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Maureen Dowd's Our Warrior Princess

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In Our Warrior Princess by Maureen Dowd, she wrote this essay about her brave niece. Maureen niece Jennifer gave up half her liver for her uncle, Michael (Maureen brother) who contracted hepatitis a few years back from an unsanatized blood transfusion. Maureen wanted her audience not to be frightened about donating organs. Maureen wants to inform the audience about organ donating, even if that person wasn’t related to you and you don’t even know them. You shouldn’t be inconsiderate about donating piece of your liver or any other organ to someone who might need it to live. Maureen is trying to communicate in this essay to the people who are still skeptical at donating. Maureen said her niece is a health fanatic, she is a personal trainer and she’s single, out in this cruel dating world. Plus they live in an “everything must be perfect” culture where the women us Botox, lasers, and liposuction. Just to make their bodies to this “so called perfection”. Maureen want Jennifer to feel good about her scare by using the love scene in Lethal Weapon three for an example when Gibson and Russo were showing off their scares to each other. Plus Maureen stated Jennifer had every quality a woman could want. This section that Maureen used in her essay was effective even though Jennifer had a scare on her stomach she was still joyful, and the scare didn’t even affected her personality.
Maureen shifted from telling the story about her niece bravery to explaining more than 80,000 people are on the waiting list for donations, but most of them will never get one. Maureen transitioned after her niece received a green ribbon from Dr. Amy Lu, which shows Jennifer donated and she supports it. This is when Maureen transitioned to, people even family refusing to donate organs even when after they checked the organ donor box when getting their Driver’s license. She wanted to use this

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