Name: Marinella A.

Losa

Yr./Sec.: BSA-2B

Date: Dec. 23, 2020

Course Packet 2

Reflection 

1. In your own opinion, what constitutes a good life? 

 In today’s world, humans are often misled on what really is a good life. We are
constantly shown through the television and magazines that being rich and famous is
the way to go when it comes to a good life, when in truth many of them are miserable
by problems that usually wouldn’t affect the common person. In truth there are only a
few that are rich and famous and do achieve what can probably considered one of the
greatest achievement’s by a man which is having a good life. In my opinion, the
decision if someone has a good life or not is up to them and their will to strive for
something better than average during the high school years of their life. I also believe
that to some people religion does play a large part of their lives and how they might
live it according to how their religion tells them to. Subjectively, if someone lives by
the book or the belief of their religion it will make them happier to know that they
accomplished what their “god” has set for them to do with their life, and ultimately
letting them into the “afterlife” (or heaven) of their religion. Besides the factors that a
person can control in their life to make it good, there are also many things in play that
one cannot control such as health. Being healthy can be considered one of the most
valuable aspects of a person’s life. It can also be one of those aspects that can control
the probability if someone getting a job, earning an adequate income, and a person’s
range of active activities.

2. What does Aristotle say about the good life? Does it still stand in the contemporary world? 
- According the Aristotle, happiness and having a good life is about virtue. He
considers the end of humans to be the good life. According to him, having a good life is
having happiness or prosperity which can be accomplished by living a life according to
virtue which is achieved by continually living in a virtuous manner or living with high
moral standards. This MUST still stand in the contemporary world because most people
 are being obsessed with material things. For most people, having a good life is being rich
with material possessions. They miss to remember that happiness and having a good life
is living a life that is consistent with having high moral standards.

3. How is the progress in science and technology a movement towards the good life?
 Easy Access to Information
 Because there is continuous development in the field of science especially to
technology, information can now be easily accessed. With just a click, tons of
information is shown to you. You need not go to a library to search for the book or read
a lot of resources just to get the information that you need. The internet will provide
you almost all the things you need. You just need to be careful because not all in the
internet are credible information.
 Faster Resolution to Problems
 A good example of this is in the field of healthcare. There are diseases that were
categorized as dreaded before but can now be easily treated. Medical professionals as
well as specialists from the field of research made is possible. They never stopped
looking for solutions especially to those fatal diseases. With science and technology
being improved progressively, the trend of improved treatment will surely continue.
 Better and More Options to Choose From
 If before, we are left to the option we get used to, the improvement in science and
technology empowered people to search and discover to better options. Options are
presented for people to choose, whichever will be convenient to them. This also gives
people the liberty to choose.
Summary:
 There are more reasons proving that the improvement in the field of science and
technology leads towards a good and better life. The bottom line here is, that discovery
to never stop. Each day is an opportunity to discover new things.

APPLICATION:

1. Make a collage of good life. Cut out pictures in magazines or newspapers that shows
how technology has made the man’s desire for a happy life attainable. Explain how
these technological advancements have made the campaign for the attainment of good
life easier. Present each group in the class.
 2. Research work. Find and examine local government policies that protect the well-
being of the person in the face of new technologies.

Human Subjects Protection and Technology in Prevention Science: Selected Opportunities and
Challenges
Internet-connected devices are changing the way people live, work, and relate to one another.
For prevention scientists, technological advances create opportunities to promote the welfare
of human subjects and society. The challenge is to obtain the benefits while minimizing risks. In
this article, we use the guiding principles for ethical human subjects research and proposed
changes to the Common Rule regulations, as a basis for discussing selected opportunities and
challenges that new technologies present for prevention science. The benefits of conducting
research with new populations, and at new levels of integration into participants’ daily lives, are
presented along with five challenges along with technological and other solutions to strengthen
the protections that we provide: (1) achieving adequate informed consent with procedures that
are acceptable to participants in a digital age; (2) balancing opportunities for rapid
development and broad reach, with gaining adequate understanding of population needs; (3)
integrating data collection and intervention into participants’ lives while minimizing
intrusiveness and fatigue; (4) setting appropriate expectations for responding to safety and
suicide concerns; and (5) safeguarding newly available streams of sensitive data. Our goal is to
promote collaboration between prevention scientists, institutional review boards, and
community members to safely and ethically harness advancing technologies to strengthen
impact of prevention science.

COURSE PACKET DISCUSSION:

1. Is technology really a necessity to people? Is it really a need?

- Technology is now a necessity in terms of every day life, from education to
navigating around a city. We no longer communicate with the outside world and
ask for directions, instead we look inwardly and we ask Siri. As technology
improves we rely more and more on our smartphones, so much so we are
becoming lazy in every way. Spelling is becoming worse, for example, we no
longer need to think for ourselves when we have a spellchecker at our finger tips,
we can ask Siri to perform calculations for us or ask Siri to ask Google to solve any
problems we may encounter. We heavily rely on our phones for every day tasks,
such as checking train times, finding locations and even just to check the time,
technology is slowly overtaking our lives and we are falling into lazy habits to let
it.
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2. How do you reconcile the need for technology and the dilemma/s it faces?
It is not possible to deal with multiple, unspecified dilemmas at the same time. The
answer to one will not be the answer to all. They must be faced individually, some are
falsely stated. For example it is claimed that building motorways increases traffic. There
was a period of over ten years in the UK when no new roads were built. Over those
years traffic increased steadily at the same rate as previously. Dilemmas are often over
stated, or invented to justify an extreme position. Some are ignored by those who profit
from them. A good example is social media that is freely used to bully, for criminal
purposes and propaganda.

3. Should there be an ethics of technology?

 Ethics should be a part of everything one does. Science sometimes thinks that
technological advances should occur regardless of the outcomes or ramifications.
However, this is faulty thinking. Aristotle taught in his Nicomachean Ethics that the
ultimate responsibility of man is to be and do that which is good. He stated, “We are
what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” In other words, if
we train ourselves properly we will automatically do the right thing and will be ethical in
all our decision making. Had scientists in the past done this in developing technological
advances we would not have weapons of destruction that exists today.

ASSIGNMENT

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ll1wmwp_q_DIUBFYMuH4aaSkKQFHxCDe/view?usp=sharing

1. __________ The good life is a process, not a state of being.

2. __________ Good life has direction, not a destination.

3. __________ The concept of how good life would be depends in the personal decision of

man.

4. __________ It is evident in our modern society that man’s personal decision and ideas

of progress, happiness, beliefs, expectations, attitudes and feelings are directly affected

by convenience and benefits brought by science and technology.

5. __________ Being good does not involves having the character and personal qualities

that were justified by reason as having moral worth.

6. __________ Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

7. __________Socrates declared examined life is not worth living for.

8. __________ Aristotle viewed the good life as a life of self-love.

9. __________ Martin Heidegger dealt more on how we live an authentic life” rather

dealing with the “good life”

10. __________ Being good is having a character and a relationship.

II. Fill in the blanks.

1. __________is a behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or

respectability.

2. __________ is when pleasure is the ultimate goal in life.

3. __________ is a kind of contentment in knowing that one is getting the best out of life.

4. __________ is concerned the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness

and badness of human character.

5. __________ is to peace of mind through minimizing desires and passion.

6. __________ is professing moderate pleasure or anything taken in excess is bad.

7. For __________ man is literally the captain of his own ship.

8. __________ is when people find the meaning of their lives using Good as a fulcrum of

their existence.

9. __________ is when materials entities matter.

10. __________ compels fulfilling duties and upholding rights.

Answer Key:

1) T

2) T

3) T

4) F

5) T

6) T

7) F

8) F

9) T
10) T

II.

1) Decency

2) Hedonism

3) Flourishing

4) Moral

5) Stoicism

6) Epicureanism

7) Humanist

8) Theism

9) Materialism

10) Right action

Course Packet 3

COURSE PACKET DISCUSSION FORUM:

1. What other aspects of society are being influenced in the information age aside from
communication?
In the early days of the internet, long before people were concerned with privacy, photos
revealing their party antics, and the persistence of an inappropriate tweet, we dreamed about
the promise of omniscience.

Imagine: the internet is one big database and therein is the potential to attain near sentience in
knowing and automating your life.

Aside from communication, what’s influenced? EVERYTHING. Education, investing, home

ownership, entrepreneurship, marketing, gardening, healthcare, adopting kids, geopolitics,
international relations, ethics, law.

A knowledge base of everything forces everything to evolve in consideration of it.

A little troubling perhaps until you really realize the implications.

 Our ability to keep terrorism in check? Vastly easier

 The pace at which we find medicines for new health challenges? Light speed
 The cost of education? One would think would plummet (begging questions
why it isn’t)[2]
 You can know when the lightbulb in your upstairs bathroom burns out… you
can ask an audio speaker the weather… you have map that will automatically
avoid traffic and take you on the faster route.
All of that is a result of the information age.

Your fridge will tell you when to buy milk

Just as smartphones have forever connected you to the internet, increasingly every technology
with a heartbeat has the same connection. And not just the obvious connections like that which
you’re already experiencing with your TV, home audio, or even your car… your garage door, the
windows, your glasses, dishwasher, swim goggles, football helmets, and certainly your
thermostat are all being connected.

Applied only to the administration of a business means

 A smarter playbook
  Knowing your customer
 Leveraging social media
 Being available 24/7
 Accelerated collaboration
 Data with which to see how things are actually doing, and improve them
 Automation of almost everything
 Empowering employees and sharpening skills
Appreciate that Marketing, just 30 years ago, mean holding focus groups with people, watching
and recording them, putting promotions in mailboxes, and running ads on TV which couldn’t be
measured.

Today, the CMO, sitting in a room with the CEO, CTO, and CIO, … Marketing means knowing
because the “Information Age” means we have the information. Businesses, leadership, and
other organizations that *don’t know* are practically inexcusable.

In seeing that connection, between tech and marketing, between innovation and growth, I’m
reminded of Peter Drucker who said that the only things that matter in business are innovation
and marketing; it’s truly now FACT.

HOWEVER. We’re screwing it up.

One of the things that really bugs me about the internet, as an example, is that rating movies
on Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, and Facebook, and and and and; independently of one
another.

You edit your profile on LinkedIn but nothing else knows. 

You connect your home to an Alexa but your Apple TV doesn’t work.
We can use information to hold politicians accountable to their works but do we?

Global, accessible communication means EVERYONE and with that is the great potential of
knowledge sharing, accountability, and more BUT our fears (about hate speech and such
things), our need for control, desires for power, and more actually break this Information Age.
They prevent what’s really possible.

I rate movies to enhance my experience there from that point on; to get recommendations,
customization, etc. Why do I have to do it in a half dozen different places? Your experience on
dating sites, events, with book recommendations, etc. SHOULD all be transformed because
everything is connected. Knowing you like Batman and not Superman (god forbid) is a data
point that correlates with your taste in so much more.
Assignment
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kefAx7JoJ9kvJCr7Eha5yeQXEeZ0gz-E/view?usp=sharing

What is computer?

 A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or

logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern computers have
the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs. These programs
enable computers to perform an extremely wide range of tasks.

What type of work can computer perform?

Two and only two things :

1. It executes given instructions (maybe repeatedly).

2. It executes them very fast.
The execution of instructions take some input (electrical charge varying generally between 3–19
volts) via keypress , movement of mouse pointer, sound and image input then it performs the
given assembly language instructions which further get translated to low level language which
finally gets converted to bit stream and passed to logic gates made via transistors now a days.

The logic gates then takes the varying voltages and produces the output as another voltage
level. It could be zero or non-zero. If it's zero then it searches the registers for further
commands….if not then it looks whether there's another subroutine waiting to take this output
as its input if there is then this voltage level is passed again with some other voltage levels as
input. 

Mention types of computer known to you?

1. Microcomputers (personal computers)
Minicomputers (mid-range computers)
Mainframe computers.
Supercomputers.
Servers.
Workstations.
Information appliances.
Embedded computers.
Give two example of analog computer.

1. Telephone lines
2. Speedometer

Give two example of digital computer

1. IBM PC
2. Apple Macintosh

Give example of High breed computer.

 Hycomp 250

Conclusion: How do computer Help you as Student?

- The computer technology has a deep impact on the education industry. It forms
a part of the school curriculum and it is important in every individual’s lives
today. Computer teaching also plays a role in the modern systems of education.
Students find it easier to reference on the internet to search for information
rather than doing research in reference books. Today, most people can satisfy
their thirst for knowledge with the help of the internet.

Most of the teachers also consider the computer to be one of the cornerstones
of modern education.  They promoted the appearance of computers in teaching
because they want the education to be not limited only in the classroom. One of
the easiest ways to teach a lesson is by using a presentation through
PowerPoint.  The lesson is delivered through slides and students find it
comfortable for them to take down notes.

Assessment
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cGzeeiVMsOgVircyVc20zgY_XDWB5hk/view?usp=sharing

1. One way in which the contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton are similar is
that each 
a. Challenged the heliocentric theory of the universe
 b. Based his work on Enlightenment principles of social contract 
c. Practiced observation and experimentation in his work
d. Supported the work of the Inquisition 

Base your answer to the question on the illustration below and on your knowledge of social
studies. 

2. Which individual supported the theory represented in this illustration? 

1. Socrates
2. Ptolemy
3. Dante
4. Galileo
3. Which pair of ideas were central to the Scientific Revolution? 
e. social stability and economic self-sufficiency 
e. observation and experimentation
e. technology and military expansion
e. scarcity and interdependence
4. Which statement about the Scientific Revolution in Europe is accurate? 
a. The existence of natural laws was rejected.
i. Scientists questioned traditional beliefs about the universe.
i. New ideas supported the geocentric theory of Ptolemy
i. The Bible was used to justify new scientific findings.
5. Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler are all directly associated with the 
m. Industrial Revolution
m. Scientific Revolution
m. English Revolution
m. Agricultural Revolution
6. Which of the following discoveries is not credited to Galileo Galilei?
 q. gravitational attraction
q. planet are circular disks, not point of light
q. Characteristics of the Sun, including sunspot.
q. venus has phases just like the moon
7. The first modern astronomer to propose a Sun-centered solar system;
u. Galilleo
u. Brahe
u. Newton
u. Copernicus
u. Ptolemy
2. Charles Darwin was best known in the 19th century for:
a. creating the idea of evolution
b. creating the idea of uniformitarianism
c. making the idea of evolution acceptable for scientists and the educated general public 
d. all of the above
3. Charles Darwin's ideas concerning the causes of evolution were probably formulated in
his mind:
a. while he was still a student at Cambridge University
b. before he began his voyage of exploration around the world on H.M.S. Beagle
c. during his voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, especially after he reached the Galápagos
Islands
d.
during the late 1880's
12. Which of the following statements is true of the Ego, according to Freud?
a. It exists prior to the Id
b. It follows the ‘pleasure principle’
c. It lends its libidinal energy to the Superego
d. None of the above
13. The Maya derived their writing and mathematics from the:
a. Mesopotamians
b. Olmecs
c. Chinese
d. Chavin
14. Researchers now believe that the decline of the Maya was caused chiefly by
a. Ecological degradation resulting from slash-and-burn farming techniques.
b. A cataclysm of some kind (earthquake, volcano, tsunami). 
c. Endless wars between neighbouring Mayan city-states. 
d. Practices of interbreeding that led to a steep rise in congenital disorders. 
 15. The earliest use of bronze is found in
a. China
b. Mesopotamia
c. Indus Valley
d. South America
16. The Shang Dynasty laid the foundation for a coherent development of Chinese
civilization that lasted well into the
a. 10th century
b. 13th century
c. 17th century 
d. 20th century 
17. Which of the following ancient civilizations has a written language that is the furthest
from being fully deciphered?
a. the Indus Valley
b. Egyptian
c. Mesopotamian
d. Chinese
18. The origins of Chinese civilization can be traced to:
a. Chiefdoms and states in numerous regions, throughout China. 
b. the site of An-yang near 
c. the Huang ho River
d. The beginning of the Qin Dynasty.
17. External influences originating from the west. 
The royal graves of the Shang Dynasty consisted of enormous cruciform-shaped tombs, where
the deceased kings were buried with:
a. Jade, bronze, and ceramic artifacts. 
b. Chariots and horses.
c. The headless bodies of humans who had been sacrificed.
d. All of the above. 
18. In which country was a method for making rust-resistant iron discovered in the fifth
century B.C.? 
a. Sumeria
b. Egypt
c. India
d. Babylon
19.Which of the following elements was unknown to ancient civilizations? 
a. tin
b. aluminium
 c. mercury
d. sulphur

20. In the early 17th century, based on his observations with a telescope, Galileo Galilei
attacked a belief espoused by the church. That belief was: 
1. That the Earth was flat
2. The sky was a large dome with holes through which heaven could be seen.
3. that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
4. There are no other planets.

Answer key

1. c

2. d

3. f

4. i

5. n

6. s

7. x

2. c

3. c

12. d

13. b

14. a

15.a

16. d

17. a
 18.a

17.d

18. c

19. b

20. c

ASSIGNMENTS: Answer the following:

1. Identify the contributors of the technological advances of the information age?

Here's a toast to 10 fathers of technology.
 Douglas Engelbart. Human-Computer Interaction Whiz. ... 
 Norman Abramson. Wireless Hero. ... 
 Jack Nilles. Telework Titan. ... 
 Marty Cooper. Mobile Magician. ... 
 Gerald A. Lawson. ... 
 Nathaniel Borenstein. Attachment Architect. ... 
 Robert Metcalfe. Ethernet Impresario. ... 
 Tim Berners-Lee. Web Master.
 KEN THOMPSON 
OS VIRTUOSO

 DR. FUJIO MASUOKA 

FLASH MAN

2. What other possible technological advancement be developed in the future?

Future Inventions That Could Exist in the Future
 AI enabled robots.
 Seamless IoT in home and business.
 Space tourism.
 Self-driving cars.
 New sources of energy.
 Drone ecosystem.
 Virtual Reality.
  Medical advancement with AI and nanobots.

Course Packet 4
COURSE PACKET DISCUSSION FORUM: 

Can you reconcile the emerging needs of human beings regarding their health and the need
to protect the growth of biodiversity? Why?

1. Support local organic farms. Establish small, local farms using polyculture and
permaculture practices that maximize food variety, quantity and quality.
Reduces the need for transportation thus shrinking the carbon footprint.
Increases food security. Increases biodiversity.
2. Eat seasonally. Increase acceptance of consuming seasonal, indigenous food
species. Mass industrial production of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice
negatively impact biodiversity on a massive scale world-wide. Replacing those
with native, non-gmo grains, grown in smaller, localized co-ops and amid
diverse plantings. Think 50′ wide bands of grains grown on contour, planted
between 50′ wide bands of fruit and nut trees, rotated with cover crops that
feed grazing livestock contained by portable electric fencing.
3. Grow meat on grass. Replace industrial raised animals with managed,
intensively rotated pastured livestock. Studies are already showing that these
protocols increase biodiversity in the landscape. Reduces the acres of grain
needed for livestock. Process the meat at local butchering facilities for
regional consumption.
4. Create agricultural pods in areas adjacent to large population zones. This
might include hydroponic farming in abandoned factories, intensive farming
on vacant lots, planting fruit trees in parks, etc.
5. Zone land used for food production that promotes biodiversity as protected
agriculture sanctuaries.
6. Include habitat landscapes within the food production zones. Hedgerows,
ponds, bird and bat houses, forests etc.
7. Waste less food. We throw out too much. Collect consumable food for
redistribution for those in need. Recycle true waste into compost or livestock
feed.
8. Demand better quality food. Mass monoculture food production increases the
need for inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. Polycultures provide the diversity
needed to reduce dependence on chemical crutches.

ASSIGNMENT: Answer the following:

1. Do you think that earth can exist without human beings taking care of it? Or biodiversity
also needs human beings for it to be in a continuous growing process?

Humans are the cause and origin of the current global warming, which is destroying our planets
most important resources, its forests esp. rainforests, which are important in the carbon and
oxygen cycles we have all evolved to live with and as part of the current ongoing mass
extinction event on our planet is caused largely by human activities and deliberate actions,
destroying mass habitats, razing rainforests for roadways, housing and places to raise more
cattle.. and similarly mowing down rainforests on islands etc., for single crop plantations, woe
betide any poor animals which lived their lives on these islands and other rainforests etc..

Global warming is already causing elevated ocean warm current temps, which cause
increasingly violent weather events where the end or meet different conditions, such as the sea
area below Florida USA. these violent events will increase already. The e glaciers on mountains
and northern area glaciers are melting, as are mile thick ice sheets,, and the permafrost is
melting, yet we humans continue today to dig up coal and gas, thus releasing enormous,,
amounts of greenhouse gas into our and earths ‘thin blue line’ its and our atmosphere,, from
which we and all animals breathe, and which is our protection from solar radiation.. our only
protection. Human beings generally worldwide but especially in the modern eras, have been
and are a serious untenable force for destruction of our environments, and atmosphere.

2. What are the ways that you think would promote safekeeping our biodiversity? What do
you think are the common human activities that can harm biodiversity? What would be the
consequences if these human activities will be stopped and prohibited?

I think the biggest obstacle to maintaining biodiversity in that most people don’t see the loss of
biodiversity as the existential threat to humanity that it is. This means that you need to inform
yourself about the critical role of biodiversity in planetary function and human existence. Your
well-informed perspective in talking to friends, family and neighbors about this issue may just
convince them to take the problem seriously. Learn how to communicate your opinions without
making others feel uncomfortable or defensive. Look for other people who share your vie and
are also willing to talk about it. Changing minds one by one will be essential to create
awareness and action to protect biodiversity.

Activity sheet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MlHSEkB4-UZeXqF2kzGfxfbmOYwvqF59/view?usp=sharing

ACTIVITY: 
Explore the Outdoors

Instruction:
Visit a nearby ecosystem (ex. backyard, City Park) and record your observations about the
different organisms you discover there. Select eight different species to sketch and take notes
on. See if you can find or make any direct connection between the different species you
observe.

Type/Location of Ecosystem: _____

___________________________________
Species #1 Species #2
orchid
dog

Type : ( circle one ) Type : (circle one)

Animal/plant/insect/other animal/plant/insect/other
Description/Features: Description/Features:

animal plant

How it uses the ecosystem: How it uses the ecosystem:

Ecological Ecological

How it might relate to other species: How it might to other species:

Assignment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O4dBM74qfR8iAgB4Y27lOOsDdQ6k4vIP/view?usp=sharing

Assessment Packet 4

I. Identify what type of relationship the organism has.

1. Termites  -  protozoa  - parasitism

2. Rice plants – grasses – parasitism
3. Orchids – trees – commensalism
4. Eagles – chicks – parasitism
5. Mushrooms – trees –parasitism
6. Mangroves – crabs –mutualism
7. Frogs – insects –parasitism
8. Flowers – bees –mutualism
9. Man – intestinal worms –parasitism
10. Tick – dogs-parasitism
II. Enumerate the following:
A. Importance of Biodiversity:
      1.contribute to climate stability
      2.protects freshwater resources
      3.provide more food resources
B.       Threats to Biodiversity:
      4. deforestation
      5. desertification
      6. climate change
      7. human activities and loss of habitat
      8. increasing wildlife trade
      C.  Three kinds of Biodiversity
      9. genetic diversity
      10. species diversity
      11. ecological diversity
       D.  Give at least 4 GMO foods:
      12. soybeans
      13. cotton
      14. potatoes
      15. squash