bp# 6

    Henrietta Lacks a name many people do not know. Researchers in the world call her Hela and her cells were important for many scientific advance. The story was unknown to me, I wasn't aware that in the United States there were doctors capable of taking people blood, cells and so on without their concern.  In the Dominican Republic corruption is so high that anything can be done to any patients they just have to tell them that they need blood or whatever they want from you.They won't even tell you why they need it they just tell you they need it.The rules in the 50's and 60's were very different than what they are now. Now days doctors will ask you to sing papers and tell you exactly what they need from the patients, and explain the importance for it. It is up to you to sing the papers and let those researchers do thir job with your blood or cells.

      What they did to Henrietta's family was wrong and should not happen again. I don't think it will be a problem now, with all the laws and requirements to work with someones cells. Doctors should always inform their patients  with every little detail and ensure that their patients understand what is going on with their blood work or whatever they are being research for.

BP # 5

        Now days people are trying their best to consume a healthier produce and food. With health care being expensive and organic food difficult to find many people relay on their government, to help them trough  programs and other methods of informing their citizens in how to do it.

        One of today's main problems is obesity and bad food sources for the people. To battle that the government and other organizations work together to bring ideas such as taxing soda so it could be expensive and difficult to buy for some people. I believe that soda should be tax because is really bad for your health. In addition soda causes about 2' 600 deaths per year and also researchers believes that it will help reduce 240,000 per year. Those who don't drink soda tend to have healthier denture because of the low ph acid soda have. To conclude i believed that soda should be tax to help us in the future and for our own good.

    

bp # 5 Taxes on Soda

    To tax sodas so we could save more lives is a good idea. Soda is one of the factor that causes heart attack and diabetics. Also soda has a low ph acid that not only destroys your teeth but it can also damage your bones. Soda can plays a big role on people obesity, drinks like coke dr pepper and sprite has a large percentage of sugar, calories, caffeine,phosphorous and so on could damage our health in so many different ways. Diet soda is no help neither, many researchers believed that diet soda can boost the stroke risk. An example of this is the taxation of cigarettes, and how many of those cigarettes deaths has been falling down due to taxation of it. To conclude i strongly believed that soda should be tax if that reduces 2,600 deaths a year, and the risk of stroke and diabetics drop to a better percentage than what it is now.      

Going Green

          Since knowing how much better i can feed my family and myself , with an organic and local produce Iam     trying my best to get it. IT is so much healthier to get a product local grown, to help not only ourselves with better food but we could manage to maintain a better environment to better tomorrow. I know right now is hard for me and my family to have the access for those organic or minimally modified produce but i will try my best to find those places to have access for a more nutritionist produce on my table. I will be more concern now with buying a produce with a lower carbon footprint. My only struggle that i have with going green is that I do not have the knowledge about but I'm learning everyday a bit more about it and is motivating me to begin to go green.

Racial segregation in the United States

              In the United States in the 1940's and 50's blacks, Hispanics, Jews and Asians were segregated from white people. They didn't have the same opportunities such as jobs, healthcare, school and many others thing. This laws were enforce by the government and sometimes by organize group of people who hated anybody without their skin color or believes. Many blacks were mistreated by these laws or sometimes kill because of how it was back then. A 50 year old black man had to be polite and called sir a 12 year old white kid. This were the darkest time in the US history and there is still a lot of people who are affected by the memories of those times today.  

How do you think HeLa's family feels?

   Of course they feel bad about their situation and their family problems with no insurance policy for them which i think it should be free to them.

Many people think that doctors and researchers took advantage of Henrietta Lacks by using her cells and giving her (or her family) no compensation for them. What do you think?

      Hela cells have been used for a lot of research and help developed the vaccine for polio. Is been used for research on cancer and aids. What I'm saying is, that her cells were very important for today advancement in medicine and its still very important for researchers today. I don't think they took advantage of her but they could at least compensate her family with insurance and maybe some money.  

My best friend took advantage of me

       On December 24 2010, my best friend Jose  ask me to lend him some money to buy Christmas gift for his kids. I didn't have no problem in doing so, because he was after all my he was my best friend. We went to the bank and i gave him one thousand dollars. Later that night i went out with my wife to a restaurant and i saw Jose there, i ask him if he bought the toys and he told me that he did. The next day his wife called me that she need it to talk to me. we met in her house and she told me that Jose didn't buy anything to their kids for Christmas and she need it money. I told her that i gave Jose money and that i saw him in a restaurant. The next day he called me that he won' t pay me and to forget about our friendship, i was really mad and i wanted my money back. I went to his house and he told me that he will call the police if i don't leave his house. We got into a big argument he paid me half the money and never called me or answer my phone calls again.

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juan: Hi class ESL099 my name is...: Hi class ESL099 my name is Juan, I'm a freshmen in LaGCC. I'm from Dominican Republic and i have been living in Ne...

                        Hi class ESL099 my name is Juan, I'm a freshmen  in LaGCC. I'm from
Dominican Republic and i have been living in New York since 1999. I joined the US ARMY right after 9/11 and was a soldier for 10 years. I'm marry with kids and I'm looking forward to make new friends and learn from each and everyone in this class.