HAMLET CREW

Passive and Active voice sentences

Passive and Active voice sentences
1.Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.
2.A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.
3.Sheba, the dog, blocked the doorway.
4.Sheba had to be taken to the vet by Joanne.
5.The vet was worried by her condition.
6.While Joanne went home, the vet treated the dog.
7.Joanne was told to get out of the house.
8.Joanne was confused by the telephone call.
9.The burglar was captured by the police.
10.His fingers had been bitten off by the dog.

The Inmortal Coil # 3

Like we did today in class, I tried to create my own Dilema and apply all of Dawkins rules.
This, ¨The soccer dilema¨ is basically a dilema that involves two player. These two players are both the gollies of the two teams that are playing a soccer game. The final score was 1 to 1 so to find the winner they had to go to penalty kicks.
Here is where the dilema starts. The idea main idea of each gollie is to make their teams win and in order to do that, the golie must try toi stop as much goals as possible. At one point, the two gollies confront each other, one gollie kicks while the other stops and otherwise. The cooperator is the one that would cooperate with the team wich would be: scoring when kicking, and stopping the goal when goalling. The deffector would be the one that looses for the team woch would be: not scoring when kicking and been scored when goallie. I know it sounds a little bit confusing but I think it may work.

FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDMENT OF THESE DILEMA, THE TABLE ABOVE SHOWS HOW IT WOULD WORK.

The Inmortal coil # 2

Talking in class about the prisoners dilema planted in the read now, I realized that there was a very deep connection between that problem and the other planted in the reading of Dawkins. For this dilema, I think that the most likely way the prisoners would react or behave towards the situation is they would both betray each other. In this dilema, where the betrayer would be benefited no matter what, or at least by betraying the other, the possible results are never going to be the worst, then the process in each of the two personñs barin, is to immediatedly react to find their safetyness. What i mena by this, is that in a certain way, unconsciuousness plays an important role here as well as the automatic and instinctive behaviot if the humans genes in order to take the most beneficial desicion.
The ¨players¨ would betray each other in order to show their inocenc and protect themselves from more time in jail, rather tha risking the position of being accuses and hving to pay for more days in jail under several conditiosn. what we as a reader can tell immediately is that the best thing for each individual would be to stay silence because the sentence would only be six months rather than years, like I mentioned before.

THIS IS HOW THE DILEMA´S CHART WOULD LOOK LIKE

The inmortal coil

Like I mentioned before, many of the words that Richard Dawkins uses to describe the different types of processes are not very familiar to us. These is a short vocabulary that defines some of these types of words.

VOCABULARY

1. ALLELE: Genes that are rivals fighting for the same slot in the chromosome.

2. MEIOSIS: the division of cells into two new cells, that occurs only in the production of sex cells.

3. MITOSIS: The normal division of cells that occur when the two new cells each one receives a copy of the 46 chromosomes.

4. START SYMBOL: Where the process for meking the protein begins. Sequence of nuclotide lletter starting the sequence.

5. END SYMBOL: The last letter of a sequence in a protein chain.

6. MIMICRY: A phenomenon in wich some species use to survive by imitating a special characteristic of another resistant or superior specie.

7. POINT MUTATION: error misinterpated in a nucleotide or letter printed in a book..

The Replicators

This second chapter of ¨The Selfish Gene¨ is a little bit shorter than last chapter, but I found it more complex and difficult to understand the point Dawkins was debating. The first thing that confused me, was a term used in the first sentences of the chapter. ¨In the beginning was simplicity.¨ SIMPLICITY. The dictionary definition for this term is: the quality or condition of being easy to understand or do. After continue on reading through the chapter, I found again the word simplicity and I was able to adapt that definition to the context of this chapter.

Why are people?

This next book we are reading is called ¨The Selfish Gene¨ and is written by Richard Dawkins. aparently, this book is totally different from what we have already read in class and it calls my attention becasue the topic is not very common and is even less common in our context. You never think about why we behave how we do and were does all those behaviors come from. well I think many of these questions are going to be answered by Richard in this book.

Until now, I find very interesting reading the selfish gene because until know and by reading the first chapter I realize that most of the things you do and in almost all the cases your behavior, are controled by your genes and ¨natural infrastructure¨. I found this a very complex reading and most of the terms I dont know their meaning, but this I think will help me to learn more about this topic and leading me to investigate certain terms and certain biological body components.
Altruism: doing things for the good of the species or group.
Selfish: doing things for personal benefit in the face of the good of the group.
Its interesting how he defines these two words as in a behavioral context and not a subjective context of the person or group.