Abled People Vs Blindness

According to the textbook on page 61, Disabled is defined as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of [the disabled person]. Major life activities include an area “of central importance to most people’s daily lives including walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, working, or caring for

In the words of Lennard  Davis in the first page of Introduction: Normality, Power, and Culture, “The ‘problem’ is not the person with the disability, it is the way that normalcy is constructed to create the ‘problem’ of the disabled person,” (Davis 1). Everyone is different and to impose an idea of what is an expected or acceptable by labeling those who don’t conform as disadvantaged or handicapped, is artificial and

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude" (Hamilton). In the short story "A Man Who Had No Eyes" the author MacKinlay Kantor advocates the idea that disability is never a barrier to one's success. How people approach their disability decides their fate. Markwardt and Mr. Parsons are two men with similar complications yet with very different personalities. Initially, Markwardt is like any other person.

As Baynton discusses disability as a justification for inequality, I view it in the sense of a social concept of disability that sets the platform for discrimination and violence against the minority groups. This concept has been implemented in U.S. history to allow discriminatory practices against the minorities to occur. Basically, women, individuals from different races, and ethnic minorities were labeled as disabled as well to interpret inequality as a positive concept. For example, there was justification for slavery in which African Americans did not have the required intelligence which made them incapable of equality with other Americans. This assumption was ascribed to physical causes and differences that were visible in their race.

The better you are, the more disabilities you have. “Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a mental handicap radio in his ear.” So now that everybody is equal, they think their life is good and nobody gets mistreated or treated better than anyone else. In fact, the equality is a law and you would have consequences for trying to

It was really interesting that each Deafblind individual used different communication methods . I also discovered that each Deafblind individual used SSPs and other assistive technologies in a variety if ways. The first Deafblind person I meet was Randy. Randy has tunnel vision, meaning he has no peripheral vision. He uses mostly Pro tactile signing, which is a communication method I never used previously.

In Hong Kong Context, Hong Kong doesn't really have enough support for people with disabilities. Hong Kong just provide education and training services such as Special Examination Services or Advisory Service. For example: As I worked as a Programme Worker in one of the secondary school, school use idea of mainstreaming, where students use to sit in the same class with same lesson plan, but their examination hour is longer than the other classmates. However, I never felt other classmates of their classes discriminate them because of their disabilities as they has been educated and knew how to treat and behave with them.

No person who is qualified as handicapped in the United States shall be excluded from participation, be denied benefits of or be discriminated under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance by reason of his or her handicap. Nobody should be discriminated or excluded from benefiting under any program or activity funded by the federal just because they are handicapped. According to my understanding, diversity entails a state of differences in several ways and even the physical abilities and status of individuals. Diversity requires an understanding of this different ways and treating people equally regardless of these individual differences.

The results states that I preferred abled person over disable person. The result was surprising because I considered myself to be neutral. I try my best to treat everyone the same no matter their status in life plus, I am a public health student. If I preferred an abled person over an disabled person, I won’t be interested in this field. My little sister is partially death and I see the struggles she has to go through at school

Demitri hines Period 3 1/30/2018 In John Steinbeck 's classic novela of Mice and Men, we see the character Lennie smalls descending into the stereotype of being handicapped. During the time of the great depression the handicapped never reach there American dream. Steinbeck crafts Lennie a sincerely mentally handicapped man, as an archetype the mentally handicapped in our society in order to imply that the type of people are excluded from the american dream. Lennie doesn 't get to accomplish his american dream due to him being mentally handicapped, but also gets in trouble even though he doesnt mean to.

Character Development in Blindness When one reads the novel Blindness, they would think it’s about a group of people who are quarantined because of the epidemic. However, if we take a closer look, Jose Saramago was trying to show what it means to human. As the story progresses you notice how the protagonist, The Doctor`s Wife, goes through internal and external character development. Throughout the novel , the character, Doctor’s Wife evolves from quiet housewife to a thoughtful leader, finally ending as an a well aware women who carries the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Disabled people who do manage to make their way into the work force tend to encounter numerous disadvantages such as advancement and on average earn around one quarter of the income of their able bodied counterparts (Barnes, Mercer & Shakespeare 1999, p.110). In addition, the majority of well paid, high skilled, and rewarding positions are commonly taken by non-disabled people (Barnes, Mercer & Shakespeare 1999, p.111). It is possible that employers are not interested or unmotivated to make possible changes or allowance for physically disabled people within their organization

At a basic level, opposites are engraved in our learning, and we know how to handle words. Consequently, the response is programmed and takes little thought. In any case, as a general public, finding the positive alternative to the words "handicapped" or "disabled" is not engraved in our minds; and in the event that those words are a part of our vocabulary, there is a

Blind Envision a blind person having a smooth conversation with the cashier at a supermarket. Next, envision everyone having the lack of vision. My use of “everyone” includes artificially intelligent machines, without knowing that it would be difficult to distinguish the differences of humans and artificial intelligent machines. Spike Jonze’s film Her and James Boyle’s essay “Endowed by Their Creator? The future of Constitutional Personhood,” create a resemblance between an A.I. and humans to bring awareness in how they are more similar than different to us.

As the statistics shown above say, disabled people are considered an embarrassment to be around and considered unproductive people, and therefore are excluded from their society. This group of people is socially excluded in many ways: 1) Excluded from leisure facilities Disabled people are usually deprived from their rights of having fun and spending their leisure time like normal people. Have you seen cinemas with special seats for paralyzed people for example? The answer would be no probably. Disabled people find it difficult to enter leisure facilities like swimming pools, bowling centers and cinemas, although with simple adjustments these places could be suitable for