Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.

A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.

Sheba, the dog, blocked the doorway.

Sheba had to be taken to the vet.

The vet was worried by her condition.

The vet treated the dog while Joanne went home.

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can we be selfish with out it being our fault?

We as the novel suggest are selfish not because it is our choise but because we have it iside us. the way the theory of the author works is that humas have selfishness as a gene, and we are borne with this wich we got it from our parents.



It will be bad to follow this because we wouldent have a choice and well in my life I came to find out that people are what they want to be. We are not borne to be soething, we choose this I belive is also with being selfish. acorrding to Darwins theory the weak die wile the strong adapts to the enviroment and survives. If this would apply to being selfish it could mean that we as society have turned our surroundings into a selfish needing place. There for altruistic gene will become recesive and useless in our enviroment meaning will die.

I dont belive this would be the reality of our worl in such a extream case.

youtube selfish gene

well the author explains what the book is, what is he trying to explain in the novel. the most inportant part we can say is how he explain that if a human is selfish because of its genes, there can olso be altruistic as a resesive gene.

The real genetics

" the wor selfish may seem an understatement for such extreme cases as cannibalism, although these fit well with our definition." (selfish gene page 5)

The selfish gene

At the beginning of the text I noticed that the name involved science there for it was going to be a scientific explanation throw out the novel. The author suggests that natural selection is part of what makes humanity selfish that we have it in our gene pool. That animals like baboons do everything for the best of the population, this is what he defines as altruistic in the first chapters. Now the human population will do any thing to get a benefit out of every situation.

I believe we have a selfish part in all of us not a gene but a part of us. We have the choice to be selfish or altruistic we are not forced to be either one we chose.

Is it in the genes or in culture?

"we receive each chromosome intact from one of our two parents" (the selfish gene page 25)

We as humans go trough a process before we are even born we are divided as egg and sperm this means that we are formed by two half’s each one with 23 chromosomes.
This means that we are all begun by the mixing of the genes from our parents, the novel suggests that when this happens the gene pool gives us the selfish part that is passed on by our parents.

If I must say all this scientific explanation about being something inside of us which we cant avoid is a lie. All humans have reasoning what about the ancient times when the recourses were gathered and distributed equally to everyone. It is actually a society problem and the fact that wile time goes by we all become more materialistic.

Summary
Forcing kids to go to schools is lowering the standards that any public school can have, kids don’t want to be there so all the y do is waste time. Also it affects the kids that want to be there, by slowing them down in their learning environment. If we take a look at private schools they don’t see this as a problem there for they can kick a student out of school because a public school has to receive them. (Sipher, n.pag)

Quoting

¨Ask high school teachers if recalcitrant students learn anything of value. Ask teachers if these students do any homework. Quite the contrary, these students know they will be passed from grade to grade until they are old enough to quit or until, as is more likely, they receive a high school diploma.¨(Sipher, n.pag)

Paraphrasing

Students that don’t believe in going to school damage the studying habits of the other students, if this students were removed from schools teachers could focus more teaching than trying to make the student behave properly (Sipher, n.pag)