Movie Review

Pride and Prejudice
This film is portraying a worldview where society and money are all that are of value, and worth. This film is showing the value of true love and how it can beat out the standards of society. It's attempting to show that love and money can exist in relationship and that going against general standards of society and that everything will be perfect. I agree with this ideal, that it would be lovely, but sometimes i feel that it is quite impossible. The society has such an intense impact on relationships and values that trying to surpass that for love sometimes is much too difficult. I would like to believe that such an event exists but I feel that the reality of something like this occurring is extremely unlikely.

Trial Gone Wrong

A trial involving the testing of a new drug, in London went badly. This drug was intentioned to help with autoimmune disease or certain types of cancer. When the trial took place, moments after the drug was administered to volunteers, the volunteers given the actual drug started reating severly, becoming violently ill. One of the men given the placebo, a drug with no effect, recalls that the effects were instantaneous. The men given the actual drug were then rushed to the hospital for multiple organ failure, and two had to stay in intensive care. Later it was found that the men and families were not given complete information about what had occurred in the animal trials, of several deaths and severe illness. This makes me wonder, although the United States has intense laws regarding informed consent, isn't it important for the entire world to have a unified standard, or is it based upon personal opinions and decisions.

Beginning the Ethics

One of the hardest parts of this topic is finding the history, because the history of the topic spans throughout history. Humans have been, essentially, preforming clinical trials on each other for centuries. Anything that consists of finding a new treatment for humans, involves finding out that it actually worked for humans one way or another. Really the only development is how the process has changed and grown in ethical standards, but yet personal ethics were always there, in one way or another, for the testers.

Song Lyrics - Gotta Have You by The Weepies

I really like this song because I really like their lyrics and melody. Its a fairly slow song, but I like the words. The words may be cryptic and hard to get menaing out of, but I like not being able to instantly understand what point is trying to be made. I've always liked The Weepies as more of a calm down chill out kind of music, and I also love the fact that they're not well known. To me the song is just about life,and some of the things we do but how we need each other, and how sometimes that's all we need.

Here are the lyrics:

Gray, quiet and tired and mean
Picking at a worried seam
I try to make you mad at me over the phone.
Red eyes and fire and signs
I'm taken by a nursery rhyme
I want to make a ray of sunshine and never leave home
No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
No amount of whiskey, no amount of wine
No, nothing else will do
I've gotta have you, I've gotta have you.
The road gets cold, there's no spring in the middle this year
I'm the new chicken clucking open hearts and ears
Oh, such a prima donna, sorry for myself
But green, it is also summer
And I won't be warm till I'm lying in your arms
I see it all through a telescope: guitar, suitcase, and a warm coat
Lying in the back of the blue boat, humming a tune...(its circles around for a while)