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Being a rather shy person I sort of surprised myself by taking on a project of petitioning for the school to put descriptions for the five main pictures on the website. You see, these pictures do not currently have descriptions on them. These descriptions are for people who are blind and use a computer program to read the site page. Without descriptions the program just reads the picture as image. So they have no clue what the picture is is. Is it a lady in a red sweater with curly blond hair eating a ham sandwich? Or is it of a baseball player wearing a black and grey striped baseball uniform with a purple helmet? This project relates to a lot of ideas in the course. The first one being the ADA. ADA is an acronym for Americans with Disabilities Act. Under the ADA a school is listed as a business believe it or not. As a business it is recommended that they follow the voluntary action plan for accessible websites. Speaking of ADA that wouldn’t have come about without the Disability Rights Movement. The Disability Rights Movement was a movement that was used to get equal opportunities and rights for people with disabilities. It started in the 1960’s and closely mimicked the Civil Rights Movement. In the year of 1990 the ADA was passed. In …show more content…

It's the idea that everyone should be treated and respected as a human being no matter what. While there might not be a whole chapter or time that was devoted to learning this idea during class, it's basically at the root of everything. We have learned that even though someone has a disability they are still human beings. Their wants and needs are no different than ours. They want love and friendship and kindness and understanding. They are 100% human. A person is a person no matter what. This though is what started the Disability Rights Movement. The thought that people who are disabled are humans and therefore should be treated equally like every other

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A disability can make someone look at a "disabled" person in a specific way, even though they are just as capable as others of doing things. Some people don't realize the impact someone with a disability can have on the world because they are limited and criticized for their issues. People without disabilities can show what they have, and those with disabilities will never even get past the starting line because of people's biased views on disabilities. After listening to the Ted Talk by Keith Nolan, a private cadet, he established ethos, logos, and pathos through his educational speech on the deaf in the military. In the Ted Talk, Keith Nolan backs up his story with emotion, statistics, credible information, and real-life experience.

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I think the theme of the book is to not be afraid of what other people think. “ There is no greater disable in society, than the inability to see a person as more.” -Robert M. Hensel. I think this supports the theme because it talks about how disabled people are not recognized as ordinary people who can do anything, just like

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is typically used to categorize Veterans. The common population neglects to submit survivors of sexual abuse in their childhood in the term of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Rather these survivors ridden with trauma from their abuse are swept under the carpet and kept out of conversation. It is as if that one assumes if they don’t talk about these transgressions, they will cease to exist altogether. In Sebastian Junger’s Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, he provocatively insists to categorize individuals into communities.

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This movement had just begun when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public transportation unconstitutional after the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This boycott all started when a woman named Rosa Parks decided to sit in the seat that was meant for whites. She didn't intend to start such an uprising but by accident she did. She ended up getting arrested for not following the law like she was supposed and this caused more of a uproar from all African Americans who couldn't stand the inequality that was happening around them. This boycott lead to Martin Luther King becoming a national leader, even a symbol for these African Americans who were sick of the way they were being treated.

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Introduction "Justice doesn 't mean the bad guy goes to jail. It just means someone pays for the crime" (LaGravenese, 2007). This quote summarizes Robert Mayer 's The Dreams of Ada perfectly. Mayer 's book follows the true story of the investigation into, arrest, and trials of Karl Fontenot and Tommy Ward for the kidnapping and murder of Denice Haraway. In the end the two are convicted, although all evidence suggests otherwise.

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Doctors in Nazi Germany during the World War II period were some of the most inhumane people of the time. Their human experimentations and testing that was done in concentration camps were some of the most awful acts carried out during World War II. In this short period of time it is estimated that over 30 different experiments were carried out on numerous camp prisoners (Tyson). These experiments were carried out by a number of different doctors such as Dr. Clauberg, Dr. Oberheuser, and Dr. Mengele who all operated out of concentration camps such as Auschwitz (Bülow, “The Nazi Doctors”). Luckily after the war these doctors were all brought to justice and held responsible for their inhumane actions (“Auschwitz-Birkenau”).

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The Civil Rights Movement made it’s start when the “separate but equal” doctrine was struck down in the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Civil Rights

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The Americans with Disability Act. stood up for the people with disabilities, they wanted to change the view of people by judging them on their abilities not their disabilities. The ADA Act. is a “civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life including: jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public”. Justin Dart was a leader of the international disability rights movement and was a human rights activist. Justin had his own disability problem which affected him socially. Justin was diagnosed with polio which left him as a wheelchair user.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended all state and local laws involving segregation. It has only been 54 years since segregation in the United states was legal. Until about 50 years ago the laws did not protect everyone as a whole; black and white people were not considered equal and were separated from each other. This included racial segregation in schools, restaurants, cafes, bathrooms, hotels/motels, on buses and trains. The modern Civil Rights movement began in the 1950s when Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man on a segregated bus.

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African Americans have faced discrimination since World War II. The Civil Rights Movement began in the early 1950’s, and continued through the late 1960’s. After Jim Crow Laws, which were laws that enforced segregation, many white leaders didn’t want to give up the laws they had for around seventy-five years (Deverell & White 568). Whites in the South resisted change, even after laws were made. African Americans fought for integration in many public places, including public transportation.

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The categories of disabilities are; autism, deaf/blind, deafness, hearing impaired, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, serious emotional disturbance, specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment including blindness, and other health impairment. To be eligible, a student must have a disability that adversely affects her or his educational performance and must need special education in order to receive an appropriate education. Found at: IDEA (The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). (n.d.). Retrieved November 14, 2015, from http://www.help4adhd.org/en/education/rights/idea Helpful Organization Websites/Contact Information

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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

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