Arkosi+Mariann

=About Me=

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**Department**
Biochemical Engineering

Motto
Mens sana in corpore sano.

About me
Twenty-two year old student at Faculty of Chemical Engineering. Main ways of interest in my domain of specialization: genetics and molecular biology. At the moment I am working on obtaining / improving hemerythrin-based blood substitutes as part of a research team, but I'd like to continue my studies on nutritional chemistry. Otherwise, I am really fascinated by nuclear chemistry. As regard to ways of spending my leisure time, I would mention handicraft, folk dance, learning macrobiotics, blogging, theater, cardio / swimming and spending time in nature, with family and friends.

Activities
trying hard to equilibrate the time spent at faculty and with any other activities involving recreation :) = = = =

=Final Project=

PPS Draft 2


=Activity throughout the semester=

Week 4.
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Week 4 / Activity 1.
Human Genome Project did not arise just scientific challenge, but ethical, legal and social issues, too.The discovery of intrinsic structure and functioning mechanisms of human genome brings problems concerning how to use these new information in a way that do not harm the basic moral principles. Source: [|Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Genetic Knowledge]

Week 4 / Activity 2.
Without doubt, the personality of all of us is a result of a complex mixture of hereditary determination and of environmental influences in childhood as well in adulthood. The case study presented here arises a very interesting issue on how the case of a person charged with assault should be judged if multiple hereditary component makes him predisposed to become a murderer. I think that a person like this should not be judged just on this basis because this would mean to not consider the many other factors that have influence on personality. To claim him innocent just because his genetic status would also be unfair because this would mean that only those four genes, and nothing other determined the act he had.

Activity 2 Practice General Listening Skills

 * Before Listening:**
 * 1) Look up the following words and expressions: [|voluntary]work, [|brownie points], elf, paternalist, libertarian, nudge, financial incentives, legislate, oxymoron, altruistic deeds, the good Samaritan, monetise.
 * 2) Have you ever done voluntary work?
 * 3) When a kid/teenager did you expect a reward after doing household chores?

Listen to the following podcast and choose the best title from the following options. Podcast Source: [|BBC Podcasts. Thought of the Day]
 * Listening for Gist**
 * 1) What's in it for me?
 * 2) Voluntary work doesn't pay.
 * 3) People don't like working without rewards.

Listen again and note down answers to the following questions. Then compare your answers with a classmate's. What is the name of the program?
 * Listening for Detail**

What is the Japanese motivation system called? What is the author's explanation for the expression "brownie points"? What domestic activities did the author pay his son and daughter for? What is the reward if not money?

To check your answers, access the [|transcript]of the podcast.

Go to your personal page and write your comment on one of the following quotes (about 150 words).
 * After Listening**
 * “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” [|Ralph Waldo Emerson] **
 * “The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.” [|John Ruskin] **