Maurice Ralph Hilleman's Impact On American Culture

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ONE MAN CAN SAVE MILLIONS
CHRISTOPHER NGUYEN
CACTUS HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract
The importance of this research is to recognize Maurice Ralph Hilleman and his great creation of vaccines for diseases. The reader would be interested in this work because it explains how much of a genius Maurice Ralph Hilleman is. It will explain how much impact Maurice had in American culture. The controlling purpose is the creation and influence of vaccines/drugs from Maurice Ralph Hilleman has significantly impacted American culture by saving millions of individual’s lives. The argument is to explain why Maurice Ralph Hilleman made an impact in the world/ society. The problem back in the 20th century was they didn’t have any vaccines for diseases that were going around back then. Maurice came up with diseases that
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If America didn’t have a guy to come up with these vaccines, the world would be still sick with ill people, and there would be a large amount of deaths. Back in the 20th century, Maurice Ralph Hilleman created a future for the people by saving them. Human’s life expectancy has grown by leaps and bonds. Ralph Hilleman also set an example for kids. If someone wants to be something that they dream about when they are kids, then the child should definitely work hard to achieve that dream. That is exactly what Maurice did as a child. Maurice Ralph Hilleman’s vaccines are used in many ways in American culture today. The vaccines are used to cure people that end up having the diseases that Maurice created such as measles or hepatitis. The other way that it helped American culture is that the vaccines will come in handy when the world has an emergency. A tragedy has come upon us people about Maurice. Maurice Ralph Hilleman: died in April 11 of cancer at Chestnut Hill hospital in Philadelphia” (Sullivan, 2005, para. 1). Maurice Ralph passed away with cancer in April 11th and left us all heartbroken (Sullivan,