Class on the 27th

Class started off today with a reading assignment, it was about non fiction writing that the authors might have exaggerated and or lied about. I disapprove of this, in a non-fiction writing the reader expects the novel, or story to be completely true, hence non-fiction. In my opinion if the author looses a lot of credibility in the story and whatever point the writer made and convinced me of has vanished. I would probably never read any of the writers pieces again.
After the reading assignment we went over part one of Henrietta Lax, and some of the controversy with taking the cells from patients of poverty without notifying them. I do not see a big problem with this, the patients are receiving free service from the doctors. If the patients are not being harmed in any way, it is not that bad. Although if money is being made off of the patients samples, in Henrietta's case then I do see this as being an issue.
Following up after the class discussion on the Henrietta novel, the class was given a writing assignment, a literary narrative. I chose to write about how my mom has influenced me as a writer and improved my writing over the years.