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If I could create my own holiday

       
        HeLa Day
         Recently, I have been watching news online. Last week, I found an really interesting topic which let people to created their own holiday. Some of them want t create a Sleeping Day, while others want to create a Fasting Day. For me, I would like to create a HeLa Day.
         I recently just finished reading the bool called "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". While most of the cancer cells died soon after being exposed to laboratory conditions and small numbers of surviving cells not reproduce, HeLa cells which were taken by an African American woman called Henrietta Lacks, can reproduce infinitively. Scientists estimated that for nearly 60 years, they could weigh 50 million tons if all of the HeLa cells that been used piled up, they could circle the earth at least three times.
        I think the HeLa holiday should be celebrated, not only because I want to let the entire world to have the awareness of the huge amount of successful result the HeLa cells brought to us, also, I want to let people to think about the racism problem that Henrietta Lack' innocent family underwent. Because of the color of her skin, she didn't even want to go to the hospital till she could not bear the agony the tumor brought her. The most ridiculous thing is that the cancer cell line which was taken from Henrietta Lacks have been duplicated, sold, packed and transferred to a amount of laboratories throughout the world and even to the space, This provides the huge improvement of the science and also turns out huge amount of money. However, Henrietta Lacks' family didn't even have a penny of them and they knew about the existence of the HeLa cell only 20 years after the death of Henrietta Lacks.
        The way I would like to celebrate this festival is to let all of the people who have been doing researched on HeLa cells and people who procure benefits from HeLa cells to spread this story to more and more people.

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  1. mRs. BeRZinSkASFebruary 23, 2018 at 1:00 PM

    What a great and thoughtful idea. I didn't read the book, but I saw the movie. What an incredible, yet sad, story. I admire your kind heart!

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