McKissik Museum`s NATURAL CURIOSITY EXHIBIT

By : Abdul Rohman El-Hafid

On May 1, 2009, I went to McKissik Museum of University of South Carolina. I saw a lot of things that had been collected by the scientists. At the time, I`ve look the exhibit in there, and I did not think about the reason of scientists for collecting and killing living things. If I had more time, I would like to think about the reason of scientists. Moreover, museum is a good place to know about the development of the scientific. Everyone will see a lot of new things that were discovered by the scientist.

In my opinion, I support all activities that have been done by the scientists. They tried to analyze a lot of things. Because of the discovering and collecting of the scientist, we can get more information about something that we don`t know. It also can help us to know about the symptoms from diseases that are caused by animals like bird flu, swine flu, etc. The scientists need a source and data to know about something and the ways are collecting and killing. I think this is reasonable to understand the scientists why they collected and killed living things. I can`t imagine, if only the scientists had never collected and killed living things that we would have gone to the Museum.

As we know, the animals are living creatures as well as human beings. All people in the world believe that all living creatures should be respected. It is wrong for everyone to kill and collect living things without scientific reasons. On the other hand, it is right to collect and kill living things when the reason is for researching.

Actually, between positive results and negative results from the scientific study of living things are not important enough to discuss, because I feel that we need knowledge scientifically. We should be smart to face this problem. We have known the purpose of scientists to do something, and we`ve known its results. After that, we can decide and talk this matter by resources.

In summary, this is the right way to collecting and killing living things when the reason is for researching. Everybody will get more positive results than negative results from the scientific study of living things. In addition, we should support all activities that can give more information and knowledge.

GW4a ESSAY Assignment Due Monday, May 4, 2009