The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus

The story “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” that’s written by Rebecca Skloot. The author talks about a story happened in the 1950’s, and it’s effects still happening. The aspect that controls the story is power of privilege. In all places, in all times, power of privilege is specified for people who called elite. They get this power to control situations, but it does not mean they all deserve handling this power. This power created to control everything and improve or develop it. It is just considered under the actions that seem like what Skloot mentions in the story, but this power is related to all things in our life. Now, let’s go back to the story, and see the effects of that power under the wrong usage. At that period of time, the power of privilege was controlled by whites. The separation that was between blacks and whites, and the arrogance that some white people had encouraged them to insult black people. Dr. George Gey is the one of the doctors who used their power to do something no one at that time knew it’s consequences, which is taking the cells. On the other hand, Henrietta whose cells were stolen with out her permission. Finally, the results mostly affected Deborah which is Henrietta’s daughter.

The definition of power is a person or thing that possesses or exercises authority or influence. Power is gained by people over time, but it comes much easier to those born into a privilege, which is a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most. It is apparent that power and privilege go hand in hand. In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot focuses on two stories: the development of the HeLa cells and the lives of Henrietta’s family members. While in the scientific world of HeLa cells, the power is held by the doctors such as George Gey and others because of their rank in society above common people. Being born into privilege was not a luxury the Lacks family enjoyed; the path to power for the Lacks was much more difficult.

Attention: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” (Emma Lazarus). This sentence can be found in the poem “The New Colossus,” written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. It can also be found inscribed on the Statue of Liberty towering over the New York Harbor, a bright beacon symbolizing the freedom and democracy we hold so esteemed in America. Immigrants founded the United States and immigrants are arguably who made our nation so great. However, when immigrants do not follow the process to acquire legal citizenship into the United States is when the problems arise.

In her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot discusses how one woman’s unfortunate diagnosis of cancer resulted in the discovery of the first immortal human cell line, HeLa. The establishment of the HeLa cell line has proven to be one of the most influential breakthroughs in the biomedical sciences because these cells have played a major role in some of the largest breakthroughs in since they were first cultured in the 1950s. In addition to an examination of the science behind HeLa cells, Skloot also provides a look at the lives of Henrietta Lacks’s descendants. One characteristic that all members of the family share is a dedication to religion and spirituality. This juxtaposition between science and religion presents the body and its constituent cells in a unique way. It provides multiple dimensions to how people can view bodies. Specifically, Skloot’s depiction of HeLa cells presents the body and its individual cellular components as entities that exist as both scientific and spiritual beings simultaneously.

the life of a very special woman and what she has done for us in the medical field today.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an amazingly captivating book about an African American woman who died in 1951 of cervical cancer, whose cells became the first in history to be able to survive and replicate endlessly outside of the human body. Skloot covers the true story on the impact Henrietta’s cells, also known as HeLa cells, had on her family and the world of science. Although I was intrigued by the entire book and the concept of HeLa cells, what truly provoked me to want to further research the topic was the injustice Henrietta’s family was forced to face, and how they learned to cope with it.

In Rebecca Skloot’s, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot refers to many scientists who have worked with HeLa cells. Since the discovery of HeLa cells, scientists have discovered various cures, medicines, and new information. Skloot refers to the discoveries from other scientists, in order to validate the research and ideas made by Leigh VanValen. VanValen believes that HeLa cells became a different species than the original cells taken from Henrietta, which is an accurate statement. VanValen states, “‘HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about’” (Skloot 216). VanValen supports the idea that HeLa cells are a different species because HeLa cells have the ability

In the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ by Rebecca Skloot informs us about immortal cells and what they do with them. Throughout the excerpt Skloot claims that Southman was withholding information from patients that should be told. Skloot has relevant and sufficient evidence to support this claim although he mainly did it to maintain his study going.

Intention Essay Throughout American history, racism and the inequalities that come with it have haunted countless minorities. Of these minorities, African Americans, or blacks, have likely experienced the greatest amount of racial discrimination through both subjugation and segregation. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot reveals the inequalities imposed upon the blacks within the medical community. Prior to writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot spent months trying to get in contact with Henrietta’s living relatives.

The literature The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was written by a journalist, Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks was one of ten children born on August 1, 1920 in Clover, Virginia (Skloot, 2010, p. 18). After Henrietta’s mother passed away in 1924, she went to live with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks and her cousin, David Lacks (Skloot, 2010, p. 19). Her grandfather raised both children in his home. As children, Henrietta and David worked the tobacco farm together with other cousins (Skloot, 2010, p. 19). As life progressed, David and Henrietta married and had five children together (Skloot, 2010, p. 24). Later on, they moved to Turner Station near Baltimore, Maryland (Skloot, 2010, p. 26). In January 1951, Henrietta found a solid lump

Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia. She was an African American farmer with five kids and a husband. One day, Henrietta felt a knot on her cervical area. She went to John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, were the doctors removed a small sample of tissue from her tumor and treated her with radiation. A scientist, George Gey, used the sample to create the first line of immortal cells. On October 4, 1951, Henrietta passed away from cervical cancer at the age of 31. Her cells on the other hand didn't. Henrietta’s cells, better known today as the HeLa cells, became the first and most important line of human cells ever to survive and multiply indefinitely in the laboratory environment (“Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”). This is where the story began. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

The Solitude of Self is a speech that was given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This speech mainly discussed gender equality in every situation, including education and suffrage. Stanton clearly was opposed to the idea of inequality and believed that every person, man or woman, deserved to have the same rights.

America, land of the free, where the opotunities are endless. At least that the ideology sold to millions of immigrant, but does the reality live up to the American dream? Emma Lazarus, a poet from the 1800s believed it did according to her poem, The New Colossus, a poem for immigrants to meet the foot of the statue of Liberty. Though Lazarus tries to convince immigrants of Americans Openness, many Americans likely find her poems expectation of America to far exceed the reality of Americas racial and international relation between 1877 and 1945.

Emma Lazarus, a nineteenth century Jewish American poet, was born on July 22, 1849 in New York City. Her parents, Moses and Esther Nathan Lazarus, had seven children. She was the fourth of the seven to born, with five sisters and one brother. Emma was born into one of the oldest and most prestigious Hebrew families in New York. The Nathan Lazarus family was descended from the early Jewish settlers in America. By the time Emma was born, they had been established in Manhattan for four generations.