Rebecca Skloot

The presentation was pretty cool actually.  I got a kick out of her telling stories about the Lacks family.  It was different to see the writer in person and think back to her story and just imagine her being there and dealing with everything.  It was neat too that she wanted to be a vet tech before a writer and that one class in college changed her mind.  Or rather refined her ambitions.  She could still be involved in science but also use her writing ability to reach others, thats what she said anyway.  It was alittle long but over all not as bad as i thought.  The questions asked by other people attending were some of the same ones i had but was no courageous enough to get up and ask.  I still wonder if the Lacks family will ever get any part of a settlement or money for what theyve been through and the great things that Henrietta gave to us all.

Soul Plane

The movie we watched in class was actually really funny, way better than the movie from last week!  I think maybe because it was a newer movie or maybe because the humor wasn’t so sarcastic. It was just funny.  There were definitely some racial things happening in the movie with the airline being primarily African American. It was named Malcolm X, come on!  The black people in the movie were all gangster with their baggy sweat suits and jeans and the women had their skin tight pants and cleavage hanging out.  The plane was purple and had spinners for gosh sake’s!  The pilot, Snoop Dog, was dressed in what looked like a mechanics shirt and wanted to smoke weed.  The white family did not adjust well to their fellow passengers, at least from as much of the movie as we watched.  The son did get some clothes and a bandana but the dad is just in utter shock with all the ghetto booties surrounding him and the wife to be is petrified.  The daughter just wants to get away from the family and her teenage hormones let her settle in with the dark skinned boy she sits next to on the plane.  I really want to find this movie and watch the whole thing! It just seemed like a simple humorous movie.