Wheelchair Bound

Have you ever seen or met someone with a physical handicap disability? Do you know what it’s like for a person who has a physical form of disability? You may or may not. Randolph Bourne, in “The Handicapped” will be the first to tell you that it is quite the challenge. He has a form of disability that makes him look very different compared to other people. His face is deformed, he is oddly short, he’s forced to walk funny, and is laughed at for being handicapped. Randolph Bourne physical handicaps have been a hindrance on his life because he must work harder to overcome adversity, he is faced with discriminatory behavior from other people, and he had a rough childhood due to his handicaps.

As for my personal encounter of individual with a disability; the grew up around a cousin who was with brain damage, as a kid I would go over to aunt’s home and sit with him and read books; I would massage his hands and feet because he would have seizures and I would see my aunt doing it so I just picked up on what the adults were doing and try to help out. Even though he could not talk I felt he could hear what I was saying because one time I was reading a book called “Henrietta Hippo” and I would act the scenes and whenever I made the sound of the hippo he would look at me and make a funny sound like he was trying to repeat what I was doing.

Everyone in life has trials and tribulations, but the way in which everyone responds to them is different. Some people dwell on the negative situations, whereas other people turn their negative situations into positive situations. The book, “Wheelchair Warrior,” by Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger, conveys how a positive mindset, self-efficacy, and support from family and friends are essential when trying to get through difficult times. Juette uses these characteristics as he transforms from being a gang member to being a world-class national athlete. The life story of Juette, contributes to the understanding of sport and society, reveals the American notion of social differences, and portrays sport in similar ways compared to many other

Physically incapable of living a normal life, Nancy Mairs writes “On Being A Cripple” and Matthew Soyster writes “Living Under Circe’s Spell,” having both experienced the hardships of a disability. Struggling to form somewhat of a pleasurable life, they both share similarities in their writings. With these similarities, both Soyster and Mairs, attempt to express their newfound challenges in their lives, but, they both compose different ideas in their writings.

In the passage "On Being a Cripple", Mairs uses a specific word diction that she repeats to prove her point. She likes to use the word "cripple", "handicapped", and "disabled". These words are repeated over fifteen times each. Mairs pointed out that using the word "cripple" makes people grimace at it unlike other labels for people of that sort. "People – crippled or not – wince at the word 'cripple,' as they do not at 'handicapped' or 'disabled'." (Mairs, 29). She uses this word so much to show that she's comfortable with it. She told the audience that she is comfortable using the following sentence on page 29, "As a cripple, I swagger.". She frequently talks about the words “handicapped” and “disabled”. Mairs discusses

He was a star runner ,swimmer,biker. He was a proatlete he was good at all most everything! He wanted to be in the army he was traning. He heard someone scream so he ran to go see there was a fire so he called the cops anf firefighters they told him don’t go in we are on are way. He saw a little boy he was screaming so he ran in thinking if i run fast enough i can get in and out fast.he grab the little boy then saw a girl and a man he yelled come on we have to run they all started running the kids were out but, where is dad he told they stay he they did he went back in saw the man he was holding a women so run ran to them helped them out he was almost out when a beam fell on him they

If just one person were to remove their handicap then it would be very likely that many people who follow in their footsteps and remove theirs as well. If this were to happen people would go back to “the dark ages” where everyone was themselves and nothing was equal. The system of adding handicaps to cause equality has defects to where a person could just take it off whenever they wanted and people would be likely to follow that person's lead. “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men,” (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 3).

First was to use public transportation. My partner and I chose to ride the bus to catch a glimpse of what using a wheelchair in the bus would mean. I was the assistant in this case. At first I thought it would be an easy time working as an assistant. I expected to be given priority and special treatment as I had a ‘person on the wheelchair’ with me; but no. Boarding the bus was a bit difficult since the bus did not have enough space to accommodate the wheelchair. We needed help to get in as the floor of the bus was higher than the ground we stood on. In the bus, the wheelchair had to be folded while in the bus since the space to put it was limited.

The words used “On being a Cripple” reflects the way she sees herself and also the way she shows herself to the world. Being a cripple or being called a Cripple, has an odd distinction, of being clean. Further than being clean, as if nothing had change on her, now that she has lost use of her limbs. The tumor precisely is making her weaker, but is not seriously attacking her sense of humor from where she called, herself a cripple. Her calling her own self a name such as Cripple, or crippled help her overcome what she may hear from anyone else.

Congress passed an act in 1990, named the ADA, which Congress has provided guidelines that establish “broad nondiscrimination protection in employment, public services, public accommodations and services operated by public entities, transportation, and telecommunications for individuals with disabilities”. () The individual states under Title I of the act are placed under provisions of the federal government to follow through with disability accommodations. ()? While the national government has provided the guidelines for the states to follow under the ADA, that state carries policies out without funding, unfunded mandates. The federal government has guidelines for what a disabled person must qualify as and has dealt with many supreme

Maris presents herself in this passage as “cripple.” And while doing so, she is describing the many ways she is “cripple.” In this passage the meaning for “cripple” she describes herself as “handicapped” and “disabled” and uses tone andcause and affect while explaining why she is “cripple.”

3. Has your disability ever affected you in the workplace? It caused me to not be able to function around any group of people in or around working with in a groups setting on a daily basis.

1. The average return on sales (ROS) in the US wheelchair industry is between 1-2% in 1993. What are the most important structural conditions that make the industry unattractive?

Two circumstances I can think of where in which I have employed self-handicapping in the past could be the time when I was around 16 years old, and I chose to allow my auto insurance to lapse although I knew the deadline was approaching. Instead of informing my parents because they held me accountable for making the payment. I chose to hide it, thinking I would be able to make the payment later. When in reality I could not afford to do so because I was a high school student working part-time. Although I felt once they found out about my insurance they would pay it so I wasn’t too concern with the consequences. Even though they did pay it, I ended up grounded due to allowing those charges to occur and accumulate. The second situation in which

    A person with a disability, or handicap, can be defined as someone with a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial or long-term adverse affect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities (Employment 2). Handicap workers face many challenges in the work place that the average person overlooks. Also, many special arrangements and alterations have been made to the workplace for people with handicaps. Accessibility, transportation, workload, and salary are just some of the many issues that must be considered with the prospect of employing the handicap.