Liposuction: The Bad and The Ugly
Due to the risk involved, liposuction is not the answer to having a great body. Liposuction is one of the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery today. Those seeking the perfect body seldom understand the risks involved in this invasive surgery. One of the risks of liposuction is that fat cells can grow back in the area where the procedure took place. Another risk associated with this procedure is over-aggressive fat removal. Poor work performed by untrained doctors poses many problems in itself. Pulmonary Thrombosus, Lidocaine Toxicidy, and imbalances of bodily fluids also are serious risks associated with liposuction, not to mention the ultimate danger with any surgery, death. What exactly is this procedure for which so many people are willing to take the chance?
Liposuction is also known as lipoplasty and liposculpture and is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery performed in the United States. Liposuction has been a means of contouring the body in one or more areas for the past twenty years. This surgery is mostly performed on women, but among men and older people, the surgery has become more popular. Also, this surgery has been classified as the rich person’s surgery (Pavlovich-Danis, 2001, p. 1). Liposuction begins by the surgeon making tiny incisions throughout the areas where the liposuction is going to be performed. Then the surgeon takes the cannula, narrow tube, and vacuums out the fat layer deep beneath the skin. The cannula then breaks up the fat cells by being pulled continuously back and forth throughout the skin. The broken up pieces of fat are then suctioned up by the cannula. The fat that is taken out is replaced by fluid, so that the patient does not go into shock ("New Image," 2001, p.2). Even after this surgery, the results are not guaranteed.
After paying $6,000 for a liposuction procedure, there is still a good chance that the fat can grow back, therefore making the liposuction surgery useless. Liposuction is a temporary fix that should not be assumed to be permanent by the patient. Even after the patients have the surgery, if they were overweight before, they are still overweight (Rowland, 1998, p.3). Besides the chance that the fat cells can return, the patient can put his or her health in jeopardy if exc...
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...called Ultrasound- assisted liposuction (ultrsonic liposuction) is safier and more proficient way to remove unwanted fat. This new technique uses ultrasound wave vibrations to break up fat in before it is removed. After the fat is broken up by the sound waves the cannula then is inserted into the body and sucks the fat out. This technique is safier to the patient because the fat is already broken up by the sound waves, instead of the traditional method of inserting the cannula into the body and scraping the fat out ("Plastic Surgery Network," 2003, p.1).
Having the perfect body comes at a higher price than just dollars and cents. The invasive procedure of liposuction poses many risks to the patient. There is no guarantee that the removal of fat cells is permanent. The removal of excessive fat can put the patient at risk. Doctors with little or no training can perform this cosmetic surgery in ill-equipped office settings. Other complications such as pulmonary thrombosus, lidocaine toxicidy, and imbalances of bodily fluids can lead to serious health issues. Ultimately, the highest price to pay for lipsouction is the patient paying with his or her life.
I thought owning expensive cars, multiple houses, and dining at 5 star restaurants in the city were all part of the American dream, but I was wrong. The American Dream is an opportunity for each person to achieve personal fulfillment through success. I enjoyed this powerful speech because he described his vivid dreams in which blacks and whites are able to live together in harmony and peace. Just like the audience, I was deeply touched by these images, and we could all imagine what a new and joyous we should live in society today. King successfully achieved his emotive purpose through these words, and bonded with the hearts of his audience. Dr. King inspired me to help others and try to make a difference in my community and in the world. I would like to listen and watch other speeches by Dr. King because he made the world realize that "all men are created equal." King had hoped, a strong effect on national opinion and resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, authorizing the federal government to enforce desegregation of public accommodations and outlawing discrimination in publicly owned facilities, as well as in the workforce. That eventful year was climaxed by the award to King of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Martin Luther King’s skillful use of rhetoric in his “I have a Dream” speech was a major turning point in American history and represented
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Martin Luther King did not know that his “I Have a Dream” speech would still be iconic 50 years later. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. He was facing the problem of racial injustice for himself and everyone like him. He needed to create a speech that everyone could and would understand, could learn from, and could draw inspiration from. He had to address blacks and whites, he had to say things that everyone could relate to and he had speak in a way that he get the
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Martin Luther King uses a lot of repetition in his speech. They are scattered throughout but very close. One of the repetitions in his speech is “I have a dream.” He uses this phrase to show what he sees in the future of America. One of the phrases he uses with it is: “I have a dream that one day this nation will and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” Another is “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their nature. I have a dream today.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 12) Two other repetitions he uses is “Let freedom ring” and “Free at last.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 16&17)
Plastic surgery such as liposuction, also called lipoplasty, is the removal of fat, can aid in someone 's overall health by reducing the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and even certain types of cancer. The modern liposuction technique using blunt cannulas for fat removal was developed in France in the year 1977 by Dr. Yves-Gerard Illouz. He performed this surgery for the first time on a woman who had a lipoma or fat growth on her back. This surgery created history as the fat was removed without any scars on the back of the woman. Liposuction is effective for removing excess fat areas of the face and body, including the following areas cheeks, neck, breasts, hips, thighs, legs, back, abdomen and waist, flanks and sides. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, liposuction is the second most popular cosmetic procedure in the country, surpassed by breast augmentation. There were 302,028 liposuction procedures done on females and 40,466 liposuction procedures on males in 2014. While liposuction is the second most popular surgical procedure, it is the number one treatment for men seeking cosmetic surgery. Doctors most commonly perform liposuction on patients age 40 and above. Seventy four percent of caucasians got liposuction and more patients on the West Coast choose liposuction than anywhere else in the country. A study by UCLA found that people
On August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous and powerful speech I Have a Dream, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The purpose of his speech was to fight for the civil rights, equality, and to stop the discrimination against African-American people. His use of imagery, repetition, and metaphor in his speech had created an impact with his audience. King used the three rhetorical devices, ethos, pathos and logos to help the audience understand the message of his speech.
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was no exception. The second strategy he practiced in his work is sentence structure. Martin Luther King Jr. exceeded when it came to having meaningful sentence structure in every public presentation of his movement. In the “I Have a Dream” speech, he exercises a tone that is matter of fact which makes it seem as if there is no other alternative than a free and equal world. In other words, his confidence is transmitted through sentence structure, which helps convince his audience in his argument to create a raceless society. His persistence and determination to change the American social order is what sways people to believe in his movement. The truncated sentence structure in the “I Have a Dream” speech allows for an audience to easily follow the message he is trying to spread. This made the speech really seem as if it was calling for a sense of change, which was the exact purpose of the speech. One could find that nearly every speech written by Martin Luther King Jr. was structured in a similar way that promoted change since that was the main idea of his campaign. The structure of a speech is very important when it comes to trying to push for change, which is why Martin Luther King Jr. was arguably one of the most influential speakers of the 20th century because he used short sentences to convey complex
One of the leading reasons as to why cosmetic surgery should be banned is because of some serious, and neglected, risks that patients may encounter when put under the knife. To be more precise, a procedure that one may see to be harmless and basic may carry out just as many negative affects as a serious one. In “Clinical Risk,” Mercer (2009) states, "All cosmetic treatments are medical interventions, and every medical intervention has a complication and failure rate”. The paraffin being injected in the faces of people who get Botox done, for instance, may overtime spread into unwanted places that would cause the sagging of the face, contrary to the whole purpose of this procedure. Sometimes the negative effects are not seen immediately, but over the course of life become more apparent. When one has a more serious surgery the risks obviously boost drastically. A vast amount of blood loss is also a major threat in such operations. One may simply die of excessive bleeding even after the surgery is done, meaning that you are not only in danger when under the knife, but even when you are finished from the procedure (whether it be a success or not). Moreover, statistics prove that most people that even though a high number of people get surgery done, a higher percentage get a second one of those same surgical operations done later on due to not being satisfied with the results the first time around. It is this factor that aids and results in the unhealthy obsession.
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