Stuart Emmons wrote the passage A Plan to Transform Portland Together to inform all Oregonians of his plan of building houses for the 4,ooo homeless people in Portland. Emmons explains in his plan the things he needs, for example like would be the land they need, the research that would have to taken, the funding of the money and the help in construction. Emmons uses the example of 1942 when Portland joined together as a community to build houses for the poor. Knowing that a war was occurring; instead of separating themselves, they joined together and worked together as a community. Emmons wants the same thing now for 2018, he wants to create this safe living space for the homeless who have wandered around Portland for who knows how long.
This week and next week’s writing assignment will be split into two parts based on Eleanor Clarke Slagle’s lecture which examines the lives of those who have endured extraordinary hardships and their ability to rise above. Slagle’s case study poses the question: Who rises above adversity? Most of the data use in her study comes from personal experiences of those who have been faced with terminal illness, abuse, impoverishment, and incarceration. First I would like to provide a brief background on one of the earliest pioneers of occupational therapy. Eleanor Clarke Slagle was a social worker that directed occupational therapy research for the state of Illinois and organized a therapy program for the state’s mental hospitals.
In “Unspeakable Conversations” she details her experience. Harriet McBryde Johnson effectively uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos, along with her uses of first-person narrative and descriptive language, to support her argument that contrary to stereotypes, a person living with a severe disability can live a happy and fulfilling life. Harriet McBryde Johnson was born in 1957 with a neuromuscular disease. At the time of this essay, she had been disabled for over four decades. Born to parents who both taught foreign language, they were able to afford hired help but she knew it could not be for her whole life.
The Miracle of a Man Without Legs Born without legs while living an incredible life . Connolly, like a little giant can bench-press 300 pounds and explore the steepest slope with his focused movements. Although, he has only hands, that does not make him scary the world at all. Also, his hands take him everywhere and bring him success.
Khshayarsa also known as Xerxes the great by the Greeks, and westerners; was the King of the Persian Achaemenid Empire and ruled from 486-465 BCE. Son of Darius the Great, Xerxes was accepted as a great king before having to prove himself. Arrogant in the knowledge of his lineage Xerxes lived by his own rules. Throughout his life Xerxes was led multiple invasions and conflicts, his swift and aggressive technique led him to numerous victories. Historians argue as to whether Xerxes can be either villain or vilified.
In the perspective of this, it took men and women years to rescue their lives due to some extent to the trauma endured and observed in Vietnam, which unendingly changed their lives. A significant portion of the soldiers who fought and served in Vietnam did not know the determining factors for being in Vietnam. The Things They Carried imparts
Ultimately, these two vignettes both highlight how trauma can be an inescapable burden that some have to carry for decades before being able to work through
An example of someone who excelled in this trait is Hamen Girma, a blind and deaf woman who pursued her passion of law, eventually becoming the first blind and deaf student to graduate from Harvard Law School; she is also now following her ambition of fighting for better education of other blind and deaf people around the world. Many challenges can face a person, such as physical challenges, challenges at home, and emotional challenges. A person's challenges should not define them and make them give up on what they wish in their lives. Challenges should make people want to be better and to show others that the challenge doesn't define them. Someone who gives up the moment things get challenging or when they don't understand something is not someone who should be in NHS.
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien displays Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to a reader who is not familiar with what it is perfectly because of the many different perspectives and examples he gives in his stories. National Geographic started a program where war veterans could create a mask to show their experiences after the war. This is such an important program because it helps soldiers express themselves in a way that they can not do so with words, and it also spreads awareness to anybody who wants to look at the masks. Many of these masks happen to relate to the themes of different stories in The Things They Carried, both the stories and the masks are a great way to understand someone
Everyone faces challenges sometime in their life, something that blocks them from moving forward in life. However, sometimes these challenges seem too hard, and that leads a person to give up on the reward offered at the end. These challenges differ from person to person, some people face challenges like physical disabilities, like Kayla Montgomery who has multiple sclerosis (MS). This disability makes her legs go numb when she pushes her herself too hard running. However, that does not stop her doing the thing she loves most, running.
In the story, “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers in war carry many burdens, from the objects they carry to the grief, stress, and fear the war causes them. To ease the burdens that follow, each soldier has a different means of evading and coping with the war, like religion, dreaming of a loved one, using drugs, or the ultimate escape through death. In the end, they all want to find some meaning behind their experiences, but some things remain unexplainable or unjustifiable.
Walt Masters and Farah Ahmedi they show their compassion by helping others and fleeing off to find safety, and other people are thankful for those acts. Masters demonstrates bravery when he made it to Dawson with Loren Hall to save Loren Hall's claim. Farah Ahmedi shows compassion because she had the courage to find a person to help her on her journey. She lasted the long walk and the terrible circumstances like her prosthetic leg, to escape Afghanistan. These two characters share compassion, bravery, empathy, and kindness to all people.
Soldiers had to endure the pain of amputation with no pain medication. Ironically, the last sentence leads into my next topic. My next topic is Medical Staff who definitely affected and were affected by the war. Surgeons were needed to save thousands of wounded soldiers.
In the essay, “On Being a Cripple,” Nancy Mairs uses humorous diction and a positive tone to educate people about life as a cripple and struggles of people with disabilities. She does this to show how hard it is to be disabled and how it differs from the life of someone without a disability. She talks about the struggles and the fears that disabled people must deal with on a daily basis. Mairs use of rhetoric creates a strong sense of connection and understanding for the reader. Nancy Mairs is successful in using detailed imagery, diction, and tone to educate her readers about the difficulties of living with a disability.
According to J. Sidlow Baxter, “The difference between an obstacle and an opportunity is our attitude towards it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” Helen Keller and Frank McCourt can be shown as the best examples. Almost all people know about them because they could overcome their hardships, and they give both psychological and emotional support to the handicapped people. Though Helen Keller and Frank McCourt have different family
