HUMAN MICROCHIP

The world has changed rapidly. There are new inventions each year. Some years ago, when the microchip first came on the scene, people began to speculate that someday they’d have a microchip containing all your personal info that they could slip under your skin and access with a simple scanner. Well, the casual speculation is over; they are here. According to medical-answers.org, “a human microchip implant is an integrated circuit device or RFID transponder encased in silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being” (medical-answers). Educate-yourself.org stated that “microchips are tiny instruments that drive various functions of computers and other electronic equipment. They are about the size of a large B-B pellet. However, they are getting increasingly smaller” (Educate-yourself). The procedure to have a microchip installed is simple and painless. It is placed in the back of your upper arm and undetectable. In addition, you will be able to go to the doctor’s office to have this microchip placed in your body. Once the microchip is implanted your account profile will commence, and any modification or additions will be simple to make.

VeriChip Corporation is the first company to approve implantable microchip for humans. They said, 

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip is inserted just under the skin and contains only a unique, 16-digit identifier. The microchip itself does not contain any other data other than this unique electronic ID, nor does it contain any Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking capabilities. And unlike conventional forms of identification, the Health Link cannot be lost, stolen, misplaced, or counterfeited. It is safe, secure, reversible, and always with you (Positiveid Corp). 

           Many say this microchip can help us many ways.  For example, when your child is kidnapped, when one needs to identify a dead body, and when the government is trying to track someone. According to ieet.org, “A survey conducted by the Future Foundation revealed that 75% of British parents would buy a device that kept track of their child’s movements” (Pellissier). Parents will not need to worry that much about if they children are safe or not with the microchip implanted in them. When a child is kidnap their parent or the police will know where he/she was taken to, and the kidnapping rate in the United States will drop tremendously.  

Furthermore, many accidents happen, and most of the times when someone dies in much brutally car accident it is very hard to identify the person body. With the human microchip in our bodies it will be much easier to identify the person, so they could tell his/her families. This chip can also track people with mentally disabled, psych patients, the elderly suffering from dementia, head injuries. Several of them tend to get lost when left alone; this microchip will be very good for them.

Another pro is that it will be easier on the government to track someone, especially people that are involve with frauds, and people that are doing illegal things. This will be better for solving crimes because the police could track people much faster and easier, therefore justice is will served faster. Medical records can be quickly located for a patient in the emergency room. It can also reduce the risk of dementia.

 Nevertheless, human microchip may seem like a reasonable idea, but that means no one will have privacy, and safety from the government anymore. Mark Rasch is the former head of the computer-crime unit of the U.S. Justice Department. He stated that, "It's going to be used in unintended ways by third parties _ not just the government, but private investigators, marketers, lawyers building a case against you ...” (Birotte Jr.). Everyone’s movement could be tracked.  Bad things like personal data being stolen or hacked could happen. Through this microchip people could hear your conversion and even record the conversation you are having.

 Admittedly, these microchips that are being implanted are wrong. One thing everyone needs is their own privacy. The government should not invade. If someone is doing something illegal, they will eventually found out someday because nothing evil is hidden under the sun. Implanting these chips in children can be good and also bad. Looking at the side where you are trying to keep them safe from bad people is understandable. But children need their own privacy too. Not every teenager wants their parents always knowing where they are, or what they are doing with their friends. If parents are always keeping track on their children whereabouts, these children will be forced to take out the microchip, or in more serious note commit suicide. We will become slaves to the government if everyone was to get the human microchip. However, I believe human microchips should be used only in certain situations.

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Communication Is Important

What couples now a days struggle with the most in their relationship, and sometimes end up breaking up is the lack of communication. Communication is very important in relationship, and all aspects of life. In order to have a good communication between two people, there have to be a level of trust. In order for trust to develop a relationship must have a chance of surviving. You must be able to predict how our partner will behave at all times. It is very hard in most relationships for couples to sit down and talk about their feelings, and how the relationship is going. Men and Women tend to communicate differently. Most women are all about talking about their feelings and getting all sentimental; however men just don’t want to get to get all emotional when talking to their friends because it makes them seem weak.

             My first and longest relationship, my boyfriend and I found it very difficult to communicate, especially after long heated arguments. I always thought if we forget about whatever we argued about and not talk about it; we were good. Not knowing that mentality will hurt my relationship with my first love. For instance, his friend/roommate accused me of kissing him when I came over to the apartment when my boyfriend wasn’t there. When the accusation came out at first, I thought it was a joke, so I ignored every conversation about it.

 Later, it became a big problem, but I refused to defend myself. I assumed he knew me better than that; so I told him to “think whatever he wanted, and that I don’t need to explain myself." Not knowing that ignoring the situation and each other was making him believe his friend more than me. And whenever we attempt to talk about it, I end up getting mad and hanging up. He tried so many times to reach out to me, so I can explain my part, but it’s either I wouldn’t listen to him or was just mad. So we ended broking up. If I was just calm and not let my pride get the best o me, and talked about it; we would still be together now. However, I was stubborn and didn’t want to listen to him or explain myself.

Men and women tend to communicate differently. Women are more likely to talk to other women when they have a problem or needs to make a decision.  Most men keep their problems to themselves and don’t see the point in sharing personal issues. Women talks in “rapport” talk, want to talk about their feeling talk and have a relationship talk, and think about how it will affect other people. Men speak in “report” talk; they want to talk about the facts and move on with their lives. When a man and woman get into an argument, the women want the rapport from the man. If women have a disagreement with each other, it affects all aspects of their relationship, and even ends some friendship. Some men can have a disagreement but then move on to another subject and go get a drink together. Men do not show emotions to their guy friends, because they think it’s a sign of weakness. In our society, men are limited to how they can show their emotions because it is either you are look down upon or made of fun.  If men are emotional society will say it’s a sign of weakness, but if women are too emotional it a sign of weakness.  

Even though men and women tend to communicate differently or lack communication in their relationship, we should all try to compromise to save our relationships by listening to each other, even if we do not agree with the other person. I have learned great lessons about communication from my relationships, and I am still trying my best to be good at it. Communication is not only important in relationships but all aspects of life, at work, school, and church without it our world will be chaotic.