THE PERSON YOU ADMIRE ENGLISH ESSAY EXAMPLE

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The best man you know
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Write an Essay started with " he is the best hero i known"

Write an Essay ended with " he changed my life"

The hero in my eye

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They came from mostly simple walks of life: a construction worker from Taiwan, a taxi driver form San Francisco, a medical student from Japan, a farmer from Indonesia. All walked in out of the world of darkness and left in the fullness of light – blind or partially blind patients who received the gift of sight through transplant from eyes donated by Sri Lankans.

Some of the donors were famous – one a former prime mister, another a former governor general. They were simply among more than 17000 Sri Lankans form al walks of life and for varying ages who had given their eyes so that others, literally, could see through them.

The Sri Lankan Eye Donation Society, through the country’s international eye bank, has been making gifts of eyes to the world’s blind for more than two decades. It is, in fact, the first and still the largest eye bank in the world. The story very much revolves around Dr Hudson Silva, the bank founder. With single-minded devotion, this serene, soft spoken man of vision has served the cause of the blind for 25 years. For 21 of those years he has been aided by his wife, Irangani.

Operating from a room in his small flat in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital, Silva increased his ‘export’ eyes from a mere six in 1964 to more than 2000 in 1985. In addition, he had performed hundreds of corneal transplant locally. There has been a steadily increasingly flow of gift-eyes form island-republic’s 16 million people. In fact, more than half a million Sri Lankans have now pledged their eyes on their death for distribution at home or abroad.

Silva was in the operating room of Colombo General Hospital where two patients were prepared simultaneously for surgery when the idea of an eye-donation programme occurred to him. One patient had cancer behind the eye, requiring its removal. The other blinded by a disease cornea, was waiting to receive the still-healthy cornea form the cancer patient. If, thought, Silva, enough people volunteered to donate their eyes when they died, the need of corneally blind Sri Lanka could be adequately met. Even at the time about 20 deaths occurred every day in Colombo because of eye diseases.

The year was1948 but within a month more than 500 people had responded to Silva’s call, among them his own mother and the governor-general. Two years later his mother died and he himself removed her eyes to give sight to a village farmer. The story touched the nation. A week later, 18000 eyes had been donated to the Ceylon Eye Donation Society, which Silva had founded his graduation. The time signaled another newspaper article in which Silva predicted that “one day Ceylon will have a rich harvest of eyes to donate to anyone in Ceylon or abroad.” His colleagues were skeptical. At a time when internal and international telecommunications were at a comparatively primitive state, particularly in Sri Lanka, the possibility of sending ‘live’ cornea to distant places seemed remote. But Silva had total faith in his vision.

He began writing letters to the hospitals in the major capitals of the world. He told then that he could supply eyes for cornea grafting, on request. In 1964, Silva sent six eyes by plane to Singapore in an ice-filled thermos flask. His project was off the ground. The following year, the Ceylon International Eye Bank was officially opened by the then Prime Minister, Dudley Senanayake, who pledges to donate his own eye on his death. He died in his sleep eight years later than Silva, who removed eyes, sent then to San Francisco where a taxi driver received a cornea transplant. So, everywhere in the busy street of San Francisco there was a cabbie who saw, literally, through the eyes of Sri Lanka’s best loved prime minister.