Monday, December 5, 2011

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

   According the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Aesop, the Ant was working hard to prepare the winter's food, so he did't need to worry about the food in the winter. However , the grasshopper didn't have food to eat as he always had the fun. The author told us a lifestyle which is we need to work hard to prepare the future. On the other story "the Ant and the Grasshopper" by Somerset Mangham, George didn't have good life in the end even through he worked very hard. Instead of  his brother, Tom who spent all of time on looking the fun, had a lot of money . It showed that a different liftstyle with the fable. It told us that we allow to have fun to relax ourslfe. In my opinion, I agree with the lifestyle which is we don't need to work too hard to forget to relax ourself  that was supported by Somerset Manghan.
   In the society, we need to enjoy the life even during the work, because noboby will  predict what will happen on tomorrow. And if you always force on your work, you will lost a lot, such as you don't know what's stituation will like in the outside world and it will have less chance to communicate with your family.  In my experience, my uncle who has his own Chinese restaurant always work in the kitchen. He has been Amercia about 20 years, he spent most of time in his restruant. My mother often told to him, "you don not to do any more now."  He answered that" I don't believed that my restaurant will keep good without me. One time, he went back China as in case. However, he still wanted to know everything about his restaurant from the call. He didn't give him a opportunity to relax himself.
   I think everyone has the right to have the fun, evern through you are poor. When you are working,, you can take a time to have the fun. I know some people are enjoying the life even they are working. Just we need to know how to  arrange our time between working and enjoying.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

I am an ant.

I like Ant's behavious. Because he not just asasitifies the present, and also preparing the future. As the result, he does not need to worry about the food in the future. Like us, we should also study from the  ant.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

the friendship bond

The idea of the friendship blond is alive and well. As this article have many reasons to support it. In my opinion, friendship is not defined or regulated by law. You can’t force someone to make friend with you. The friendship basic on the trust, and it should without artifice. So a real friend is very hard to find out. On this article, have many reasons to support the friendship. There have some research to discuss it. More half people like to share their own minds to their friend. However, most people don’t like to talk to their friends; maybe they don’t who is the real friend. I think people live more lonely especially people who live in big cities. They have no time to meet each other. I also think friends are very important. When people have something bad or good the friends can share with them and give they regard.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

In my work place which is a private affter school, I saw so many conflict. I remembered that one day: it was my turn to watch the student if they were disciplined on the class. Our princepal called me to sent out the 5 student who get out of line, because he can exactness know if student were getting out of line through the carema.  Immediatetly, I went to that class room  to sent 5student out. There is a rule the student who get out of line can not in class until they finish copying 500 word.

Sunday in the Park by Bel Kaufman

Summary:
    A sunny day, a family had a fun in the park: a couple were sitting on a bench and their son Larry was play in the sandbox. However a kid who was Joe throwed sand on Larry, he also was playing in the sandbox. Larry’s parents were so angry when their kid was baited by another kid. So Larry’s mother was looking for Jor's parents. Larry's parent want joe's father who was reading in the park. A big men just says:  "You go right ahead, Joe. Throw all you want. This here is a public sandbox."   After that,Joe's father wanted to give uo to complain joe's father. However his wife also was angry too. At last, Larry's family were leaving the park. Larry began crying.

Opinion and Interpretation:
   As the parents, they should really understand what their kid want.

Henrietta Lacks' Imomortal' Cells

Opiniom and Interpretation:
   I like this article. Befor, I can not believe that the human's cells can immotal forever even the cells leaving the body. However, the short of my background will make me hard to understand the meaning. This ESL reading class help me a lot. Expecialy, the way with professer read and explan each sentence is help me to force on the article.

Summary: Journalist Rebecca Skloot's new book investigates how a poor black tobacco famer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine. Rebecca's professor alway metioned about HL cells on biology; however he never said more story about Henrietta. It attendened Rebecca to confuse that who was Henrietta, what happened to her? When Rebecca found out Henrietta's family, Henrietta's daughter wanted to believe Rebecca to do more reseach about her mother's story, because Henrietta's daughter never know those things of her mother bofore.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.137-176 )

     HeLa cells were robust and were sent into space in satellite. In 1965, two British scientist Henry Harris and Watkins did the research between the Henrietta's cells and mouse' cells tobreed together. As a result, they created the first human-animal hybrids-cells .
    Henrietta's daugther,Deborah who also is a violent mother is pregnant when she is sixteen year-old. She always pulished her son ,joe, very strick. As joe killed a person, he dropped the school when he attended the 7th grade.
     Between1970-1973,Gey has a cancer. He contributed his cells for scinence to research. No long later, he was died. After he was diead, he told to Mary to let people know the Henrietta's real name if somebody asked.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Reading the English

1.-When I read the English, I will preview first. To find the topic of  a phagraph, then thinking about what will talk about the reading. At the same time, I will make a note when I read the English. Like marking the vocabary, then gussing the meaning. After read that, I will look for the dictionary to understand the mean. 
  -ust 26 letters .
  -any vocabuary that I don not understand.
  -Yes. Usually at home.
2.-After checking the meaning from the dictionary later , I will still forget the meaning again.
   -It is better not to use the dictionary when we read the book.
   -I think we can just skip the hard word first, later to check the dictionary.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.93-136 )

  In this part the story was talking about that after Henrietta was died, her children was taking care by her cousin,Ethel. Because Day had two jobs. Unfortunatly, Ethel abused Henrietta's children. Day did not believe the fact when his children told to him about they were abused. After that, Deborah does not talk this again and avoid meeting Galen alone.
    In the end os of 1951, the biggest problem was polio epidemic. Jonas Salk had developed the polio vaccine. It took a lot of money wgen the National Foundation for Infatile Paralysis(NFIP) used the monkey for testing the medicine. So the NFIP ask Gey for help. In 1953, Henrietta's cells are used for helping virology, checking chromosomes, and testing fever.
  Rebecca meet with Cliff Henrietta uncle who told her that Henrietta's house.  Rebecca wanted to learn about both black and white Lackses to see what relation they had with Henrietta life. 
 
Impression:
     I felt Henrietta's children was pitiful. How can they abuse the children who lost their mother.
Question:
   
    Didn't they have the law to protect children? Why Henrietta's children didn't accuse their aunt.

The common with my classmate"WU"

Comparing with his summary from page 67 to page 92, he showed more add information which was Rececca first met with David"Sonny"Lacks who did not want to see with Rebacca at the first. We all mention about that before Henrietta was died, she told to her husband to take good care of their children.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.66-92 )


     Rebecca went to turner station to search some informations about Henrietta’s family when she saw an article which was the first time to report Henrietta’s family by Michaels Rogers . It made Rebecca more confident to find what happen about Henrietta's cells. So Rebecca went to find a local woman, Courtney speed, who contributed a museum for Henrietta. She found her with a man 's help. However, at the begining Speed refused to answer Rebecca's question about Henrietta. At last, Rebecca found out a clue which was Henrietta’s cousin, Hecter Henry from the tape which was given by Speed.
      On September,1951, Henrietta was very week as the tumor already spread on her body. Henrietta told to Day that don’t let anything happen to her children.  On 12:15 am of October 4, 1951, she was died.  After her died , Gey asked her doctors if they’d do an autopsy,she was died. Then the Gey asked her doctors if they’d do an autopsy, Day disagress with that. Finaly, after Day's cousin's persuade, Day agress to do an autopsy.

       Impression: I think Rebecca also is brave. She can try her best to find every clue maby which about Henrietta's family. As a result, we can know more about the Henrietta's family and Henriette's cells.      
 
       Quesion:Why Day agress to do an autopsy about Henrietta after Day's cousin's persuade? Could he make a decide by himself?

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Read the wiki

 I think next time our group can add some details to support the fact. For example, we knew about that in the past more than 15,000 womens were dying each cervical cancer from tony's group. Next time, every paner in our group can express their own opinion, then we will come out many different ideals. We can use more good pretty sentences from we check togther.

Answers about questions

1.What year did The Tuskegee Institute open the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit? What was the name of the company that would begin selling Hela for profit?
      -In1952,The Tuskegee Institute open the first “HeLa factory,” supplying cells to laboratories and researchers and operating as a nonprofit. -The company's was Microbiological Associates .
2.What year was Henrietta Lacks born?
     - She was born in 1920.
3.What year did George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix? Why was it given the name HeLa?
     -In 1951,George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix.-The pseudonym “Helen Lane” first appears in print as the source of HeLa cells.

4.What year did scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine? 
    -In 1952,scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine.
5.What is the name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer? In what year was it founded?
    - Johns Hopkins Hospital is founded. In 1889,it was founded that Henrietta had cervical cancer.

6.What year did HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned?
    -HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.34-66 )

Summary:
     This part was talking about Henrietta’s cells. When Henrietta was unconscious, Dr. Wharton took  her cells to sent to Dr. George Gey. Gey did a lot of researches about human's cells, as a result it always fail:all the cells would died quickly. However, he surprised that Henrietta’ cells were starting growing in the laboratory. He shared with the immortal cells to other lab. However,he did not remind that who's cells?
     Later, the doctor told Henrietta the fact which was other people can get the better medine when they had disease from researching her cells. Henrietta was glad to help other people instead of caring about that they took her cells without asking. 
     The day after day , when she felt so terrible of her disease, she stayed in the hospital.  She was braveness until she saw their family, she began to sad. After her 31-year-old's birthday, she was died.
 
Impression:
     Henrietta was a great women. Especialy when she knew that doctor took her cells without asking, she never mind that instead she was glad the help other people.
 
Question:
    Would she die If doctors could take good care of his cancer?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.1-33 )

Summary:
    The Author of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks is Rebecca Skloot. She saw some pictures on internet or magazine, even her professor had metioned this women. However, she had never known the women who was. It made her to interest in research this women. Henrietta Lack grew up by her grandpa in a poor family. During time,she alway help her family doing with the farm work. She got married with a man that they had five children. Unforeseeable, tht doctor find out that Henrietta had cervical cancer which made her sad. Aa a doctor wanted to do research for human's cell, he took the cells from Henrietta Lacks without asking.

Reaction:
     At that time, the socity was unfair. The coloured people was hard to go to hospital, as there was discriminste by white people.

Queation:
     At the end of story, the reason of Henrietta lacks'dead was science or that she could not get curing from a good doctor?