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    As I entered college, I knew I wanted to be an Occupational Therapist. I also knew that I must have a job while going to school because college tuition is expensive and my extra circular activity requires me to pay dues. I feel like my stress level nearly double since being in college. I remember my high school teacher telling my class that college is much harder. I think that they partially correct. I do not think college is academically harder, yes they are challenging, but I am taking courses…

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    most commonly used human cell line. There was a story behind the HeLa cell besides that fact that it was an immortal cell. This immortal cell once came from a mortal cell; an African American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks. She visited John Hopkins Hospital after an abnormality in her cervix, later found out she had cervical cancer. After the death of Henrietta, scientists did extensive research on her tumor. This was the rise of the immortal cell, meanwhile Henrietta’s family had no…

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    “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” dives into the story of an African-American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died at a young age shortly after, leaving behind 5 children, a husband, and many cousins. When Henrietta was at John Hopkins being treated for her cancer, the doctors took a sliver of her tumor and cultured it to see if they could make the cell “immortal”. This all happened back in the 50’s when colored people weren’t seen as equal citizens to white people. Because…

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    “Laurent Clerc: The Story of His Early Years” is a book based upon Laurent Clerc life as a deaf child and how he comes to find of others who were also deaf and learn school. In the first few chapter of the book Laurent Clerc is living at home with his family in La Balme. His mother takes him to see doctors and check him out but no one could seem to see what was wrong with him. They would perform all sorts of test on the boy, such as putting medicine in his ears. None of the doctor’s methods…

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    Benjamin Solomon Carson was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit Michigan. He grew up poor and a single-parent household with his mother he had bad grades and a horrible temper to take six were not in his favor. Suddenly Ben's mother uneducated herself challenge for two children to read and believe in themselves, Carson give a lot of credit to his mother for pushing them to do their best. At 33, he became the youngest major division director in the hospital's history as director of pediatric…

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    As Rachel Carson once said, “ If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.” My scientist that I chose for this assignment was Rachel Carson. She was a Marine biologist, and studied Natural science. She was known for her writings on nature. Rachel was born on May 27, in 1907. She was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, where she had grown up. When she was 57 on April 14, she had…

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    In 1951, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. The documentary did not mention that John Hopkins was the only option for impoverished African American patients in the area and that it offered segregated medical care. The gynaecologist in charge, Dr. Howard Jones, reports that he was impressed when he…

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    which are located in the ear and are vital for your ability to hear. People have been evolving form the beginning of time. Humans were lucky enough to evolve to have very flexible hands, which are our tools in anything we do everyday. Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet brought Sign Language to the U.S and was very important in ASL’s history. Life has gotten much easier with technology. Now the deaf are able to sign to someone over the phone and able to easily watch the television.…

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    When I was 5, I fell into a bag of glass and gashed my leg open. Crazy, right! Well, the accident ended in being carried to the hospital with a blood soaked towel wrapped around my knee. It was eight at night when I entered the emergency room and was placed into a wheel chair. The pain in my leg was great, but my curiosity to peek under the reddening towel was greater. I waited patiently for the nurse to unwrap my leg. I had not seen my leg since it was initially sliced. She pulled back the…

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot displays the controversy as to whether or not the public has a responsibility to support scientific progress at all costs. This controversy became evident after Henrietta Lacks’ cervical tissues were taken from her body without her consent and then her cells, which became immortal, were used for medical research everywhere and her family did not know about it. These cells have helped the medical field in…

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