Name: Sherry Love S.

Lapuz

Topic: Saving the Environment at the Expense of Economic Development

The Economic development is a process of targeted activities and programs that work to
improve the economic wellbeing and quality of life of a community by building local wealth,
diversifying the economy, creating and retaining jobs, and building the local tax base.

A key characteristic of economic development is that the people substantially

participate in the development process and in changing the fundamental structure of the
economy. While some foreign involvement is generally inevitable, for economic growth to be
described as economic development, the people of the country must participate not only in the
enjoyment of benefits from the rise in per capital income, but also in the production process
itself. Moreover, economic growth must confer benefits on a broad group of individuals, if it
benefits only a small minority, it is not deemed as economic development. It should be noted
that while much more is implied by economic development than economic growth, there can be
no economic development without economic growth.

Economic development is vital for meeting the basic needs of the growing populations
of developing countries. If we do not allow them to industrialise, these nations will have to bring
in measures to limit population growth just to preserve vital resources such as water.

Why development is important for a country?

Economic development is a critical component that drives economic growth in our

economy, creating high wage jobs and facilitating an improved quality of life. These are the
some reasons why economic development plays a critical role in any region's economy.

So, there is a very important role for entrepreneurs to spark economic development by
starting new businesses, creating jobs, and contributing to improvement in various key goals
such as GDP, exports, standard of living, skills development and community development.

Through economic development is necessary for under developed countries because

they can solve the problems of general poverty, unemployment and backwardness through it.
Name: Sherry Love S. Lapuz

Topic: Provided that there are existing technologies that can erase memories, This House will
erase bad memories.

According to my research that there are findings suggest that it may be possible to
develop drugs to delete memories that trigger anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) without affecting other important memories of past events.
During emotional or traumatic events, multiple memories can become encoded, including
memories of any incidental information that is present when the event occurs. In the case of a
traumatic experience, the incidental, or neutral, information can trigger anxiety attacks long after
the event has occurred, say the researchers.
The Penfield's idea, that a perfect transcript of each person's whole life is recorded in
the brain, waiting to be awakened with a gentle electric current, has not proved true. But the
idea that stored memories exist as physical changes within the brain has and recent research is
cracking open an array of possibilities for the editing and improvement of human memory. Even
as our basic understanding of how memory is encoded, stored, and retrieved remains extremely
limited, two separate teams of scientists have made breakthroughs in the field of memory study,
successfully implanting false memories, changing the emotions attached to memories of
trauma, and restoring the ability to form long-term memories in damaged brains in mice and
other animals. One has already reached the human-experimentation phase. And though these
new developments are years away from going to market, they point to a future where humanity
will have control over memory—conquering dementia and PTSD, perhaps even improving on
healthy memory function.

Interest in the field is already widespread. The research arm of the Department of
Defense, DARPA, has invested $80 million toward developing a wireless memory prosthetic to
help people who suffer memory loss as a result of TBI (traumatic brain injury), a condition
increasingly common among military personnel. And a new startup company, Kernel, has hired
a leading scientist to help develop a prosthetic memory device for commercial use, envisioning
a day in which this kind of tech will be widely available, part of a future in which silicon memory
chips are offered not just as medical treatments but as on-demand cognitive enhancements.

As these technologies develop, they bring plenty of technical and ethical questions with them:
How will these devices work, and who should have access to them? Can a person have an
edited memory and a "real" self? What happens when human recollections are mediated by
machines? To find the answers, I set out to talk to two of the men guiding these breakthroughs:
Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist at Harvard, who has successfully implanted false memories in
mice, and Bryan Johnson, the tech baron who owns Kernel. As I spoke to them, I found the
perspectives from the laboratory and the tech startup diverged on many of these points, raising
another, more disquieting question: As human memory changes from an intractable mystery to
something that can be engineered, who will get to decide how it works?