The third section of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was about the journey of Deborah and the author, Rebecca Skloot finding information about her mother’s cells and sister, Elsie. Elsie was forgotten by her family because she was sent away to an insane asylum. Doctors diagnosed Elsie with idiocy, which was caused by Henrietta’s condition with syphilis. Doctors in the Crownsville Hospital conducted research on some of the patients without any consent. This was another example of doctors taking advantage of black patients, similar to Henrietta. The Lacks family had trouble trusting any white reporter or scientist because they were only interested their mother’s cells.The author had to express her intentions for the novel to Deborah that…
“Stella Dallas” is a movie three act structure movies from 1937. The main character Stella Dallas got a baby, Laurel, with her newly married husband Stephen Dallas. Because of her uneducated lifestyle and stubborn personality, her marriage with Stephen was getting broken. Her daughter Laurel became all of her life. Stella tried to give her everything. After several awkward things happened in the trip Stella and Laurel had together, Stella realized that Stephen and his new family would provide better life to Laurel. In the end she lied to Laurel and made her move to Stephen.…
In India, The Caste System is used to determine what rank one will be in society and the social class one is in cannot be changed. The Caste System is mostly practiced in India, however it slowly travelled and made its way to high school. In the 1986 comedy, drama, and romance, “Pretty in Pink”, starring Molly Ringwald as Andie Walsh and Andrew McCarthy as Blane McDonnagh the two main characters face many trials and tribulations in their love for each other in 1980’s high school because of the different social classes the two come from. Ultimately, because the two come from different worlds this leaves into question, can their relationship work?…
We are venturing again to Los Angeles this week where 1987 graduate, Corey Jackson, works as a film and television composer. After a movie is made, Corey meets with the director of the film to “spot” the film. This is the process of deciding where music should go in the film and what emotions the music should portray. After the spot, Corey writes the music for one scene at a time. Each composition is sent to the director for approval. Corey says that the director may like it the first time or may send it back with notes and suggestions for him to try again. “Once that is completed I, with the help of my team, will record, mix and deliver the music to the dubbing stage for final mix,” says Jackson. He also describes being on the set of a movie as not glamorous, contrary to what some may think. On a constant deadline, he says working is hard, time consuming, and challenging, but working with like minded people who all have the same ultimate goal and work ethic makes it easier.…
Times were different then. Segregation existed, there was no equality in treatment of patients. Henrietta was not treated well. As a cause and effect of things done then, ethical policies and protocols have been set into place. All people are to be treated as equals. Service could not be denied to anyone regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion. Full informed consent and confidentiality paperwork is needed when treating a patient and participating in any research study. Confidentially forms are to protect the patient and the exposure of any outcome of research, only if the patient is willing to disclose will it be allowed. Doctors are to completely explain the procedures and any possible side effects and repercussions from the treatment. Hospital are to put the comfort and needs of the patient first and they have a right to appoint an advocate if needed. Medicine and research have come a long way in 66…
Laggies basically talks about Megan’s life more about her high school sweetheart and her high school friends. Megan’s boyfriend, Anthony, proposes to her during her friend’s wedding but ended up being disappointed after seeing his dad cheating with another woman. This event had made her confused that she drove away where he met Annika and her friends. These group of teens asked her a favor to buy them drinks due to their minor ages. After helping Annika and her friends, she became closer to her and met her father, Craig. They later fell for each other that had made her to break up with her boyfriend and pursue her life with Craig. Most evident type of conflict that can be found in the movie, Laggies, is the approach-avoidance conflict which…
Carrie is a 2013 remake of Stephen King’s 1974 Carrie novel. This movie film was directed by Kimberly Peirce with the help of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The movie shows of a mother and daughter relationship between religious mother Margaret played by Julianne Moore and daughter Carrie played by Chloe Grace Moretz. Peirce shows how Carrie being in the house with her religious mother’s beliefs affects the social beliefs of Carrie at school, and how she takes revenge on everybody. Carrie is and high school senior that never had real friends or any type of social relationship. Margaret made Carrie believe there was in outside world and homeschooled Carrie until the local authorities got involved and made Margaret send Carrie to public school. Now that…
The features of Generation-Xers were efficiently showed in this movie. For most Generation-Xers they were lack of sense of safety and social identity, they were dissatisfied with the government because a lack of trust in leadership, which caused their misleading personality trait. When they watch The Breakfast Club they have to have the same sense of this movie.…
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and The Inevitable defeat of Mister and Pete written by Michael Starrbury and directed by George Tillman Jr. show similarities in poverty and family but also differences. Poverty is represented by food, shelter and money. In the book and the movie, family is something that keeps the main characters going. A memoir and a fictional film are similar but different in certain ways.…
John Franks once said, “Hope, as it pertains to love, is a good thing because by hoping for certain things such as an extended future with the one you love is made possible.” In the movie “Life Is Beautiful," Guido is an Italian Jew who is married to a gentile named Dora. He protected his son during the war by making him believe that they playing a game while in the concentration camp. He did this to keep the harsh reality unknown to his son, Giosue. The book Maus’ main character is Vladek, a Polish Jew who went through ghettos and concentration camp while doing his best to protect his wife, Anja, and their son, Richeu. He strived to give his family the best that he can get since the persecutions are overwhelming everyone. Both stories are warfare related, and…
Sister James and Sister Aloysius play a very important role in John Patrick Shanley’s movie Doubt, which is about the mistrust that takes place in a school directed by the church on priest Flynn command. There, sister Aloysius is the principal, so she is in charge of the student’s rights and responsibilities. On the other hand Sister James is a history teacher. Both characters are important for their way of handling the doubt.…
In 1932, a study called The Tuskegee Syphilis study had just begun in Macon County, Alabama. The study in the beginning had involved a small group of 600 black men, and throughout the time of the study’s existence those numbers would change by either death of individual or an addition of a new black man added to the study. In the study, of those 600 men, an estimated 400 were purposely left unaware of the fact that syphilis infected them and they were not being treated for the disease. The main hypothesis in the study was the study of the natural course of syphilis in black male, and there were no questions asked if this was the study was ethically the right thing to do. This study would go on for about 40 years, and end in 1972 due to being exposed in an article by the Associated Press. The exposure of the study would lead the US government and the medical world down a path of change, those changes deal with patient’s knowledge of the experiment and ethics involved in human experimentation.…
1- Referring to your notes on the film, Imitation of Life, explain how having the ability to pass is a blessing and a curse. Make sure to be specific and provide one blessing and one curse.…
My Sister’s Keeper is a movie that introduces the world to the Fitzgerald family with its countless imperfections. The family carries some guilt when it comes to their youngest daughter Anna; who was genetically created to donate things such as blood and bone marrow to her older sister Kate, who has cancer. With tears and laughs, the film, My Sister’s Keeper, captured thousands of hearts across America with its incredible acting, capturing introduction, flash-back imagery and shady realness.…
Orson Welles said’ We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.’ We desire the feeling and needs of belongingness and love. After we met and loved someone, we think we have a certain understanding of love and the way we get along with our lover, however, at the same time, we lose our desire of giving love and being loved by someone. Time makes us have a clear view of our lovers, including both their bright side and dark side. However, most of us forget how to embrace, forgive, accept our lovers in the long-term relationship. It results we are alone again.…