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In the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was mentioned. Throughout Henrietta’s time of being sick with cervical cancer, she was not told she had the disease. Scientists took samples of Henrietta’s cells and brought them to the prestigious Tuskegee Institute for further study (Skloot pg. 23). It was at this same institute that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was performed.
In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, religious beliefs clash with science breakthroughs over HeLa cells. The Lacks family were religious however the author Rebecca Skloot is more in touch with science rather than religion. Although the Lacks family did not turn her away from science, they did open her eyes and inspire her to believe in something more than nothing. The family did not know much about science or HeLa cells, and the family was unsure about trusting Skloot because they believed she was going to betray them like the doctors did with the HeLa cells from Henrietta.
All But My Life, by Gerda Weissmann Klein, is an absolutely amazing autobiography. Gerda tells about her childhood and how she grows into an adult in many German labor camps. Gerda’s home town has been taken over by the Germans during the holocaust. Her wealthy jewish family is forced to live like slaves until they are separated and moved to different German camps. Gerda tells her story like the reader is there with her.
Love and heartache have been discussed and explored through literacy many times in every way possible. Overall through the course of literacy, we have learned that love is not easy. Sometimes people choice to brush off the bruises and try again and some people choice to find another purpose. Jeff Parker and Erica Dawson are two authors who, by using different types of literary formats, effectively came across the topic of love. Erica Dawson uses poetry in her poem, “New NASA Missions Rendezvous with Moon”, to execute the idea that love wins at the end of the day.
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot is about an African American woman who had her cells taken without any consent from her or her family to benefit the medical and science field. The Lacks family had no idea about Henrietta’s cells were alive and tested on for all kind of experiments. Henrietta’s case and other similar cases brought up an issue of who has the ownership of the tissue: the patient or the researcher? This issue became serious when researchers and scientists started making profits and having it patented. The argument against giving people legal ownership of their tissues is that everyone benefits from the research.
"Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston is about a woman named Delia, a washerwoman in Florida during the 1900s. Her husband of fifteen years, Sykes does not work, yet he complains about Delia cleaning "white folks'" clothes in their home(603). The marriage is abusive; Sykes began physically and emotionally beating Delia, two months after marrying her and hasn't stop since. Citizens in the town remark how the Delia was once "young and soft" but now has lost it because of Sykes(604). Delia realizes that she does not need to be with someone to be happy, because she has her beliefs, that everything will turn out good in the end.
Louise and Delia What do most women want in a marriage? Is it hatred and an unfaithful husband? No! Women expect to have a husband who loves and cares for them.
One major theme authors universally write their stories around concern the power of human relationships. Though writers may take different paths to communicate this, the strength that comes from these unique connections that exist between individuals resonates with everyone. Authors clearly articulate through a myriad of rhetorical devices that maintaining relationships is a fundamental part in personal growth and allows for a stronger sense of self. In finding companionship and comradery. people become capable of evolving and arriving at better understandings of who they are.
The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a good representation of the Holocaust after reading the book Night by, Eli Wiesel. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas illustrates the prisoner’s lives that were being held in the camps, the selection process when they first arrive, the living conditions, food rations and the punishments they received. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas takes place in the 1940’s. The movie shows the innocence of t two eight-year old boys Bruno and Shmuel and how they both do not realize what really happens at that camp.
Love is a theme that is not commonly omitted from a classic piece of literature. Not exclusively the conventional definition of love, as between a person and their significant other, but less obvious types. In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, love is a distinct and overt theme. However, it varies between different types: conventional love, brotherly love, fatherly love, and love for one’s work. Rand very effectively uses love between man and woman to express her philosophy in this book.
I have always respected and explored the terrible events of ‘The Holocaust’. After reading Elie Wiesel bibliography, “The Night” I was horrified that he experienced those traumatic events, at the age of 12 and just because he was a Jew. Back when I was twelve, I just started high school and yet I had no information or understanding of ‘Holocaust’. Since reading Elie Wiesel’s book, I still don’t understand why humans could be so wicked, immoral and evil to another human being? The killing of innocent Jews, just because of their beliefs isn’t acceptable, it’s pure evil.
“SOMEDAY, AFTER MASTERING THE WINDS, THE WAVES, THE TIDES AND GRAVITY, WE SHALL HARNESS FOR GOD THE ENERGIES OF LOVE, AND THEN, FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, MAN WILL HAVE DISCOVERED FIRE.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (as cited in Cormier, 1996, p. 33) Human beings are overwhelmingly relational creatures that crave relationships and social interactions. These experiences often provide the attention, support, and nurture we so desperately yearn and are generally accompanied by emotions that gild our lives with vibrancy and meaning. Love is most notably at the root of many attachments and serves as the foundation of infant-mother, age-mate, and male-female bonding.
Sunday Sunday is a fascinating song whose subtext is interesting in that, on the surface, Sondheim’s lyrics in Sunday use color, shapes, and other such visual descriptions simply to hearken to the painting Seurat is creating. Yet Sondheim used these lyrics to convey the emotions of the characters, just as Georges Seurat used them in his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Instead of directly describing feelings, Sondheim relays them in an Impressionist manner, giving the audience bits and pieces of emotions to create an impression for themselves. The audience is urged to “pass through [their] perfect park/ Pausing on a Sunday” in order to create a point of emotional release where they may stay “By the cool blue triangular water”.
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Throughout, the whole semester we have learned about writers and their works. Each writer used different writing styles to portray the message they want to give through their work of art. Out of all story the newest writers, we were introduced to this week are short story and poem that I enjoy reading. While reading the works of Langston Hughes, his poetry made a connection with real life situation that was going on in the early 20th century and now. I, Too and Harlem are two poems that speak of issue today that similar to the 20th century.
