one…your grandparent‚ parent‚ spouse or significant other‚ even your own child‚ dying because one of their vital organs has quit working. Maybe because of a disease or an accident‚ maybe for a reason that cannot be explained‚ without any warning. The only chance of this person surviving is through an organ transplant‚ but there aren’t any available. By a show of hands‚ how many of you are organ donors? I. There are 11 body parts that can be successfully transplanted : A. Heart‚ heart
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Julianna Triano Block 4 November 19‚ 2010 Blood Donation Imagine a happy healthy teen. He does well in school and is easy to get along with. Imagine he is diagnosed with leukemia and requires daily platelet and blood transfusions just to stay alive. Now‚ imagine he has a rare blood type that requires him to be moved to a larger hospital for treatment. This is just another thing for him and his family to worry about. Similar stories happen every day in the United States. It is estimated that
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Austin Foos Argumentative/Persuasion Essay Mayer Brit. Lit. 4/25/10 “There is a question that emerges in every student mind at some point in his or her college career‚ that question is ‘go to class‚ or lose points?’” There are college and university professors that are either starting to or have been making the class attendance mandatory for the benefit of the students and himself or herself. This decision has materialized because of the increasing number of drop-outs and failing students
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Informational Speech Outline Topic: Blood Donation Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about donating blood. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter – Do you know how you can save someone’s life? You don’t have to be a superhero with special powers. All you need is yourself and the nearest blood bank. Topic - Today I’m going to talk to you guys about donating blood. Ethos & Audience Adaptation – The reason I chose this topic is because I am a blood donator. I go in about
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BLOOD DONATION CAMP The Blood Donation Camp was hosted by St. John’s Medical Hospital on 18th December‚ 2012. 5 Doctors and 15 nurses had come to college and set up their hospital requirements in the Auditorium. The donation camp began at 10.30 am when various students had come forward to donate blood. Unfortunately for some‚ due to reasons like low blood count‚ blood pressure‚ recovery from various diseases‚ etc. they could not do so. Candidates who were not able to donate blood surely went disappointed
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giving blood to use for them self if needed during a future surgery. All others are anonymous donors who donate blood for others to use when it is needed. I will discuss the reasons why a person could not donate blood as an anonymous donor in this essay. Some things such as age and weight have minimum limits but not maximum limits. A person must be at least 17 years old in most states to donate their blood; this is because a person is generally considered an adult at the age of 17 and does not
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Ethics of Organ Transplantation Center for Bioethics February 2004 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS MEDICAL ISSUES What is organ transplantation? ……………………………………...Page 5 The transplant process ………….………………………...…………. Page 6 Distributing cadaveric organs ………………………………………..Page 7 A history of organ transplantation …………………….…………….Page 9 Timeline of medical and legal advances in organ transplantation…Page 10 ETHICAL ISSUES Ethical Issues Part I: The Organ Shortage……..………...………… Page 13 Distribution
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unhealthy foods‚ genetics‚ or they aren’t acquiring enough exercise. Many youth in this day and age care more about spending time on the computer or watching television than going outside and getting exercise. This is where the government and school board should step in and encourage teens to take physical education throughout their high school career. According to the WHO‚ about 18 million children aged 0-5 are overweight worldwide (Kita‚ Joe). If these children continue to live on their lives without
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personal matter than is no one’s business except for those involved. These are serious crimes because they deny victims of their rights as guaranteed by the US constitution. I can see where mandatory arrests are a good idea‚ but they prevent the victim from choosing what they want to happen to their abuser. Mandatory arrests are also a nice place to start‚ but there needs to be some way to guarantee that these abusers aren’t given an easy out. Perhaps‚ there could be a way for these domestic violence
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I.S 292 811 Mohammed Shoaib 3/1/2015 Prioritizing Organ Transplant Currently‚ in our world there are many people that need medical attention‚ while many of them are in critical condition there are many individuals that are supposed to be prioritized. They can be prioritized unlike many other people who may need it more than the person that is getting prioritized. Organ transplants is one of the many cases in which people become prioritized and this can result in children needing it more than
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