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Essay Three: Annotated Bibliography and Essay Prompt

For paper three, you will be developing your own paper prompt. You also have a choice as to which author to focus on: Hannah Rosin. This paper gives you the most freedom in exploring ideas. This can be great - it will make your paper more interesting and unique. However, it can also be difficult because you have to come up with the focus.

Assignment Objectives:

Create a paper prompt which ties to "Why Kids Sext?" By Hannah Rosin and upload it by Friday. Word Min: 1500

What's an annotated bibliography? Basically, it's a Works Cited page with notes. For each source, you will provide a brief (one to two paragraph) description. You will also make a note of whether the source is primary or secondary. See below for an example.

Criteria for Evaluation:

· Research: You must bring in three outside sources. At least one of these must be an additional secondary source (the other two may be primary sources). See the PowerPoint on research for more information on these types of sources.

· Audience: Consistent, academic tone. Appropriate amount of contextual information, anticipating audience questions. Addresses significant issues and makes them important to audience.

· Grammar and Format: Errors in grammar, spelling, and usage limited or non-existent. Correct MLA format, including proper quotation citation.

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Sample Annotated Bibliography

Ahlberg, Jaime, Harry Brighouse. “An Argument Against Cloning.” Canadian Journal

of Philosophy 40.4 (2010): 539-566. Web. 28 October 2011.

This article is credible, because it is a peer reviewed journal article. The authors address all the plausible reasons for cloning and give arguments against those reasons. One of the major solutions to cloning that the authors present is adoption. They suggest infertile couples adopt, rather than cloning. If cloning is legalized, the children who would normally be adopted by infertile couples, will now be abandoned. The authors argue that while the pool of parents wanting to adopt will shrink after cloning, the pool of children needing to be adopted will stay the same, leading to catastrophic consequences for the world.

The authors of this article argue that parents who raise clones may have a hard time raising a child that is a complete clone of themselves. This journal article is a primary source.

Bottum, J. “Against Human Cloning.” Human Life Review 27.2 (2001): 121-124. Web.

28 October 2011.

This article discusses the Congressional bill to prohibit human cloning. The author explains that banning cloning would not mean overturning current legislation, like Roe v Wade. If allowed, human cloning would eventually open the door for selective cloning, which would be detrimental to society.

This analysis will aid me in discussing my views about cloning and the need for better laws regarding this issue. This is a secondary source. The views of the authors support my thesis. I will use this text in conjunction with Fukuyama’s essay as the main source of information for my essay. Human reproductive cloning is a hot button issue in today’s society and we must closely examine it before we allow cloning to continue. No one has fully through through the repercussions of this scientific process.

I will also use this essay to bring in language from the Congressional bill. The language from the bill works more as a primary source (and the author uses it as such in this essay) and so I might use it in the same way if need be. Quotes from the bill will be used to support and explain my opinions about the importance of caution when proceeding with cloning issues.

Cohen, Cynthia. “The Ethics of Human Reproductive Cloning: When World Views

Collide.” Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance 11 (2004): 183-199. Web. 28 October 2011.

This article was found in a peer reviewed journal. In it, the author discusses the effects of cloning on the resulting child. The author argues that the cloned child will have little or no freedom to develop, since they will always be compared to the people that created them. It further goes into the psychological harm clones would experience. This author discusses human dignity and how it would be altered with the creation of human reproductive clones.

In the article, the safety and effectiveness of cloning is questioned. Science has yet to create a healthy clone, and the author supposes that this is still far off. Society, the author hypothesizes, is not ready for clones. This is a secondary source.

Fukuyama, Francis. “Human Dignity.” Emerging. Ed. Barclay Barrios. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2010. 141-163. Print.

In this work, the author describes what makes humans human. He says that human dignity is engrained in Factor X. Something that cannot be described. With the scientific advancements we have recently seen, that human dignity is in danger. If clones and robots are given similar characteristics, what prevents them from having human dignity? This author explores the struggle humans have to balance scientific advancements with protecting our human dignity.

This essay is from our Emerging book and will be used as a secondary source Fukuyama’s theories will work to support my own ideas.

Simpson, JL. “Could Cloning Become Permissible?” Ethics, Law, and Moral Philosophy of Reproductive Biomedicine 2.1 (2007): 125-129. Web. 28 October 2011.

In this article, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and professor at Baylor University, discusses the issues with human reproductive cloning. He touches on the questionable safety of the practice, but mainly discusses the ethical pitfalls of cloning. I will use this in my paper to look at cloning from a medical perspective and to help me consider all the angles of this issue. This is a primary source.