Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Beastie Boys!

For those of you who do not know the Beastie Boys that are a rap group from Brooklyn, New York. The group consisnts of MCS Mike D, MCA and Ad rock.

The Beastie Boys is my favorite hip-hop group and i have been listening to them for ever. I can remember when i was little my dad use to secrely putt on the License to Ill album when my mom wasn't home because if she found out she would kill my dad.

The Beastie Boys have produced 7 albums and there new album is going to be out in May, 2011. They have currently sold 22 million albums in the U.S. and 40 million worldwide.

My personal favorite is Liensed to Ill. This the first hip hop LP to top the 200Bilboard charts. It is Columbia Records' fastest selling debut record to date and sold over 9 million copies.



This is my favorite ablum because the is literally one song of the album that i do not like. Its a really fun album. That i think is about being young, wild and crazy.
My top favortie songs on the ablum would be:
1)Time to ill
2)Brass Monkey
3)Slow and Low

The Beasite Boys won three grammys for their work. They won Best Perfomence for a rap goup or duo for their hit Intergalactic in 1999, Best Alternative Performence for Hello Nasty in 1999, and Best Pop Instrumental Album for The Mix up in 2008. They have been voted #77 in The Rolling Stones for 100 Greatest artisit of all time.


It would be a my dream to see the Beastie Boys live. They are my number one band that i wish i could see live.







Monday, April 4, 2011

Genetic Engineering is it morally right?


Genetic Engineering is direct human manipulation of an organism's genetic material in a way that does not occur under natural conditions. In other words it means that you can basically control how a baby can turn out. You can put what kind of hair color, eye color and can prevent your baby from having a genetic disease.

The Good!
-Gene therapy is used to treat genetic diseases at the molecular level by correcting whats wrong with the defective gene.
-Possible to make diseases not as bad

The Bad:[
-Genetically modified organisms
A)Scientist can create plants animals and microorganisms by manipulating the genes in an unnatural way
B)GMOS can spread and then breed with normal organisms and then create a hole new unnatural species
-A Scientist would be playing "god"

My personal opinion is that i think Genetic Engineering is a good idea to help treat or prevent genetic diseases that could one day kill your child but i don't think that it should be used to play "god". I don't think that we should mess with how we are suppose to look or create new organisms that are not natural. We shouldn't be able to create the "ideal" human. If you think about if we were able to then everyone would be the same. There would be nothing special or unique about an individual. Life would be BORING.

If you are a christian or not, morally we aren't ment to create a super human or animals. I think that we should let it occur the natural way, not scientifically.