Vivien Thomas

Vivien Thomas was a hero to many babies. One word that describes him is intelligent. He attended Pearl High School which has high standards. In the story it says,”Thomas graduated with top grades and planned to attend college.” Thomas’s dreams to go to college was shattered due to the Great Depression. Thomas was a silent man. In the story it says,” He was a soft-spoken young man.” Even though he was quiet he helped Alfred Blalock. In the story it also says,” While Blalock was busy with his new responsibilities, Thomas labored in the lab.” Thomas never became famous he just stayed in the background. Vivien Thomas showed the world that African-Americans was just as important as any others. In the story it says,”Much of the country…

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…

In the great film, Something The Lord Made, directed by Joseph Sargent, it tells a story of a young Vivien Thomas who struggles with being looked at differently by others. Vivien had a strong passion for medicine and wanted to pursue a career in the medical field. I can somewhat relate to Vivien’s struggle because when I worked at a gym over the summer, I felt that I was looked at differently because I was a female. Mostly you see strong and built men working in gyms, but for me, working out and…

Surgeon, and his young African American Surgical Technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), who cooperate as a team using medical research and experimentation to find a cure to cyanosis or in other words known as the blue baby syndrome. The impact on medicine that the two heart surgeon pioneers will have on John Hopkins Hospital will save the lives of many children and lead to the invention of many surgical procedures such as cardiac surgery and the coronary bypass that will forever change the face of…

Have you ever done something and somebody else took the credit for it? A guy named Vivien Thomas did something great and someone else took the credit for what he did. When Thomas was eleven he figured out that he wanted to be a doctor. Thomas worked as a carpenter to save up to go to Medical school. But when the Great Depression hit ,he lost all his life savings and could not go to college. He was looking for a job and found a job at Vanderbilt University. He worked as a lab assistant for…

Chores done, nurse left saying she'd call back around tea time. Michael was soon up stairs asking lots of nothings, smiling, as pleased as punch. A wrinkly sight was Raymond, with a thatch of jet-black hair. He had settled from the smack on his bottom. Michael and Rose embraced looking adoringly at each other and feeling as pleased as punch. ‘What did he weigh’ he asked? ‘6 pound 3 ounces and lungs that will put Benjamin Gigli to shame’ Rose laughed. In fact not really knowing what to say or…

How would you feel if you lost all your life savings for college, a man named Vivien Thomas an African American man that wasn't even a doctor and made a design for the syndrome for blue babies. He saved a little girl named Eileen Saxon was a blue baby that is when the baby doesn't get enough oxygen because, blood cant flow through the heart. A doctor named Blalock had to do surgery because Thomas wasn't a real doctor and he was African American Here is the story of Vivien Thomas. Vivien Thomas…

The kind of person Vivien Thomas was was a brave, determined, and a smart man. Thomas was brave because in the story it said that he was raised in the year of the Great Depression, and that’s when almost all the banks were closed down, but Thomas never did give up on his dream. Since he was African American, a lot of school, jobs, and colleges would not take him, but he asked his friend and he said that there is a job in a school in the science room. Later on, Thomas work with his new friend and…

“The Man Who Saved 1000 Babies’’, a man named Vivien Thomas, who was once discriminated harshly against, helped change the world and save lives in the field of cardiac surgery. Vivien Thomas money was down the drain in behalf of the Great Depression. Due to the fact that he was lacking money, he couldn’t attend college. Considering Thomas money vanished in the great depression, he needed to acquire a job. Due to this need, he attained a job as a lab assistant working for Dr. Blalock.…

were children that telling Blanche of her appearance puts her at some type of ease. Knowing this of Blanche she constantly tells her husband, Stanley, and the upstairs neighbor ,Eunice, to tell her she’s looking gorgeous all the time even when they could care less. Because her own sister is not truthful with her Blanche’s world of magic it contributes to her believing what ought to be true, and leaves her believing that she is a desirable woman. When Mitch takes a great interest in Blanche she…