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    Have you ever had a Family member that has been impacted or hurt in war? I am lucky enough to not have one but there are many people who do. If you have a family member that is mentally hurt or physically hurt wouldn't you want to get them help? The wounded warrior project helps out warriors who have been injured in war and helps them recover from everything that has happened to them. I would want to join this organization more than any other one. I want to help out people who have risked their lives

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    “You don’t know how important donating blood is until you’re sick.” That’s what Alyssa Gomez tells people and she knows it’s true. In the fall of 2004, Alyssa was diagnosed with leukemia and her treatment requires that she receive both whole blood and platelets. Donating blood only takes moments of someone’s time, so everyone capable should make time to donate because it saves lives, gives back to the community, and it even can help one’s self. A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous

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    I have always had a keen interest in helping others. For as long as I can remember, I have been donating my gently used clothes to underserved children in Sierra Leone. My grandmother, who immigrated to the United States over forty years ago in pursuit of a better life, never forgot where she came from and pledged to help less fortunate Sierra Leoneans. As I got older, I felt a need to join her in this wonderful mission and started collecting new and used clothing and shipping them in plastic drum

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    If I had $51,000 If I had $51,000, I would save the money for college and give some of the money for charities. The first thing I would do with the money is give $13,000 to charity. A good quote from “If I Could-Poem about Giving” by Maurice Yvonne that got me thinking about giving money to charity is when the poem says “wipe away the tears from the hungry, the abused, the sickly, children, and elderly.” The Reason why this quote makes me want to give some of my money to charity is that I feel sad

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    society as the average life expectancy in the United States has increased from 68 years in 1950 to 79 years in 2017. One of these revolutions in medicine is the process of organ donation. But unlike the majority of these medical innovations, organ donation has become a controversial topic amongst our society. Although organ donation is not a perfect process and may not follow all religious beliefs, it should be supported because it allows for medical advancements to occur throughout the world, follows

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    Organ Donation In Canada

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    affiliations and embraces all cultures (“Chapter 7: Organ Donation » The Canadian Bioethics Companion,” n.d.). Given the pluralistic nature of the country, it is important to acknowledge that immigrants are likely to preserve their religious concerns abroad (Lam & McCullough, 2000). In doing so, religion is often cited as a barrier to organ donation (Gallup, 1993). Those that cite religion as a reason to withhold consent to organ donation list various obstacles that influence their final decision

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    in hopes of receiving a new organ” (Gonzalez). Every number in these statistics represents a someone important to you, someone important to someone else or maybe even yourself. Each number is life. “… the number of patients waiting for organ donation far exceeds the number of potential and available donors” (Berntzen). The first organ transplant was a kidney in 1954 and was between identical twins. As of May 2009, the percent of recipients still living after 5 years of receiving their new organs

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    Peter Singer’s work, “Solution to World Poverty”, goes on to the subject of overseas aid of poor people. Peter presents two examples of times when people are in situations like normal people are in everyday. In the work you obtain the sense that Peter feels strongly that you should donate a great amount of your earnings to the poor. He provides the reader with two examples of people that he thinks people will use to relate. In his first example he gives the reader an extreme and tells the reader

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    Three people during a dangerous hurricane try to stay alive, and one person walks to the bathroom. While he is walking to the bathroom a window breaks and a piece of glass cuts him in the neck. They can not call the ambulance because of the hurricane. He later dies in her own home from blood loss. (bleeding to death)I wanted to research on this natural disasters because I want to help make the world safe and its life in the world. I care about the destruction of these natural disasters. There can

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    Organ Donation Essay

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    Organ Donation The United States government website organdonor.gov gives information on the organ donation and transplantation. According to the website, there is an increase in demand than supply of organs for donation. Organs donated include kidney, liver, heart, pancreases, bone marrow, bones, and skins. Typically, most donations occur after the death of a person. However, a living donor can donate organs such as the kidney, part of lungs, fraction of intestines or component of the liver. As per

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