solution to a disease known as Blue Baby Syndrome before time runs out. Though in the beginning Thomas was intended to be a janitor for Blalock’s laboratory‚ Thomas’ profound knowledge of medicine and the body led him to be Blalock’s right-hand man‚ and together‚ they further their research. Though the two succeed in finding a solution to the Blue Baby Syndrome‚ the two would converse with multiple conflicts before they would find a cure. The Blue Baby Syndrome proved to be an extremely difficult
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hero is a person who does something but doesn’t get credit for it. Vivien Thomas was an African American man who developed a procedure to cure blue baby syndrome. Blue baby syndrome was very common in the 1940’s when Vivien developed the procedure. It caused the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs to stop and had taken the lives of many babies. Vivien Thomas was not alone in the making of the cure. The man who got the credit was Dr. Alfred Blalock‚ who was a white man‚ had helped him out too
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Something the Lord Made is a story about the development and incredible miracle of the Blue Baby procedure. The movie is based upon how Vivien Thomas‚ a young black lab technician‚ and Dr. Alfred Blalock‚ a wealthy white physician‚ are brought together in friendship and medical research of a procedure to save cyanosis‚ bluish skin‚ children. The movie is based upon these two men‚ who defied the rules of their time to launch both a medical and a civil rights revolution. The medical impact that
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Describe the issues in the movie “Something The Lord Made” and put in the critical reviews. Every movies is been produced with a purpose‚ to raise awareness‚ sharing the real life stories‚ marking important history moments‚ talking on imaginative world‚ giving people some advices or others are the purposes of various kinds of movies. “Something the Lord made” do has its own purpose like others do. It touched some sensitive issues at that time. Those issues included racial discrimination
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1. Did Vivien lose all his money when the banks crashed? Yes‚ Vivien lose all the money he worked for “The Peoples Bank‚ the bank in which [he] had [his] savings‚ closed its doors” (Thomas‚ 43). He worked very hard for his money and saved most of it in his bank. When they closed he felt anger‚ resentment‚ and disbelief. 2. Did Vivien look over Dr. Alfred Shoulder when they did heart surgery? Yes‚ Dr. Blalock need Vivien’s assistance and told him “stand where [he] could see” (Thomas‚ 92). Vivien
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Something the Lord Made The movie‚ Something the Lord Made‚ is based on the true story of two medical pioneers and their working relationship. Dr. Alfred Blalock and Mr. Vivien Thomas worked together for 34 years doing medical research. Together‚ they discovered a groundbreaking surgery that would alter the course of medical history. In order for Blalock and Thomas to work together for so long and to accomplish so much they had to have some foundational aspects of their relationship. This is much
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This weeks reading is somewhat of a refreshing change from previous weeks as it highlights the dreams and visions of those (Martin Luther King Jr‚ Malcom X‚ Nelson Mandela‚ Steve Biko) who strived for a world without white oppression‚ although the philosophies they embraced differed. An example of this is through the comparison of MLK and Malcom X through the readings of James M Washington’s‚ A Testament of Hope and Malcom X’s "The Black Revolution". Initially‚ there a common threads throughout
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Babies From a helpless newborn to an active toddler: It takes just 12 short months for a baby to undergo an incredible transformation. Babies grow and change at an amazing pace‚ and every month there are new and exciting developments happening. Do you know how babies are made? We all got the basics covered. A man and woman meet‚ they have sex‚ and nine months later‚ a baby is born. But there’s a lot more to it than that. For this processes to begin there is a few things that need to happen. For
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Tara D. Frazier Frazier Mr.Bluhm Page 1 ENG 110 05/21/2013 Babies Having Babies It’s a gloomy‚ rainy day when I see the young girl sitting at the bus terminal in a yellow rain slicker. She sits alone‚ soaking wet. My seventeen year old daughter elbows me leaning her head in the direction of the young girl who is obviously very pregnant and whispers‚ “Mom‚ how pregnant do you think she is?” which she immediately follows with‚ “Man‚ she’s young!” I take a closer look at
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Arian Geary English 1117-16 Personal Essay 9/22/12 Babies Having Babies My life as a teenager would soon be coming to an end and my life as mommy would be coming up faster then expected. It all started June 10th 2012‚ my family and I had just finished eating our dinner celebrating my achievement of getting my GED. I had received cards‚ gifts‚ and even some money from my family members for finally receiving this GED after being out of school for my senior year. Everybody was so happy
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