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“Life is a balanced system of learning, adjusting, and evolving. Whether pleasure or pain, every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.” - Dr. Steve Maraboli There is nothing comparable with the happiness of knowing my purpose in life. Being a nurse gives me a great sense of personal fulfillment that brings on new challenging experiences every day. It is a field that allows me to constantly evolve and has given me many meaningful…

Gifted Hands Book Review Growing up in the poor streets of Detroit, Dr. Ben Carson could have never dreamed of the life that he had to look forward to in the future. When Ben was nine years old, his father abandoned him and his family. Ben’s mother, Sonya was the motivator in her two sons’ lives. Although Sonya only had a third-grade education, she was a very smart woman, who knew that education was the way for her sons to get out of the ghetto and have successful lives. Sonya had strict rules…

In 1951, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. The documentary did not mention that John Hopkins was the only option for impoverished African American patients in the area and that it offered segregated medical care. The gynaecologist in charge, Dr. Howard Jones, reports that he was impressed when he…

which are located in the ear and are vital for your ability to hear. People have been evolving form the beginning of time. Humans were lucky enough to evolve to have very flexible hands, which are our tools in anything we do everyday. Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet brought Sign Language to the U.S and was very important in ASL’s history. Life has gotten much easier with technology. Now the deaf are able to sign to someone over the phone and able to easily watch the television.…

When I was 5, I fell into a bag of glass and gashed my leg open. Crazy, right! Well, the accident ended in being carried to the hospital with a blood soaked towel wrapped around my knee. It was eight at night when I entered the emergency room and was placed into a wheel chair. The pain in my leg was great, but my curiosity to peek under the reddening towel was greater. I waited patiently for the nurse to unwrap my leg. I had not seen my leg since it was initially sliced. She pulled back the…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot displays the controversy as to whether or not the public has a responsibility to support scientific progress at all costs. This controversy became evident after Henrietta Lacks’ cervical tissues were taken from her body without her consent and then her cells, which became immortal, were used for medical research everywhere and her family did not know about it. These cells have helped the medical field in…

Being Deaf includes living in a silent world that is not quite the same as the Hearing scene, however a hard of hearing individual can at present appreciate an extremely gainful and free life. For a hearing individual the thought of being hard of hearing and never listening to a sound in a world brimming with sounds may be an alarming thing. On the other hand, to a hard of hearing individual the inverse can be valid. Growing up Deaf, a man may miss the sounds that a hearing individual has around…

The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks is a book by Rebecca Skloot is about Henrietta an African American woman who develops cervical cancer as a result of her cancerous cells which will have a major impact in medicine and science. The book is base on the hundreds of interviews Skloot did to Henrietta’s friends and families. Although her cancerous cells did help scientists with the development of treatment. It also raises a hot topic if it was right for them to use them she they have as the family…

have been made possible as a result of HeLa cells. Explain how HeLa cells were used in each situation 1953 1954 HeLa chromosomes visible by hemotoxylin stain. HeLa cells become first cloned cells. February 6, 1951 Henrietta went back to Johns Hopkins so they could treat her for her cancer with radium. Radium is like chemotherapy; it destroys all cells it encounters, killing…

first semester at ECC, my composition class studied the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot. The book was written based on a true story about Henrietta Lacks and the unethical treatment and research done on her by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Henrietta Lacks received radiation treatments for cancer, which charred the exterior of her body and eventually spread the disease throughout her body even more. At first the treatment worked as it dissipated the tumor, but…