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    In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot‚ there is a debate over whether Americans should be hopeful for the future of healthcare or whether to be pessimistic about what’s to come. There are times where people can see both sides of the argument and it is understandable why people have different points of view based on the argument. In the story‚ we see Henrietta’s cells used as research and the information is kept away from Henrietta’s family. Even though by keeping the

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    Henrietta Lacks Critique

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    I have read the first half of the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ a book about a woman in the 1950s who had cancer. The story explains how Henrietta’s cells were taken and what happened to them as scientists began to discover more and more about cells and cancer.     I most enjoyed learning about the way that patients were treated in hospitals during the 1950s‚ and the differences in treatment of people of different races. They did not ask their patients if they would like to donate their

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    children. However‚ by losing her genetic mother‚ she had a spot for an emotional mother to come in‚ whom she eventually found in the year 2000 in the form of a student‚ a writer‚ and a soon to be close friend‚ Rebecca Skloot. Throughout the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ Rebecca Skloot utilizes various literary elements to help emphasize the formation of a mother-daughter relationship between Deborah and herself. Albeit there are a slew of instances throughout The Immortal Life of Henrietta

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    Tissue Ownership

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    Ownership Is a Cell Line a Research Tool or a Person Comments. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. "By Rebecca Skloot." Enotes.com. Enotes.com‚ n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. "Vital (T)issues." Homepage of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. Korn‚ David. "Ownership and Use of Tissue Specimens for Research." JAMA. Vol. 292. N.p.: American Medical Association‚ 2004. Web. Skloot‚ Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown‚ 2010. Print.

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    After reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ what stood out was the root of how Henrietta’s cells went universal. A sample of cervical tissue was taken and a doctor asked David or Day to do an autopsy on Henrietta for the sake of their children. By using Normandale’s College Library course quick start‚ searching for an article of interest took some time. In Academic Search Premier‚ I read a few like Our Body‚ Our Cells; and Returning the Blessings Of an Immortal Life. I then typed

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    The characters from the book‚ “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” become attached to objects that are meaningful to them. It is noticed that a certain object had a significant meaning by analyzing the scene and the character. Dr. Geys assistant‚ Mary described Henrietta Lacks red nail polish on her toes. She described Henrietta being an actual woman‚ something Mary never thought of. Henrietta’s relatives described Henrietta with her red nail polish. The red nail polish was a meaningful object

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    Rebecca Lee Crumpler

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    Rebecca Lee Crumpler Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman to recieve a M.D. degree. She was born in 1831 in Delaware‚ to Absolum Davis and Matilda Webber. Crumpler’s main inspiration to become a doctor came from her Aunt who spent alot of her time caring for the sick in her community. In Crumpler’s book published in 1883‚ she stated “...having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania‚ whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought‚ I early conceived a liking

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks summary Chapter one Chapter one is about when Henrietta lacks is in the Hopkins hospital explaining to the doctor that she has a lump. Henrietta had felt this lump for a long time but though it was because of her pregnancy of her 5th child. The gynecologist looks at her medical history; notices that Henrietta had a list of untreated medical problems. The chapter also explains the time of period it was in as it describes how they were segregated. They had

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    Played Disparity Rebecca skloot’s road to self-evolvement came about when she first heard about this unknown woman’s cells were used to create the first immortal line of cells. Which is kind of ironic because she heard about it in a class she felt ambiguous about which turned into a life altering fixation.It pretty much then defined her life to the extent of opening the door to a tirade of invective; and a closure of open wounds. The coming ten years piloted her in reexamining her whole understanding

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    Victorian moral values‚ male superiority and the influence of aristocracy. This is further illuminated by Du Maurier’s Rebecca where male dominance and misogyny mean only the woman will pay. As a woman in the midst of an undeniably patriarchal society‚ Tess is unable to escape the social structure. Tess epitomizes the case that the innocent pay for the guilty. Similarly‚ Rebecca faces a fight against the pressure of the Victorian society to maintain a perfect marriage‚ but fails to succeed. Both

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