Maugham's story is different from the message

the message in Maugham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper. The fable suppose to be the ant who is hardworking and get enough food to through the winter, and the grasshopper who is lazy and idle, in the end, he has to beg ant for a little food to through the winter. However,Maugham's story is describe Tom and his brother, Geroge. Tom leave his family and job only for enjoy his life. His has sexes with prettiest women, eat at expensive resraunt, gamble, and so on. In the end he gets anything he wants because he married a old lady. After she died, she left him a million pound, a house in London and a house in country. George is hardworking, responsible to his family and job. He never has a vacation longer than two-week in year for 25 years. He was 47 years old, but he looks sixty. He never think about betry his wife, Andre always be a good father. However, he only get a small income and little house in the end.

Handout-my story

It was a very mid-night. My cousin and I were sitting in a sofa and watched TV. I was trying to make myself fell asleep soon and he looked very nervous and angry. I asked, “What is going?”  He said, “Lisa did not go home yet, she is play with her friends at a bar.”(Lisa is my cousin’s girlfriend) I said, “Lisa is 23-year-old. She knows what to do, do not think too much.”  He raped, “I am trust her, but Lisa is a simple girl, and it is 1 am right now. She does give me a call that says she is arrived home.” Lisa called while I was going to answer my cousin. Because it was mid-night, it was very quiet and I overheard their conversation on the phone. Lisa sounds had a little drunk, but she was home now. She said, “Honey, I am home and I was going to bed now.” My cousin said, “Why are you going to home so late? You promise me you will suppose be home at 11pm and do not drink any alcohols.” She said, “Baby, it is my best friend’s birthday party, and she is going to other city next week. We won’t meet each in years. Just a little bit late.” My cousin said, “It is principle issue. If you cannot do that, just do not promise me anything. Don’t you know the guy outside is very bad? Don’t you know I am so worry about you? Don’t you know your parents will worry about you? ” She said, “I am so tired. I do not want to argue with you.” My cousin silenced.  She said, “If you want to continue talk this topic, call me tomorrow. Good night!”
I do not think the problem is solved. My cousin's girlfriend believe she was right. She did not do the wrong thing. She did not hang out with other boy. She just back home a little late. My cousin believed his was right. A young girl back home at mid-night and drunk, it is very dangerous. His girlfriend promised him back home early, but she did not do that. I think there are many different to avoid it. For example, they could go out together, my cousin have to loose his rule(principle) or his girlfriend need to do what she has said.

Summary of handout(park)

Opinion:
I do not like the article and I do not understand the ending.it is not interesting for me. it looks like a diary journal not a story.
Summary:
A family spend their time on a park at Sunday afternoon.a husband, Morton is reading the Time Magazine section, a wife leaning on her husband's shoulder, and their son, Larry is playing at park. A rude boy throw a spadeful at Larry. They talk to the rude boy do not do that. The does not listen advice. And then They complain to his father about his behavior, but his father agree with his son's behavior and encourage him to do whatever he wanted. Morton have a argue with the rude boy's father. They are almost fight, and then Morton find out it is worthless to fight with the rude boy's father. And then I do not understand the story.

Summary from handout ( Henrietta)

Opinion:
I like this article. It is easier for me to understand the information. The author Sarah Zielinski interviews Rebecca Skllt who wrote " the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks," and Rebecca point out many important information from the book. i used to get an answer from one chapter, and now I can get many answers from one question that Rebecca answered.

Summary:
It is an interview between journalist Rebecca Skloot and Sarah Zielinski. The Henrietta Lack’s immortal cells helps medical researchers learned the details of how cells work and test the cause and treatment of diseases. Hela’s cells is the first immortal cells in culture, it is developing the polio vaccine, Rebecca introduces Henrietta Lacks who hide behind the immortal cells to the world. She also explains why she interested in the story, and why Henrietta's cells is so important.how Rebecca connect to the Henrietta's family and the situation of the family.the book exposes many facts which are hide in the history.

Summary 136-176

  By the 1960s, scientists think Henrietta's cells is becoming super strong. It survives everywhere. Scientists start doing the research of mix Henrietta's cells with others. They want to get answers from mixed cells which are died or or radiation change. Most of cells are contaminated. The mouse cells with Henrietta's cells is the only succeed example. They publish the result and announce that man-animal cells are bred in lab.
During the 1960s, Henrietta's older sons, Lawrence and Sonny are doing well on their own. However, Henrietta's daughter, Deborah is pregnant when she is sixteen year-old; she also is a violent  mother. while her child make a mistake, she beats him hardly. the younger son, Joe is dropped out of school in the seventh grade and then he is in prison because he killed a person. 
Around 1966's, a geneticist talks to Gey that he finds a technical problem in their field. He is working on cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer. He also do the research for looking the new genetic markets. He finds there is one thing that in common in his research, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-A is contained his research. They are almost from of black Americans. Then they relate to Henrietta's case, and they spend more time developing genetic tests Hela cells.
Back to the 2000s, author is waiting two hours for Sonny for get more information about Henrietta. She knows Lawrence is the only child of Henrietta who remember her. Lawrence said some covered things about Hopkins hospital such as test on black people, hide the truth about Henrietta and Henrietta's family know nothing about her. 
In 1970-1973,Gey has a cancer. He wants his cells will like Henrietta's that can help advance science in the process, so he asks his surgeons to take the cells from his pancreas. However, the surgeons doesn't do it because they worried if they cut the cancer, it will kill Gey. After Gey recovered, he finds out other scientists need his help. After a while, Gey died. Before he died, he told Mary it is ok to release Henrietta's real name if someone asked. Finally, people know Henrietta Lack who provide the immortal cells.
Impression:
Scientists are so crazy terrible. They like test on human or doing weird things.
Question:
Why the Henrietta's family do not want talk to other people about Henrietta, and author still  gets information from them.

....while i am reading

when i am reading a book, sometimes i do not understand the way author talk about. it is difficult for me to read a English book. vocabulary and logical are the big problems for me. when i look up at dictionary, there are too many different means in one word. sometimes author says somethings that are funny or terrible, but i do not understand exactly author means. i usually read a book at my room.therefore, it is hard for me to focus on the reading.

summary p93-p136

        Not long after Henrietta’s death, there is the biggest polio epidemic happened in history. Therefore, the scientists begin to develop a HeLa factory which could grow the HeLa’s cells every week to stop polio.

        Many people do not know Henrietta’s name. The only article about Henrietta is published without her name. Jerome Syverton writes many letters to complain to Gey about misreport Henrietta’s name and ask Gey to correct it. Berg, a press officer at the NFIP also sends Gey many letters saying he want to write more information about HeLa cells for a popular magazine with her correct name. However, Gey does not agree to correct the name and says it is a way to protect Henrietta’s privacy. Therefore, many people think the name of the woman behind the HeLa cells as Helen Lane. Henrietta’s family also does know her cells are alive.
           When Henrietta was gone, her children, Sonny, Deborah, and baby Joe except Elsie who is deaf and dumb and raise at other place are raised by Day and Ethel who hate Henrietta. Henrietta children don’t know what happen to her because no one tells them and if they ask about their mother, they will get hurt by Ethel. They ask Day about what happen to their mother and sister, and Day always gives the same answer which is you are too young to remember to reply them.
During the interview with Henrietta’s cousin, Cootie gives the reasons why people who are in their family do not talk about Henrietta. They do not say the words like cancer or do not tell the stories on dead folks. At that time, the family does not talk about Henrietta for a long time. It almost like Henrietta has never existed, except for her children and cells. Cootie says if author wants know more information about Henrietta, she needs to talk to Cliff who grows up with Henrietta. Cliff shows author many details and some family history about Henrietta.
           Henrietta’s cells grow up at labor around the world. Chester Southam is thinking injected with live HeLa can also work on human not only rat. He starts doing research about Hela cells. It is the first time doing research at human and it is danger. He starts inject with live HeLa at patient who have cancel. And then he wants know what different if he injects with live HeLa between healthy people and sick people. He inject with live HeLa at healthy people who are murders, embezzlers, and robbers to get the answers he wants. Southam is not only one who treats other people’s life as a test. Accounding to the published a detail list of worst offenders, there are researchers who inject children with hepatitis and other researchers poison patients under anesthesia using carbon dioxide.

Impression:

I feel shocked. At that time, researchers treat human being like a rat, they only care about what answers they can get from them.

Question:

There are many unfair or illegal events happened at that time, why there is nobody to resist it?

summary page67-page92

After author connected to Henrietta’s husband, Day, she got a changce to meet his son, David at Baltimore. When author checked in a Holiday Inn and was waiting for David’s phone call, she found out the outside view of the Inn was the same things as Michael Rogers who wrote the article called “Rolling Stone” described about Lacks in 1976. Author started to go over the information about Henrietta that she had, she found out a Henrietta’s Turner Station address and an important person named Courtney Speed who devoted to building a Henrietta Lacks museum in an old newspaper. After she arrived in the town, there were more than 1,300 homeless, and many places were zoned for industrial.  People here was very nice. They waved and smile when author passed. And then she met Miss Speed from a man who helped her went there. However, she only got a tape from Speed. Speed asked author to get the support of the family before she talked about Henrietta. Finally, author got a phone call from David, and he refused to meet her. He also did not give any information about how to get touch with his family in Clover. Author need went there by herself.

Author was arrived in Clover. It was a terrible town. There was no light at night. She saw many stores were closed and even a kid on drugs. She kelp drove until she met a man who was Henrietta’s cousin, Cootie. He said everybody here were kin to Henrietta and liked her. He also found out a picture of Henrietta.  He said Henrietta’s cancer is not a normal cancer. Nobody understood how she died and her cells still alive.  They thought it was a spirit got Henrietta or man-made.  

The tumors was almost spread Henrietta’s whole organs. The functions of the organs were not work anymore. Henrietta was blooding too much and need extra blood to fix her body. Her cousin and some friends were going to help her. Henrietta experienced the terrible pain every day. 12:15 Am. On October 4, 1951, Henrietta felt she was going to die. After she said last words, she was gone.

When Gey knew Henrietta was died, he wanted samples from her organs. Someone went to Day’s home asked for permission of an autopsy. And Day agreed because it not hurt. A few days past, Henrietta’s was arrived in Clover. It kept raining during the day people pay respects to Henrietta. When they lowered Henrietta coffin into her grave and started to cover her, there were a big storm, huge rain fell, thunder, babies’ screamed, strong wind and so on.  Henrietta’s cousin, Peter thought she was trying to tell people something.

Impression:

I feel the doctor are grin especially Gey. When he knew Henrietta died, the first thing come out is autopsy Henrietta’s body to get the samples.    

Question:

How did Henrietta die?

After reading each group's post

I think my group could add more information about SOCIETY at that time.

White people discriminate against colored people.  Colored people have a terrible life, like only go to the doctor when they have no other choice, and only allowed to go colored hospital.

Basically every group writes about the point in the chapter 1. My group is general than others. I think some groups are written more speciafic.

One thing that I think my group can learn from it is put answers into a paragraph.  When other people read, it is easier to understand and looks better.

answer

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?
            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) What year was Henrietta Lacks born?

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

4)What year did scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine?
           The scientists use HeLa cells to help develop the polio vaccine  in 1952.

5)What is the name of the hospital where Henrietta was treated for cervical cancer? In what year was it founded?    
               the name of the hospital called Johns Hopkins Hospital. it found in 1889.

6)What year did HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned?
              HeLa cells become the first cells ever cloned in 1953.

summary page 33-66

After Gey take the cell of Henrietta, he gives the sample to Mary to grow it at lab. They do the research of cell for several years, and it not succeeds.  Gey and Margaret opened the lab when Gey was graduated from college. They starts do the research of growing cells and tries finding a way to let the cell alive. Like collect umbilical cord blood, cow fetuses and chicken blood and so on, but it all failed. They do the research of growing cells for many years. When she gets the cells of Henrietta, she just does it as usual. When Mary notices Henrietta’s cell keep growing, she tells to Gey. Gey defines that Henrietta’s cells are alive until several days past, and then he tells to his closest colleagues.

Henrietta does know anything about her cells growing at lab when she leaves the hospital. When Henrietta goes back home, her life run the usual. Take care of children, work at the tobacco fields, and dance after her children go to sleep. No one knows Henrietta is sick, until Henrietta talk to her cousins. Henrietta stays at her cousin’s home and waiting for Day to pick her home when she needs to start X-ray therapy every weekday for month. After two weeks when Henrietta finished treatments, she feels bad and burns inside.

When author is 27 years old, she calls to Roland Pattillo who was one of the students of Gey try to get tough with Henrietta’s family. She gives many reasons to persuade Pattillo to give the number to her. Finally, she gets a number of Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah. Deborah doesn’t want to talk about it and she gives her brother and father number. They don’t want talk about Henrietta either.

Gey starts to introduce his work and sending Henrietta’s cells to scientist who might need it for cancer research.

At that time, there is an important cell in cells culture called chicken heart cells by Carrel. But when he died, people do not pay any attention anymore.

Henrietta feels worse, when she goes to hospital every time. She talks to her doctor that she feels pain but they cannot help her. After she is 31 years old, she needs to stay in the hospital to take care of her healthy. Everyone think Gey and Henrietta never meet, except Laure Aurelian. He said Gey do talk to Henrietta that her cells will make her immortal, and then she feels better because her pain could help other people.

Henrietta is a kind woman, when she was sick and leaned on the bed in hostipal,Gey told her that her cells could help other people she was smiled.

summary of the immortal life of Herietta Lacks(pages1 to pages33)

The first time author, Rebecca Skloot knew Henrietta Lacks from her biology instructor. While Skloot heard about Henrietta Lacks, she interested in anything about her, like her immortal cells gave a huge benefits for people, but no one really knew her. Skloot started doing a lot of research about Skloot. Lacks’s daughter, Deborah said the hospital just take her mother’s cells without asking them and made a  lot of money from Henrietta Lacks and did not pay any benefits to family Lacks. Henrietta Lacks found out something wrong in her womb While she had pregnant with her fifth child, she decided to Hopkins hospital which is the only hospital accepted colored patient to do the exam. Because of that period colored people was discriminate against by white people, Henrietta Lacks felt uncomfortable about going to hospital. She didn’t know the words in hospital and she had to go to the colored-only wards and fountains. She did not show up many times.

 Henrietta Lacks’s mother was died when she giving the birth to her tenth child. Because of it, Henrietta Lacks’s sent them back to Clover asked for help. Relative divide them to different family. Henrietta Lacks was living with her grandpa and a cousin Day. They were farmer, they tended a garden planting food and tobacco, and they also feed their livestock’s.  at harvest season, they went to a market for selling the tobacco. When Henrietta Lacks grew older, she married to her cousin, Day. And then she had a first when she was 14. Henrietta Lacks became a housewife and took care of their children and farm.

Henrietta Lacks got the diagnosis and knew she had a cervix cancer, stage 1. She needed to have an operation. During the period of 1951s, more than 15,000 women died every year from cervical cancer.  Doctors tried to find out a way to solve it. They started remove some cells from each patient who had cancer and kept cells alive to discover the method to overcome the cancer. Doctors fail many times but they still believe it. Therefore, Henrietta Lacks was one of the patient they took the sample during the operation.

reaction:

This is the first time read a book that talks about the history of white people discriminate against the colored people. It touched me. They get many unfair treatments, and live harder. They are not allowed to see a doctor, the only hospital accepts colored patients are for get free cells from patient and do the research.

question:

Giving to many births is a reason to cause a cervix cancer?

Is it ok to married a relative and their children are still heath? (Henrietta Lacks married her cousin Day)