two articles that have inspire me the most are Nancy Mairs’ essay “On Being a Cripple” and Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. I have chosen these essays not only because of the ‘key concepts’ that can be found in each of these texts but also because of their similarities both stories share. They both discuss how they refused to be defined by how society sees them which makes both stories interesting and appealing to read. Mairs discusses the many obstacles she has to face
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1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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does not work due to the fact that it is taken to extremes. It may be okay to call a “crippled” person “handicapped”‚ but calling them “differently abled” is taken too far and seems to be more offensive to the handicapped person then being called a “cripple”. Since when is it offensive to call a house pet “pet”? We now have to call our “pets” “animal companions”? As stated in Source D‚ “…these changes alter language to the point of obscuring‚ even destroying‚ its meaning.” Many in favor of political
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Critical writing – question #4 In this essay‚ Nancy Mairs shows how disabled people are constantly excluded‚ especially from the media. By giving out facts and including her personal experiences‚ Mairs aims for making some changes regarding the relationship between the media and people with disabilities. Mairs thesis is shown implicitly in the first and last paragraphs. Her main goal is to show everyone that people with disabilities are just like everybody else and they should be included and accepted
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• Why is it important to be objective when receiving feedback? How might you use feedback to revise your rough draft to make it as effective as possible? It is important to be objective when receiving feedback to possibly consider room for improvement. Sometimes you don’t see the errors or mistakes you missed; by receiving feedback you might be able to catch the errors or mistakes because the person that gave you the feedback caught. The one thing you need to consider is that all feedback may
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How true are the stories that are told in an autobiography? Nancy Mairs would say that each person has their own way of looking at an event. The autobiographies of Black Elk and Oishi Junkyo bring up many questions of truth and subjectivity. These autobiographies show that personal accounts are subjective and language‚ memory‚ the motives of the writer/translator‚ make autobiography that much more subjective. Nancy Mairs writes in her article “Trying Truth” about the struggles of writing an autobiography
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Media’s Representation of Disabilities The essays that Nancy Mairs and Rosie Anaya wrote discuss the media’s lack of proper representations for those with disabilities. Mairs speaks about how people with disabilities have the same sense of normality as those who do not. Anaya talks about how the media representation of physical disabilities eventually has improved but mental illnesses are portrayed on a much worse level creating fear. Mairs wrote her essay in 1987. She discusses how the media
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Nancy Mairs is a writer afflicted with multiple sclerosis. In her essay‚ "Disability"‚ she explains how the media fails to accurately portray individuals living with a debilitating disease. This causes people with a handicap to feel inadequate‚ isolated‚ and lonely. Consequently‚ the media’s lack of depiction hinders the able-bodied person’s ability to understand‚ interact‚ and accept disability as normal. Mairs wants disability to be portrayed in everyday life that way others can be aware of
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this time‚ we need to be positive‚ high-energy to encourage ourselves to keep going. For instance‚ although life was cruel for Nancy Mairs whose limbs were incompatible‚ she did not fear the truth. She wrote" I want them to see me as a tough customer‚ one to whom the fates/ gods/ viruses have not been kind‚ but who can face the brutal truth of her existence squarely." (Mairs. Pg. 20) When she realized that she had multiple sclerosis instead of a brain tumor‚ which the doctor told her before‚ she did
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**Virginia Woolf‚ Moments of Being‚ childhood summers (02) Essay‚ passage from nonfiction or newspaper Letters Speeches Igor Stravinsky discusses orchestra conductors Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ “Why We Can’t Wait” Joan Didion‚ Santa Ana winds Nancy Mairs‚ “Cripple” (92) DEFINITION E.M. Forster‚ “My Wood” (93) Sir Savile about King Charles II* (94) Ellen Goodman‚ “Company Man” (95) Mary Oliver‚ Owls (01) Richard Rodriguez‚ “Days of Obligation‚” explore conflicting feelings (04) **Jennifer Price‚ “Pink
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