In the passage, Nancy Mairs introduces herself as crippled but confident. She explains who she is as a “cripple”. She is a liberated and brilliant person who is bold in what she believes in. Throughout the passage she uses every word to depict her disadvantages as a “cripple”.
Nancy Mairs, “On Being a Cripple” was an interesting article. The word choices she has used plays an important role in her article. Her article is very detailed oriented and used different examples to explain her situation about being a cripple. Mairs had no excuse about her situation even after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and she continues to be the best at her job of parenting and wife. She had really emphasized her struggles that she went through and how she had coped with the fact that her life will never be the same.
Katie Shear was not your typical teenage girl. She was replete with enormous amounts of bovine and noxious behavior and was excessively overbearing and facetious. Can you believe she decided to crack a joke at her own grandmothers funeral? Her parents thought it would help to bring her to church, although it made it worse because she would commit blasphemy. Katie only erudite was to bilk others by selling unworthy items to others at school.
Nancy Miers is a cripple, by her own admission, and in her essay 'on being a cripple' she uses humor and stories to show how she does not want to have her condition to hold her back in life and that people who are crippled can still lead full lifes if they can 'own' being crippled instead of being owned by
Nancy Mairs views the word crippled as truthful and uses it in a manner that brings out her tough personality. She knows that other words such as “disabled” and “handicapped” are inaccurate,
People with disabilities are often viewed as less capable, less intelligent and not available to cope well in society. Mairs uses the different persuasive strategies such as ethos, logos and pathos to create a conscious awareness to build a world in which despite the differences everyone is treated with equality and dignity. She imagines her body as something other than problematic, but a reason to fight to build a world in which people wants her in. Mairs mentions in page 169 “I imagine a world where people, allowed the space to accept- admit, endure, embrace- their diverse and often difficult realities.” As Robert M Hensel, a famous Guinness world champion and a man with spina bifida said once “There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as
God spoke before the Bible, and God speaks today.” (Lightsey 46) From the best of my religious knowledge, I will touch base on a variety of scriptures and examine what they suggest about human beings with disabilities, what the texts suggest about God, and lastly whether or not the
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.
When people hear handicap they think not able to care for themselves. Nancy wants to be known as a tough individual able to take care of herself. The reader can feel the agony of what Nancy is feeling. The tone of this passage is determination and agony. Nancy feels that cripple is more stronger word than “handicap” or ‘disabled.”
In “The Social Construction of Disability,” Susan Wendell briefly discusses how the fast pace of American life impacts the social construction of disability through an inability for people with “disabilities” to maintain expectations of a high-performance level. Wendell also claims that the pace of life causes disability in many people’s lives, but quickly moves on to another topic, referencing chapter four of Barbara Hillyer’s Feminism and Disability in the footnotes as a place for more information on this argument. In Hillyer’s chapter “Productivity and Pace,” she writes to the feminist and disability communities, analyzing how the pace of life affects them both in similar ways. Through an analysis of how people with disabilities are forced to set their own daily pace, Hillyer hopes to encourage others to learn about the necessity of slowing down.
n Nancy Mairs essay, “Disability”, she illustrates the lack of representation of people with disabilities in the media. While disability plays a major role in Mairs’ life, she points out the various ways her everyday life is ordinary and even mundane. Despite the normalcy of the lives of citizens with disabilities Mairs argues the media’s effacement of this population, is fear driven. She claims, “To depict disabled people in the ordinary activities of daily life is to admit that there is something ordinary about the disability itself, that it may enter anybody’s life” (Mairs 14). Able bodied people worry about the prospect of eventually becoming physically impaired.
This quote exemplifies how Candy's disability has limited his employment options and relegated him to menial tasks. Through Candy's character, John Steinbeck sheds light on how individuals that were physically disabled were often disregarded and delegated to low-status roles, emphasizing the need for empathy and inclusivity in
For anybody, being employed can have a crucial impact on their lives. It also has great importance on our social and material well being. Income, self-esteem, identity and sense of independence are just a number of benefits that people can gain from being an active and useful member of the workforce. Yet from a historical perspective, many disabled people have been denied such benefits because of their exclusion from mainstream social and societal activities such as worthwhile employment in particular. Interestingly, disable workers have in the past found themselves welcomed and encouraged into employment during time of shortage of able bodied workers during times of war (Barnes, Mercer & Shakespeare 1999, p.22).
And a disabled person’s ambition is like all other human beings, the looks of pity and compassion negatively affect that ambition. People should embrace the disabled person and give them a helping hand, and they should have laws, which defend their rights, which should be respected. However, most societies do not have laws that ensure an equal life for the disabled population. It is a shame that the rights of the disabled people has turned many times to mere slogans.
In the earth there are over one billion individual people who have disabilities. These disabilities range from a number of thing and can happen for many different reasons. These disabilities can be both physical and mental disabilities. Although there is a wide array of disabilities they have one thing in common, many of these people suffering from these disabilities suffer from the same thing, discrimination. Why should these people experience discrimination?
