Immortal Research Papers Samples For Students

The Epic of Gilgamesh is usually an epic poem from Mesopotamia written within 2000 BCE. This poetry is one of the ancient literature works in the history of human. According to the scholars, epic of Gilgamesh originated from Sumerian poetry collected in the Akkadian epic in 18th century BCE. The poems were translated by George Smith and then first published in 1870. George Smith was a British Assyriology. Epic of Gilgamesh consists of eleven sections or tablets which are made up the main body. Later, a 12th tablet was added but it is not that recognized although it is not sequential.
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Summary: Henrietta Lacks, known by scientists as Hela was a poor southern tobacco farmer. The cells from this farmer were taken without her knowledge and became the most essential tool in medicine. These were the first ‘immortal’ cells known in mankind and are still alive today though Henrietta has been dead for more than 60 years. These cells have been very important in developing vaccine for polio and have also led to fertilization, cloning and gene mapping which have been bought and sold by billions. All this happens while Henrietta is buried in an unmarked grave her family did not ...

On the last days of Socrates, he faces death with courage as he understands the meaning of life and his transition to the other life.
In the last days of Socrates, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo give an account of his trial and death. They all give an account of events as they had happened with the help of dialogues by Socrates (Tredennick and Tarrant 12). To show the meaning of Socrates’ departure, various scholars have analyzed these encounters. Philosophers use the last days of Socrates to teach their students the art of a master and a student. They present ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
‘The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks’ written by Rebecca Skloot is a heartwarming story of an African American woman, whose cells have contributed immensely to medical science. Henrietta was suffering from cervical cancer and while undergoing treatment for this ailment, some cells from her body were extracted and used for medical experiments. These cells were named ‘HeLa’ cells and they went on to become the source of many important discoveries in the medical field. Many pharmaceutical companies reaped millions of profit from the researches based on these cells, and there are over seventeen ...

Compare and Contrast Christian Science in relation to Scientology

Introduction
Christian Science and Scientology have had conflicting beliefs, prompting believers in each group to accuse the other of being a cult. The two groups have different beliefs and principles concerning salvation. Comparisons can be carried out to establish the similarities and differences between scientology and Christian Science.

According to Christian Scientists, salvation is an attainment of something spiritual. Salvation involves truth, life, love and it prevails over death, sickness ad sin. When salvation is attained in one’s life, they demonstrate truth, love, salvation and life. Their conscience is also freed from earthly things like sin, death and ...

The contribution of African Americans in the medical industry dates back to a very recent past. This was greatly contributed by the fact that most slaves from Africa did not have a chance to receive formal education and the laws that were set aside contributed to their low literacy levels. Their limited education shut their efforts down and the jobs they were supposed to engage in were limited by their low education. This is why they did not contribute much to the society of medicine in the past.
Even with the lesser chances to having a formal education, they never lost ...

Introduction

This essay seeks to analyze the subject of death in two epical stories. It is based on the critical analysis of the epic of Gilgamesh and the book of Genesis in the Bible with regards to the issue of death. The theme of death in both Genesis and Gilgamesh takes the form of the protagonists' realization of their own mortality, which is attributed to disobedience in both narratives. Gilgamesh falls asleep although instructed to remain awake. This is similar to the case of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit. Having witnessed both Enkindu and his flower dying, Gilgamesh ...

Introduction

Plato brought together the major schools of wisdom known at his time into one cognizant philosophy that endures to this day as one of the cornerstones of Western Philosophy. The physical Academy he founded was so renowned in his time and in the years to follow; it remained intact for almost a century through political changes, wars and turmoil. One of the reasons for this is that he sought truth and wisdom. While other philosophies dealt with individual problems Plato looked to the whole of understanding, acknowledged other viewpoints and incorporated them into his own philosophy if they were valid.

Plato's Life

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After analyzing the monuments of art, handed down to us from a distant era of the ancient Egyptian civilization, we can definitely identify the two main themes in the art of Egypt in the period around the IV millennium BC to 332 BCE. This is the theme of power and the theme of death. The power of the Pharaoh over the borders of Egypt, the Egyptian state supremacy over the neighboring tribes and kingdoms became firmly established. The question was how to combine it with the death, which is the worst thing that awaits man? It is not possible ...

The most appealing approach to the nature of the mind with regards to my perception is dualism because dualism encompasses the existence of both physical and mental realm in the attempt to explain the relationship between the body and the mind. Dualism normally connotes that state of two segments. With respect to the philosophy of mind, the idea of dualism in brought out such that in a given domain, there must be two essential categories of principles or things. The body and the mind in some sense are perceived to be profoundly different kinds of things. Dualism takes the ...

Rebecca Skloot is the lady who wrote about Henrietta Lacks in her famous expose called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In the book, Skloot reveals about the unethical manner in which doctors at the John Hopkins hospital profiteered from cells of one its patients without her consent and that of her family. Further to that, some of the media houses were running family pictures without consulting the family.
Rebecca Skloot’s book unearthed the lack of professionalism in the way in which the researchers handed Henrietta Lacks cells, and earned the author much fame. However, one question ...

According to Lopez (2010) Christians believe in life after death. The holy, those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior and have repented of their sins, will go to live in happiness with God, Jesus, the angels, and the fathers of Christianity. They will be delivered of all suffering and live in harmony with all other creatures such as wild animals. Their body will be transformed. There is also a hell for those who will not have accepted salvation. They will be subjected to eternal fire, suffering from no end.
According to Bainton (2000) Catholics believe in purgatory, a ...

The possibility of an afterlife

- Brief summary of the topic
The fundamental question in the discussion of the afterlife is what that life will look like. When a person dies, the body becomes incapable of movement, though the body does not just disintegrate. In the Book of Psalms, chapter 104, verse 29, it is stated that it is God who gives life, and is also the one who takes that life away. Burying the remains of the person generally is done when the body is placed into a cave or pit, where the remains of the person will join the remains of the other ...

Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon

The squabble between Achilles and king Agamemnon is of great significance as it marked the beginning of a new chapter in the Trojan War. Prior to the argument, the Greeks and the Trojans had been in war for around ten years (Pope, 7). After the argument, the war lasted less than a year. This argument precipitated events that played a major role in the changing the focus and reason for the war. Its significance is attested by the fact that even though the true cause of the greater war is not clearly highlighted by Homer, but the poet attributes the end of ...

According to Conover, Skloot, in her book, addresses the gigantic issues of medical experiments as to “who owns our bodies, the use and misuse of medical authority, the unhealed wounds of slavery” (qtd in Skloot 2). Skloot addresses story in the history of the United State’s medical field whose past is clouded by a dark history of human medical experimentations. The dark history in western medicine shows a record of horrifying events of medical experiment carried out on patients. Unfortunately, many of such experiments have been performed on children, impoverished people, and other marginalized vulnerable groups. As if that is ...

The Hero-Warrior Ideal in Western Literature

Stories of the hero-warrior in literature trace the progress of Western civilization and the inexorable influence of Christianity. The heroic ideal is one in which the accomplishments and legacies of great warriors have been passed on in stories originating in ancient populations, who adopted the virtues of the hero as their own. In this way, the moral and physical worthiness of a tribe or nation could be traced to the exploits of a mighty forbear. The Romans, for example, exhibited this phenomenon in their claims to have preserved and carried on the martial greatness of Troy. Heroic qualities of courage and ...

Telomerase also known as telomere terminal transferase is a type enzyme in all vertebrates that extends Die ribonucleic acid sequence by repeating TTAGGG to the Die ribonucleic acid terminal strands in the region known as the telomere. It is found in adult germ cells, fetal tissues, and tumor cells. Telomere is the region of repeated nucleotide, which is made up of non-coding Die ribonucleic acid material. The region prevents loss of vital Die ribonucleic acid from chromosome terminals. This results to only a hundred to two hundred nucleotides being lost each interval the chromosome is duplicates, thus no damage is caused ...