Ramyl Lopez Student # 10 Heroes Irina Sendler February 15, 1910 is the date Irena Sendler was born. This woman born in Poland is remembered as one of the biggest real life hero. She was raised in a town of Poland named Otwock. In 1931 Irena married a men called Mieczyslaw Sendler, and they moved together to the city of Warsaw. A few years later when the Nazis invaded Poland, at the age of 29, she found a way to acquire a pass that allow her to access the Warsaw Ghetto. Warsaw Ghetto was one of the places the Nazis used to imprison more than 400,000 Jews. Irena visited the ghetto every day, risking her life to help the Jews with clots, medicine and food. 5000 people died every month because of diseases and the limited amount of food. To face this situation Irena decided that she was going to help the children abscond. This real life hero with the help of colleagues and friends succeed to rescue more than 2500 children from this ghastly ghetto. Irina Sendler’s life is just astonishing, the fact that she risked her life and status to save those children …show more content…
shows her humanity and benignity. Not many people would risk all to help others, I found her life to be interesting and inspiring. She teaches the people to do what you consider real yourself under your own judgement, and don’t let others influence and use you to harm other people. Irina Sendler can only be described as a hero, and her audacity and benevolence will be recalled and applauded in the present and the future. Alan Turing Born June 23, 1972 in London as the son of a civil servant, Alan was instructed in one of the best private schools. He went to Cambridge in 1931 to study mathematics. He was really passionate about his study field, and he even make amazing contributions. In fact, he is considered the father of modern computing. In March 1952 he was punished for homosexuality (a crime in England in that time), and forced to hormone therapy for 12 months. Alan expended some years working in artificial life, he even published one book in 1952 about his research. Turing succeed to model a chemical mechanism to work in the generation of anatomical structure in plants and animals. He was found dead by poison in 1954, and people attribute his death to the hormone treatment he received for being homosexual, but his dead was treated as a suicide. Alan Turing was a prominent scientist persecuted and presumably killed for being gay. Alan Touring life was interesting. This man was amazing in the mathematical and robotic field. It is amazing that he could make that many advances in his career with the low advances on artificial life and the emerging science of computer. The fact that one of the biggest minds in robotics was persecuted and probably killed for being gay shows us the injustices and crimes were committed in the past for intolerance or just for have different ideas. Martin Delany Martin Delany was an African American physician, abolitionist and editor. He was born May 6 in 1812 in Virginia in a place named Charles Town. As a kid, his family moved to Pennsylvania looking for equality. At the age of 19 he became involved in a variety of racial improvement groups. He became an assistant of a doctor and assistant in dental care in 1839. He was one of the first black man to be accepted to Harvard Medical School in 1949, after being working for 3 years in a weekly newspaper. He conducted a trip to Nigeria to negotiate land for African American emigrants in 1950s. he meet with president Lincoln in 1865 to defend African American’s rights asking to allow them to be officers. In 1875 he ran lieutenant governor in South Carolina but he loosed. Delany died January 24 in 1885 of tuberculosis in Ohio. Martin Delany was a real life hero because thanks to the work of man like him America is the country we know today. He dedicated his life to fight for the right of him, and his people with an incredible dedication and passion. He certainly was a man with a strong character that knew what he wanted because he knew he wanted freedom for his people and he was even willing to move from the US to Nigeria to find that freedom. It is inspiring to know that there are people like Delany that could change the standards of a society for good with their own work and dedication, and for that reason they are still remembered hundreds of years after their deaths. Jonas Salk Born October 28 in 1914 in New York City.
Salk is known as one of the most prominent scientist of the twentieth century and one of the most noble people the world has ever seen. He was raised in the poor part of New York. Education was a priority for his family and they teach him to apply himself to his studies. In 1942 Salk assisted to the University of Michigan with the purpose of developing a cure to one of the ghastliest diseases of his time, polio. In 1951 was discovered that there were 3 different types of polio and this discovery pushed Salk’s research ahead. The testing for the polio vaccine began in 1952 on volunteers that had the disease. By 1955 the vaccine was licensed by the U.S government and helped many infected people. Salk died June 23, 1995 of a hearth failure. Jonas Salk had the opportunity to patent the vaccine and make a significant amount of money but he decided to leave it open to the
people. Jonas Salk was a genuine hero and one of the most genuine kind persons I have ever read about. It would have been really hard for anyone to reject all the money he could have earned by patenting his work on the polio vaccine for people’s wellness. This man give humanity a lesson of kindness and goodness and became an undisputed hero for all the families he helped and mostly anyone who knows about his actions. By deciding to free the vaccine he saved thousands of lives and pass to the story as a hero. Norman Borlaug The father of the green revolution, Norman Borlaug was born march 25, of 1914 in Iowa. Borlaug assisted to the University of Minnesota to study plant biology and forestry, and in 1942 he earned a Ph.D. in plant pathology. In 1942 he worked for the DuPont Company, and he was rapidly recruited by Rockefeller Foundation a research scientist leading the wheat improvement. His goal was to improve the wheat production in Mexico, and he was spectacularly successful. In the 1950s food shortage was a serious problem in countries like Pakistan, Mexico and India. this could have led to wars and catastrophes, but Dr. Borlaug found ways to increase food production in the places they needed it. He developed varieties of wheat that where resistant to diseases, needed less water or could survive to less fertile soils. Norman Borlaug is probably one of the biggest heroes of our society, he saved billions of lives by finding a way to feed them and for his contribution he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1970. It is incredible to read an article and discover that there is so many amazing people that contribute to make our world better. Norman Borlaug was one of those heroes, he found a way to feed billions of people saving the world from ghastly catastrophes that could have happened. What surprises me the most is that most of the people don’t even know most of those heroes, and I wonder how many more people have done heroic things for humanity that I have never heard of. JOHN R. FOX John R. Fox was born in Ohio on May 18 of 1915. He attended an African American college, Wilberforce University. In that same college he meets his future wife while he was studying science and biology. Fox joined the U.S. Army at the age of 26. O February 1941 he graduated at Fort Benning from Infantry School. Fox was part of a volunteer group in charge of stay behind in a small village in Italy. American forces where pushed out of the village by the enemy. Fox directed a defensive artillery attack from the second floor of a house. The volunteer group was being strongly attacked, Fox set the artillery attack extremely close to their own position. He changes the direction of the attack even closer to them, Fox was told he wouldn’t survive the attack and he replied “Fire It”. Fox was killed in action December 26, 1944, his actions delayed the enemy and allow the U.S army to developed a counterattack and recuperate the control of the village. John R. Fox was an incredibly brave solider that showed his love and devotion for this country along with his enormous courage by sacrificing himself to defeat the enemy. It takes a lot of bravery to sacrifice your life even when you want to do it. Fox was brave enough as to take that decision, thanks to him the army was able to regain control of the village and produce a successful attack on the enemy. John R. Fox must be remembered as a hero because that is exactly what he was, he did one of the most heroic actions a person could do.
To begin with, on April 20, 1926 in Raesa, Romania Anna Seelfreud was born. In Anna small town of Raesa lived about 1,000 people and 50 Jewish families. Jews were known to be respected people in the town. Anna grew up
Gerda Weissmann Klein is a Holocaust survivor that was born in Bielsko, Holand. She went through the misery of knowing what pain and suffering is. When she was 15, the Germans took over Bielsko and that is when everything started happening. On April nineteenth of 1942, the Jews were asked to move to the ghetto. Then they were forced to work in work camps and Gerda and her parents got separated. Later she went to a concentration camp, a 5 month death march. Stating of what this teenager (now woman) went through, Gerda was very qualified to write this book, knowing what actually happened inside the camps.
Irene Csillag was a survivor at Auschwitz camp born in 1925 in Satu Mare which was in Romania. She had a mother, father, and one sister named Olga which survived with her too. When her father passed, she had to help out with the family. She became a dressmaker. She knew how to speak German because her father knew how to speak it well.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrific event to ever happen in history. A young boy named Elie Wiesel and a young woman named Gerda Weismann were both very lucky survivors of this terrible event who both, survived to tell their dreadful experiences. Elie and Gerda both handled the Holocaust in many similar and different ways.
At first polio was a troubling prospect when it first reared its ugly head in the United States of America. In a noble effort to be rid of polio, America as a whole was to adopt stringent sanitation measures. Everywhere, especially the home was to be spotless and clean in order to try and prevent the contraction of polio. This coupled with the view that America as a western nation seemed impervious to such a lowly disease tried to assuage American fear of the disease. Despite the measures commonly adopted throughout the myriad of cities and towns, polio still managed to spread around the country and wreak havoc taking thousands of lives. An outbreak that ravaged America claimed nearly 27,000 lives in a terrible reckoning before it finally subsided. This and several other troubling outbreaks
•Although she may not be one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, she was one of the most important. She led about 2,500 children to safety from the horrible Ghetto's conditions. She was never forced to do any of the things she did, yet she still risked her life and almost lost it doing something so important to her.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
Polio: An American Story describes a struggle to find a vaccine on polio through several researchers’ lives, and over the course of many years. The second thesis is the struggle between Salk and Sabin, two bitter rivals who had their own vaccine that they believed would cure polio. The author David M. Oshinsky, is describing how difficult it was to find the cure to a horrifying disease, which lasted from the Great Depression until the 1960’s. Oshinsky then writes about how foundations formed as fundraisers, to support polio research. Lastly, the author demonstrates how researchers were forced to back track on multiple occasions, to learn more about polio.
Irene Fogel Weiss was born in Czechoslovakia (present-day Ukraine) in the year 1930. During Irene’s childhood, the Hungarians were allied with the Nazis and the town she lived in had just become a part of Hungary. Her father’s business was confiscated, Irene could no longer attend school, and her family was deported to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Leah, Irene’s mother, was gassed along with Irene’s smaller siblings. Irene will be returning to Auschwitz for the third and last time.
The death rate was on the decline and life expectancy rose during this period. New medical developments were made with the federal funding of medical research in which penicillin and streptomycin were developed. These advancements in medicine have cured many bacterial infections and severe illnesses. Later, in 1952, Jonas Salk introduced a polio vaccine. There was a vast migratory pattern among many Americans during this time period.
Salk’s research led him to create a vaccine different from any other by using 3 different kind of killed polio virus. In an article it says,”Using formaldehyde, Salk killed the poliovirus, but kept it intact enough to trigger the necessary immune response”(Salk’s institute 1). Salk 's decision to create a vaccine out of inactivated virus was not the strongest protector, but was made strong enough to cure and lower the risk of infection within patients. It was one of the first times someone attempted to take a completely opposite approach than what scientist thought was best. As he said in an interview, “ ‘The principle I was trying to establish was that it was not necessary to run the risk of infection, which would have been the case if one were to try to develop an attenuated or weekend polio virus vaccine’ ”( Salk 2). By taking the risk of creating a vaccine that contradicted what a normal vaccine, was it helped give the United States another weapon to fight back polio without exposing americans to the risk of contracting the disease. His different approach to find a remedy may have been looked down on, but it provided the first protection ever for polio which created hope and has contributed to less fatalities today. Scientists in the medical world began to criticize Salk’s vaccine and gave preference to a polio vaccine that was later created by Sabin out of a live polio virus. Medical professionals saw Salk’s vaccine as useless and thought Sabin’ s vaccine was the best alternative. "the oral polio vaccine also came under attack in the united states for causing eight in ten cases of polio every year”( poliomyelitis 4). Sabin’s vaccine may have been stronger but at least Salk’s never provided a risk of the patients being injected run a risk of being infected again. Salk’s vaccine has provided less risk of a patient to relapse into polio again.
Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases for centuries, and have saved countless lives of children and adults. The smallpox vaccine was invented as early as 1796, and since then the use of vaccines has continued to protect us from countless life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) assures that vaccines are extensively tested by scientist to make sure they are effective and safe, and must receive the approval of the Food and Drug Administration before being used. “Perhaps the greatest success story in public health is the reduction of infectious diseases due to the use of vaccines” (CDC, 2010). Routine immunization has eliminated smallpox from the globe and led to the near removal of wild polio virus. Vaccines have reduced some preventable infectious diseases to an all-time low, and now few people experience the devastating effects of measles, pertussis, and other illnesses.
Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929 was a teenage writer, who wrote everything about her experience during the Holocaust in her diary. She was from Frankfurt, but sudden moved to Amsterdam in February 1934 after Nazi’s seize of power, and their intentions for the Jews. Anne and her family was hidden in the Secret Annex, which was located behind a attic above a family owned business. The heroes that helped the Frank family was Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, and Miep Gies. They would risk their own lives helping the Franks. They finally got caught 2 years later in August 4, 1944 when an anonymous caller gave a tip to the Gestapo (German Secret State Police). Anne and her family was sent to concentration camps, which sadly herself, sister and mother died. Luckily her father Otto Frank survived and published her diary to share her
Dawson, Liza. "The Salk Polio Vaccine Trial of 1954: Risks, Randomization and Public Involvement in
Jonas Salk M.D. developed the polio vaccine. Salk's vaccine was composed of a "killed" polio virus. This virus kept the ability to immunize while preventing the infection of the patient. Later a "live" vaccine was developed from the live polio virus. This "live" vaccine could be administered orally as opposed to the "killed" vaccine which required an injection. There was some evidence that the "killed" vaccine didn't completely eliminate the virus in the patient. United States public health authorities decided to distribute the oral "live" vaccine to eliminate the polio virus instead of Salk's "killed" vaccine. Unfortunately, the "live" vaccine infected some people instead of immunizing. Countries that used Salk's "killed" vaccine have nearly eradicated the virus.