Quotes From 'The Awakening'

When Joe became self-reliant he knew what he had to do, which make enough money for school each year. He even met back up with his dad to help him build the new house. After Thula passed away; Joe was welcomed back into the home, where Joyce and Joe would “play house”. Harry, Joyce and the kids would cheer Washington’s team when they raced.

Then it was transferred to George Gey’s lab, where they would cultivate it and attempt to grow new cells from the sample, however, there was not much hope for the sample, as they all eventually died within days, sometimes even hours. Henrietta’s cells changed this, after multiple days of being cultivated and still living, Gey began to realize that he had discovered something amazing, and he slowly started to share his discovery with the world.

His mother had warned him to watch out for Sonny when she was still alive, informing him about his uncle’s death and how it affected his father. She wanted him to look out for Sonny in the same way that “ ‘I helped your father get safely through this world.’” Sonny and his father both shared that same sense of privacy. When Sonny told him he wanted to be a jazz musician, the narrator insisted that he must finish school because that was best for him. He thought he knew enough about Sonny to make decisions for

After owning the deli with his brother for three years, Joe decided to take the police officer test. He passed and was planning to attend the police academy. But when his mother discovered his plan, she cried and begged him to get a city job.

Joe was on his way to Eatonville to make a better life for himself, he asked Janie where her parents were and Janie explained that she is married and her husband was out getting a mule for her to plow. Joe expresses that that is not a way for her to be treated and asks her to leave Logan and marry him.

Johns Hopkins was the only hospital at the time that would tend to African Americans at no cost. This gave the doctors all the more justification for taking her cells because she was not paying for her treatment.

According to the newspaper, “the family said they want to her cells to be owned by her estate and they would set up a foundation to allow everyone to benefit from the cells.”

“That was a big thing in the South. You’re white, and even if you’re a Jew, since you’re white you’re better than a so-called colored. Well, I didn’t feel number one with nobody but him, and I didn’t give a hoot that he was black. He was kind! He was good! I knew that!”

In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta lacks by Rebecca Skloot, it discusses the many people that contributed to create the legacy of Henrietta's cells. Henrietta lacks had no knowledge of this happening. In 1951, she died from cervical cancer. It was diagnosed to her at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Before dying, a doctor cut out small cancer cells. These cells were crucial because they were used to advance the first immortal cell line. These cells gave guidance to scientist that made very important developments in medicine.

“She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code metered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.” (Lee

The doctors were interested in collecting samples from Henrietta’s children because needed to find genetic makers that were specific to Henrietta’s. This was so that they can stop the HeLa contamination problem. Solving the problem required that they got DNA samples from Henrietta’s immediate family (her husband and children) and compare their DNA to that of HeLa in order to create a map of Henrietta’s genes (Skloot 181-182). The doctors didn’t just need their DNA samples to solve

In four months after the birth of the last child Henrietta began to find strange allocations on the underwear and on February 1, 1951, she came to Johns Hopkins hospital. After the diagnosis – cancer of the neck of the womb, and eight months later, despite surgical intervention and radiotherapy, at the age of 31, she died.

Further along in “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow”, the writer had developed a deeper knowledge of the pervasiveness nature of Jim Crow. It wouldn’t only affect him solely during his childhood in Arkansas, but also in his places of employment as well. Wright gives an example of the emasculating effects of Southern racism. Wright describes a moment where one of his fellow bellboys is found frolicking with a white prostitute and was mutilated for the dalliance, with the staff being warned that the victim was a “lucky bastard” since his life was spared (Wright 139). The possibility of his losing one’s manhood had to be a troubling prospect for the other bellboys, who could see this man as a no more than a cautionary tale warning them to not to act on their interracial carnal desires.

When Deborah found out that her mother’s cells were still alive she had many fears and concerns. One fear is that the same thing that happened to her mother would happen to her. We know this because it says “She knew her mother had gotten sick at thirty, so she’d long feared her own thirtieth birthday, figuring that whatever happened to her mother at that age would happen to her too.” She was also concerned about her kids growing motherless like she had. She had these concerns because she did not understand cancer and other parts of science related to HeLa so she thought she could get it from her mom. Those are some of the fears and concerns Deborah had when she found out that her mother’s cells were still alive.

There are many ways that you can get cancer. You can get cancer from smoking, sunlight, your diet, mold, viruses, and inheritance. Out of those factors, the most common cause of cancer today is smoking. All cancers are genetic because they are caused by the mutations that happen to the gene. Some common cancers that are