Hannah Henriques ANT Dr. Voelker September 28, 2017 Henrietta Lacks Book Review In Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot documents the years surrounding her research of Henrietta Lacks, a woman known to most of the world as HeLa. Henrietta lived and died a poor tobacco farmer from the south, living and working on the same farm as her enslaved ancestors. But little did Henrietta know that her cells would change the course of medical research and history forever.
As they leave their cocoons in the night fall, they seek for the light of the city as stated in stanza 2 "Move to dreams of light and sound" (line 7). This shows how both humans and butterflies seek for light in the dark. As the winter approaches this forces farmer to enjoy very little natural light during the day, forcing them out of their "Ford cocoons".
Death is inevitable; the end of existence is a fixed event that will ensue all life. Nevertheless, life perseveres against the odds of the world. The struggle for survival is examined in Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the Moth and Annie Dillard’s Polyphemus Moth, both in which a moth - seemingly insignificant lifeforms - engages in a match with death. Although both moths face adversity and fight to live, the certainty of death is confirmed when the Woolf’s moth’s natural passing comes.
“The butterfly is nature’s way of reminding us that there is hope in grief when a caterpillar is no more and the butterfly exists in ultimate freedom and beauty.” These words of Tanya Lord perfectly describe the allusion of butterflies that caught my attention while reading the book O Pioneers! By Whila Cather. There are two main setting in which butterflies appear throughout the novel, after doing research I found many interesting facts of butterflies, and was able to better understand why Cather used this allusion.
According to Rafael Trujillo, “He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule(azquotes)”. This explains the mindset of the dictator of the Dominican Republic shown in the book The Time Of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. In this historical fiction book it explain the story of the Mirabal sister in there fight to stop the oppression of Trujillo. It goes though there life story and gives insight to what the conditions were. Trujillo and the Dominican Republic government oppressed the citizens by arresting if you resist them, Machiavellian control and the deplorable conditions these people lived in.
Courage by Maybelline Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline. Or maybe it’s courage! Many people can be born with a perfectly clear face, or the oh so perfect rosy cheeks. Then there is some that have to work a little bit harder than others.
The multifaceted nature of the human condition encompasses all aspects of human life at both an individual and collective level and delves into the notion of humanity and the values it comprises. Gwen Harwood’s poems’ “Father and Child” and “Mother who gave me life,” and Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” (1998), explore the dynamic and often contradictory nature of the human condition. Harwood portrays the transience of time and inescapable truth of mortality, illustrating the ever changing complexion of the human experience. Whereas, Jackson examines the capability of all humans to be violent and cruel while questioning whether such tendencies can be masked by a constrictive society’s heartless ideals. Harwood explores the brevity
It is quite evident that tyrannical governments often deprive its citizens of their inviolable rights as humans. While some struggle to grasp the gravity of this suppression, Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies provides a way of better comprehending the corruption behind the denial of these entitlements such as freedom of expression, liberty, and no discrimination. In this story, Alvarez intertwines the real life tragedy of the Mirabal sisters with fictional writing to fully connect the reader to the evilness of dictatorships. Her use of characterization and admiring descriptions of the Mirabals lead to her readers being emotionally connected to each sister, prompting a better response to her message.
After reading "The Death of a Moth" by Annie Dillard I can conclude that this essay has a second meaning to it. I can see that Dillard wrote this essay with a lot of details so readers could understand what she was saying or to make readers imagine what she experienced. This essay that Dillard wrote talks about how she watched a moth burn for over two hours. Dillard implied that the moth still meant something even after it was burned. This is why I think that this essay that Dillard wrote has a second meaning to it.
Montag is going through the motions of life. He sees people die but never really understands what that means, the consequences and irreversibility of death. Montag sees people burn and sees them die but he doesn’t process what is happening. As he becomes more aware of what is happening he begins to gain a better understanding of death. Bradbury uses the immolation of characters to demonstrate the evolution of Montag’s understanding of death.
The poem, “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe dramatizes the theme of everlasting love. The use of contrasting diction effectively conveys this message. For example, the speaker states, “That the wind came out of the cloud by night, / Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee” (26-26). Poe uses the wind to represent a disease, such as tuberculosis. In addition, the choice of the words, “chilling” and “killing” and the use of cacophony emphasize Annabel Lee’s death and the effect it had on the speaker.
(page 1). The moth lives his life, as if positivity is the only thing it knows. This creates the moth as an embodiment of life. As the others work in the sun, and appreciate the summers day, the moth flies around, its’s only concern in getting from corner to corner. The moth does not think about
“He built a house called a cocoon… He stayed inside for more than two weeks…he was a beautiful butterfly”. The implicit theme could be that of the human creation. Humans start out as an “egg” or an embryo and change in the womb or “cocoon”. After birth “…push his way out”, there is a beautiful baby, “a beautiful butterfly.”
Scientific Revolution Letter By:Yeraldyne Molina Galileo, is one of the best scientists in history, he can think and act more fluently than other people. He should be set free, because if you don’t, nobody is going to make another invention that will make your life even better, or the next generations. Galileo has made many discoveries, other people couldn’t even imagine! He noticed that the planets,Mercury and Venus pass through phases just like the Moon.
“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” was a statement by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a very strong statement, for death, in the non-literary world, is not typically associated with anything poetical. In fact, many would argue that death is the opposite of poetical. If poetical means, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “having an imaginative or sensitive emotional style of expression”, then it can be said that death is unpoetical. Death is the end of one’s emotions, and in non-literal terms, death can be the lack of emotions.
