“Diagnostic"
Many people don’t understand American values, but there are actions that can show us their values by the way they act such as competition and materialism.
Americans are competitive people. In the schools the students compete to be the best student in the class. My cousin is an example of this. He has a lot of awards for his good grades and effort. This makes him be responsible with his assignments. On the other hand, many students don’t do this and have troubles in school.
Materialism is something that we can see in Americans day after day. Americans like to spend a lot of money buying cars, cellphones, computers, TV’s, etc. When something new arrives, Americans spend a lot of money and time waiting in front of a store to get it. They feel that owning these things is important. They feel good and it is something that I see in most of my friends.
We can find different values around the world. Americans, for example, value competition and materialism and they act based on these values.
Many people don’t understand American values, but there are actions that can show us their values by the way they act such as competition and materialism.
Americans are competitive people. In the schools the students compete to be the best student in the class. My cousin is an example of this. He has a lot of awards for his good grades and effort. This makes him be responsible with his assignments. On the other hand, many students don’t do this and have troubles in school.
Materialism is something that we can see in Americans day after day. Americans like to spend a lot of money buying cars, cellphones, computers, TV’s, etc. When something new arrives, Americans spend a lot of money and time waiting in front of a store to get it. They feel that owning these things is important. They feel good and it is something that I see in most of my friends.
We can find different values around the world. Americans, for example, value competition and materialism and they act based on these values.
PROVERB
"Chance make our parents, but choice make our friends"
The proverb "chance make our parents, but choice make our friends" by Jacques Delille means that we can't choose our parents, we have to accept them, but we can choose our friends since some of them will be with us forever. First, before we were born life didn't ask us what kind of parents we want. God gave us them and we have to accept them no matter what. Our parents can help us in several ways because they love us and want the best for us. On the other hand, we choose our friends and they can be good or bad friends. We choose a friend to stay in contact with a person an build a deep friendship. Most of them will be loyal with us. In contrast, some of them can become fake people that are our friends for their own interests and then hurt us. For these reasons, we have to be glad for our parents and choose adequate friends for ourselves.
The proverb "chance make our parents, but choice make our friends" by Jacques Delille means that we can't choose our parents, we have to accept them, but we can choose our friends since some of them will be with us forever. First, before we were born life didn't ask us what kind of parents we want. God gave us them and we have to accept them no matter what. Our parents can help us in several ways because they love us and want the best for us. On the other hand, we choose our friends and they can be good or bad friends. We choose a friend to stay in contact with a person an build a deep friendship. Most of them will be loyal with us. In contrast, some of them can become fake people that are our friends for their own interests and then hurt us. For these reasons, we have to be glad for our parents and choose adequate friends for ourselves.
COMMON READ
Human Guinea Pigs
The last three weeks my partners and I were participating in different college activities related to the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. One of these was “Human Guinea Pigs” by Beth Lilach, a very interesting activity that caused a big impact on me. The victims were treated very badly and some scientists were involved in it.
First, something that caught my attention was that most of the people used for this research were prisoners, women, babies and twins that were treated without anesthesia. How cruel was that! The victims were frozen to death, burned alive, had live autopsies, organs removed or were connected in the wrong way, and they also injected chemical animal blood to the victims. Those prisoners were “fattened up” for “good results”. For example, one of the investigators was Dr. Ishii, director of the “Japanese experiments at Unit 731” from 1934 to 1945 and responsible of almost 20000 deaths. When he was doing one of his experiments he reported, “I inserted the scalpel directly into the logs neck and opened the chest. At first there was a terrible scream, but the voice soon tells silent” and in his defense Dr. Ishii said “I just received an order”.
Like Dr. Ishii, there were other research workers that conducted their own experiments. Walter Reed was responsible for injecting people with the yellow fever in 1900. If some of them survived at the yellow fever, Walter Reed paid them $100. Dr. Rhoads infected Puerto Ricans with cancer at Rockefeller Institute in 1931. We also learned that in 1966 the U.S. Army and the C.I.A threw toxins and bacteria in the NYC subway system. This information caught the attention of the whole audience because this occurred here in our city and some of the students felt deception about it.
In conclusion, all these experiments caused a big impact not only on me, but on all of humanity too. These were very painful and sad, but very interesting. I enjoy the presentation. This teach me an important phase of the medical history.
The last three weeks my partners and I were participating in different college activities related to the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. One of these was “Human Guinea Pigs” by Beth Lilach, a very interesting activity that caused a big impact on me. The victims were treated very badly and some scientists were involved in it.
First, something that caught my attention was that most of the people used for this research were prisoners, women, babies and twins that were treated without anesthesia. How cruel was that! The victims were frozen to death, burned alive, had live autopsies, organs removed or were connected in the wrong way, and they also injected chemical animal blood to the victims. Those prisoners were “fattened up” for “good results”. For example, one of the investigators was Dr. Ishii, director of the “Japanese experiments at Unit 731” from 1934 to 1945 and responsible of almost 20000 deaths. When he was doing one of his experiments he reported, “I inserted the scalpel directly into the logs neck and opened the chest. At first there was a terrible scream, but the voice soon tells silent” and in his defense Dr. Ishii said “I just received an order”.
Like Dr. Ishii, there were other research workers that conducted their own experiments. Walter Reed was responsible for injecting people with the yellow fever in 1900. If some of them survived at the yellow fever, Walter Reed paid them $100. Dr. Rhoads infected Puerto Ricans with cancer at Rockefeller Institute in 1931. We also learned that in 1966 the U.S. Army and the C.I.A threw toxins and bacteria in the NYC subway system. This information caught the attention of the whole audience because this occurred here in our city and some of the students felt deception about it.
In conclusion, all these experiments caused a big impact not only on me, but on all of humanity too. These were very painful and sad, but very interesting. I enjoy the presentation. This teach me an important phase of the medical history.