Anthony Hopkins

Wolfe’s (2017) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks For three decades, scientists had been looking for human cells that could be successfully multiplied outside the human body and much of their efforts failed until 1951, when doctors in the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore collected a cancerous tissue sample from a colored woman, Henrietta Lacks, without her consent. Her tissue sample is significant as it allowed scientists to conduct tests on human cells repeatedly without running out…

Similar to other discoveries, evidence shows that discovery of the DNA structure was marred by controversies. Part of this controversy involved Rosalind Elsie Franklin, an X-ray crystallographer who was working on DNA with Maurice Wilkins at King’s College in London, England, between 1950 and 1953 (Sayre, 1975). She then moved to Birbeck College in London, where she worked on tobacco mosaic and poliovirus until her tragic death from cancer in 1958 at the age of thirty-seven. Following the…

question for this project was How does music helps expand our interaction in society by being taught in our school system? The first thing I looked at in doing my research was Johns Hopkins School of Education website. The title of their article was “Music and Learning: Integrating Music in the Classroom” (John Hopkins University School of Educatio). The author of the article was Chris Boyd Brewer. The article starts with a quote from Ludwig van Beethoven “Music…

opened originally as a private institution. Gallaudet was the principal from 1817 until April 6, 1830. “ In 1830 Thomas retired from being the principal of the school. There were hundreds of deaf students by then that could read and write.” (Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet American Sign Language ASL par. 5). Thomas Gallaudet helped many students while he was the principal including helping them learn to read and write. After Gallaudet’s death in 1851, he left a legacy for every deaf person in…

At a young age, children are exposed to different environments which can ultimately affect their character. Where and who they live with might determine how one grows up. For example, Amy Tan was embarrassed of the lack of English her mother knew because of how people treated her. She faced discrimination since everyone taught she should’ve majored in Math and not in English or creative writing. Ben Carson encountered racism and self-doubt. When he was young he felt stupid compared to other…

Vivien Thomas is a brilliant hero recognized for his groundbreaking research regarding the illness called the “Blue baby syndrome”. Due to Thomas’ unfaltering determination and passion for pursuing a career in the medical field, his innovative ideas and inventions have immensely advanced our medical technology. With hands blessed by the Almighty, he saved countless numbers of infants diagnosed with the Tetralogy of Fallot. The Great Depression that plagued America in the 1930’s is held…

Education is easily one of the most taken for granted privileges of the modern world. What is seen now as a form of mental torture by the average student was not even an option for people with hearing disabilities for a long time. Before the early 19th century, it was believed by a large percentage of the U.S. population that deaf individuals could not be educated. This was primarily because hearing people could not communicate with deaf people. Because of the communication barrier, unfair…

Alice Cogswell. Alice was deaf but she didn’t know any sign language or how to even communicate with other people. She wasn’t allowed to attend school with the other children and there were not schools for deaf children at the time. Alice inspired Hopkins to travel to Europe and learn how to communicate with deaf. All of his expenses to and from Europe were paid by Alice's’ father, Mason Cogswell. While in Europe he met people that were willing to help him in his journey of helping Alice and…

one of the founders of biogerontology, studying the aging process of drosophila to offset her financial difficulties. Carson lost interest in the lab very quickly but was lucky enough to be offered a summer fellowship in marine biology through John Hopkins University’s Master’s Program. During her time at JHU, she began focusing on the conservation of marine life. This focus soon became her career upon graduation when she took a job with the Bureau of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mahoney 2007).…

Thesis: “Design” and “Sunday Morning” both approach faith, but contrast in how God is associated with nature and death. Body Paragraph 2: The two narrators relate nature and religion different ways. The “Design” narrator suggests that nature is a product of God’s design. He says, “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, / On a white heal-all, holding up a moth / Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth.” The setting seems mundane aside from the unusual coincidence that all of the figures…