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       Oryx and Crake, a novel written by a famous Canadian author Margret Atwood, discusses the issues of diseases, nature, and most importantly bio-technology. The world has always been thinking about these concepts. In Oryx and Crake, disease plays a multitude of roles. For example. disease is a marker of class through the segregation of urban areas. Those who have comfortable jobs with the major pharmaceutical companies live in disease-free, highly guarded compounds. Those who are not affiliated with such companies live in lands full of diseases. Residents who do not normally visit the area either avoid entering them or take special medicines to enter them safely. Just like our own world people tend to avoid diseases, as people get richer; they start to live in more organized and disease-free areas. On the other hand, poor families live in areas where mosquitoes, rats, and cockroaches spread quickly. However governments cannot really do anything about this issue. Also, disease is used as a cure to the problems of humanity. By inflicting a lethal disease on the world's population, Crake hoped to remove hunger, war, jealousy, crime, rape, and a host of other undesirable conditions of the human experience. Crake wanted to make the human perfect, to make the world free of bad attributes, but this is not the way to do it. He wanted to eliminate any human on earth and recreate another race called the "Crakers" which is perfect in his mind, but this is not the cure anymore, it is the destruction of mankind. I think, what our government should do is that teaching children at a young age, make sure every one of them goes to school regularly, find the best attributes in them. Some are good at sports, some are good at writing, some are good at painting. All of us have something in our bodies and minds; we just need others to find it. Also, media should limit the publicity of certain subjects, like theft, rape, and all other crimes. If kids do not know what the crimes are, they should not be able to do it at all. Nature means a lot to our world, as all countries on earth are trying to plant more trees and limit the use of gasoline. For example, China has a holiday which students and teachers participate in planting trees around urban areas, this should be widely spread across North America, and the government should make a holiday like this. Schools should teach students at a young age that the Earth is the only planet we can live on; on other planet in the Milky Way is suitable for human life. The issue of biotechnology is also great on Earth, as the creation of creatures and plants can destroy the nature of Earth, it can make certain species extinct or disappear. The government should limit the use of biotech, but right now most of the government is trying to develop more and more useful creatures or plants. Even though cross genetic plants can benefit our world well, but it also increases the use of pesticides by a lot.

By Steven Ruan