Persuasive Essay: The Folly Of Big Science Awards

“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.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”. This is the famous and well-known saying by Les Brown. In our unit, we found all kinds of evidence that proved that dreams are both worth, and not worth it. In our unit, we read books, searched articles online, listened to motivational speeches, and watched videos online, all arguing on whether dreams are worth chasing or not. Of course, some dreams are just downright impossible or may seem too difficult; but having a goal motivates people to keep moving forward down their path, it can give a person happiness if achieved, and fulfilment in life. Even if they’re never really achieved, we could obtain these things, and possibly more.

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.

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

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 world is not a cultivating place for scientists. Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein; or a Modern Prometheus and Will Rodman, from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, are met with constant opposition to their studies and goals. The current state of scientific research is embodied in both these works. Both protagonists are restricted creatively and shunned by their peers. And if a scientist does not succeed or make a new and benefiting discovery, they are shunned even more and judged by society.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Should everyone get a trophy? I think yes and no, because if youth athlete's are being rewarded with participation trophy's. The participation builds confidence but then again takes away the confidence. Reasoning for that is the reason that they should be given that trophy is because they have made a impact on the team. But no, the coach just gives them one to make you feel good which shouldn't be done.

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.

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.