...Most love stories as we know them, have your typical storyline boy meets girls, they fall in love and live happily ever after. The author, Daphne Du Maurier, of this mystery romance, Rebecca, had a similar tone to that of Shakespeare’s Othello, in mind when writing the story of a complex love that was the target of a villainous character looking to end the relationship only with a few differences along the way. It is a bittersweet story that takes place in the 19th century around the Cornish Coast and deals with the ups and downs of life for the unknown narrator and her much older husband, the owner of Manderly, Maxim De Winter. The story has a strong character line up some who’s identity have been with withheld until further through the book. The heroin also the narrator, Mrs. De Winter as she is known throughout the book, is a self conscious young woman who never seems to let go of the idea that she will never be as good as the first wife Rebecca. The story revolves around her and the trials and tribulations she endured at her stay at the Manderley. Mrs. Van Hooper, the rich older American woman whom the narrator was her travel companion and allowed her the travel experience where she met Maxim De Winter. Her husband, Maxim De Winter, the older gentlemen who swept her off her feet and gave her the life she so desperately sought out, who tries to make her understand that she is what he is really looking for and loves but seems to grow tired of the endless reminder that...
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...Explain the effectiveness of the structure of the text, Rebecca Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is structured in a circular form, which is effective in displaying elements of the gothic genre and producing a sense of mystery and ambiguity. The fact that details are revealed gradually creates tension, and a desire to know, so that by the end of the novel the audience is satisfied with the complete story, despite the horrific truth regarding Rebecca’s murder. The text virtually revolves around a murder By using a BAB form, with a reference to the ending at the beginning of the novel, a sense of confusion and abstruseness is evoked among readers. The first chapter, in which the narrator supernaturally returns to Manderley, relives her experiences and mourns for the loss of such an exquisite property, is perplexing for the reader as the scene, characters and setting have not been established. This causes the audience to disregard the first chapter, as the second chapter begins with an entirely different setting and mood. Upon reaching the end of the novel, the reader grasps the meaning of the dream sequence, and the forgotten abstruseness is resolved. The audience is left content with all details of the story revealed, but, like most gothic tales, also chilled and unsettled with the shocking conclusion. Rebecca shows elements of the horror genre through the structure, in which the details are revealed throughout the story, by being analogous to many crime shows...
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...The novel Rebecca was written by Daphne Du Maurier in 1938. There are many elements that make Rebecca a work of gothic literature. Some of these include the fact that Daphne Du Maurier has used isolation and darkness to create a suspenseful and mysterious atmosphere. The fact that Du Maurier has emphasised the narrators fear of the unknown by creating a supernatural atmosphere through the ghost of Rebecca and her servant Mrs Danvers. Also the way Du Maurier describes the characters and the setting using elements of death successfully make Rebecca a piece of gothic literature. Rebecca can be classified as a piece of gothic literature because of the way Du Maurier uses isolation in the novel. Du Maurier uses words such as rusted and unkept to suggest that Manderley had not been visited for a while. Du Maurier describes the surrounding nature around Manderely as unkept and untidy. The way Du Maurier describes the nature surrounding Manderley resembles the darkness in human nature. “The trees choked the terrace” Du Maurier uses personification to give human actions to the trees around Manderley. The use of the word choked makes it seem as if the trees around the house are just as evil as the house itself. This gives the reader an image of Manderley which is dark and empty. The numerous dark and empty rooms also help in making Rebecca a piece of gothic literature. The rooms and passages in Manderely create a ominous atmosphere and a sense of foreboding. Du Maurier’s use of adjectives...
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...Lorraine Rice REL/134 September 30, 2015 Dr. Kimberly Miracle History of Judaism In the history of Judaism God speak to a few people in lighting them of their future. Rebecca the second wife of Isaac is one that has heard the words of God. He spoke to her about the children that she was carrying, her two son would found two great nations, but the elder would serve the younger. So Rebecca gave birth to two sons, the eldest Esau and the younger Jacob. Jacob a shepherd tricked his brother into giving away his birthright with a simple bowel of food. But that was not the most important thing that happened to Jacob. Years later Jacob tricked his father into giving him blessing that were meant for Esau. Enraged Esau he spoke of killing him after their father passed. Rebecca hears of the threats and sends Jacob to live with his uncle. On his journey to his uncle home in Haran it is said that he seen God walking up a ladder that went to the heavens, God promised the lands of Canaan to Jacob and his descendants. Jacob continued on his journey reaching his uncle house. When reaching his uncle home Jacob, was introduce to his cousins Leah the elder daughter and Rachel the younger. At first sight of his cousin Rachel he fell in love, but his uncle would not let him marry her so easy, Jacob have to work for seven years to earn Rachel hand. His uncle had other plans, he tricked Jacob by presented his eldest daughter Leah instead of Rachel for him to wed. Jacob could not stop his love for...
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...Ethical issues: The main ethical issues in this case is that researches at Johns Hopkins Hospital used Henrietta’s cell in multiple researches and send her cells to other researchers around the world without her family’s consent. Moreover, the Lackes themselves were used in medical research without informed consent, and Henrietta’s medical records were release to journalists without her family knowing. These are issues because the cells of Henrietta lack were used to create “immortal” cells that provided a steady supply of cells for medical research and allowed to find cure for multiple diseases, and guaranteed the medical industry millions of dollar when her family his struggling to pay for healthcare. Moreover, researchers at Johns Hopkins asked the Lack’s family to give blood sample to test for cancer when in fact, the sample were used solely to identify their mother’s cell. The researchers never contacted back the Lack’s family, and some of them still wonder if they have the same cancer that killed their mother. These issues in this case concern the broad category of consumer confidence issues where employers and employees have responsibilities to their customers or clients. Johns Hopkins, a healthcare provider institution, and its doctors and researchers who are the care giver had responsibilities to their patient Henrietta and her family. In addition, the case is concerned with the specific are of fiduciary responsibilities, and client confidentiality and privacy...
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...The periodic dings and dongs of the grandfather clock almost drowned out the noise of my ring-tone, but I managed to catch it anyhow. Three dreaded words coming from a person very dear to me, followed by a long silence are all that was heard: “It is cancer…” Before my graduate studies in Biomedical Engineering, I was an undergraduate student in (Nano-) Physics at the University of Groningen. However, it was the disease of a family member that made me take a step back and reconsider my career path. After my Bachelor’s graduation I took a gap year during which I broadened my skill field with an internship as Business Analyst at a small startup. This created an immense spark for my entrepreneurial spirit. On the other hand, during my Bachelors, I was genuinely interested by the applications of physics in the medical field, only to be somewhat disappointed by shortage of possibilities of applying my knowledge available at my university. The chronic disease of a family member only strengthened my drive to pursue a master program that combined the medical and technical areas. The masters program in Biomechanics and the Biomaterials track of Biomedical Engineering at the TU Delft fit perfectly for this purpose. As may have been made clear by my background, my interests vary and range from technical, medical and even business fields. My Bachelor for example, also reflects this versatility of interests. Physics doesn’t focus itself on a single subject. My undergraduate studies gave me...
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...Thesis: In her novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot uses events from the lives of the Lacks family and examples of medical treatment from the time, to construct and defend the argument that minorities and members of lower socioeconomic statuses receive worse medical treatment than upper and middle class non-minorities and are subjected to exploitation. Topic Sentence 01: Many medical professionals at the time, had negative attitudes towards non white, uneducated or impoverished peoples. Evidence: “But Carrel wasn’t interested in immortality for the masses. He was a eugenicist: organ transplantation and life extension were ways to preserve what he saw as the superior white race…”(Skloot 59). Commentary: Carrel, a nobel prize winner who had “supposedly” made a significant discovery in the scientific field demonstrates the negative attitudes of medical professionals towards minorities and impoverished peoples through this quote. Even though his “discovery” could potentially help the masses, he was willing to withhold the technology from those he deemed inferior. Skloot most likely included this story in the narrative to better illustrate how certain groups of people were viewed by medical specialists at the time. Evidence: “...when black people showed up at white-only hospitals, the staff was likely to send them away, even if it meant they might die in the parking lot” (Skloot 15). Commentary: Skloot’s quote shows how much disdain and malpractice black people...
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...Obviously the family was going to be skeptical of her due to the past experiences with anyone asking about Henrietta. Rebecca was the first person who really cared enough about the real story of Henrietta and eventually the Lacks family saw that. Deborah was able to see the medical and the personal aspect of the story with no selfish motivation. She genuinely interested about bringing to light what happened to Henrietta. Rebecca saw Henrietta exactly the opposite of an abstraction. She recognized the events and didn’t see Henrietta as an idea. In summary, Elie Wiesel’s words were able to personify the story of Henrietta almost perfectly. He recognized she was seen as just an idea and not a real person. Even people who know Henrietta’s story still see her as an idea and not a real person. They treat her story as just that, a story. Through reading her book, it becomes apparently clear the amount of wrong doing that was done and how it was never compensated. All though she may not be properly recognized for what...
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...The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, involves a great amount of various topics, from race, to gender, to cancer. A woman named Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman battling cervical cancer in the 1940’s until her death in 1951. As doctors tried to help her and find a cure for her, they had to study her cells and the cancerous cells. It was during the study of her cells that they realized her cells never died; in fact, her cells reproduced indefinitely. There are many ways to support the thesis of the book, exploring the ethics in medical research, and this book is relatable and significant to U.S. history involving medicine, race, gender, etc. The book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was written because the...
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...In the story of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot the death of the Henrietta was the reason for her familys reoccurring struggles. Henrietta was the homemaker, the one who took care of everyone and she was the one keeping the family together. Right before Henrietta dies she tells her sister Gladys “You make sure Day takes care of them children” ”Especially my baby girl Deborah”. (Page 85-86) Henrietta’s death resulted in neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and the rest of her children suffering their adult lives. The neglect was depicted by the death of Elsie. Gladys tells Day “Henrietta gonna die tonight “ “She wants you to take care of them kids – I told her I’d let you know. Don’t let nuthin happen to them.” (Page 86) Right after Henrietta dies Elsie dies in the...
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...Liana Gedz thinks that if she had seen Dr. Allan Zarkin's private records, then the obstetrician now known as "Dr. Zorro" would never have had a chance to carve his initials in her abdomen after delivering her baby. Now she is fighting to make those records available to all patients by opening the National Practitioners Data Bank, which was established by Congress 10 years ago and contains information on doctors who have been the object of malpractice lawsuits, medical license revocations or disciplinary action by medical societies. The proposal appears headed for Congress, but it's being bitterly opposed by doctor groups, who say making the information public could cause more harm than good. For Gedz, though, the matter is clear: Keeping the National Practitioners Data Bank closed perpetuates "a white wall of silence where hospitals protect doctors and doctors protect their peers." Interest in Congress By law, only hospital administrators, managed-care companies and licensing boards can get information from the data bank. The law was created to keep state medical boards informed of doctors' records in other states -- in case a bad doctor skipped town and applied for a medical license elsewhere. Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr., R-Va., said he can't understand why the public should be denied access to those records. "It would seem unfair to restrict this information from consumers, the very people the law was intended to protect," he wrote in a letter to Health and Human Services...
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...that they took samples from her cervix, in spite of the fact that if they had, Henrietta’s story would be so much more different than how it is today. Henrietta’s doctors also would not write down much of what she would tell them about how she felt. For example, they would not write things down along the lines of when she told them she could feel the cancer spreading and moving through her. Henrietta told the doctors that she was in pain, but they would pass it off and write in her medical records that there was no evidence of recurrence, tell her to return in one month, and send her home. This happened multiple times before, at long last, they noticed something was wrong. Her cancer was back, and this time it was worse than before. As Rebecca Skloot said in chapter 8 of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, there really is not a way of knowing whether or not Henrietta’s treatment would have been different had she been white. She got the same treatment as every other patient in the hospital. Perhaps her treatment would have started sooner had she been white. Maybe her doctors would have paid more attention to what she told them about how she felt. If that were the case, maybe her cancer would not have come back as intense as it did. ...
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...The solution to Henrietta Lacks The Ethics and Legal Solution Natalie Smith May 26, 2018 Medical Terminology, Law and Ethics 2 After reading the book of “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks” a few years ago I was very amazed on how doctors back in those days just took bodily fluids and did experiments on patients without their permission. Since Henrietta was poor and doctors didn’t think it mattered if they took her cells it wouldn’t be any issues. Once they found out that her cells were able to be replicated infinitely in a lab they hit the gold mine of medical discoveries because they were able to find a vaccine for polio and breakthroughs in herpes, leukemia and even hemophilia and also were able to better understand numerous diseases that will help fight against those conditions. But at the cost of illegally doing and taking blood without Henrietta Lacks even knowing it. Human biospecimens have played a crucial role in scientific and medical advances. Although the ethical and policy issues associated with biospecimen research have long been the subject of scholarly debate, the story of attention of a much broader audience. The story has been a catalyst for policy change, including major regulatory changes proposed in the United States surrounding informed consent. Ethically, a solution that could have been done is simply have the common courtesy in asking if it was ok to withdraw a few sample of her tissues for research purposes and answer any of...
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...Austin Siu Periods 7&8 Supplemental Reading “Survival of the Sickest” by Dr. Sharon Moalem 1) What prompted the author’s interest in biology? The author’s grandfather was a strong, loving man that loved bleeding. He loved donating blood because it made him feel great both emotionally and physically. The reason behind his physical please from donating blood was because he was diagnosed with hemochromatosis or iron overload disease. Her father passed away early but she was still motivated to find a cure to hemochromatosis for others with the disease. 2) What are the consequences of hemochromatosis if it’s left untreated? Hemochromatosis caused the body’s cells to uptake all available iron. This eventually leads to a hazardous buildup on iron in the body. Iron accelerates the growth of bacteria and the amplification of bacteria can cause damage to organs. There could be liver problems as well as heart failure. In the incident with the author’s grandfather, he got Alzheimer’s disease. 3) What are the consequences of shortage of iron? Iron shortages can be serious if not treated accordingly and they commonly occur in females during menstruation. A lot of iron is loss in the excess blood release. Low iron levels is known as anemia, and some symptoms of anemia are fatigue, shortness of breath, and even heart failure. 4) What are chelators and where are they found? Chelators are “iron locking proteins”. When there is excess iron floating around, they trap the iron...
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...Henrietta lack’s mother died when she was four. Henrietta married Day at the age of 14, and had five children, and lived a life of poverty. She lived in poverty in Virginia with her 5 children. Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia. Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951, at age 31. Cells harvested from her body without her knowledge formed the HeLa cell line. Hinretta’s cells have been researched in every manner imaginable since that time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is much more than a book about the Lacks family. It is also an atrocity that scientists disregarded the basic human rights any human should have, just for the name of science. “Scientist do not like to think of HeLa cells as and actual part of a human who had a life and emotions. So, they gave the cells the name HeLa to dehumanize them. A researcher named Robert Stevenson tells Skloot in one of the many ethical discussions seeded throughout the book (New York Times). Howard Jones took a biopsy from Henrietta and got the test results quite quickly. The news was not great: stage I cancer of the cervix, but Henrietta was told there could be a positive aspect. Richard Wesley TeLinde, the boss of Henrietta's doctor, Howard Jones. TeLinde argued that cervical carcinoma in situ (Henrietta's diagnosis), considered a "non-invasive" cancer, can still metastasize, or spread, becoming something more serious if not treated (Shmoop). Not everyone was convinced. The pap smear was a...
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