Essays Tagged: "Blood donation"

The Safety of Blood

get trapped between the car and her battered bicycle. A main artery in her leg has been severed and blood fills the gutter of the street. As she gets rushed to the hospital in the ambulance, a pint of ... some of the life giving fluid that is pouring out of her leg. In the end she received four pints of blood and made a full recovery.Although everything turned out all right for the girl, things could h ...

(6 pages) 77 1 3.7 Sep/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Blood Donations: To Give or Not to Give.

BJ EthridgeSeptember 23, 2002Summary Report EssayTo Give or Not To GiveWhat is blood? Blood is a life force within our bodies that can also travel outside the body from one indivi ... life force within our bodies that can also travel outside the body from one individual to another. Blood is the one of the few things people can give to others at no expense to themselves. It is the ... ense to themselves. It is the special gift that someone needs. It is the gift of life. The need for blood never ends. The demand is continuous, and there is no substitute for human blood. Our nation's ...

(4 pages) 89 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Expository Writing (Tell about the greatest gift you have ever received-fictitious/humor)

atement applies in a very literal manner. The greatest gift of my life was receiving three pints of blood from an emergency volunteer donor. This event took place shortly after receiving life-threaten ... to the torso one afternoon in Compton, California. It was at a nearby hospital where I received my blood transplant which saved my life. This is truly the best gift I have ever received, and I am so ...

(3 pages) 40 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Simulating safe and unsafe blood tranfusions

Simulating Safe and Unsafe Blood TransfusionsHypothesis-My hypothesis is that blood type O cannot combine with any other blood ... cause it is represented by the color white and my guess is that if you combine white with any other blood type (color) it won't change its color. If O is mixed with yellow, blood type A, it won't chan ... its color. If O is mixed with yellow, blood type A, it won't change in color. If O mixes with blue, blood type B, it won't change color. And if O is combined with blue and yellow (green) it won't chan ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Giving Blood

. Emergency operations are conducted on Christy attempting to revive her. Christy needs 48 pints of blood, an amount equivalent to 4 times the amount her body usually holds. Christy survives her inter ... reak occurrence that no one is safe from. Fortunately, this story ended happily due to her multiple blood transfusions. However, not all stories, such as these, share the same fate. It was fortunate t ...

(4 pages) 13 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

This Great Nation

hink for a minute or Two. Then I would reply, "The top four things to me are probably going to be a blood drive, support, responsibility and sad to say but most importantly money." I choose thos ... forces behind a "Nation in Crisis." One of the most important things is the organization of a blood drive. First of all, who can live without blood flowing through their veins. The average grown ...

(1 pages) 827 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The AIDS Epidemic

AIDS is a serious fatal disease of the immune system that is transmitted through sexual contact, blood products, or contaminated needles. Ever since aids has been first recognized in June, 5, 1981 ... es and learn how to have safer sexual relationships.Also more needle exchanges should take place in blood donation organizations. More media and ad campaigns should encourage proper protection and int ...

(2 pages) 1320 0 3.4 Mar/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Blood Drive Report

Maniez � PAGE �10� David ManiezMr. Allen2ND Hour18 November 2007Blood Drive: Fall 2007St. Louis High SchoolAbstract:The main purpose of the blood drive at St. Louis ... chool was to create a new set of donors to add to the donor base and to teach students how to run a blood drive. The Great Lakes Red Cross division helped get things going by teaching Mr. Allen's Anat ... sion helped get things going by teaching Mr. Allen's Anatomy & Physiology class how to set up a blood drive and how one works. After being informed, Mr. Allen's class did all of the grunt work nec ...

(10 pages) 22 0 0.0 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

BLACK MEN IN PUBLIC SPACE

Salwa Abdulla Blood DonationSpecific Purpose: To persuade the audience to donate blood regularly if their blood is ... od regularly if their blood is safe to be transferred to another human being.Central Idea: Donating blood helps save lives through a relatively simple and painless process that also provides numerous ... ne your little nephew or niece baby was born with a heart defect and required daily transfusions of blood in order to have a chance at survival.B. According to The Blood Center of Wisconsin more than ...

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays