Topic- Organ Donation Audience Analysis Situational Characteristics: 8-12 minute speech 14 people in the audience Projector ready for use Time of day – 12:40 Audience Demographics: Age: late teens-early twenties (except Professor Bernhardt) One French student One Korean student 7 males 5 african-American females 1 professor Common Ground: Common ground is that no one in the class knows of someone who has needed in organ transplant. Prior Exposure: My audience survey results
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The image by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services asking people to become organ donors sends a powerful message and tells viewers that they can potentially save lives by donating their organs. It accomplishes this by using a serious and somber tone to convey its message as well as using logos and ethos to appeal to the viewer. The tone used to convey the message is a very serious one‚ as made evident by the stern expression on the male modeling for the picture‚ as well as the lack of color
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Become an Organ Donor Many people are probably sceptical of becoming an organ donor because they are too old‚ not in good health‚ they see bad things happen to organ donors on TV shows or in movies‚ or it is against their religion‚ all of these things are myths. Throughout my presentation I will give some statistics of organ donating‚ answer some commonly asked question‚ and share a story of how organ donation has affected my life. At this moment‚ there are more than 123‚175 people in the United States are
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thought about organ donation? Well according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation network‚ as of 5:30 pm on Wednesday there are 110‚912 patients currently on the waiting list‚ and among these are men‚ women and children of all races and ethnic backgrounds‚ and to that number one more person is being added every eleven minutes. Many people on this list will die before they receive a transplant due to lack of organ donors. This does not have to happen. We can help by donating our organs. There
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Ethical issues accompany with an individual’s cultural belief‚ value and religion background which affect one’s perception on organ transplantation. Someone may reject it and think it is against God or natural rule. I remembered that there was a movie about a male got heart transplantation from a female donor. His family‚ friends and even he felt that he had turned into another person because of his personality‚ behaviors and the way of thinking had been changed after the operation. Riether and
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Organ Donation If you could get the chance to see or possibly provide a miracle on a day-to-day basis‚ would you be willing? As a nurse‚ I witness people being given another chance at life via organ donation. Donating organs has not always been an argument until people realized that some of the donors were not actually dead. For instance‚ we have the” Dead Donor Rule” which in simpler terms means the patient must be dead before any removal of organs can done (Sade‚ Brain Dead). Due to this rule
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people are in need of an organ transplant that would ultimately save their lives. (“Living Donation.”) People who live with organ complications or failures As a nation‚ education of organ donation must become more of a priority therefore opening more people to the idea of it. With more people educated on the topic‚ it would significantly decrease the number of death per year. Organ donation and transplantation is the act of removing organs from a person known as the organ donor and placing them into
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donors for organ donations is one of the most controversial debates we have today. The shortage of organ donations in America is the one of the main reason there is a sudden drive to supplement the possible sources of organs. It first began with the move from donations of organs from cadaver to donations from living donors‚ and no the debate is rerisen‚ to the possibility of building a market for organ donations with a financial incentive. There are many ethical principles that support organ donation
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Organ Transplantation According to the article Organ Transplantation‚ “Organ transplantation refers to the process of surgically removing one organ from a human or animal‚ known as the donor‚ and implanting it into a recipient human.” Kidneys‚ livers‚ hearts‚ lungs‚ intestines‚ the pancreas‚ and the skin transplant successfully today. Two types of transplantation surgeries include autografts and allografts. An autograft alludes to a surgery performed on the same person. Allograft surgery pertains
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Summary of Extracts on Organ Donation The following is a summary of information regarding organ donation found in the extracts of articles by Boyle (2006) and Wilkinson (2008). It highlights the critical need for donors‚ the positive impact donation can have on a recipient’s quality of life‚ and the need for clearer guidelines in regards to the process. Organ donation is a highly emotive subject that polarises opinion. For every person who makes the decision to donate their organs to save another
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