Frankenstein’s Footprint in Modern Times. Persuasive choice 2:
Choose a controversial scientific or medical procedure from the modern past couple of decades, and argue for or against this technology. First, explain what it is, in case your reader has never heard of it before. Include BOTH all possible pros and cons of it, regardless of which side you support (of course downplay the side you do not support). Your paper should also discuss the issue of these scientists/medical people attempting to perform or conquer things that are usually left either to “nature” or the “will of God.” Be sure to mention in what ways their work reminds you of anything/anyone in the novel Frankenstein. This essay should be 2-3 pages in length. Please list on a separate page any websites or other resources you used to gather information.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Which is included in the radio broadcast to capture the listener's attention that the original text of the story is not able to include

Read this excerpt from leah missbach day's foreword to wheels of change. bicycles have long played a role in my life. as a young woman, i rode one year-round before i had a car. but it was later in adulthood that the bicycle became more than a source of transportation for me. the bicycle actually began to truly shape the way i saw the world. what is the author's purpose for including this in the foreword?