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Reading Disability Nancy Mairs Analysis
English 101
21 September 2013

Nancy Mair Essay Reading Disability Written by Nancy Mairs made me sense that even though She has a disability that may make her walk with a brace and a cane or most often you will see her in a wheel chair you will not see a women with her disability on television simply because of her disability even though she is able live a normal ordinary life just like many others. The question choose another group that you think has been effaced in television or advertising and programing really left me thinking and pondering to myself that to me one particular group has been effaced from all the above Muslims or also known as Towel Heads.
The Muslim culture has been heavily effaced over the past few years due to the tragic events of 9/11. Our society has been left feeling angered, heart broken and also we must
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It’s just that one man can put such a bad reputation on an entire religion and country. Aamir the boy my best friend dated would always tell me stories how if his family and him would go to the airport they were always ones to get selected to go to private searching’s which is completely unfair just because of his religion. Now imagine yourself in that situation being selected out of everyone to go to a private room for searching because you’re a Muslim, I would be absolutely irritated and annoyed and quite frankly embarrassed. Unfortunately we live in a world today that everyone is so judged and stereo typed that we make assumptions about a person before we even get to know them. For example if you saw a kid walking down the street wearing all black and had a arm sleeve of tattoos and a bunch of piercings one would assume he is a punk yet we know nothing about that person and that’s how the Muslim culture is in todays

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