Final Reflection

This research paper was a nice intro to writing a good college level product. I learned so much about my topic and also the tools used to research the topic. Everything was layed out very nicely and easily by the professor on our blog sites from the speed dial to our hybrid assignments to the submit pages. I picked the topic of clones portrayed in film and my thesis was "Based on my understanding of the movie, several scholarly sources and actual case studies, I will argue that the portrayal of generating perfect human clones as organ carriers in Micheal Bay’s The Island is inaccurate and serves as an ignorant interpretation of the real scientific hurdles and understanding of human cloning."
With the help of the online activities and the breakdown of all the milestones, I believe this paper was on the easier side. It was not much of a stress to try and finish it at once like other papers. My favorite resource was the Gale virtual reference library. It had nice scholarly sources which I used for my paper. I believe I did all my work and assignments on time and with motivation so if I had to change anything about that it would be to do it in a better environment free of stress and other work.
Advice to future students is to keep up with all the weekly assignments. It basically is your paper being written for you a few paragraphs at a time every time you do the assignments. In the end all you'll have to do is put it all together and format it correctly and you're done! Keep up with all your milestones and save your work and sources because its hard trying to keep up with everything. Advice for that is that make a folder on computer or real life and save your work as you go.
Lastly, this class was a pleasure, the professor was great and very helpful and laid back. There should be no reason not to pass this class!!! I hope to use what I learned in this class and apply to future papers and research.

My Final Research Paper Game Plan

During the next week, I need to work on a few things to make my paper complete and A worthy. Based on my feedback I need to cite a lot of sources in the paraphrased sentences. I also need to add about a page or two more to the paper to discuss Stem cells and 3D printing because it relates to my topic. I have a few grammatical errors and I used APA style cites for the page so I will fix that. For my paragraph structures I need to include some transition sentences to make it flow more nicely and evenly. This is not a lot of work and with the help of the feedback I can finish this paper. It was a great experience to learn how to write a paper like this in small easy steps. My sources were good but I would add about 2 more to make it 9 in total.

Close Reading of Film Stills in "The Island"

Figure 1: Film Still from THE ISLAND

The first film still from The Island is of clone Lincoln meeting the real Lincoln. When watching the film it was a good scene where the real Lincoln was shocked to find out bout the clone escaping and finding him. in this scene they are siting face to face and you can see that clone Lincoln is happy to find his original while the original Lincoln is just astonished and curious to find out more about his clone.



Figure 3: Film Still from THE ISLAND

The second film still I chose from The Island is of the scene where it is revealed how clones are made and stored. Unlike premature babies in the womb, the clones are fully grown in a blue liquid being fed and nurtured. Embryos are small, cute and very delicate and when watching the movie I saw the the was the opposite. These were fully grown human clones that are being downloaded with what they should know. The film still shows this with the embryotic sac type of storage and blue build and shadows  of the clones in really weird and unnatural positions.

My Research So Far

After extensive research and comparing topics, I decided to do my research paper on  Research  Paper  Idea  #4  -­Portraying  Human  Clones  in  Film . With Research Topic 4,  Portraying Human Clones in Film, I would choose the film  The Island (2005) -- Unaware they are clones, Lincoln and Jordan seem to live in a paradise. They don't know that they were created to one day have their organs 'harvested.'  Eventually, Lincoln figures out what's going on and escapes along with Jordan.)  Cloning has been a controversial topic for a long time. It has moral and ethical questions in regards to the use of the clones and their self identity. The movie is about clones being made to harvest their organs and that is a problem in the real world because some people view the clones as people and others see them just as life saving carriers.
    I had never seen the movie before so it was great to see something as interesting as this topic being portrayed in Hollywood. Before I saw the movie I had questions that I wanted answered. Questions such as, how does Hollywood show clones? Is the movie realistic? What are the clones being used for? After watching the movie (which was great by the way),   was pretty mesmerized by the first 30-40 minutes of it. It had a good portrayal of clones and their uses.  This movie focused on using clones as therapeutic purposes and organ harvesting. People paid to have a perfect identical clone of themselves to use in case anything ever happened to them. They called them their “insurance policies” and also gloat that they are cheating death. 
    With my topic, generally I want to explore clones and their uses in the real world. I want to see the legal processes and regulations for them, the ethical and moral questions that arise with them and also if there are attempts of cloning now or anywhere in the near future. I have used my new found skill of using the Gale Research Library to find reliable texts and publications to help my research. A lot of what I have found answers my questions about clones. There are a few informative links which also give historical context of past attempts at cloning.  Also I have found that many countries have banned cloning and any related processes due to public demand.
    All of my questions and interests relating to the topic can be answered with multiple sources such the texts and the movie. In summary, I will focus on Research Topic 4,  Portraying Human Clones in Film and use the movie The Island(2005) to understand and reiterate my findings on clones. The movie shows clones being used for therapeutic and organ harvesting purposes and also it is shown that people have moral concerns of the clones being living organisms. They are misled to believe that they are only genetic organisms that contain organ or organic matter that can be used by a sponsor. This is prevalent in the real world where many countries such as the UK have banned cloning altogether. Past attempts such as the sheep named Dolly were successful in their own right but still need more scientific research to advance. So far there aren't much attempts because of the advancement in science to use stem cells and 3d printing to help people.

My Research Topic

My topic for my research paper I have chosen is Human Clones portrayed in films. I will be using the movie The Island to study the topic. Cloning has been a very controversial topic in moral and ethical manner. The acknowledgement of clones as a human being is questionable because they are man made. The moral questions and the use of clones as organ donors is always a hot topic because you are killing clones for human organ harvesting. I have not seen the movie before so it will be a good introduction to Hollywood and their POV of clones.

Welcome to my blog for ENG 103.

Welcome to my blog for ENG 103.

My name is Deepak Kumar I am from India and was born there. I came to the United States at the age of one and have been living in Queens, New York my whole life. English and writing is my favorite subject and this class seems to be my all time favorite for this semester. I graduated from Aviation HS with my FAA air-frame and power-plant licenses being certified to work on aircraft anywhere in the world. I have an associates degree in civil engineering management from City College of Technology. I came to LAGCC to get a degree in Criminal justice so I can pursue a career with the NYPD. English is my strongest and most favorite subject. This class is tied up with movies, books and articles so it makes me even more excited to learn about many diffrent forms of sources and research.