Part I Science in your personal and professional life Think about your day from the time you wake up to the time that you go to sleep. List four technologies that you rely on and would find it difficult to get through your day or night without. Discuss any negative impacts these technologies have on your life, society, and the environment. Think about your day from the time you wake up to when you go to sleep. Describe the one scientific discovery that you think is the most important for making modern life possible. List as many negative and positive impacts you can think of that this scientific discovery and the technologies that it allowed to be developed may have. Evaluate and discuss if the positives outweigh the negatives overall, or whether the negatives outweigh the positives.

Part II Science and technology in a multicultural world Many research programs around the world focus on the discovery of cures to ailments from cancer to mental illness. Modern society invests a great deal of money, and time while pushing the boundaries of modern technology to develop new cures and improve existing treatments. Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to the westernized high-tech research approach to medical treatment. Describe one advantage and one disadvantage to using traditional medicine as an approach to medical treatment. Are there benefits to having multicultural approaches to medical treatment? Explain your answer. Could these two cultural approaches both be improved by drawing upon the other? Why or why not? Discuss any challenges there may be in combining these two different cultural approaches to treatment that have a very different level of reliance on scientific research and technology. Basic Writing Expectations: At least 1000 words not counting the title or reference pages. Include a title page, double spaced, font size 10 or 12. Use a minimum of five sources (with at least one from the Library). Include a highly developed viewpoint/thesis, purpose, and exceptional content. Free of grammar, spelling and punctuation errors. No evidence of plagiarism. Use the APA style for all citations. Be original and insightful with no more than 10% taken verbatim from any outside sources.