Coming Clean About Motives When someone is trying to persuade you into something‚ good questions to ask are: Who’s interest are they serving and how will they profit from their proposal? These questions get to the heart of ethical arguments. For example‚ Jonathan Smith wrote in A Modest Proposal that he receives no benefit from what his suggestion to end 18th century poverty in Ireland by selling their infant children as food. I profess‚ in the sincerity of my heart‚ that I have not the least
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The word ‘cripple’ is an offensive word in societies eyes‚ people often gesture towards lighter words; such as handicap or disabled. These are all very powerful words used to define the incapable people living within society. I have two cripple parents who both cannot live a normal life due to their chronic disabilities. When people see my mother or father I’m sure they automatically associate the word handicap in order to define them. Yet‚ my parents are in fact cripple not handicap. The
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It is harder to create a new identity that conflicts with the fixed set of morals of the society a person is in‚ because of language/dialect expectations‚ first impressions/stereotyping‚ and religious pressures. If someone lives in a country that predominantly speaks a certain way‚ that person is considered “weird” if their vernacular is different from the culture’s. In “The Perfect Voice‚” Carl Elliott explains that a person that speaks a certain language or with a certain dialect is automatically
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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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