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__Description:__
My class went on a field trip to The BODIES exhibition. This exhibit featured actual human specimens.

__Impact:__
I was very impacted by The BODIES exhibit. It allowed me to access a way to learn in a way normally reserved only for medical professionals. It provided me an opportunity to peer inside the human body, to better understand how the elaborate and fascinating body works. This exhibit provided an up-close look inside our skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems. The human specimens illustrates the damage caused to organs by over-eating and lack of exercise. A healthy lung is featured next to a black lung destroyed by smoking in a vivid comparison more powerful than any textbook image.



__**Intent:**__
After going to see the BODIES exhibit I have made it my goal to take my friends and family the portion with the smoking exhibit. After seeing the gallery with the heallthy lung and the destroyed lung I want which was impacte dby smoking; I want to inform everyone who smokes how badly smoking truly is for their body. On the wall in the exhibit by the lungs it said, "For every pack of cigarettes you smoke you lose about 2 hours and 2O minutes of your life." I am hoping by sharing this information with my friends and family it will impact their lives and hopefully it will encourage them to stop smoking.

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