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HIS 100 Project Template (1) HIS 100 Project Template Part 1: Creating a Research Question 1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic. It is quite alarming to see and hear what people go through because of the injustice shown in inequality threatening the human rights of people with disability. People with disability are often relegated to the background and we often don’t give them much attention and respect. I have always been about creating room and the atmosphere for people with disability to feel comfortable anywhere I happen to be in their midst. This should really be a standard and a normal thing for everyone to treat this community with dignity and respect. In my original country, there are still myths and traditions about people with disability, and whiles searching and studying about this topic I realized it is also the same in some other parts of the world and sadly so in America. I decided to write on the challenges and the inequalities people with disability go through because I feel like we are in a time and age where great awareness of these group should have been widely accepted but unfortunately that is not the case. 2. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event. My research question seeks to alert and bring more awareness and air out some of the reasons why we are not seeing much of improvements when it comes to equality with the people of disability. Hence the question, does inequality threaten the human rights of people with disability. Recently in Wisconsin 4 voters with disability filed a lawsuit in the federal court seeking for them return of absentee ballot after the Wisconsin supreme 1

banned that practice. The is one of the many decisions that has been taken which alienates people with disability from the mainstream things we do. This will inhibit such groups from voting. 3. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question. Many sources were considered when I was researching on the topic of inequality especially as it pertains to the people with disabilities. I realized that both the primary and secondary sources that sided with the issue of inequality with people with disability. Both resources had some that had written on the improvement that has been seen whiles others also reported the horrors that most of the people with disability face daily. Considering the many views, the sources brought to light many angles I considered when I was researching and it helped in the shaping of my research question. Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions 1. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event. Throughout history people with disability have been treated unfairly and under harsh conditions. Just like the minority was treated in the past, people with disability were also discriminated against from workplaces and schools just to mention but few. This resulted in the enactment of the Americans with disability act in 1990. The goal of this act was to stop all forms of discrimination and terrible treatment of people with disabilities. Ever since this law was enacted the treatment of people with disability has gotten better but there is still more that must be done to help them. In recent times there are cooperate places and other social places in our community that are constructed without having this community of people in mind. Also, there are a lot of technologies that are coming that 2

the manufacturers do not consider people with disability or even make it disability friendly. 2. Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event. One historical figure that was very instrumental in the historical event is President George H. W Bush, on July 26, 1990, when more than two thousand people had gathered at the White House to witness the signing of the Americans with Disability Act into law. As a way of living up to the founding principle of equality it was about time that this was enacted for this minority of Americans to be treated right and fair. He also saw this to hopefully bridge that gap that had been created years back. 3. Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event. The motivation of the President Bush for signing the ADA into law was that, for far too long we haven’t been able to live the principles of the founding fathers of the land. This was the opportunity to bring this people into light and further protect them from anyone that might discriminate against them. This also to help families take care of their people and to give them the same rights as every American has. To be respected and not ignored. Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative 1. Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event. Whiles researching the history of my historical event, the main narrative I found was that inequality against the people with disability has threatened their human rights for a very long time. Also, I realized that the society stigmatizes people with disability, for this reason the rich usually do not want to disclose their disability with the fear of facing 3

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