The Ant and the Grasshopper

           When I finished read this story, I think the message in Maugham’s story is different as the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper. They are talking about the same thing but different characters. Tom likes grasshopper, he likes to enjoy life but doesn’t want to pay anytime. And George likes ant hard work for good life. Actually, I like the person who likes George to get anytime by his self. But in the ending, they are different George work hard but he doesn’t have good life, and Tom get a much better life than George. So I agree with George's behaviour, even he doesn't have a decent job, but he lives not very bad. And Tom, maybe he will happy now because he got alot money from someone else but he just know how to spend the money to enjoy the life. So when he finish up his money, he will not have ability to run on his life.

The friendship bond

The idea of friendship is alive and well. According to this article, the author showed us many reasons to support it. For me the friendship is very important, I think it’s also important for most of people. Friendship unlike marriage or the ties bind parents and children; it is not defined or regulated by law. A real friend is very difficult to find out. People are more and more lonely even who lives in cities. However, I think friends are really important. People always do their own things like job or date with someone, so they just have a few times to hang out with their friends. And as the Activities of Friendship on this article going to show us the self-disclosure and trust must be reciprocated in order for the relationship to deepen.

The Story Of Conflicts

Sometime we also can meet or involve some conflicts. I remember that time when my friend had a big argument with couple. My friends and I went to swim on a sunny day. When we went there were so many people over the pool. As we know, the pool was crowded and sometime we could touch someone not on purpose. So on that time, my friend touched a woman when he tried to swim from this side to other side. However, when my friend felt it and him also made the apology to her on first time; but when they got arrived and that woman said that my friend didn’t say sorry to her. So my fiend didn’t think much, he just thought that woman didn’t heard because on the pool might so noisy. Then my friend said sorry again to her, but she also thought that my friend on purpose and her husband was looked so mad, and then we had a conflict with them. After that, I think we didn’t do anything wrong because we also apologize to them.

opinion, interpretation and summary of the story sunday in the park

I like this story because it is a short story that sends the reader so many messages and emotions it seems to be much more than what it is. The descriptive setting the narrator, who is the protagonist and the reality of all the characters, provide for an excellent plot that causes the reader put on the protagonist’s shoes and feel as if they are the main character in the story.

In the beginning of the story, the author gives the reader images of the two families that demonstrate the level of goodness in each family. In the first paragraph, Morton the father of the good family, is described as reading the Times Magazine section, one arm flung around her the mother’s shoulder. Also the mother’s attitude toward the day is seen when she thinks to herself, how good this is. Morton and mother happily watch their son play in the sandbox in the park. All these images suggest a happy family that has a good life. Even the thought by the mother expresses the goodness that she feels toward her family and life.

       On the other hand, the author explains the Bad family, Joe and his father with the use of images that demonstrate the bully in each of them. Kaufman introduces Joe by writing, the other boy suddenly stop up and with a quick, deliberate swing if his chubby arm threw a spiteful of sand at Larry. The speaker describes the father of the child by saying he did not look up from his comics, but spat once deftly out of the corner of his mouth. These images of Joe throwing sand, and the father not caring make the reader think that this Is a disrespectful and heartless family. Althougath, Joe’s family seems to be the Bad family in the story, the evidence can suggest the opposite, Joe and his father are enjoying a beautiful day at the park. For Joe’s father’s perspective, his kid can throw sand in a public sandbox unless he says not to. The reader knows that the throwing of the sand is deliberate, but Joe could have thrown the sand just for the simple purpose of getting Larry’s attention so he could have someone to play with him. There are clues to suggest that Larry’s mother, in a way, envies Joe and his father because they can stick up for themselves. She is ashamed of her husband and son because they don’t fight their own battles. The suggestion that Morton is abusive toward the boy also helps the reader to see that Larry’s family is just as bad, if not worse, than Joe’s family.

The summary of Henrietta lack's immortal cells

Summary of Henrietta Lacks’ Immortal cell

            According to this article we can see that who is Henrietta lacks and what she did. First we can see that Henrietta was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. And a doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall it scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. And her cells never died. Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture. Many scientific landmarks since then have used her cells, including cloning, gene mapping and in vitro fertilization. However, her families didn’t know about that. And this article also talk about her background, there are something information about her families on the book. Twenty-five years after Henrietta died, a scientist discovered that many cell culture thought to be from other tissue types, including breast and prostate cells, were in fact Hela cells. In the midst of that, one group of scientists tracked down Henrietta’s relatives to take some samples with hopes that they could use the family’s DNA to make a map of Henrietta’s genes so they could tell which cell cultures were Hela and which weren’t, to begin straightening out the contamination problem. 

Opinion and Interpretation

This section is really helping me to understand what the book is talking about. I like this reading article because it talks about Henrietta Lacks Immortal cells. Who is Henrietta and what happened to this person. Author has completed details to descript this book and Henrietta. It will help us to read this book more clearly, and know what happened to Henrietta and her family. It also talk about the Hela cells from and why calls Hela. And why Hela’s cells are important.

When I read the English I will try to find the words that I don’t understand the meaning. Read the topic; try to understand what the author talk is about. Something when I really don’t   understand I will ask my friends or check on line. Something English will be easy than my native language, because English is easy write than my native language, and English is easy to understand, but I have to have enough vocabulary and grammar. So why most people think English is hard for them, because the grammar and vocabulary.

I have the dictionary and I usually read English when I got free.

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page 93-136

According to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page 93-136. It tell us what happened to Henrietta since she was gone. In this part skloot describes how Hela cells were used to mass produce a polio vaccine, to develop reliable cell culture and cell storage methods, to develop clonal cell lines, to visualize human chromosomes, and to test new drug candidates, among many other breakthroughs.

We also learn about how the name Helen Lane was disseminated to hide the true identitu of Henrietta Lacks, a misunderstanding that persists to this day among many researchers. We also learn about the cavalier attitude of some physicians in this era, and specifically how a virologist named Chester Southam deliberately injected, without any consent, patients as well as Ohio state prisoners with Hela cells to see if they would form tumors in people-something that would be in conceivable today. In fact, Southam only stopped his human experiments when three physicians working for him at the Jewish Chronic desease Hospital refused to inject patients without consent because they believed it violated the Nuremberg code, established after the Nazis experimented on prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

      

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

According to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page67-92. In this chapter skloot describes how Henrietta married her cousin and left rural poverty on a tobacco farm in Virginia for Baltimore. She had five children and then one day walked into the coloured ward of the Johns Hopkins complaining that “I got a knot on my womb.” Despite treatment, she died in agony 10 months later, tied to her bed as she convulsed in pain. “That cancer was a terrible thing,” one of Henrietta’s cousins told skloot years later. cooties is Henrietta’s cousin and says that she is a nice person and she helps him because him because his polio.

Skloot spends too long with Henrietta’s family, but she is clearly fulfilling a promise to them. If science has exploited Henrietta Lacks she is determined not to. This biography ensures that she will never again be reduced to cells in a Petri dish: she will always be Henrietta as well as HeLa.

respone

After read each group’s post, I think people should treat tumor on the time, if they don’t.  the tumor will become malignant and kill themselves.  Henrietta Lacks was one of them, if she fined it earlier, she might live more time. And in that time was not fair for color people, they had to work on the tobacco fields. There were on or less job opportunities for colored people.

The following questions of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

1. The Tuskegee Institute opens the first “HeLa factory” in 1952’s. The first company that would begin selling HeLa for profit was called Microbiological Associates.

2. Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920’s.

3. George Gey successfully culture the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’ cervix in 1951. It is given the name HeLa after the first two initials of Henrietta’s first and last names.

4. Scientists used Hela cells to help develop the polio vaccine in 1952.

5. The name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer is Johns Hopkins hospital in 1889.

6. Hela cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

The summary of The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lakcs Page 34-66

According to the immortal life of Henrietta lacks page 35-66. This chapter talk about “the birth of Hela”. In this part we learn about the incredible scientific opportunities that HeLa cells opened for researchers. Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The surgeon on duty,  Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr. was preparing to insert a tube with radium into Henrietta’s cervix to treat her cancer. While she was unconscious, Dr. Wharton cut out two dime-size chunks from her cervis and sent them to Dr. George Gey, who was trying to figure out how to grow cells in the laboratory, outside of an organism.

        

         Although Dr. Gey had tried and failed at this many times, for some unknown reason Henrietta’s cells would be different from all of the others, and would in fact thrive in a laboratory culture dish. Although she never consented to this tissue donation she provided the material that initiated the field of tumor cell culture.

       HeLa cells were used to mass produce a polio vaccine to develop reliable cell culture and cell storage methods, to develop clonal cell lines, to visualize human chromosomes, and to test new drug candidate, among many other breakthroughs.

In early June, Henrietta told her Doctors a few times that she thought the cancer was spreading. On august 8, New tumors seemed to appear daily. Before she died, George told to her colleague Aurelian to say to Henrietta that her cells will make her immortal and also that her cells would help save countless peoples. She told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.’

Impression:

I think Henrietta lacks was a great women, when doctor told her that they would used her cells to save countless peoples, she not be mind and she told him she was glad her pain would come to some good for someone.

Question:

Did someone tell her families’ truth?

The summary of Henrietta lacks 1-33 page.

According to the page1-33 of immortal life of Henrietta lacks, the author write something about women who named Henrietta lacks. Henrietta lacks was a normally black women, the first chapter have show us the picture of her. And we also can find something on this book. She was died from cancer, but when she knew that she get cancer, she didn’t have money to see doctor, and then she died at 31years old.

She had five children, she got her first kid when she was 15 years old, and her husband was her cuisine. I think there were many problems around them poor and background. In the 1951s, black people were very poor and difficult to find job. That’s why she got cancer and didn’t have money to cure.

And through this article we can know that Henrietta was a very nice person, she didn’t tell anyone about canter, because she didn’t want people worried about her. And she also was a good mother.