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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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?