summary of p.137-176

    In the 1960s, scientists joked that HeLa cells were so robust that they could probably survive in sink drains or on doorknobs. They can survive everywhere. The general public could grow HeLa at home using instructions from a Scientific American scientists had managed to grow HeLa in space. And they find out that how the cells will be when they are in the space. Next, it is something about Deborah. When she was a junior in high school, at the age of 16, she got pregnant with her first child. Bobbette cried when she found out. And  Deborah stopped going to school. Then,Joe fights with Ivy and kills him after his military life. He hides for a few days, but he surrendered himself to the police. He said that he just want to protect himself so he kill Ivy accidentally, but a boy saw the truth. Therefore, Joe goes into jail. Next, Chectah falls into drugs and starts to beat Deborah after they get married. Deborah does not deserve to get beatings, so she brings her children and runs away from Chectah. And she started her single mother's life. In september 1966, a geneticist named Stanley Gartler walked up to the podium at a hotel in Bedford, Pennsylvania. There, in front of Gey and the other giants of cell culture, Gartler announced that he'd found a "technical problem" in their field. In 1970, Gey got a pancreatic cancer. He wants his cell like as Henrietta's cells immortal so he finds some scientists to research his cells. However, it is not successful. He died November 8 1970. When the article use Henrietta's on the newspaper, the Lack's family knows Henrietta's cell still alive.

Freewrite on Reading

1.  When i read English, I will take out  a dictionary, and get ready to for checking some vocabulary. So i can't read English more easily and understanding. I think the most difficulty of English is that i have many words I don't know the meaning. I think English is easier to learn than other languages. I have a dictionary. Sometimes I read at home, sometimes I read in the library.

2. I think we should have one more day for the reading lesson. In the class, I learn the skill of reading and vocabularies.

summary of p.93-136

　　Just after Henrietta Lacks' death, a HeLa factory was planning to begin. It is a factory which would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. And the main reason for having a HeLa factory is helping to stop polio. At that time, there was a big problem of polio epidemic. They need to use a large scale of cells to test the vaccine and prove it was safe and effective. At first, they use the monkey's cells for the test, but it is too expensive for a large scale. After that, NFIP heard about HeLa cells, and then they contavted Gey for help. Then they found that HeLa cells are very sutiable for the test. Gey successfully shipped the cells in mail. Finally, the first HeLa factory was opened and it is called Tuskegee Center. At first the Tuskegee Center supplied HeLa cells only to polio testing labs. But when it became clear that there was no risk of a HeLa shortage, they began sending the cells to any scientist interested in buying them. People used HeLa cells in many different ways.First, a group of reseacher used HeLa to develop method for freezing cells without harming or chaning them. Later, a fatory that just sell HeLa cells was opened. HeLa was changing the world and make the world became better.

         Later, more people knew about HeLa, but they knew nothing about the owner of HeLa. People wanded to know more about the woman behind. So some magazine's editor came to find Gey to know more about that. But Gey didn't want to talk about his patient. When the editor sent the article to Gey for help, he corrected several scientific errors but leaving two inaccuracies: the timeing of growing the cells and the name Helen L. So that the woman behind the HeLa cells would be know most often as Helen Lane or Helen Larson, but not Henrietta Lacks. Because of that, her family hand no idea her cells were alive.

       After Henrietta's death, her children's life was very harsh. A woman called Ethel started up with Day, and she hated Henrietta very much, she just wanted to torture Henrietta's children. They needed to work all day and did not have enough food to eat. And sometime they would be beaten by Ethel for no reason. When Lawrence came back, they moved to his house. When  Deborah grew older, she started to think more about her mother, and she wanted to know more about her and what happen to her mother.

      Rebecca just visited Cootie, a Henrietta's cousin. They talk many about Henrietta. After that, Rebecca went to find another Henrietta's cousin called Cliff. Cliff bring her to the place where Henrietta Buried and talk many thing's about her.

      As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta's cancer cells could infect the sxientists working on them? Gey and several others had already shown that some rats grew tumors when inject with live HeLa. Why not humans?
He did some horrible things later. He inject some HeLa cells into 25 volunteers and prisoners' body. And he didn't told anyone about that.

Impression:

HeLa cells are really important to the world.

Question:

Why didn't Deborah just tell Day that Ethel always beat them for no reason and don't give food to them?      

summary of p.67-92

  A few days after Rebacca first conversation with Day, she drove frome Pittsburgh to Baltimore to meet his son, David "Sonny" Lacks Jr. She needs to go to Turner Station. To get there, she needs to drive past the cement wall and fence that blocked it from the interstate, across a set of tracks, past churches in old storefronts, row of boarded-up houses, and a buzzing electrical generator as big as a football field. And finally she found Turner Station. After that she went to find their house, she found again and again. Finally, she ot Sonny on the phone. He said he'd decided not to meet her but wouldn't tell me why. When she asked him to put her in touch wit his family in Clover, he told her to go there and find them herself.

  Clover sits a few rolling hills off Route 360 in southern Virginia, just past Difficult Creek on the banks of the River of Death. Rebecca pulled into town under a blue December sky, with air warm enough for May, a yellow Post-it note with the only information Sonny had given her stuck on her dashboard: "They haven't found her grave. Make sure it's day--there are no lights, gets darker than dark. Ask anybody where Lack Town is." And she found it.

   By September, Henrietta's body was almost entirely taken over by tumors. She got one blood transfusion after another because her kindys could no longer filer the toxins from her blood. Her body went worse and worse. A doctor injected she with a heavy dose of morphine and she would forget her name for some moment. Finally, she died at 12:15 a.m. on October 4,1951.


IMPRESSION:

I think it is a bit boring in the beginning of this few chapters.

QUESTION:

Why doesn't the doctor tell Henrietta's family she is going to die?

Response

For the first group, HAU's group. The language is simple, it is easy to read. And for the content, they give some example for cancers, cells and tumor. In the society part, they post the situation of the people in 19's. And it is differnt from us.
For wu's group, they have many facts and informations.
For marina's group, they use point form to state all the informations. I think it is more clear for the reader.
For Aye' group, they do not have many information, but it still clear.
For Tony's group, they have enough information and it is clear.
Lastly, for the next post of our group, we can add more informations and examples to support our view and we can use point form, so the readers can read more clearly. and we need to make sure that all the words spell correctly and there are no grammar mistakes. And make sure all the informations are correct so we will not confuse the readers.

Quesions

1. The Tuskegee Institute opened the first "HeLa factory" in 1952. The first company that would begin selling Hela for profit was called Microbiological Associates.

2. Henrietta Lacks was born in 1920.

3. George Gey successfully cultured the first immortal human cell line using cells from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix in 1951.  Because it used the first wo initials of Henrietta's first and last name.

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

5. Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer in Hopkins. And her cancer was found in 1951.

6. HeLa cells became the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

summary of p.34-66

 In these thirty pages, there are five chapters, which are The Birth of HeLa, Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside, Lady's on the Phone, The Death and Life of Cell Culture and A Miserable Specimen. In those chapters, I love The Birth of HeLa the most. So let's talk about this chapter first.
 For this chapter, it is talking about how HeLa born and the situation of Henrietta Lacks. Firstly, this chapter talk about something in the lab. In this lab, there are mainly Gey , Mary and Margeret in the lab, they are doing some experiment inside the lab, HeLa is one of the example. For this chapter, it also talk about some backgroud about Gey and Margeret. Margarent is cautious and stable, the blackbone of the lab. Gey is an enormous, mischievous, grown-up kid. They worked so hard on those cells. At the end of this chapter, Mary find that HeLa is different from the other cells, it grow unstoppable if you give enough food, space and warmth to it. So HeLa borned at that moment.
 In the next chapter, it mostly talk about Henrietta Lacks who went to the hospital for the treatment every day. At first, althrough radium often causes relentless nausea, vomiting, weakness, and anemia, there is no record of Henrietta having any side effects, and no one remembers her complaing of feeling sick. So she was really well at that time. But her body went worse and worse. One day she almost collapsed a few blocks from Hopkins and took nearly a hour to make a walk to Margaret's house. And her body's color is burnt to black. She was very sick.
  For chapter six, it is talk about how the author find  Henrietta's daughter's phone number. And some dialog between author and Deborah. But  Deborah did not want to have any interview because of the disagreement of her family. So the author called Henrietta husband David. But she can't get any information from the call.
 In chapter seven, it is about some history of the undead chicken heart cells. But this cell was just dead five years before HeLa born. Tissue culture was stuff of racism, creepy science fiction, Nazis, and snake oil.
 For the last chapter, it go back to Henrietta. She found that her cancer was spreading. But the doctor did not believe her. But later, doctor find that the cancer was attached to Henrietta's pelvic wall, nearly blocking her urethra. The cancer go bad. New tumors seemed to appesr daily and radiation treatment did not work for her any more. And lastly, Gey told Henrietta that her cell wiil make her immortal and help to save the lives of countless people and smiled. She told Gey she was glad her pain can help the others.

Impression:
 I think Henrietta is very brave. She is a very good woman. Even she will be killed by those cells soon, but she still gald her pain can help the others.

Question:
 Why does the radiation treatment do not work for Henrietta?