some people believe that kids should also get a trophy for just participating. Trophies are a good way to motivate to kids to keep playing whenever they win, but when they lose, they shouldn’t have a reminder of how they lost that game. Kids who play on sports team should not receive a trophy when they lose the game because the money used to make the trophies could go to other important things and by not getting a trophy, it teaches kids to learn from their mistakes.

The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This competition was held between 1955 until 1972 and enabled these two rivals to advance their ability of spaceflight and their exploration out of the Earth’s reach. The competition covered several ways in taking human life out of Earth’s orbit and to successfully bring them back home in the process. The Space Race brought about several controversial topics relating to how the USSR copied the methods conducted by the United States, how the United States retaliated against the USSR and the man landing was purposely staged or not. These factors contribute to a large extent on how the space race was won. The Space Race

In what I agree with Folger is in how science has done a lot of amazing creations. It has helped make somethings better, even some impossible things become possible. Yes scientists have done some great inventions that have produced a ton of money. I also agree that scientists might be more successful than politicians. I agree also in why politicians feel that scientists have achieved and done some great impacting things, which should be something to put out. For it to serve as an exemplary for all the

As according to Linda S. Dix, it is not an easy matter to assess the magnitude of gender discrimination and how that affects the careers of scientists, both men and women, positively and negatively. Discrimination is often subtle and thus difficult to identify or locate. Due to its subtleness, it makes it difficult to measure since it can be entwined with other forms of particularism like age. As a result researchers have come to rely on indirect rather than direct measures of discrimination which was also propounded by Harriet Zuckerman. Most researchers have come to agree that differences in career attainments between men and women occur as an outcome of gender discrimination.

The Children's Choice Book Awards gave us an amazing opportunity to choose our favorite children’s book in various categories. This is a very important approach to voting because we read the books and we should be the voters. I believe this is the right decision to allow us to vote for our favorites and who we believe deserves the most credit. Such awards help us to share our opinions on the awards and who we believe deserve those awards. Every children can vote based on various categories of books they read. I believe such an opportunity is very good for the development of future book reading and will allow more children’s to read books and vote for

In this paper I will summarize Merton’s description of the rewards system of science. I ask, “What should a good rewards system look like?” I make a normative proposition that we ought to completely separate the laboratories and businesses that provide the tools for scientists from the scientists themselves. I envision a style of science that allows individuals and teams of scientists to engage in open-source science that allows them to contract out their skills to particular institutions and groups that need a scientific service.