Rebecca Skloot

Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, the Lacks family is viewed as an abstraction both by the scientific community, and the media; however, Rebecca Skloot did not view them as an abstraction, and she made it her duty to discover the truth, and publish it in a way that the public would have access to it wherever they are. The Lacks family is viewed as an abstraction by the science community and the media in a variety of ways. The first of these ways is…

Skloot took the time to get to know the family and really care about them and their feelings. She looked at the cells and saw the person rather than the benefits. Rebecca Skloot even said, “For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.” Rebecca Skloot is the reason that the story of Henrietta Lacks is available to anybody who wants to read it. There was one other person…

Religious faith and science coexist together with tension. One might argue that everything is in God’s plan while another will say that it is all science. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the two principles did not come together for the Lacks family until the death of Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells that forever change their lives and millions of others. Religious faith allows the Lacks family to help cope the death of Henrietta and the problems that arise after…

According to the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Skillet discusses Henrietta’s background and mentions a place by the name of Turner Station which in the day was a steel Mill and shipyard this is also the same place that African American men would go if they could no longer find homes or jobs. In order to grasp a better understanding of Turner station we will look at the origin, what it was like back in the 50’s and what it is like today. Although Turner Station…

the reasons why somebody does something. Trusting that person’s intentions is just about all we’d be able to do about it. As Rebecca Skloot continued her journey throughout a story she was breaking down, the story she wrote named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she said many things about herself that really gave the reader a pretty good perspective of who she is. Skloot is the is the author of the book herself though; She does hold the power to persuade her readers into agreeing with her…

measure the amount of HeLa cells around the world, but the amount was always unimaginable and unbelievable. One researcher suggested the nearly massless individual cells would combine to “weigh for than 50 million metric tons- an inconceivable number” (Skloot 2). Another researcher estimated that “if you could lay all HeLa cells ever grown end-to-end,…

almost every aspect of a novel, the three categories are pathos, ethos, and logos. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the author uses a combination of the three categories to establish her authenticity. Although she uses pathos and ethos to connect to the readers, the author uses logos to further her authenticity. Because of the subject of the novel, Skloot choose not to rely on emotions, or pathos, to establish her credibility. The use of pathos appears sporadically…

Rebecca Skloot, the writer for the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, has been obsessed with Henrietta since she was sixteen-years old. Skloot tried looking up more information about Henrietta and her family but she couldn’t find any information. That’s when Skloot decided that she wanted to tell Henrietta story by writing a book. With Rebecca trying to get in contact with Henrietta daughter Deborah. Skloot didn’t know that the family would become hostile to the fact that they didn’t…

In chapters 18-22 of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author informs us of what Henrietta’s HeLa cells have done and some history of her family. In chapter 18, HeLa cells have gone to space in the Discoverer XVIII satellite to help determine what happens to human cells in space. Scientist were also creating hybrids with the HeLa cells to help further their understanding of gene regulation. The media didn’t understand what was being accomplished by doing this and…

of writing. In the book unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation written by Kathleen Jamieson and Brooks Jackson, they discuss the spin in the world; spin which is deception. As well as, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot, which analyzes the life and death of a woman, who’s being affected more than hundreds of thousands of lives. These…