It is said that the doctors and institutions that had Lacks’ cells did not use them for profit of their own gain. According to Rebecca Skloot in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks she includes statements from doctors on Henrietta’s case and that work at John Hopkins hospital. When the Vice President of Hopkins, Ross Jones, was asked about celebrating Henrietta’s life and contribution to the medical world he stated that he was not sure how Hopkins would be able to help celebrate her life. On page 225 of this book capturing the life and mark that ‘HeLa’ left on the world, Skloot quotes Jones in saying: Hopkins never used the HeLa cells in a commercial venture. Hopkins never sought, nor realized, any money from the development, distribution…
Contrasts and Evaluations of Namaste and Butler’s Approaches to Violence against Transwomen In “Undoing Theory, The ‘Transgender Question’ and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory”, Viviane Namaste (2009) examines the impacts of feminist knowledge production on transgender lives, specifically looking at the ways in which Judith Butler’s theories frame violence against transwomen. Indeed, in doing so, Namaste astutely points out that Butler fails to recognize the complexity of this issue as she is blinded by gender primacy (2009, p. 18). However, although this conclusion is enlightening, Namaste’s own analysis of violence against transwomen is quite superficial as it largely relies predominantly on the concept of labor. Although…
Because of the tradition of prostitutes who made use of excessive amounts of make up to hide their age and exaggerate their good looks, for the longest time cosmetics were totally abandoned by majority of the European population. Change finally took place after European soldiers returned from the crusades in the Middle East, bringing home new exotic products as well as knowledge. Among those products were many types of cosmetics, which were at first adopted only by nobility and high class citizens. Advancements in industry, chemistry and medicine in the 18th and 19th century brought significant improvements in cosmetics.…
Once a woman is out in public, the ideal that she has not spent hours on her appearance is given. One woman explained that if she were on a date or work she would not apply her make-up in front of people. However, if she were with a friend, she wouldn’t mind. This furthers the exclusion of males in the beauty routines. Women in the article have also stated that once they have allow their husbands in their back stage, the husbands ask them to “tone-down” their make-up and sometimes not wear any at all.…
From my own personal experience, I’ve noticed that my sister wears much more makeup compared to middle schoolers 10 years ago, and even when I was in middle school. For something to be escalating at such a rapid rate is odd.…
Botox changing the face of America because it has changed the expectations about the people's aging faces and especially the expectations of women's aging faces. We as a culture feel the need to fix our wrinkles like you would fix a broken tooth, bad vision, or something that can happen in one office visit. Botox seems fine and dandy but the author points out that Botox only lasts about four to six months. Therefore, you would need to get injections done two to three times a year and we are seeing a lot younger women who are now having to commit to a lifetime of Botox…
How is Mother Jones like other individuals you have heard of who have worked hard to defend human rights? In the selection "Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter For Workers Rights" Mother Jones marches to Sagamore Hill to defend the children who worked for the Mills. It states on paragraph 31 "The federal government finally passed a child labor law (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act) in 1938---Thirty-five years after the march of the mill children. " Many people like Mother Jones fought hard for other peoples rights.…
A fourth progressive that had a lasting impact was Mother Jones. She was born in Ireland and was known for coordinating many strikes and marches, the most well-known being the children’s march, the goal of which was to get child labor laws. During this march, Mother Jones walked with children who were working in the mills from Philadelphia to New York to see President Theodore Roosevelt. The President stays out of town during the march, however, as a result of this march, child labor laws gets a lot of publicity. In addition, as the cofounder of the IWW, she organized many strikes and was a sincere advocate for workers’ rights.…
The argument that there are good reasons why someone might not identify as a feminist presented in Dr Brooke Magnanti’s article “Feminism. What does it mean anyway?” is a respectable and well thought argument. The conclusion that there are good reasons as to why someone might not identify as a feminist relies on Magnanti’s personal experience with feminism along with the different views of feminism throughout today’s society. The premises Magnanti uses are mostly dependent of each other. Magnanti uses an an adequate amount of examples to support the conclusion.…
The essay “Your Toxic Beauty Regime” was an informal and fact driven essay that i would recommed for other to read. It opened my eyes to read the indregigredint of not only beauty produvts but anything else i buy that im going to put in my body. As a society we need to be awre of our health and to protct ourselves beacuase the companies only care about theri bussiness and competion wuth othe brands. So if we can do that we can signfically decrse the risks that these products have that can harm…
Americans saw a drastic social change in the years immediately following World War II. Young women sought out help and support from major magazines, specifically Seventeen Magazine in the years 1946 and 1947. Both teenage girls and young women were the targeted audience, and though they were close in age, their social interactions and fashion senses were on separate ends of the spectrum. In a Seventeen ad. published in 1947- the company influences it’s audience to invest in their new “natural” makeup that men will love.…
Best Drugstore Concealer We all know what it feels like to have this burning desire to go out looking AMAZING. It isn’t anything new and it isn’t anything that will change. I have some wonderfully beautiful people in my life that don’t need make-up, myself included, yet we all find the need to go out and get some concealer, blush, lipstick and anything else that you can think of, simply to make us look like someone that isn’t truly ourselves.…
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People go through certain extent in order to achieve certain standards of society’s version of beauty. One gets addicted to the beauty products and starts to believe that it really works. A lot of these products give false advertisements and exaggerate it just to get you to buy it. Many of these beauty products are expensive and can cause damage to your skin, hair, nails, etc.…
The only substitute that has arisen today is plastic surgery, which could replace their cosmetics and aging products. However, the performance of surgery as compared to cosmetics may be a threat to L’Oreal. Nevertheless, the switching cost (money-wise and health-wise) is very high, and most customers are unlikely to switch to surgery. Another potential substitute is a trend towards ‘no makeup’ and natural looks. That trend usually goes hand in hand with that of anti-consumerist group that view cosmetic products as…
In a recent study done it “found that young women, especially 25-34 year olds (86 percent) are most likely to pursue help to change a body part“ (SWNS News). 86% is too high of a number of women getting plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons. This is negatively impacting women in our society. We are teaching women that they shouldn’t be confident in their own skin and should alter it as they please. In the same study they found that there was an “increased focus on cosmetic procedures, it may also be related to the ongoing pop culture obsession with body image present in today’s culture”…