Annie Oakley Research Paper

What if you had the ability to save several lives through something only you had ? Wouldn’t you like to be told and given proper credit? Well unfortunately that is not case for Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta held a powerful and significant key which has helped as a cure for many things and is still being used till this day . I choose to write about Henrietta due to the fact that she is one of histories and science unsung hero’s.

The National institute of Health, Rebecca Skloot, and John Hopkins Hospital have distorted Henrietta Lacks Legacy. In 1951, the Johns Hopkins Hospital took cervical cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks, and developed the HeLa cell line. Neither Henrietta nor her family gave the hospital permission to use her cells at the time. Her cells contributed to major medical discoveries, including the development of polio vaccine. Henrietta’s family was never compensated for the money that they made off of her cells. It was not until 1973 that her children discovered, by accident, that their mother's cells, now immortalized, had become a major boon to medicine and that many people had become rich from marketing them. Ron Henrietta’s

What if someone used your body or parts of your body for science without your permission. Patients rights is the right to keep anything medically safe and locked away from the public. The only people that would see it would be your doctor or anyone you grant to give that information to. People nowadays have that privilege to keep it iblprivate but back in the mid to the nineteenth century people didn’t exactly have that right to keep their information private. There was research conducted with people’s DNA that that person did not know about. Some tried to sue and get money from the doctors or scientists that worked on their tissues and made money off of them. But most people back then did not know that doctors had taken samples when they would be getting an operation done or to go and just get their blood

The time period Henrietta Lacks lived in wasn’t the ideal conditions for black people. Even though slavery was over and everyone was considered equal, black people were still separated from whites in this this time period. Henrietta grew up in a poor black community that didn’t really have black medical centers nearby, babies were born in the houses and not many of them ever went to a doctor. Later on in chapter one Henrietta finds a lump insider her vagina and she was bleeding when it wasn’t her time of the month. John Hopkins hospital was twenty miles away from her house, but it was the only hospital that would accept black families like the Lacks. I did not like how some hospitals would reject sick black people even though it meant some

During the 1950s, a cell line called HeLa was cultivated from a poor, African mother of five who died of cervical cancer named Henrietta Lacks. It was then mass produced for research and generated billions of dollars. Many medicinal treatments and breakthroughs, such as polio, were developed from this cell line helping billions of people to this day. Unfortunately, the woman who ultimately gave her life never received a single penny, nor her family. The Lacks family lived without insurance and still to this day has received no compensation. Given that companies and organizations, such as Microbiological Associates and the National Institutes of Health, have benefited tremendously from the cell line, they should compensate the Lacks family for it is the

Henrietta Lacks was a strong-willed, compassionate women that had a love for life. She always put her family first, not only her immediate family but her extended family as well. She never complained, worked hard and fought up until her death. She was humbled and lived a selfless life.

The Lacks family was greatly taken advantage of in the 1950s because of their race, lack of education, and social class. The family believes they should be compensated with a donation given the amount of money Henrietta’s cells were worth. Her cells were sold all over the world for a large sum of money. Additionally, several scientific discoveries were uncovered because of Henrietta’s cells. The new knowledge has no price. However the family is continuing to look for a donation. The Lock’s family should not receive monetary compensation for her donation because it there were laws in place at the time preventing patients from suing hospitals regarding interactions with cells and other things.

The theme of poverty is brought up in the narrative many of times in the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. Poverty play a very important role in the lives of Henrietta Lacks and her family. Nevertheless, because the Lacks family lived in poverty Henrietta Lacks and the Lacks family were kind of taken advantage of. For example the sample taken from Henrietta Lacks was unauthorized and the family was never told why you ask, because they never really had a reason to. This was because the Lacks family was poor and really didn’t have any money so even if they did find out they wouldn’t really be able to sue because of money reasons and plus they had little to no education to support themselves in any way. Nonetheless, the Lacks family

"My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers." Annie Oakley, a woman not only known for being a Wild West Star, but for being an inspiring sharpshooter and hero to many women in her day, as in ours. She performed in hundreds of different shows all around and would become one of the first ladies in her time to really make an astounding name for herself. Unparalleled shooting tricks and the ability to shoot nearly any target thrown her way are only a few of the things that support her remembrance. Although she came from a humble life of poverty and hardship, this

For the Medical Immortality project we were assigned a book to read, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. However, to start this project we learned about the different types of organelles and cells. After advancing our knowledge in cells we started to read our book. We would read about 4-6 chapters at a time and then fill out a study guide and test on what was read. Another thing we were required to do was research on the Oxford Style Debate. After knowing these things we have to hold a debate. This debate is tol be group against group arguing “for” and “against” the use of HeLa cells. The debate is the presentation of our knowledge. However, we also have to finish the project with an argumentative essay on the use of HeLa cells.

Billie Holiday, an African American singer and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who has finally had enough of all the racism and inhumanity in her life. She has released a song on Monday of March, 1929, called "Strange Fruit", speaking of many African Americans Being accused of something wrong, then being hung from a tree, hence the reference "Strange Fruit." Lynching is an activity mostly carried out by a group of men to scare another group or minority by public execution without a legal trial. The execution can be done in many different ways, the most common was hanging. There were many different ways for people to be lynched.

Annie Jump Cannon was born in Dover Delaware on December 11, 1863. Annie got her interest in astronomy from her mother, Mary Jump, who taught her the constellations at a young age. She attended Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, where she studied physics and astronomy. After arriving at Wellesley College, Annie contracted scarlet fever. She had fully recovered, but she remained partially deaf. This had a huge impact on her life and made her road to becoming an astronomer even harder. At Wellesley she learned how to make spectroscopic measurements. She graduated in 1884 and returned to Delaware and took a ten-year hiatus. In 1894 Annie returned to Wellesley to be a junior physics teacher. In 1896 she joined a group, later called Pickering’s Women. They were hired by Harvard College Observatory director Edward Pickering to diminish data and solve astronomical calculations. The way to science they used was “the first step is to accumulate the facts” (Mack).

Annie Easley was born on April 23, 1993, to Mary Melivina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley. She had a brother, but with him being six years older than her, Easley was practically the only child raised by her single mother. In Birmingham, Alabama, Easley attended a parochial school all the way to graduation and was valedictorian of her graduating class.

Annie Oakley (born as Phoebe Ann Moses) was born on August 13, 1860 in Ohio. When Annie was at a very young age her father and step-father both had passed away. Later, she went to live at the Darke County Infirmary. At the Infirmary, Annie learned how to read, write, and sew while helping to take care of some of the other orphaned children. In her early teens Annie returned home to her mother and her mother’s new husband. Annie had to help hunt food for a grocery store and with the hunting came great skills so by the time Annie was 15 she was able to pay off her mother’s mortgage on the house. Then, Annie was at a Thanksgiving shooting competition in 1875 when she beat her future husband in the competition. The next year, Annie then married

Annie Finch, a well-known poet of the Contemporary Period, plays a big role in American literature. Her use of free-verse poetry gives the readers an example of the transition between traditional and free-verse styles, which drastically changed throughout the mid-19th century. For instance in her poem titled “In Cities, Be Alert”, we see the use of the realism that was accurately shown back in the 80’s and the use of free-verse is projected for us as we read through the poem. Annie Finch still stands as one of the many great poets/critics in American and World Literature.