Wednesday, November 9, 2011

I am an ant

I am ant Becouse most of the time I trying not to spend all I have becouse I thing about a feture. I am trying.

respond for Andrea's post of The Friendship Bond

I agree with Andrea. Because it is similar with my opinion. If peopel know each other long term period they can be thrust each other. But some people if even they know each other it hurd to the to thrust

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

summury of p93-136

At this chapter the author tells us about what happend to Hella cells. After Henrietta died, the doctors started to develop her cells for big discovering. They used them in a lot of Hospitals. They used them for making clons. But Dr.Berg chanched her name for Helen Lane. One of the vinerologist doctors inject to his patients injection without their knolege. They want to see how they will react for it. He continie to do that until his workers refuse to do that.

reaction: Why the doctors inject people without their knowlage?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

answering questions 10.19.11

1. when I read in English I seat at the kitchen with dictionary. Some times next to computer with online dictionary. I read at the train. The book is very interesting,but very hard. Alot of new word.

2. When teacher is reading for us it's much easy than I read by myself.
When I have more time I will understand better. more words we know more easy to understand

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

summary of 66-92 pages

In this part of reading the author tells us about Henrietta's sickness that is geting worse and worse. Her bad cells started to spred all over the body.The doctores gave to many kinds of pain-killers but it is already didn't help her. Dispite of this she stayed at the hospital. She was very sad when her children came to see her. This is was the rison the doctor forbid the children to come.
When Rebeca was in the hotel she disided to do her investigathion of Lack's family. At the article she read she find a lady Ms. Sdeep who wanted to open a miusian. So she had one more resurce where to find information about Henrietta. What she found was only casette of discovering immortalk cells.
Also the author findout that Henrietta's cousin Cootie real name was Emmet Lacks, and Rebecka met her and she told her about Henrieta's life. And how she helped her by giving her blood. Unfortunately nothing already helpd her and she died in October 4, 1951.

impression: When I am reading the book I am getting shocked. How children can stay with no mother.

question: Why the doctores behave meen when the said she already got the blood what was allowed?

Monday, October 10, 2011

summary of 34-66 pages

In these pages the author tells us about Dr. Gey's life and about his wife Margaret and his assistent Mary helped him to achieve these results. Henrietta's personality of being good mother and friend. She tells us abaut Henrietta Lack's cells that they didn't die.

When Mary was taking care of ll cells in the laboratory nothing was happening, but Hanrietta' cells had doubled means they didn't die. Soon Dr. Gay told to his colleagues about it. Henrietta didn't know about it nothing.

When she was gating treatments her cousins Margaret and Sadie helped her that is why she would have to tell them about her sickness. And she also said that she couldn't have children anymore.

Later the author have introdused to with Roland Potilo, the only Afro-American student of Dr. Gey, professor of gynecology. They was working together in Gey's laboratory at the time when the immortal cells were discovered. This helpped Rebecca Skloot incounter with Henrietta's yangest doughther, Deborah, after many refusals from Deborah's side. Leter she met athers members of Henrietta. After Rebeca had a lot of information of Henrietta she got shoocked about. She read her medical history where sais after many radio active treatments cancer started to spread all over her body. She was telling about that to her doctor, but he egnored. She was suffer the pain until she died.

reactions:

I feel very sad, becouse it's reminded me death of my friends who died at her age because of cancer.

question:

What is the reason to get a radiation treatment if the patient will die for all that?

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

answers to the questions about Henrietta Lacks

1. In 1952 The Tuskegee Institute opens the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit. Within a few years, a company named Microbiological Associates would begin selling HeLa for profit.

2. Henrietta Lacks is born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1920

3. In 1951 George Gey successfully cultures the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix. It is given the name HeLa after the first two initials of Henrietta’s first and last names.

4. In 1952 Scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine.

5. In 1889 Johns Hopkins Hospital is founded.

6. In 1953 HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned.