...Dolly Parton Christian Evans English II Honors Mrs. Murrell November 18, 2012 Evans 1 Dolly Parton On January 19, 1946, the wonderful Dolly Parton came into this world (Dolly Parton Biography (1946-)). “The American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist was also named “Queen of Country Music”” (Biography For Dolly Parton). She has had many accomplishments over the years. She has founded many attractions in her home county, won many awards, and helped people she doesn’t even know. In To Kill a Mockingbird, she relates to Jem because she helps people and doesn’t let anything bad happen like Jem does for Scout. Dolly helps her community with her attractions, Imagination Library, and just her support of everything. She is an overall good person and has had quite an interesting life. In 1996, Dolly Parton founded the Imagination Library. It’s a program that sends a book every month to a child until the children enter kindergarten. Her vision was to foster a love of reading among her county’s preschool children and their families. It began in Sevier County, Dolly’s home. In 2000, she allowed the rest of the world to participate. The foundation has mailed forty million books across the United States, Canada, and even the United Kingdom. As the children get older, the Evans 2 foundation has different age appropriate themes. They’re trying to help the children by developing their skills. The Imagination Library is a great program...
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...\While the history of cloning is relatively short, understanding how cloning came about is important to understanding the greater debate surrounding cloning. At the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 1996, scientists produced the first animal cloned from an adult cell. Dolly the sheep was born early in 1997, shocking the scientific community and the world. Dolly was created through a process called cell nuclear replacement. A mammary cell of a six-year-old white Welsh Mountain sheep was transferred into the egg shell of a Scottish Blackface ewe (Calhoun Cash 2). Since Dolly’s birth, other species have been cloned as well, including mice, cattle, pigs, goats, rabbits, and cats (Calhoun Cash 2). Dolly’s birth and the development...
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...Dolly Parton Commencement Speech, Rhetorical Analysis By Migion Booth Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, Arthur, businesswomen, and philanthropist, is an American women primary known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton is a very successful women, due to her determination to be great. An because of her determination to be successful and actually being successful she was asked to give a Commencement Speech at University of Tennessee. In her speech to the students of University of Tennessee she uses pathos, logos, and ethos, to encourage the students to want to dream more, learn more, care more, and be more. Mrs. Parton uses pathos to inspire the students to dream more by the use of her own life experience . “ I’m going to Nashville and I’m going to be a star. The whole place laughed out loud and I was so...
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...Dolly Shepherd was a waitress in London in 1904 when her life changed forever. At work one day, she met a man named Auguste Gaudron. He used a big balloon in an exciting flying show and wanted to hire a woman to work for him. Auguste said to Dolly, "I've been searching the country for a talented woman who is both brave and strong to be part of a performance. I think you would be perfect!" Dolly agreed, and soon she was known all through Great Britain for her courage. She would ride up to 2,000 feet in the air in Auguste's balloon basket. Next, she would hang from a small level metal bar called a trapeze that was attached to the balloon by two long straps. When she was ready to let go, she would untie a strap, jump off the bar, and float to...
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...always tells a story, usually dramatic to a harmonious tune and it places an emphasis on the lyrics and the voice is always dominant in every song. Country music icon and actress Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Parton was raised in poverty, but surrounded by music. With a musical career that launched at the age of ten, Parton has been performing publicly for nearly fifty of her fifty-eight years, becoming one of the most celebrated and most successful country music stars. “I Will Always Love You” from the album “Jolene” of February 27, 1974 is the obvious choice for No. 1 for many reasons, including the fact that...
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...When one thinks of cloning they make think back to a science fiction movie they saw where clones took over the world or a book of the same genre where clones did something evil. Cloning has always been looked at as a futuristic endeavor, but truth is that cloning is here already. The most famous case of cloning is with Dolly the Sheep, which was the first animal to be cloned from a somatic cell. With cloning comes a wide variety of potential for science, some of which include organ transplantations and reproductive uses. The latter is what will be focused on in this paper. Reproductive cloning is the process of creating an animal that is genetically similar to the donor animal through somatic cell nuclear transfer. This is the same process...
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...THE STORY ABOUT DOLLY SHEEP. In 1995 and 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, cloned mammals for the first time. Keith Campbell, Jim McWhir, William Ritchie, and Ian Wilmut cloned two sheep, Megan and Morag, using sheep embryo cells. The experiments indicated how to reprogram nuclei from differentiated cells to produce live offspring, and that a single population of differentiated cells could produce multiple offspring. They reported their results in the article "Sheep Cloned by Nuclear Transfer from a Cultured Cell Line" in March 1996. This experiment led the Roslin team to later clone mammals from adult body cells and to genetically engineer mammals. Several clones had been produced in the laboratory before Dolly, including frogs, mice, and cows, which had all been been cloned from the DNA from embryos. Dolly was remarkable in being the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. This was major scientific achievement as it demonstrated that the DNA from adult cells, despite having specialized particular type of cell, can be used to create an entire organism. How dolly was cloned, animal cloning from an adult cell is much more difficult than from an embryonic cell. So when scientists working at the roslin...
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...successful cloning was of Dolly the sheep. Though this was a huge stride for the scientific community, there has been many public riots against this action. Over the years scientists have researched and there has been several successful cloned animals; however, there have been many unsuccessful clonings. Throughout its history, cloning has overcome many obstacles. Scientists have discovered three types of cloning, anyhow, it is still not well received in society today. The founders of modern genetics, took the first steps in re-evaluating the previous theories used for cloning. August Weismann, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Freiburg, proposed that cells can be manipulated by similar genetic organisms (Beale 2). Soon after Weismann’s theory was given public attention, two other scientists tried experimenting with his theory on manipulating similar organisms. During this time of trial and error, most of the animals used were small, such as: frogs, bird eggs, mice, and...
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...Cloning is a very confusing subject. Somehow, scientists are able to clone an animal from only DNA. Scientists have come so far, that they have cloned extinct animals. Most of the animals die when they are young, but they are getting better at keeping these animals alive. There is also natural cloning. Identical twins is a type of natural cloning. Cloning is very interesting. The most important cloning that ever happened was Dolly the Sheep. Dolly the Sheep was the first cloned mammal ever. She was able to live for a while and even have children. There have been other very important cases of cloning. The first ever extinct cloned animal was a Pyrenean Ibex. Sadly, the sheep died just after it was born. There have been many other discoveries...
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...1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned Scientists in Scotland have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep. Dolly, who was created at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, was actually born on 5 July 1996 although her arrival has only just been revealed. Dolly is the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Previous clonings have been from embryo cells. The sheep's birth has been heralded as one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the decade although it is likely to spark ethical controversy. Scientists in Scotland cloned a ewe by inserting DNA from a single sheep cell into an egg and implanted it in a surrogate mother. They now have a healthy seven-month-old sheep - Dolly - who is an exact genetic duplicate of the animal from which the single cell was taken. DNA tests have revealed that Dolly is identical to the ewe who donated the udder cell and is unrelated to the surrogate mother. “It will enable us to study genetic diseases for which there is presently no cure” said Dr Ian Wilmut, Embryologist. | Embryologist Dr Ian Wilmut, from the Roslin Institute, said: "It will enable us to study genetic diseases for which there is presently no cure and track down the mechanisms that are involved." The research, published in Nature magazine, follows the Edinburgh team's success in cloning sheep embryos. Last year they produced two identical sheep, which were clones of an original embryo. The...
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...Cloned Animals Animal cloning Cloning is the most recent evolution of selective assisted breeding in animal husbandry. Cloning animals is a reliable way of reproducing superior livestock genetics and ensuring herds are maintained at the highest quality possible. How successful is it? Cloning animals through somatic cell nuclear transfer is simply inefficient. The success rate ranges from 0.1 percent to 3 percent, which means that for every 1000 tries, only one to 30 clones are made. Or you can look at it as 970 to 999 failures in 1000 tries. Here are some reasons: ▪ The enucleated egg and the transferred nucleus may not be compatible ▪ An egg with a newly transferred nucleus may not begin to divide or develop properly ▪ Implantation of the embryo into the surrogate mother might fail ▪ The pregnancy itself might fail Problems Cloned animals that do survive tend to be much bigger at birth than their natural counterparts. Scientists call this "Large Offspring Syndrome" (LOS). Clones with LOS have abnormally large organs. This can lead to breathing, blood flow and other problems. Can cloning save endangered animals? Scientists usually have a poor understanding of endangered animals' reproductive physiology, which makes it too risky to extract a sufficient number of eggs from that species or rely on females of that species to give birth to clones. What animals were first cloned? Over the last 50 years, scientists have conducted cloning experiments in a wide...
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...There are three types of cloning: reproductive cloning, gene cloning, and therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning involves creating an exact copy of an organism. An example of this is Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned. Gene cloning is the duplication of segments of DNA (which contain specific genes). Scientists often use gene cloning for research; for example, the creation of a plasmid with specific traits. Therapeutic cloning focuses on using a cloned embryo to derive embryonic stem cells for the treatment of different diseases. Both therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning are done through the same process, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). A somatic cell is a body cell (basically any other cell besides a sperm or egg cell). SCNT typically uses skin cells. The nucleus of a skin cell is removed and injected into an egg cell (that has had the nucleus removed). The egg cell with the nucleus of the skin cell will act like a newly fertilized egg. For the purpose of reproductive cloning, the egg can be implanted in the uterus of a surrogate...
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...What does the future have in store for us? Scientist are starting to look into human cloning and the purpose for doing so is to have organ transplants and for experimentation. We have already cloned animals and the reason they do it, is mainly for testing. But, it did take a lot of tries before they could actual clone anything. One case that was heard around the world was the sheep called “Dolly”. She was produced by reproductive cloning and this all happens inside a laboratory. One day, scientists hope that a clone would be able to be used to treat serious diseases and failing organs. But, will it be possible. We do have advance technology and intelligent scientists with ambitious ideas. It would be cool but it is morally wrong because just with the first successful cloned human embryo can dominate the world....
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...College Education vs. Technical Training - College Education vs. Technical Training A few years ago, the DeVry technical institute released a commercial that compared two brothers in their educational pursuits. The younger brother started school at DeVry and graduated in two years. The older brother had chosen college and was still stuck in his dorm room studying history while his younger brother worked on the future. The question this commercial presented was obvious, why waste all that time in a university learning trivial facts which don’t apply to the real world when you can bypass it and still learn an important skill.... [tags: Argumentative Persuasive Educating Essays] 1329 words (3.8 pages) $29.95 [preview] America: Culturally Constipated? - ... Cultural pluralism or cultural diversity replaces the melting pot image with what is frequently described as a “mosaic” or almost a “tossed salad.” As Christine Bennett stated “each part retains some of its uniqueness while contributing to the beauty and strength of the whole composition.” The United States still has failed to become part of the tossed salad idea we don’t diversify with other cultures, why. Prejudice and racism is a root problem for cultural barriers within the borders of the United States.... [tags: American Culture] 763 words (2.2 pages) $19.95 [preview] Cultural Challenges Of Doing Business Overseas - The Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Steve Kafka, an American of Czech origin and...
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...In 1996 in Scotland, Dr. Ian Wilmut, a Scottish scientist, “took an ovum from an ewe [sheep], sucked out the nucleus with its unique DNA, and then fused the ovum with a cell (with its own DNA) from the donor,” (Fr. William Saunders). From this technique, it created an ewe called Dolly, who was an exactly identical to the original donor. After she made headlines, people were curious and the question arises, “If this can be done with animals, why not with human beings?” (Fr. William Saunders). The Catholic Church believes human cloning is wrong because it is immoral and it undermines the dignity of a human being. By using human cloning it violates the fundamental principles of on which human rights are based on and it violates the principle upon...
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