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14 had her first child with her cousin, David. She later married David when she was 20 years old. The couple went on to have 5 children. Henrietta at the age of 31 felt a mass on her cervix and was taken to see Dr. Howard Jones, a doctor at John Hopkins hospital. Dr. Jones, without consent, took tissue samples of the troublesome mass and sent them to…

For the Manitoba teenager Warren Pryor, the super hero of last week’s bank heist, had saved two children’s lives. But nobody knows that Warren Pryor lived an extremely frustrated, hopeless life. Warren, a 23-year-old banker who graduated with a master degree in finance had worked in BMO bank in Manitoba for few years. He born into a poor family, Warren grew up with a patriotic heart. Warren lived in a small town called George Town located in North Manitoba. People live in this town are mostly…

Social media is still rapidly growing as a daily part of human interaction for a very wide age group. Most activity on sites such as Facebook involves personal communication and browsing websites, but due to its massive popularity, social media has also become an important communication tool among professionals to a point where in some cases it is almost a necessity. Calvin Mann (2013) states, “After a few months away, I've been forced back to Facebook. It's a shame that it's become such a…

I've been reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This book is about a black woman who died of a cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Doctors took a cell from her cervix without any consent of her or her family. Her cells are still alive today, growing and multiplying. After this event her family will never be the same. The family discovered it more than two decades later that part of Henrietta was still alive and has been…

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Spring” vs. John Keats’ “To Autumn” Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Italian sonnet, “Spring” and John Keats’ ode, “To Autumn” are both similar and different in their use of literary devices. The poems’ similar titles, both seasons, are somewhat deceiving; they lead readers to believe that the poems are more similar than they actually are. “To Autumn” was written on September 19, 1819, but was not published until the following year ("To Autumn - Keats"). Hopkins’ poem, “Spring,”…

“God’s Grandeur” by Hopkins, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Banks the reader will find many similarities like the use of figurative language, diction, and theme. All these usages of rhetoric strategies help strengthen, and clarify the intent of the author. Both poems “God’s Grandeur” by Hopkins, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop use figurative language, and imagery in order to push their message, and help the reader understand their point of view. In “God’s Grandeur”, Hopkins says “like the ooze…

University, along with his performance as the Governor of New Jersey, led to his election as the twenty-eighth President of the United States, allowing him to implement his strong idealistic views, and transform America’s domestic and foreign policies. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia (Nordholt 6). His father was a Presbyterian minister and moved his family to Georgia when Woodrow Wilson was a young boy (7). Wilson found himself at a crossroads in the…

It was an unforgettable day during my internship when I realized that Public Health was not just my interest, but my calling. Although I had a vague idea of a career in health promotion, meeting Lal, my first refugee client at International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian aid organization, blossomed my idea into a firm desire to become a public health advocate, and improve health equity through addressing the barriers that cause health disparities in vulnerable communities such as…

In Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author reveals a real-life story about the life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who was diagnosed with a fast-growing cervical cancer at a very young age. The cells retrieved from her cervical tumor, later termed “HeLa”, became the first immortal cell that could survive in the lab and replicate continuously without dying. These cells later became key components to the development of many…

Due to the laws that enforced racial segregation during the Jim Crow period, African Americans Like Henrietta Lacks had less access to health care. Even when African American patients were treated in John Hopkins, they were used as research materials without their consents. They were taken advantage of because they were living in poverty, lacked education and proper understanding of informed consent. Like many doctors and researchers of that time, Richard…