After reading Kathryn's blog, I've realized that there are many connections between The Post-American World, which is the book I read, and the book Kathryn read, which is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skoop goes in depth to talk about how HeLa cells revolutionized the medical world. In The Post-American World, Zakaria went in depth to talk about how the rise of the rest is shaping our modern world and revolutionizing how America diplomatically does things. HeLa cells and the rise of many other nations in our world today have and are revolutionizing the post modern world that we live in today.
Another similarity these two books have in common is the point that ideas are more important than technology. In The Post-American World, Zakaria talked in great lengths of how ideas are what is going to put us ahead of other nations, not necessarily education. Zakaria stressed that as long as America keeps producing creative ideas, then America will be successful. This concept relates to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because the idea of taking HeLa cells and revolutionize them for the medical world is a very creative one. It shows that Zakaria is right about how important creative ideas are, especially after one learns the important impact the HeLa cells have had.
In addition, The Post-American World Zakaria talks about how it's the small things that America does that result in its success, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks talks about how the small research and steps taken in the medical field can lead to huge breakthroughs. Both of these books showed the important of taking small, little, baby steps to achieving successs, and they both stress the importance of how it takes many peoples hard, dedicated work to becoming successful.
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