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    Loida Sanchez Lost in a World Without My Parent in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Parents make up an essential part of family. They teach, nurture and discipline their children to make them better in life. But, children's’ parents pass away or divorce leaving the child with one parent or none. In the 20th century biography, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot impulses emotions to reveal how the loss of a parent scars the life of a child forever and thereby causing the child to

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    The technology that people create can cause lots of responsibility and cause the world to change in many different ways. In the story shading the Earth and The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, there were many responsibilities that can cause the earth to change. Shading the earth will ruin eternity because you literally will make the earth dark forever and not be able to change it ever again. Deadly cells that will live on forever can also cause many people to have a responsibility if they decide

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    What does it mean to be immortal? The word immortal means to live on forever, never dying or ceasing to exist. In the book "The immortal life of Henrietta lacks," Rebecca Skloot writes about how Henrietta's cells have been living long after Henrietta herself died, making the cells what one calls immortal. Both spiritual and literal immortality is being presented to the reader throughout the book. As one reads deeper into the book, they find that immortality is one of the major themes concerning the

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    because it is a part of life. There are things that can be done to delay it, but it is not possible to prevent it. Part Two of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is called “Death.” There are some unfortunate events that occur, including the funeral of Henrietta Lacks and the death of Ivy. These two events changed the Lacks family for the better and the worst. These two events were some that they could never forget. Death is defined as the cause or occasion of loss of life, and Henrietta Lacks’

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    In the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by, Rebecca Skloot, the book is ended with a quote by Deborah. Stating that being immortal was essentially living forever. Most examples of immortality in classic and contemporary fiction are of beings who are beyond the human race. Spiritual immortality is real but others only believes literal immortality is real. God said that we shall have eternal life. and I believe that Henrietta's spirit is still living on through her cells. Henrietta

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    Death is the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism. Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer at the end of Part one, and part two is called death because it is after she dies, and it’s about what happens after her death. Part two explains what happens to Henrietta and her cells after she dies, and how the cells were changing medicine. Part two of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks relates to death by Cliff showing Skloot the whereabouts of where Henrietta

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    well as those whom they love. Fatal illnesses, as well as accidents and old age, cause painful losses of loved ones. Some families even lose an important member who unknowingly impacts other people in many ways. In the 20th century biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot utilizes the rhetorical strategy of emotional appeals to reveal that physical, mental, and emotional pain bring effects that can greatly impact and tear apart families. The physical and emotional pain that people

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    In the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Skloot conveys rhetorical devices towards the end of chapter 23 in order to reveal Hsu’s request about her attitude towards the Lackses and what Skloot revealed by ending the chapter with Hsu’s request. Rebecca Skloot established many rhetorical devices in her writing, and in chapter when Hsu’s request is revealed, she established certain devices in order to show that certain request by the last three paragraphs in the chapter “It’s

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    experiences. But what about everyone else? After all, we cannot be the main characters of every life story. We think very little if at all about what sort of life the barista serving us coffee has, or the daily woes that plague a fast food worker serving us burgers at a drive-through. We have a tendency to view others as functions of how they benefit us. Rebecca Skloot’s nonfiction novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a vivid illustration of this spirit of abstraction. The scientific community

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    Alyson Noel's Blue Moon

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    read for my summer book report was Blue Moon by Alyson Noel. Blue Moon is part of a series called The Immortals, and it is the second book of the series. The female protagonist Ever Bloom is immortal. In the last book she went through the process of becoming immortal. Now she is learning how to control the power of manifestation while going on a journey through her boyfriend’s past. Being immortal means to live on forever and never die. So Ever will go through the endless past of Damen’s childhood

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