Henrietta Lacks

Reading Memoir “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Said Dr. Seuss. Ever since I can remember, reading was a little fun for me. Reading is something required throughout life. For example, people read contracts. Contracts, recipes, and instructions. Career success requires reading. For example, a nurse scrutinize a patients chart daily. Over my life, the reading I have encountered has shaped my academic journey.…

My mother was stabbed when I was 11 years old. As a result she isolated herself socially and suffered from schizophrenia. The impact the health professionals had upon my mother's situation and the way they reassured me, gave me hope in trying conditions. From this time onwards, it has been my dream to study medicine. I want to make a physical, emotional and social difference to the lives of people. Not only will a degree in medicine provide me high levels of employability, opportunities for…

by disagreeing with the King, you are disagreeing with God. Parliament didn't like this idea, especially when the King started to make decisions without them. He was taking away their power. King Charles marrying a Catholic was the second. Since Henrietta Maria was from France, she had a strong Catholic background. Many people were worried that she would influence his decisions and try to convert England away from Protestantism and back to Catholicism. King Charles money problems was the third…

The TED Talk I watched was titled “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them” by Verna Meyers. Verna Meyers is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Barnard College, and Columbia University, magna cum laude. She was the first Executive Director of The Boston Law Firm Group and also the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Attorney General of Massachusetts. She had published a book titled “Beyond Diversity: How to Move from Well-Meaning to Well-Doing,” in 2011. Nationally recognized for her…

figuring out what the human body rejects or accepts. For many centuries, we are trying to find many cures or answers to the human body. They’re many doctors who do many terrifying things one can never imaging. In the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks I read many experiment that they did to many people that I never ever heard of. For example: Tuskegee Experiment, Holocaust Experiment, and Nuremberg Trail/Code. This are some of reason why I think that it is wrong to experiment on human…

movement is a worldwide movement battling sexual assault (Barber ). She has stood by helping others and raising awareness towards the topic and her involvement with Weinstein was pounced on by her enemies and conclusions should not be assumed due to the lack of facts in the area. Winfrey is still a woman of strength and a warrior that continues to fight against abuse and will never submit to the corruption that has grasped many. Oprah Gail Winfrey has poured kindness into the hearts of many…

there was no certainty or that there was little to no chance of recovery. In these cases, giving the patient the choice of a painless death would only be the correct thing to do. If some want to not go thru the pain, if we look at the case of Henrietta Lacks we can see a clear case where choosing death would have spared her some pain. She had horrendous cysts and was swollen and almost unrecognizable by the time she had died. She was in…

flee his home to France and spent most of his life in exile. However Marx was able to overcome these obstacles which resulted in becoming one of the most influential thinkers of the twenty century. Marx was born on May 5, 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg in Trier, Prussia (present-day Germany). At age 17, Marx enrolled in Bonn University Germany, where he studied law. During his first year Marx became engaged to Jenny Von Westphalen, which lead to marriage shortly after. In 1836,…

The term health is ambiguous and can be answered in many ways depending on who gives the definition as it is viewed in many different perspectives. Due to the ambiguity of the Meaning of health the definition is then seen as problematic as each definition can vary from a professional’s point of view or from the popular point of view which then contradicts and clashes with each other. In 1946 the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) was drafted to address social reasons for…

to catch a glimpse at what my future as a physician could look like and solidified my desire to pursue medicine. From deciphering between the trachea and the esophagus during intubation to being faced with ethical challenges such as those of Henrietta Lacks, I witnessed the challenges of medicine. I embrace these challenges because it shows medicine’s lifelong dedication to learning. This dynamic nature excites me and pushes me to become not only a better physician but a better person. I…