Idea Of Progress -( Anglais Synthèse)

I'm going to talk about the idea of progress. What is progress? It is the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, quality of life...

What effect does this progress have on our society? During we have studied this notion, we have worked with several documents whose I could identify three major axis.

First, I have noted that the men's capacities have increased. For exemple, , I have learned that procedures are invented to identify embryos with serious fatal genetic diseases and are used for something different to help couples choose the sex of their child. We find the same science in two texts : "Designer baby" and "Saviour sibling". Anna and Jamie, the main characters, are designer babies, both conceived to save their elder sister or brother who are sick. Anna have to give a kidney to save her sister. The doctors are able to save a lot of persons with spare parts. And Jamie was designed to save his brother who was affected by an extremely rare genetic disease. His parents call him "saviour sibling" because he did not just give his brother a spare part but he saved his life.

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