2017, Q5: A text set in a challenging environment has much to teach us

Introduction
“Literature is an expression of society just like the word is an expression of a human being” and dystopian literature builds an environment that alarms us and makes us unease around this terrifying society that is being built around us. This forces the audience to examine and reflect on their own society. This is the dystopian warning. Dystopias often do this by the use of extreme totalitarian control over their people, increased surveillance and technological growth. The world they create often suppresses the individual. Dystopias warn us what may happen if we sit passively and don’t question or take action the people in control to prevent this from becoming our reality, and this is the lesson they come to teach us. The mother of all dystopias, Nineteen eighty-four warns us of precisely this by showing a society that does not question or take action against their government and how this has led society where even their thoughts are controlled. This shows the reader that the challenging environment of a dystopia teaches us to pay attention to the world around us so we do not become sheep to the slaughter. Nineteen eighty-four does this by the control of language, history and the dry nature of controlling people itself, all to teach us why we shouldn’t passively sit back and let the people in power have free rein.

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Language is the railways that guide and direct our thoughts, creativity and originality; however, it also has the ability to limit, restrict and control our thoughts as well. This is an idea Orwell explores throughout the novel Nineteen eighty-four by creating an environment where a government that understands the power language can have and uses it to control the minds of there citizens. This is primary done through the language of Newspeak where we find out “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought” and one way this is done is by “destroying words, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone”. By removing so many words, recreating syntax and reinventing gramma we find out that Newspeak removes many underlying elements that make sentences more than just a way to convey facts and surface-level information. This is ironically shown with the metaphor used in “We’re cutting the language down to the bone” where giving a sense that they are removing all the flesh which is the elimination of emotional, creativity and the originality from Newspeak. Instead, they are left with a language that is bare which primary purpose is to convey facts and information. We see the devastating effects this has on the society of Oceania in the novel as “Thoughtcrime will become literally impossible because there will be no words to express it”. The citizens literally do not have the language to speak against the government without sounding unorthodox and therefore the idea sounding alien to themselves and everyone else. This has to lead to their thoughts being unwilling and unknowing controlled and being experimented with. Orwell has built this environment to teach and warn us to pay attention to the language used in our everyday lives because much of it is used to capture our attention by people who want something from us. Otherwise, if we remain unaware there will be consequences, whether it be buying a product you don’t need, or suffering a similar fate as the citizens of Ninneteeneighty four.

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Orwell presents to the reader the disturbing power the authors of history books have over our society and how they could subtly, or sometimes not so subtly, influence our thoughts and therefore our actions. Nineteen eighty-four goes to the polar extreme to shows us to what extent our thoughts could be controlled by being set in an environment where the State has total control of every written book and record. By presenting the past as a gloomy time where the standard of life was low and controlled by the wealthy, the State is able to trap their citizens in the mindset that the Party has improved the wellbeing of its citizens more than any other government had. This then leads to the “The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison” because “He believes that he is better off than his ancestors“. Which raises the question how reliable is history given, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”. This paired with Newspeak makes the citizens of Nineteeneighty four to not even question the State if what they are being told is true as their language doesn’t allow it and the history books say they are living in the best era. But this, of course, is an illusion written by the State. As Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors” which is exactly what Orwell is trying to teach us in this disturbing environment. It is the winners of war, the conqueror of nations that are able to write the history books, and they like every other nation have there biases and of course, believe that it is the other nation that is at wrong. All too often is history in the boots of one side rather than a collective. This is why it is important that we question past events and find their motives while putting our selves into other’s shoes.



Alteration/manipulation of History
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“When memory failed and written records were falsified—… the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
“The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past… because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors “
“Whatever happened you vanished and nor you or your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history”
“for how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?”

Perhaps one Orwell most dire warnings is that we humans in masses can be controlled much easier than we think. In Nineteeeneighty four this idea is spread through out the novel such as “Men are infinity malleable”. Here the masses are being sybomilsed as metal as large numbers of humans can achieve amazing achievemnts in short peiods of time. But we are malable, we can be shaped and influced while we are not aware. One way this is shown in the novel is the 2 minutes of hate where large amounts of people gather together were shown pictures of the “enemies” “Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”

Other methods and the nature of control
“Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious”
“The hate continued exactly as before, but the target had been changed.”
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly”
“A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the thought police”
“Power is tearing human minds into pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing”
“Men are infinity malleable”

How Dystopias use language to convey their setting in their society and how this reinforces their warning to us the reader.

• Minority report
• The society is betrayed as a utopia like many dystopias are by the cleanliness of public places by of the clean smooth white faces that cover the buildings Interior and exterior walls as well as the mall’s floor.
• In the mall scene, the exposure of the camera is up too high leading to overexposure of these white surfaces making them appear even cleaner and perfect.
• Within the mall scene chase scene soft classical music, with the selected instruments of a calming timbre is played throughout it despite the tension of the protagonist’s Johns potential capture. This along with everyone else seeming to not notice John and Agatha stumbling around shows the calm numbness of the citizens going about there life in a world which they think is a Utopia.
• This supported the fact that precrime prevents all murder try to show how its a Utopia
• However, from the scene where the spiders are released, we see public residence to be dirty with rats crawling around as well with what appears to be a homeless man and a drug addict in the entranceway.
• We also see the total invasion of privacy when the spiders take there eye scans and everyone in building stops whatever they are doing and let the spiders do their tasks. One such example is when 2 people are in a violent fight and they stop halfway through
• The bird’s eye view shot going over the walls as people move through different rooms show the total surveillance the state has over the people no matter whether they are as well with the broken glass that covers some of the rooms show the destruction of this privacy
• The music during this scene such as the tremolo cellos which have a large amount of dissonance with the deep double bass and synthy sub-bass provides a lot of tension to scene and shows how uncomfortable it is for the residence. Also the spacey sound with a large low self filter and been boosted around the higher frequencies shows an element of unnatural to this and makes it undesirable to us the audience

• Nineteen eighty-four
• Gorge Orwell proposes the power a state can have by changing language
• Like Minority report

• Clockwork orange
• The fact that the younger population uses Nadsat(the made-up language) and the rest of the population use English suggests that their is a segregation between the two.
• The fact that Nadsat is Russian influenced and given it was from the time(1960-70s) where the west feared the USSR taking over suggests that USSR succeeded (or are succeeding) in the communism take over or that the USSR and USA came to some agreement and have since agreed to coexist inside each other.
• “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him“
• “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
• The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self
• Footballers making everybody with fright by threatening not to play next Saturday if they did not get higher wages.
  Given that footballer in our society, these are some of the highest-paid people, this suggests that this society is rather poor and can’t afford entertainment such as sport.
• The gramma used by Alex who narrates the story is quite poor suggesting the education system in this society is not great and as we see with many other aspects, probably many other features we have in our society are not great
  

• Bladerunner 2049
• Caps and the font type in the open scene give almost a military feel which gives an assertion of control
• Dirty polluted air shows decay
  Extensive uses of greys and similar patterns also indicate a kind of boringness and the destruction of the natural land scape
• Opening music is a very modern dystopia type where they use excessive amounts of synth layers and even the strings are synths as well. This clearly indicates aspects like the destruction of the environment as no natural instruments are present, destruction of the past we once knew and how alien and different the society is going to be despite only being 20 seconds into the opening scene.
• This Alien feel with the swelling (and uneven oscillations of db’s) unnatural synths also make us the audience uncomfortable
• Air so dirty that u can hardly see a 100 metres away along with the dead tree reinforces the destruction of the environment/
• Farming grubs for protein shows how despite the people must be for protein
• Protagonists interest in a dying flower shows how little of nature they actually see
• The Pyramid like structures / Egypt symbolism almost as if Wallace views himself as a god or a pharaoh who is. messenger to a god. This shows the fact that the power the people who make and control the replicants are
• The Egyptian theme that the slaves follow a pharaoh that build his Pymid so when he dies he goes to heaven or the stars.
• Wallace being blind (or impaired vision at least) is good symbolism for not being able to properly see and understand the treasure of human life
• Places a sheep in front of K shows how in the beginning at least K is just being another sheep following his orders.

Texts (not ordered)

Main Dystopia Ideas

• The author’s expression and spin of the fears of the time to warn us what happens if…
• Surpression and control of the individuals and therefore the population to conform with the “Party” (the body in power) for example
• Totalitarian goverment
  
  Essay idea
  How Language influences thought and then how Thought influences language

Nineteen eighty-four
Uses language, “Newspeak”, to “Narrow the range of thought” therefore limiting there thought making them unable “have original thoughts”
Oceania Ministry of Truth alters the past so the citizens have “No standards of comparison” is another form of control.
This is a common theme in dystopias where the state in order to control the population will try to control their thoughts.
This is a dystopia connection. Spend less time.
Big brother poster, telescreen and thought police are surveillance which places the individual under the constant watch of the eye and is how they monitor there actions. This forces them to conform with the state’s view and limits the ability for them to communicate with others about different ideas that could speak out against the state.
Quotations
Newspeak
“We’re destroying words, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone”
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”
“Thoughtcrime will become literally impossible because there will be no words to express it”
“Mental training undergone in childhood and grouping itself with Newspeak words, crimestop, black-white and doublethink makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever”
Altering History
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“When memory failed and written records were falsified—… the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
“The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past… because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors “
“Whatever happened you vanished and nor you or your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history”
General Control
“Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious”
“The hate continued exactly as before, but the target had been changed.”
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly”
“A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the thought police”
“Power is tearing human minds into pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing”
“Men are infinity malleable”

Minority Report
The focus of the visuals
Clean, sanatised
MInority report also tries to make itself look like a Utopia about having a perfect world with no murder, but as we dive deeper we can clearly see how imperfect this society is which is like many other dystopia texts where the society tries to create this perfect society.
Controls and suppresses the individual by eliminating the choice of being good or bad. This is also a form of mind control as the population is forced to make or not make certain decisions. This like nineteen eighty-four narrows the range of there thought.
Like nineteen eighty-four the people in minority report are almost always viewed and tracked by the state by iris scanners (symbolism of eye with).
This then brings up the dilemma that if an individual cannot choose between good or bad does that mean there are any good individuals
There is also propaganda used to try and show how good precrime is such as statistics which as we know aren’t a reliable source as there many ways to skew them to a certain view.


Bleech bypass process filter used throughout the film
Police with so much tech that it strips their humanity, this reflects the society.
Tech screens on their masks mean that controls what they can see.
Clean for in public places but decay in the citizen’s residence. This shows the underbelly of the utopia.
Bleech light
Bird’s eye view putting us in the position of the state showing us the invasion of privacy. Broken glass shows us the destruction of it
Breaking up a agruement shows that the state doesn’t care and that they have total control showing there control as they cant even stop their augrement
Noone resists showing its normal
Rat showing more evidence of decay


Quotations
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
“If there’s a flaw, its human. It always is”
“Remember the eyes, John. The eyes of the nation are on us”
Occasionally, the pre-cogs disagree” (Minority Reports – are deleted instantly – “no-one wants to base a justice system on uncertainty” You have a choice, you can walk away” fate or free will

Clockwork Orange
The younger population using the Russian Slavic language blend
Controls and suppresses the individual by eliminating the choice of being good or bad.
Quotations

Politics of the English language.

Quotations
Statements with some meaning
“Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.“
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.”
“It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts“
“If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration:”
“The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else,“
“As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.“
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible[…] atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, 

Language + Newspeak
“We’re destroying words, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone”
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”
“Thoughtcrime will become literally impossible because there will be no words to express it”
“Mental training undergone in childhood and grouping itself with Newspeak words, crimestop, black-white and doublethink makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever”

Alteration of History and power
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“When memory failed and written records were falsified—… the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
“The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past… because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors “
“Whatever happened you vanished and nor you or your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history”

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

Control
“Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious”
“The hate continued exactly as before, but the target had been changed.”
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly”
“A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the thought police”
“Power is tearing human minds into pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing”
“Men are infinity malleable”

Structure/approach
1) Read the question
2) Read the text
3) Think about the poem
4) Read the question again
5) Read the title
6) Read the text again
7) Find features within the text and quote
7) Form an idea about the text with relation to the text
8) go

An Artist’s Childhood
Q: Discuss the way the writer reflects on his own development
A:

Back to the Wekaweka
Disscuss the way the writer explores change
Owen marshall explores change by reflecting upon how although the physical aspects can change feelings do not
One way this is done is by the structure of the poem when “nothing remained” at the end of the first stanza which draws our attention to the destruction of the farm and farmhouse which have a depressing feel which was further applied by the alliteration of “Failed farm” This is then greeted by “except the creek that gave him his bearing“. This shows that although the farmhouse which is his most detailed memory and is what he remembered the place as it reveals that the beauty in the things that we don’t notice beforehand. This is also amplified by the listen to the kiwis and the moreporks which are sounds that would’ve not been as appreciated as they are now when we are forced to look elsewhere to what exists now. This supports Destruction is a form of creation along with quotes such as “Reverend to nature” as although the farm has been destroyed it is now home to a forest which holds its own life and its own beauty. This mixed with the idea of memories show that although all the physical aspects of what we remembered will never last, its what we remembered that really matters and makes life good. This is amplified when talking about the father dies and when he is about to die he accepts this fact because change is the only constant. “forested darkness of life’s end
lying calmly in the knowledge of our love“


Structure “nothing remained” leaving this before the break at the end of a Stanza draws our attention “except the creek that gave him his bearing” after stating that somethings do not change
Failed farm alliteration as well as the broader idea
Moss encumbered rock
Reverted to nature
forested darkness of life’s end
lying calmly in the knowledge of our love these two lines show the acceptance of death

Memories survive
The events that happened and the memories that are made do not

Authors Purpose

Quotes for structure
Quotes that occur in significant events

Character quotes

Character Quotes

Language

New idea

Idea 1

Background

Humanity has colonised the solar system where two powers stood. The Martian Republic and the Earth Federation. Space technology has got increasingly better where a single space ship can reach the outer solar system and back without needing to refuel due to harnessing and controlling nuclear fusion. Earth was in a dire environmental state where Ocean levels had risen by 10m and many ecosystems fell. Tensions were rising between Earth and Mars after Mars left the Inner planet alliance and thus both sides built military ships and began improving space combat. During the Earth federation elections United Union party leaders Orbital Jet was shot of the sky from what is believed to be from the Democratic of new China. This caused panic and confusion ultimately leading to many countries launching orbital weapons and nukes at each other. An hour later Earth was inhabitable.

Year: 2213AC or 42 years since the Great Exodus

Earth 

Luna

Brief

Population: 120 million
Luna was the first on the celestial bodies to be colonised by Earth. Unlike Earth, however, there were are only 2 large cities as it was easiest in its formation to have everything close together. The first of these cities is Mare, located on 3 of the 5 major mare plains on the surface which stretches for many hundreds of kilometres. 85% of the inhabits spend the majority of there time in the tunnels.

• Poorer population lives under Luna service
• Richer population live in domes and towers

Luna became Earths military shipyard and first strike capabilities strategic point when Mars broke off from the Interplanetary Federation. The moon had massive farms as well as water production and purifying facilities to be less dependent of food shipments from the home planet.  Before, Luna Served as the Gateway to Mars and were many of the first Martian expeditions were sent as well as supplies

• Has the greatest population and infrastructure of the 3 remaining groups

Post-Terra
During the Extremum Terrae some Interplanetary Warheads destroyed the Numbium branch of Mare. This is called The burning of clouds
After Earths fall thousands on Luna starved as farms couldn’t keep up

Martin republic
Population: 40 million
Mars has some of the brightest minds from all over the solar system as the pioneer scientist that lived there have had many kids which. Signed its independence from Earth 30 years before the Mortem of Terra.  

Galileo Alliance
A smaller collection of humanity in the outer soloar systme that primarily live on the Galileo moons

Characters
Fleet commander?
Pilot?

Ideas to play with
Worlds having all one race
Destruction of earth
Corrupt leaders coming into power
The destruction of earth
World superpower leaving earth and controlling other planets
No meat
People left with powerful military tools
Playing with Religion ideas with the beginning of mobile consciousness
Constant viewing
Plot points
Luna running out of plant diversity? Needing to go to Earth Callisto
Needing to go back to earth

Fronted Prepositions
1) At the bridge’s entrance stand two guards wearing stitched faces.
2) Beyond the bridge, a large gate separates the two worlds
3) Above the castle walled factory, soars the Fat Podgy Pig.
4) Within the factory, the workers making the bacon scream

Noun Phrases
2) Beyond the bridge, a large gate between the hopeful and hopeless separates the two worlds.

Simple Sentence
Rubbish populated the street.
The emptiness gave an echo.
The skyscrapers stood crippled.
A street light flickered in the distance.
The boy walked alone.
A one-wheeled suitcase followed the boy.
The stench of corpses lifted out of him.
Blood and sweat stuck to his watery skin.

Relative Clauses
A street light flickered in the distance which gave the emptiness gave an echo.

The boy walked alone while a one-wheeled suitcase followed the boy.

Example with Relative Clauses
Pop pop pop. The sound of water slumping onto an iron pipe which steadily echos through the madness of disarrangement that unrolls above, in the brown vicious fog. The stench of decaying corpses hugs the streets which is another sign of the world that is lost. Rows of sewers line the base of the central fortress which once used to be the world cathedral. The suffocating sun and the rotting rising sea has left the environment nailed to a cross.

The fortress which once was the Southward Cathedral is now the stronghold of London.
into a still water echo through the sewer

Now that Smoke rose from the smouldering remains now that only the concrete crumbled ruins stood.
The decayed bedrock chilled the air after the Thames ran dry.
Light struggled to shine on such day since all hope was lost

Writing a Dystopia
1) Gramma effects (see above)
2) Be decisive on a viewpoint (first person, third person etc)
3) Use known language effects (Pathetic fallacy, Neologism, Sematic field,
4) Character use
5) Symbolism
6) Technology

Technology
Application of society
Totalitarian
Future
Decay
Rebellion

We have accepted cancer. We have accepted cancer and so many other diseases to take the lives of our loved one.. We have disregarded the single most powerful tool against these terrible problems. Problems that we believe are out of our reach or behind lock doors. We have a new powerful tool that is emerging from what once was science fiction. This is genetic modification and it may just fix problems such as cancer

Now its important to stress here that genetic modification is not like in Scifi movies. Its not mad scientists in a lab where we can snakes have wings or creating making us like to be  Superman, Wonderwomen or, some far handsome Captain underpants. It doesn’t have the power to create any wild ravaging beast that will end our world tomorrow nor new superheroes that can shoot lazars or underpants from their hands. You see Genetic modification is selecting specific sequences of code in our genome and modifying them, just slightly, so our cells have new and better characteristics. We haven’t created new code but rather rearranged what we already have into something better. You will still be you. Want to eliminate cancer, Want to fix climate change, Genetic modification. Want to create better political leaders in our absolutely flawless society, genetic modification. We finally have the technology to fix some of the biggest problems in our imperfect reality. So where does one start? Let’s go back to that thing called cancer. 

Cancer kills 7.6 million people a year. The cause of it is unknown. We are no closer to finding a cure than we are to finding out than how life got here in the first place. Our current most well-known and effective way to try and treat cancer is chemotherapy. Listen. Do you want to know what the survival rates of people who go through chemotherapy are? Its just shy of 50%., our most effective method at fighting this beast that kills millions of people a year is just 50%.  Who here would bet to their life on a coin flip. Who here would bet their mother’s life on a coin flip. The sad thing is nobody should have to go through something as horrific as this. We have a number of solutions at our fingertips thanks to the use of genetic modification. Cancer is caused by critical random mutations throughout our genome so it makes logical sense if we stop it from its root cause rather than battle it with other harsh drugs that kill our body as much as it does cancer. We could increase our genetic redundancy to Cancer, we could import a selected few genes from blue whales that make them cancer resistance or give our white blood cells better systems to detect and kill the tumour are just a few methods we can start with.

So why aren’t we using it?

Its because in recent years a few narrowminded, ninwittited, double thinkers have exploited the media and painted a criminal image of GMO’s. 

There main augment was over an experiment many years ago when scientists were modifying the genome of apple trees in an effort to make them have natural pesticides so we don’t have to use sprays. Unfourtuanlly it didn’t work and all trees with the gene therapy died. But some people took this one experiment as a failure for all future events and tried to argue only the negative impacts it could have. Imagine if we said the same thing about penicillin back in the day and only looked at negatives about it like it kills the vital bacteria in your gut and that it was incredibly hard to manufacture. Yet now we use it and it saves untold amounts of lives. 

We don’t have to be the loudmouth minority. They say its tearing the human genome apart only to create a that is only not human. But isn’t the mere act of denying such a tool that could save the lives of millions is in itself, is not human. I ask please consider your humanity

But this by no means applies for only cancer.

Who here would like to think that one day they would like kids. The majority. Well, imagine that you’ve going through the effort (emotional and physical) into having a child. You are holding your first child in your arms. Its a boy! You stare at him in a state of euphoria thinking of the many years that are to come with him. In this moment you have never felt more alive, more present. A doctor walks through the door and says 4 words which you will never forget: “He has Cystic fibrous.” Average life expectancy, 37 years. Chances of going to school, low. Can he have children? No. Suddenly, doors shut and the world fades. This doesn’t have to be you or any other parent and child out there.

We could end, cystic fibrosis and literary every other genetic disease and disorder that exists. We can give every child who is born on planet earth an equal start in their adventure that is life. They will not be limited by their genes like so many people are today. 

But why not go further and open more doors.

For example, Who agrees that Climate change and our destruction to the environment is becoming exponentially worse within recent years. (raise hand). And raise your hand if you think we could all be doing better to save our planet. (raise hand) . x can you give me an example of what we have done to the planet. Yes, we have flattened forests, poured toxic chemicals in the skies and rivers, we have created islands of plastics and glass with a surface area of 1.6 million km. But for the 1st time in history, we can finally take the affirmative action and clean up the decimation we have caused to our planet, rather than just sitting back and saying its what a shame is. We can use Genetic modification to engineer trees that grow faster a have a higher yield of wood so we can stop cutting down more forest. We can engineer plants that literary breath in these dangerous chemicals and more CO2 and let them use it for their own fertiliser. We can engineer types of bacteria and fungi that work together as an ecosystem that break down the plastics in the ocean. We can fix what the previous generation couldn’t accept. Your children will not be the last generation that walks the beaches of earth, nor their children or the children after that. They will have a home called earth that will greet them with open arms.

We shouldn’t fear the unknown. We shouldn’t be scared of what lays behind those unopened doors. What does as humanity stand to gain by refusing new ideas and closing the curtains? In our world, In our universe, there is only one certainty. Change is the only constant.

What we do now will ultimately choose the very doors we go through and equip us with the very tools to the many challenges that await. We must work together and unify as one collective. We must take what is given for our pursuit.

We don’t have to become death, the destroyer of worlds, but rather we can become the author’s of our changing world and beyond. Genetic modification may just be one of the many keys. 

Framework:
1)Benefits against diseases
2)Pushing our selves further
4)Benefits on food

Genetic Modification points
Removing diseases
Appeal to emotion: Imagine if as a father or mother your child has a terminal disease that could be prevented

How we could reduce the number of people stuck in hospitals including mental ones.

People would be healthier to a much longer age so much more we can do in our lives more places we can see

We could modify our selves so our immune system is much stronger. We could end cancer. End AIDS and end viruses such as coronavirus

We can modify crops so we don’t need to put harmful pesticides on them that hurt our serves and the environments

We could push our selves to the limits we could travel to the stars

2) Allows us to push our selves to our limits
3) We have the control
4) Super Human
5) We would become smarter
6) Everyone who is engineered could contribute to society
7) Why its ok

We once thought computers would take over the world

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