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Howard A. Myrick is a journalism professor at Temple University. His article The Search for Objectivity in Journalism describe the lack of objectivity when it is disseminating. Media workers usually want to present news objectively. But what media workers want to present is different from what they present plus what readers understand is usually different from what social media workers present. So, what readers understand is not equal to the truth in the end. People’s thinking are always affecting the information they disseminated, which makes what people present is different from the reality. A news is distorted by people from happening to people know it, even the disseminator try to present the reality objectively. Rebecca Skloot is the …show more content…

She tried to dig out the truth of HeLa cell’s contributor, which was buried by time and Dr. Grey, and ignore by other media workers. She did not stop to look for the truth when she met setback. Obviously, she is the media worker look for the objectivity. She also has good relationships with Debora who is a black lady. Everything makes her does not looks like a racist. How is her attitude in the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? According to the the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, “She grew up in a black neighborhood that was one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country” (Skloot 7). “Incest was not uncommon in the family and Henrietta Lacks herself married her first cousin” ( Skloot 114). Above example are not the only two example. Rebecca Skloot related black, Lacks family, and other bad thing together, such as incest. Readers can feel Rebecca Skloot is a biased writer from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, who has a little bit racialism thinking. Because her book is

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Jade Sherwin May 14th, 2018 Essay test Rebecca Skloot’s book “The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of Henrietta Lacks a young mother, a descendant of slaves, whose suffering changed the course of medical research and made life healthier for the rest of us. Henrietta was diagnosed with cancer in numerous ways the Lacks family’s right to privacy was violated. The Lacks family’s right to privacy was violated by people exposing the Lacks’s information “Newspapers and magazines “published articles about Henrietta , one of the pivotal figures in the crusade against cancer.”

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of Henrietta, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, aided by journalist Rebecca Skloot. Deborah wanted to learn about her mother, and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever. It is a story of medical arrogance and triumph, race, poverty and deep friendship between the unlikeliest people. There had been many books published about Henrietta’s cells, but nothing about Henrietta’s personality, experiences, feeling, life style etc.

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She had five children when she fell ill and was devastated to learn her radium treatments left her unable to have more. She was protective of her family’s feelings, by keeping her cancer a secret from them so as not to worry them. Her family described her as an outgoing and beautiful woman of God. Henrietta and I have very little in common. I’ve never experienced prejudice because of my skin color or lived in a

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A legacy symbolizes and acknowledges the contribution and impact a person has made and left in life. The word itself is correlated to the fact that the individual has provided something of significance in life. (Llopis, 2014). Henrietta Lacks was born on the first of August in 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia (Skloot, 2010, p. 18). She was a southern Tobacco farmer and mother of five children.

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