It was a cold March day in High Point,North Carolina. The girls on the Wesleyan Academy softball were waiting fortheir next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm,Eighth-grader Taylor Bisbee shivered(发抖) a little as she watched her zxxk teammate Paris White play. Thetwo didn’t know each other well —Taylor had just moved to town a month or so before.
Suddenly, Paris fell to the ground,“Paris’s eye rolled back,” Taylor says. “She started shaking. I knew it was an emergency.”
It certainly was, Paris had suffered asudden heart failure. Without immediate medical care, Paris would die. “Doesanyone know CPR?”
CPR is a life-saving technique. To do CPR,you press on the sick person’s chest so that blood moves through the body andtakes oxygen to organs. Without oxygen the brain is damaging quickly.
Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPRcourse the day before. Still, she hesitated. She didn’t think she knew it wellenough. But when no one else came forward, Taylor ran to Paris and began doingCPR, “It was scary. I knew it was the difference between life
Experts say Paris is right: For a suddenheart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearbystep in and do CPR quickly. Today, Paris is back on the softball team.Taylor will apply to college soon. She wants to
A machine with a specific purpose hasanother quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish topreserve its own existence. For the machine, this quality is not in-born, noris it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence