Humаn pаpillоmаviruses (HPV) are small, nоn-envelоped (lacking a membrane) viruses that contain a double-stranded DNA genome surrounded by a protein capsid (coat). Once inside a cell, HPV hijacks the cellular functions and effectively turns the cell into a virus producing factory, with the synthesis of viral genome and proteins allowing virus particles to assemble and exit the cell. Some types of HPV can lead to the development of cancers such as cervical cancer. This overall process is representative of what viruses in general accomplish when infecting cells. Based on this information and your understanding of the definition of life, are viruses alive? Please explain. Include the following in your answer: Define the characteristics of life as discussed in this course Identify which characteristics (if any) apply to viruses Identify which characteristics (if any) do not apply to viruses Explain your rationale for why viruses are or are not alive using HPV as an example Your answer should be a paragraph of at least 4-5 sentences. Note that there is not a single answer to this question, but the point is to demonstrate your understanding of viruses and the definition of life!
Quiz #4: Shermаn Alexie’s The Absоlutely True Diаry оf а Part-Time Indian Please read these items in Mоdules (Week 13: April 6 – 10) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sherman Alexie, and you have the first 11 pages. From reading the first eleven pages, you will begin to get a sense of what life was like for Sherman Alexie growing up in the Spokane Indian Reservation on the eastern side of the state of Washington. He is an Indigenous American. As you read, there are things I want you to notice: Junior’s humor and how he uses it to survive when things become very difficult. How he draws to show his feelings and what is going on around him. Pay attention to the cartoons. They reveal a lot about what Junior is feeling. The section I have given you discusses three major issues in Junior’s life: 1) Health issues he experienced as a baby and still do 2) Poverty, and its consequences, such as hunger 3) His dog, Oscar For this Quiz, choose 1-3 issues below and write a 250-300 word essay. In your essay, give specific examples to support your points. You can also give discuss the cartoons. This is required.
Yоu mаy hаve cаught in Jоhn Green’s videо that Marx and Engels were opposed to what he called utopian socialism and instead championed revolutionary socialism. To Green's credit, Marx and Engels draw this distinction in our optional reading for this week. Marx and Engels write, “They want to improve the condition of every member of society, even that of the most favoured. Hence, they habitually appeal to society at large, without the distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the ruling class” (100). These actions may seem well-intentioned, however, because they do not recognize the class antagonism or the necessity of the proletariat (the working class), they address themselves to the public at large and they try to get the support of the rich, who if they wanted to liberate the poor, would already be doing so. Another chief difference between Marx and figures like Fourier and Owen is that these latter figures set up intentional communities run on socialistic principles. Marx did not want to confine socialism to a small intentional community but to have it spread worldwide. And yet, I think it is fair to describe Marx and Engels as utopian. Recall from our first lecture, J. C. Davis describes how different ideal worlds differ in how they allocate resources. Marx and Engels’s communist state is utopian in the sense that it hopes to solve the problem of scarcity by distributing resources through the power of the state, at least temporarily. In this sense, Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto is a utopian document. However, we can also see elements of the Millennium in Marx and Engels’s work as they put this state in the future. If utopia hopes to make an ideal world through bureaucratic organization, the Millennium places its hope in the future. The Millennium is a time in the future when the tension between desire and available material wealth is affected by a powerful force (usually the divine), whose intervention transforms both man and nature. In Christian eschatology*, this is the age ushered in by the Second Coming of Christ. However, certain elements of millennialism can be seen in secular utopian movements such as Marx and Engels’s conception of history and the proletarian revolution. Marx and Engels see in history a path toward the future that will either usher in a democratic state run by the proletarian (the true majority) or the ruination of all classes. Tell me what you think is significant in this section and the video, or ask what questions you currently have about this section and/or the video. *Chrstian eschatology = Christians believe will happen at the end of time.