"Diagnostic"
Robert Bella believes that " individualism can have a bad effect on Americans".
I agree with him because it's not fair that only a group of people can be winners.We are all humans and we have the same rights, but still a lot of Americans only care about their self-interest and they forgot about the other people.
As I read in the passage, people that believes in individualism are the ones that have most of the money, power and freedom. In contrast those who don't believe are poor or live in neighborhoods that are separated from the rest of American society and that's why the mainstream culture takes advantage of the subcultures because they know they can't do anything against them. In my opinion, we are all the same and everyone deserves to be treated the same way without differences.
Robert Bella believes that " individualism can have a bad effect on Americans".
I agree with him because it's not fair that only a group of people can be winners.We are all humans and we have the same rights, but still a lot of Americans only care about their self-interest and they forgot about the other people.
As I read in the passage, people that believes in individualism are the ones that have most of the money, power and freedom. In contrast those who don't believe are poor or live in neighborhoods that are separated from the rest of American society and that's why the mainstream culture takes advantage of the subcultures because they know they can't do anything against them. In my opinion, we are all the same and everyone deserves to be treated the same way without differences.
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta had many challenges in her life, she became motherless when she was four years old, she lived during the era of Jim Crow, and she and her family had to face her cancer illness together. Henrietta shows us how to be a really strong woman who fights her disease until her last day of life.
Henrietta Lacks was four years old when her mother died giving birth to her tenth child. Her father wasn't good at taking care of children. Therefore, Henrietta and her siblings were separated and each relative took one child because one family couldn’t afford to take all ten children. She went to live with her grandfather who was taking care of other grandson called David who Henrietta married years later. She and David had to wake up each morning at four o'clock to milk the cows and feed the chickens, hogs, and horses. They spent much of their young lives stooped in those fields, planting tobacco behind mule-drawn plows. Henrietta study till 6th grade and had her first child when she was fourteen years old.
Henrietta lived during the era of Jim Crow, where Africans Americans and white people were segregated. Black people couldn't go to places or hospitals that were only allowed for white people. When Henrietta decided to go to the doctor to see what was going on with her, she drove twenty miles to get to Johns Hopkins hospital. It was one of the top hospitals in the country and the only one that treated black and poor people.
In my opinion one of the main challenges that Henrietta and her family had to face was her cancer illness because, although she tried to keep it as a secret, her cancer was too advanced so her family had to know about it. Besides her cancer, Henrietta had other diseases such as throat infections, toothache, and vaginal bleeding, neurosyphilis, gonorrhea and increase cellular activity in the cervix.
Henrietta’s family describes her as a “lovely person always smiling, always taking care of other people and they said that she was a person that could really make the good things come out of you". I believe that their greatest strengths were being all together as a family and Henrietta’s children because she always wonders what will happen to them if she dies. Her sister Gladys spent nights without sleeping in the hospital with her even though the two had never been close, seeing Henrietta in this situation was killing her. Before, Henrietta died she told her sister Gladys "make sure Day takes care of them children” and "don't you let anything bad happen to them".
After Henrietta’s death, her family found out that the doctors had taken her cells for experiments without asking her or them, and that the cells were still alive. Her family was upset because the doctors were not supposed to do what they did. In addition they sold her cells and her family didn't get any money out of it. When Rebecca the author tried to talk with Henrietta’s family, they said that they have had enough of the situation and don't want to talk about it anymore.
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"Humans Guinea Pigs" (Involuntary Medical Experimentation)
Last week I attended a presentation called “Humans Guinea Pigs”. The presenter was Mrs. Beth Lilach. She talked about "involuntary experiments”. Throughout history there have been many different groups of researchers that use human beings as research subjects. Three of the most influential groups were the NAZIS, the Japanese experiments UNIT 731 and the scientist Walter Reed with other group of scientists.
During World War II the NAZI conducted experiments on pregnant women, prisoners, children and twins. Doctors extracted the baby from the mother without anesthesia and hung it upside down to determine how long it took for humans to choke to death. Likewise doctors injected infectious diseases, and poisons in prisoners and civilians to observe the symptoms, and reactions in the human body. Most of them died immediately. Scientist also tested drugs in children with mental disabilities and practiced explosives testing to test the effect of various pharmaceutical preparations on phosphorus burns. Doctors used twin’s children to show the similarities and differences in the genetics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated.
( Japanese Experiments or UNIT 731). Between 3, 00 and 12,000 men, women, and children were murdered during the human experimentation conducted by UNIT 731. Japanese scientist performed test on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism and other diseases. They also did weapons experiments to test grenades, flamethrowers, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs. Another example of abuse in humans is the vivisection; doctors executed vivisection in prisoners without anesthesia as well as removing organs to study the effects of diseases on the human body.
In1931 scientist used Spanish immigrants to performed experiments on them. One of the major scientists was Walter Reed who injected 22 Spanish immigrants with yellow fever and paid them $100 if they survive. In Puerto Rico doctors used humans to practice radiation experiments. Meanwhile in Guatemala doctors injected prisoners, mentally ill patients and prostitutes with syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid to see how the symptoms develop.
These are just some of the experiments that were executed in human beings. As we can see most of the victims were prisoners, children, women and mentally ill patients. Although it’s true that thanks to those experiments now we have the cure to various diseases. In my opinion it was unfair what scientists did to these people because they took advantage of their knowledge and they did not deserve to be treated and murder like that.
"Humans Guinea Pigs" (Involuntary Medical Experimentation)
Last week I attended a presentation called “Humans Guinea Pigs”. The presenter was Mrs. Beth Lilach. She talked about "involuntary experiments”. Throughout history there have been many different groups of researchers that use human beings as research subjects. Three of the most influential groups were the NAZIS, the Japanese experiments UNIT 731 and the scientist Walter Reed with other group of scientists.
During World War II the NAZI conducted experiments on pregnant women, prisoners, children and twins. Doctors extracted the baby from the mother without anesthesia and hung it upside down to determine how long it took for humans to choke to death. Likewise doctors injected infectious diseases, and poisons in prisoners and civilians to observe the symptoms, and reactions in the human body. Most of them died immediately. Scientist also tested drugs in children with mental disabilities and practiced explosives testing to test the effect of various pharmaceutical preparations on phosphorus burns. Doctors used twin’s children to show the similarities and differences in the genetics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated.
( Japanese Experiments or UNIT 731). Between 3, 00 and 12,000 men, women, and children were murdered during the human experimentation conducted by UNIT 731. Japanese scientist performed test on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism and other diseases. They also did weapons experiments to test grenades, flamethrowers, chemical weapons, and explosive bombs. Another example of abuse in humans is the vivisection; doctors executed vivisection in prisoners without anesthesia as well as removing organs to study the effects of diseases on the human body.
In1931 scientist used Spanish immigrants to performed experiments on them. One of the major scientists was Walter Reed who injected 22 Spanish immigrants with yellow fever and paid them $100 if they survive. In Puerto Rico doctors used humans to practice radiation experiments. Meanwhile in Guatemala doctors injected prisoners, mentally ill patients and prostitutes with syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid to see how the symptoms develop.
These are just some of the experiments that were executed in human beings. As we can see most of the victims were prisoners, children, women and mentally ill patients. Although it’s true that thanks to those experiments now we have the cure to various diseases. In my opinion it was unfair what scientists did to these people because they took advantage of their knowledge and they did not deserve to be treated and murder like that.