Rebecca states that the history of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells raises important issues regarding race, science, class and also ethics. After I finished reading the prologue this is what I got out of it. When I started reading this part of the book Rebecca Skloot shared with us how she stared at a picture on a wall of a woman she never met. After reading a little bit more I realized that this lady was Henrietta Lacks. In the picture Lacks was looking straight into the camera with a big smile on her face and her hands on her hips.
The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her. The second item I chose was a diaper. I chose this item because all through the main characters life, she had to take care of herself and her six other younger sisters. Her mom and dad always made her change their diapers, feed them, and bathe them. The third item I chose was a ring.
And while I had my toys and my friends around I still had to be responsible about doing my homework and wake up every morning and wear my clothes to go to school. I learned to do everything by myself and. Finally after one year my dad decided that we can go to see my mom. At the first time, I did not feel anything when I saw her because I could not remember her as a mom. This really hurt me as
Title: Wonder Name: Jack Fitzpatrick Author: R.J. Palacio Due Date: Number of pages: 315 Per. 7-8a Genre: realistic fiction Summary: This book is about August (auggie) who is a boy that’s face is badly deformed. He is sent to school for the first time in his life, but he is scared of what the other kids will think of his face. Throughout this story, he is bullied but somehow still makes friends despite his face. Other characters in the book are: Olivia (via), Miranda, Jack Will, Julian, Summer, Charlotte, Henry, Miles, Justin, Jamie, and Mr. Browne.
Florence enjoyed learning and was eager to learn as much as she could especially mathematics. At the age of 16 she loved helping the poor and sick and wanted to become a nurse. When she told her parents that she wanted to be a nurse they were very upset expecting her to become a wife and mother instead of working. Nurses were considered to be very low in society at that time. Persisting in her ambition to become a nurse she secretly read as many books that she could about health and hospitals.
Good morning everyone, I’m going to be reading a passage from Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23,1961 in Potsdam, in Northern New York State. She read all the time; awful at math, but then lots of creative people were. She graduated form Georgetown University in 1984 with a B.S.L.L in Languages and Linguistics. For years, Laurie loved to write, but considered it more than a hobby, and became a freelance reporter, she also began to write all types of books, and accomplished to pile up a lot of rejection letters.
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
G soon came up with a game making the kids realize that they all had a lot in common. When Eva went to go visit her father there was a big sign of improvement with her wanting to learn because she stated to explain what was in the book to her father. When Eva tried to give her father thee book he flipped it over and was not interested in her academics. When Mrs.G gives them the assignment to read Anne Frank it piques her interest and she begins to focus more on her academics. She starts actually asking questions and reading the book every night such as "So when's Anne Frank gonna smoke Hitler?"
On other days, Dave tried to elude any attention. He is no longer made to stand in the corner of his mother's bedroom but he is made to stand for hours in front of a mirror. His mother would smash his face against the glass and pressure him to frequently say, “ I am a bad boy!” His older brothers, Ron and Stan, would ignore him. Dave was sent to search for items in the house. This was often an all-day adventure.
They are actually very interested in his business so the more they began to look into it they become very curious to who these two young ladies are that are always very quiet .They started to question the A and G the suspicion starts to add up so do some more investigating and came to Phillips house where they found Jaycee and her daughters on August 24th 2009. When she was rescued she immediately tried to protect her kidnapper because he was the father of her two kids and she truly believed he loved her.After a lot of therapy she realized that what he did was wrong and disgusting on so many levels she wanted him and his wife to pay for what they did to