When The Alternative is Unthinkable Taking place in The Bronx‚ 1969 comes the film Awakenings‚ based on a true story and directed by Penny Marshall. In this film‚ a doctor with no previous work on an actual human being until receiving a position at the Bainbridge Hospital as a staff physician is assigned to a room full of catatonic patients. It doesn’t take long until he becomes uncomfortable with them in this state and finds a possible chemical cure he is given permission to try on one patient
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Legalize Organ Sales In MacKay’s essay‚ “Organ Sales Will Save Lives‚” she states that legalizing the sale of human organs will save millions of lives. Instead of prohibiting the sale of human organs‚ she believes the government should make it legal and manage the process. Kidney transplantation or dialysis is the only treatments available for people suffering from renal failure (MacKay 157). Dialysis is temporary and it has horrific side effects. Whereas‚ a kidney transplant offers a permanent
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laboratories only to be used as an experiment project. Using animals such as rabbits‚ rats‚ and dogs to test on makeup products and injecting drugs into them seems unreasonable since who are we to decide their fate? One essay I came across in the book is “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna MacKay. This essay is truly inspirational‚ it gives a second side of the perspective besides the normal everyday explanation. MacKay includes in her essay‚ “If the rich are free to engage in dangerous sports for pleasure
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happiness cannot be bought‚ but society says otherwise. “Organ Sales Will Save Lives‚” by Joanna Mackay explains the need for legal sales of organs to assist people requiring money for various reasons. Happiness comes in the form of financial stability or a guaranteed meal every night. To achieve happiness in such forms‚ some people will go to great lengths. Money‚ and the lack of it‚ drives seemingly normal people to commit immoral and unthinkable acts. Shows‚ such as “Fear Factor‚” are prime examples
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Research Topics & Questions for Position Essay Purpose: to persuade Audience: your peers and your instructor Stance: reasonable Genre: position essay Medium: print Abstinence programs: Do they work? Does access to condoms prevent teen pregnancy? Does access to condoms lead to irresponsible‚ dangerous‚ or bad behavior? Should students have access to information and birth control without parents’ consent? Does age of the student matter? Advertising: Should certain kinds of ads be banned
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Human Organs for Sale To some‚ the sale of human organs in the Untied States is a simple economic market comprising of a buyer‚ a seller‚ and a product. But to most‚ the issue is much more ethical and complex. The sale of human organs can never be a purely economical situation because that market includes the current and future health of both buyer and seller. While I believe that there is something wrong about a living person selling their body parts‚ I do not believe that the government has
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Should the sale of human organs be legalized? The sales of organs have always been the forefront of debate topics in America. When someone dies‚ his heirs own his body organs just as they own his other properties. These heirs can sell‚ give away or ignore these organs(Boudreaux‚ 2006). Some say you should be allowed to sell your organs because they are your property while others say you should not be allowed to because of morals. In America you are allowed to be an organ donor‚ which basically means
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While reading the Organ Sales Will Save Lives article by Joanna MacKay the main claim I felt would have to be in the beginning of the first paragraph where she stated that “governments should not ban the sale of human organs; they should regulate it. Lives should not be wasted; they should be saved”. This part basically explains what the problem is that she is trying to get an answer to which is that more people should be saved from consistently dying because of kidney problems and the government
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believed. However‚ instead of letting our healthy organs be eaten by insects and decomposing it we can try to save a person in need. Based on donate life America‚ an organizational team who support and encourage people to sign up to be an organ donor and according to their information and research there are more than 117‚294 people of all ages and gender currently on the wait list for an organ transplant in United states concurrently. “The process of organ donation can save as many as eight lives through
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1.Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation into another. Organs you can donate include: kidneys‚ heart‚ liver‚ pancreas‚ intestines‚ lungs‚ skin‚ bone‚ bone marrow‚ and cornea (the front part of the eye). [source: medlineplus.com] 2.Organ donations usually occur for patients with kidney failure‚ heart disease‚ lung disease‚ and cirrhosis of the liver. For patients who need a kidney or a liver‚ a living donor’s organs can be utilized‚ since we are already
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