The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPAA, is a common term heard around health care today. HIPAA, a privacy rule to protect a person’s health information, is one of the first things that came to my mind when I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book, written by Rebecca Skloot, was published in 2010, which was after HIPAA was enacted. The story of Henrietta Lacks starts long before HIPAA, and her name was leaked as the source of what became well-known as HeLa cells. HeLa cells are cancer cells that were removed from Henrietta’s cervix, and were subsequently utilized in research for numerous medical discoveries.
While, Rebecca Skloot endured ten years of writing her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which included a lot of research along with many trials. Skloot visited many scientific labs, hospitals, and mental institutions which included many different types of people from many different places, with many different backgrounds; including nobel laureates, grocery store cashiers, convicted felons, and a professional con artist. While Skloot was gathering research pertaining to Henrietta’s family, she was accused of making facts up and lying about the information she was compiling. She was both physically and mentally slammed for the story she was trying to document and the information she was trying to gather to do so.
What makes us trust another human being? Even though there are many who are corrupt, trustworthy individuals have the ability to persuade us of their credibility. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a nonfiction book, Rebecca Skloot tells us an almost unbelievable story in a very believable way. Rebecca Skloot shows extreme patience with Deborah. As she continues to conduct research on the Lacks family, it is not uncommon for Deborah to act extremely irrationally.
Have you ever wondered how a tiny accident that seems absolutely unimportant can completely change your life ? Rainsford in Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Eckels in Ray Bradbury's " Sound of Thunder" both made tiny mistakes which then completely cange their lives.(thesis) Main characters of two stories are : famous writer and hunter - Rainsford, and rich experimenter - Eckels, and they are both in constant search of new adventures and experiences, in this searches of unforgettable feelings and unusual hunting they forget about danger and caution.(sentence ?) Because of their overconfidence and thirst for something new , little unremarkable thing that happens to both of them, that results to huge changes. Both Rainsford and Eckels have something common, they are both trophy hunters and adventure seekers, they have both looked Death in the eye, but they are absolutely different.
Appreciation is one of the important thought that goes through the story. Louise Erdrich is plainly appreciative for what her mom has given her: Saving her own life to permit her later to manage another youngster; life itself through birth; and life once more, through her salvage from the flame. It is her appreciation that pulls Louise Erdrich home to peruse books to her mom, "to peruse so everyone can hear, to peruse long into the dull in the event that I should, to peruse throughout the night. " Although it is inferred that her arrival comes at a pivotal crossroads in her own life (suggested by her reference to her fizzled life), it is an uncommon youngster to demonstrate a guardian such generous appreciation. She comes back to satisfy the capacity that her dad started in the clinic, that of perusing so anyone might hear.
3. In "Making Peace" Kingsolver establishes that the wild is something that can be peculiar and with its originality one must adjust to what happens. At the point when the author sees that her garden is eaten by wild hoards every night even after she encompasses it with metal wall. 4. "
Two primary sources that I am trying to incorporate in my paper are The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture written by himself and the Discontent Spread from an Historical account of the Black Empire of Hayti Written by Marcus Rainsford. Both of these primary sources discuss how France and Haiti were interconnected. In addition, these sources deliberated different point of views from both the European and American hemispheres. Written with his own hands, The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture shows how he felt during the beginnings of the France and Haitian Revolutions. Also it shows, the sentiments of patriotism of Louverture towards France and Haiti.
In Willa Cather’s book, My Antonia, the theme of childhood can be seen throughout the book and affects the meaning taken from the story. A childhood theme can add so much to a story and really drive the points the author wants to make. As the novel follows Jim throughout his childhood the theme of innocence and maturity are displayed throughout the story in multiple circumstances. Jim and Antonia’s relationship revolves around their adventures as they explore the prairie and all its wonders.
How can one become one with their environment? Connection with one 's environment was always easier to maintain until the industrial age came into existence. With the birth of modern society came the birth of social responsibilities and burdens unknown to man. In “The Way to Rainy Mountain” and “A place for literature,” Barry Lopez and N. Momaday Momaday explain the impact of lands on its occupants. In “the white heron,” Sarah Jewett explains the feeling of reconnection with one’s inner voice though nature.
At night, the littluns become frightened and have nightmares. This scares the littluns and the others because now they are uncertain. The fear of the unknown makes the littluns afraid. This causes chaos because others start believing there is something at night that is going to harm them. This demonstrates modern society because people are afraid of the unknown.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a truly inspiring coming of age story about overcoming hardships and poverty with amiable characters that take the reader on an emotional experience on how life was like in the 1900s. The book’s main theme is if someone works hard and long enough, they will achieve their goals. The title of the book even supports this statement. There is this tree in Francie’s backyard that grew through the cracks of the cement. The tree has been cut downed and burned multiple of times, but still continues to strive into a beautiful tree, which Francie loves.
“It as in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the Ibis lit in the bleeding tree.” “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst is a short story about two brothers who lived on a cotton farm during World War I. In the story, the narrator goes through emotional struggles. The theme of the story is too much pride can lead to positive and negative effects. This theme is developed through the use of foreshadowing, symbolism, and conflict.
Individuals are usually judged by their superficial appearances and not by their characteristics, which could cause a wrong perception of an individual true self-leading their status and identity to become an outcast from the society. Furthermore, it could lead an individual to have psychological effects on their mental health. For instance, it could lead an individual to obtain the feelings of emptiness and hopelessness, to conclude with a decision to commit suicide. Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Lusus Naturae,” is written in a first person perspective, in which the protagonist tells the story herself. The readers of the story are able to know what is going on in the protagonist mind and how she is feeling throughout the story.
This starts off the beginning of Francie’s writing career and ironically, even though she tried to eschew from writing while attending college, she still ends up becoming one. Even though Moore wrote this story’s plot in a non-traditional way, she was still able to make it a great story, but when Francie tries to do the same thing, she is ironically lambasted for trying a difficult approach and is told by her English professor “Much of your writing is smooth and energetic. You have, however, a ludacris notion of plot” (463). As the story progresses, readers are able to see another ironic point in which Francie thinks she is an unsuccessful writer when Moore writes, “Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half believe anything and everything that is said of them” (466), but from an outside perspective, she is seen an accomplished writer, “Sooner or later you have a finished manuscript more or less. People look at in a vaguely troubled sort of way and say, ‘I’ll bet becoming a writer was always a fantasy of yours, wasn’t it?’
There was no chattering or chirping of birds; no growling of bears and no chuckling of contented otters; instead, the clearing lay desolate and still, as though it never wished to be turned into day. The only occupants were rodents and spiders who had set their home in the dank, forgotten shack. From its base, dead, brown grass reached out, all the way to the edge of the tree-line, unable to survive in the perished, infertile soil that made up the foundations of the house. Bird houses and feeders swung still from the once growing apple trees, in the back garden, consigned to a life of
