The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

My experience with research writing has dated back to my years in high school. The sharp contrast in the ways I’ve learned to write an effective essay has become clear over my years in college. When reflecting back to my high school time the research paper that was the most glaring was the one done on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The teacher had given us a choice of different topics to choose from and I vividly recall looking over the topics and choosing the one that I felt had the most information in which you could write about. The topic that I selected asked us to analyze the ways in which Henrietta and her family’s right of privacy was infringed upon, and to evaluate the impact her cells had. The research paper that I recently did on artificial intelligence had both similarities and differences to the paper on Henrietta.
The novel was her first ever published book, and it has received countless awards. It’s based on the true story of Henrietta Lacks an African American woman in the 1950’s. Henrietta, a mother of five children, is diagnosed with cervical cancer. She then decides to enter the John Hopkins Hospital in the hope of receiving treatment. And without her consent a sample of her cancerous tissue was taken to Dr. George Gey, the head of tissue research at Hopkins. His hope was that the cells would help unlock the mystery behind cancer, and eventually lead to its cure. Prior to Henrietta’s tissue the attempts from Gey had all ended in failure, but Henrietta cells were different; they wouldn’t die. Henrietta’s cells would later become known as the HeLa