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    5th Muscular Organ

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    going to learn about the 5th biggest organ in our bodies, which is the heart if you were wondering! The heart is an important organ that keeps our bodies running well and without it, you wouldn’t be able to live (at all). It is a muscular organ which exists in most animals’ bodies and helps their blood circulate around the body. This muscular organ is part of the circulatory system and has many bodily functions and interesting facts and details like how the organ works. To begin, there are many

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    Donation of Human Organs Image something tragic has happened to one of your family members. Sounds crazy right! Well what if they need a kidney, liver, or even a heart. What if they could not afford to get a transplant? What if you or someone else could donate it for them? As of June 21, 2013 there are 118,617 people waiting on life-saving organ transplant. Organ donation is a noble act, and anyone can do it. Most people that donate are the ones that do it after death. The reason for this is

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    Organ Donation

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    Importance of Organ Donation Each day approximately 6,300 people die and what makes this haunting is that presently there are 83,513 people waiting for organs to be donated, yet each day 17 people die because they do not receive a transplant (http://www.donatelife.net/facts_stats.html). These statistics show that people who are waiting for organ transplants have a good chance at being saved and get what they need. The sad truth is though, because of the lack of people willing to donate organs, many people

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    Organ Wanted Essay By: AryaShah Our human body is a very complicated system. It consists of a number of organsand systems that work in coordination with each other continuously and tirelessly without us even realising it. One of the most sensitive organs in our body, which is the organ that I have chosen to research on for this summative, the human skin. Even though the skin is only afew millimeters thick, it is the largest organ in the body. It consists of three layers: the epidermis, the dermis

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    should become organ donors. Choosing to become an organ donor provides the opportunity to save up to eight lives and improve the quality of life for many others with tissue donation. An organ donor can also provide comfort to the grieving family: the loss of the loved one will be helping others to live. Becoming an organ donor is much easier than many think. The decision can literally be done in just minutes. Web MD states, an organ transplant is the surgical removal of a healthy organ from one person

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    Organ Donation

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    In today’s world of modern medicine, organ transplants are behind numerous lives being saved every day. Nevertheless, the demand of organs donations is growing far more than there are organs available for donation. The ability to buy and sell organs is illegal across the globe, and with this the creation of the black market has emerged. The black market is where people who are rich enough to buy organs go in search for people in underdeveloped countries with laws that aren’t enforced as strictly

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    INTRODUCTION Organ donation is one of the most pressing health policy issues for our government to deal with and organ donation rates in England must increase in order to meet the demand for organs on waiting lists. Furthermore, the demand for surgical procedures such as organ transplantation has rapidly increased after scientific breakthroughs in transplant technologies as well as the advent of new medicines to reduce many problems associated with transplants, thereby increasing the life expectancy

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    Organ Trafficking

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    Organ Trafficking Organ trafficking is one of the great issues that is faced by the society today. It is a practice of stealing people’s organ through surgery under the influence of drugs or from a dead person, and the organs are normally sold in black market such as China. South Africa, and Russia. WHO has estimated that one-fifth of the 70,000 kidneys that are transplanted every year come from the black market through a widespread organ-trafficking networks. In my opinion, organ trafficking has

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    Organ Donation

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    Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate. Thesis Statement: The need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention material/Credibility Material: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you couldn’t live without? Well, my cousin was five years old when

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    Organ Sales

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    probably have never given a lot of thought about organ donation, aside from checking ‘yes’ box for DMV. A far amount of people believe that once a person is dead, that using what is left of the body so another can benefit from the donation or, perhaps, even save another human being’s life. However, what about selling a kidney not donating one? The essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” written by Joanna McKay, delves a lot deeper into the hot topic of human organ sales and the need to change the laws. She

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