what is your realization after reading Mr.Braile's life story and his disability? answer: (wilfred)

Its very hard to live with a disability, most specially when you are blind, you don't even got a chance to see how beautiful and colorful the world is. Trying to understand with his situation i've learned that its hard adjusting with the fact that we must learn to survive by our own way. I'm trully amazed by his works because he has done something remarkable that a normal person can't even do. What i'm trying to pertain is that i as a normal human being having the complete senses, i just can't understand why people having disabilities have to be more blessed than we are but what i have come to realize is that we normal persons just don't know how to use our skills. Another thing is that people who have disabilities are highly motivated because of their situation.

Mr. Braille has given a very big contribution to the people who has been needing his invention and people under his situation is trully blessed for they don't have to have dificulty in some certain things like reading their name.

Day 4(Steady Eddy-Celebral Palsy)

Steady Eddy is the stage name of Christopher Widdows, an Aystrian comedian and actor with Celebral palsy. Initially, Widdows used his disability as the basis for his comedy. Having since made a name for himself, he has branched out beyond humour based solely around his disability.

1992 - his career began, with appearances on Australia TV\s Nine Network The Midday Show and days later, Seven Network's Tonight Live with Steve Vizard.

1993 - saw him touring with his show, "Ready Steady Go!"

1994 - brought the International Melbourne Comedy Festival where has was rewarded with a Young Austrian Achivers Award.

1999 - Steady Eddy was master of ceremonies for the national tour by supergroup Midnight Oil.

2004 - Eddy co-starred as Trevor in the Austrian made comedy.

This had not been the kind of rock 'n' roll gig Steady Eddy prefers. A comic who suffers from celebral palsy and whose condition is an integral part of his act, can't always count on the sympathy factor when it comes to playing for laughs. He was working as a Navy storeman when he saw his sister perform at Sydney's Comedy Store and thought he'd try open-mike spot himself. He got more comfident as his material became more outrageous. Aged 25, he is currently in possession of Australia's awards for Best New Wave Comic, Best Stand-up Performer and Best Comedy Album.

He may be at pains to be seen as a taboo-breaker, but he is just as intensely aware of his marketability. Ask him why his material concentrates almost exclusively on his disability and you receive two replies. First, The comedy's got to come from your own personal experiences; if it doesn't, it's not you, it's manufactured.

He recalls his childhood: 'My teachers told me I had to be inconspicuous to fit into the mainstream of society...yet every every morning a bus would pick me up with 'Spastic Center' written down the side.' Instead of berating him, perhaps we should just recognize that this is one brave disabled man's attempt to stand up and be counted.

when did i have courage, moral courage & moral cowardice?

when i had the courage to tell the truth from speaking out, who stole my mothers money. Its something that you will feel guilty of not telling the truth. Its bad that you would steal from someones money and so I had felt something moral because it bothered my conscience that i have done the right thing but the wrong thing though when it lasted for almost two days after I told the truth. . . .

agatha christie

Agatha Christie was a prolific and extremely popular British author and playwright best known for her work in the murder mystery genre. From her first novel in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, to the reprints of her novels that still appear today, some 30 years after her death, Agatha Christie's works have enjoyed unparalleled success. But while Christie and her favorite characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become icons of "who dunnit" detective fiction, the scope of Christie's popularity is such that that sales of her books have not only surpassed that of any other mystery writer, but of all other writers of any genre. Not even William Shakespeare has been so widely read. In fact, according to the Guinness Book of World Records over 2 billion copies of her books have sold and her works have been translated into more than 100 languages. Only the Christian Bible has outstripped her in readership.


Agatha Christie - Had a learning disability called dysgraphia, which prevented an understood or legible written work. As a result, all materials had to be dictated to a typist/transcriptionist.

It is official: famous mystery novelist Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer's.

Lancashire, who is a professor of English, and Hirst, who is a computer scientist, have combined humanities and science to give conclusive proof of Agatha's Alzheimer's-related dementia during the final years of her life.But she was old when she got her sickness called alzheimer's, when she was young, she had a sickness called epilepsy but there are rare documentations that has not been published yet about her epilepsy.

As what i have understood from what i have read from the different informations given by the net is that:

Having Epilepsy should not be a barrier to your aspirations and dreams. You can be whatever you want to be. You can achieve your goals if you stay positive…. don’t dwell on what you can’t do, focus your efforts on what you can do.

there's one article though said that (about agatha christie) one thing that keeps her being motivated was her family.

There are a lot of illness and failures that came to her life but still she kept forcing herself but she really loves her work, its actually one thing that would make you excel, its actually the love and interest of your work.

answer

..when his father and mother get separated and he became the oldest man of the family then. Through fighting his disability. Eventhough he is not that good in his academic but still he tried his best to finish his studies. He even join a wrestling team but because of an injury he decided to do something else and that is acting. He does not think of his disability, instead he just act and think that he is a normal person despite of his disability. As a future teacher, I realize that if ever I have this kind of students in my class I should not treat them or judge them because of their disabilities. Instead, I will give more attention to them, for them to think that they belong to the class despite of their disability. Patience is important this time.

MICHAEL J. FOX-- is an Emmy award-winning Canadian American actor, author and voice over artist. with a film and television career spanning from 1970s to the present. fox was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in1998. fox semi-retired from acting in 200 as the symptoms of his disease worsened. he has since become an advocate for research towards finding a cure. this led him to create the michael j. foundation. in recent years he had guest starred on various television shows and appeared as himself in Emmy nominated prime time special Michael J Fox: Adventures Of An Incurable Optimism( a personal journey of hope) in may 2009. parkinsons disease os a chronic neurological disorder which can be characterized by four cardinal symptom: rigidity, resting tremor, postural instability, and bradykinesia( slow movement). at present there is no cure but medications provide some relief from the symptoms. in his lucky memoir, lucky man fox wrote that he did not take his medication prior to his testimony " i had made a deliberate choice to appear before the sub committee without medication. it seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard

louis braille was the inventor -- was the inventor of a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. braille is reads by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. it has been adapted to almost every known language.

brailles young life

he became blind at the age of 3, when he accidentally poked himself in the eye with a stitching awl, one of his fathers workshop tools. the injury wasn't thought to be serious until it got infected. braille's other eye went blind because of symphathetic ophthalmia.
at the young age of 10, braille earned a scholarship to the national institute for the blind in paris.
one of the first of it's kind in the world. braille a bright and creative students, become a talented cellist and organist in his time at the school, playing the organ for churches all over france. at the school the children were taught basic craftsman skill and simple trades. they were also taught how to read by feeling raised letters

development of the braille

in 1821 charles barbier a former captain in the french army, visited the school. barbier shared his invention called " night writing " a code of 12 raised dots and a number of dashes that let soldiers share top secret information on the battlefield without having to speak. the code was too difficult for louis to understand and he later changed the numbers of raised dots to 6 to form what we today call braille. the same year louis braille began inventing his raised dot system with his father stitching awl, the same implement that with which he had blinded himself, finishing at the age of 15. braille later extended his system to include the notation for mathematics and music. the first book in braille was published in 1829 under the title Method of Writing Words, and plain Songs by MEans of dots for the use by the blind and arranged for them.
braille became a well respected teacher at the institute. although he was admired and respeced by his pupils, his writing was not taught at the institute during his lifetime. the air at the institute was foul and he died in paris of tuberculosis in 1851 at the age of 43: his body was disinterred in 1952 and honored with re-interment on the pantheon in paris. his system was finally recognized in france 2 years after his death.

day 5________friday

Helen Adams Keller

(june 27’ 1880) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how keller’s teacher, Anne sulivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, he has become known worldwide through the dramatic depiction’s of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

Early childhood and illness

Helen Adams Keller was born on the plantation called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on june 27, 1880. The family originates from Switzerland, Helen keller was not born blind and deaf, it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness describe by doctors as “ an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain “ which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. Anne sulivan arrived at keller’s house in march 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought keller as present. Starting in may 1888, keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1892 helen keller and anne sulivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-humason School for the Deaf and Horace mann School for the Deaf. In 1896 they returned to Massachusetts and keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other causes. Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles. Keller suffered a series of strikes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home. Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home. Kellers life has been interpreted many times, she appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style. She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Comell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

Day 4 (Tom Cruise - Dyslexia)

TOM CRUISE

It may be hard to believe that one of the world's most famous actors was once just as average as everyone else, but such was the case with Tom Cruise. Tom was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. He was the third of four children, and the only son of Mary Lee and Thomas Mapother IV. He's father, an electrical engineer, was constantly looking for work during Tom's childhood. As a result, Tom and the rest of his family never had the opportunity to settle down in one place. Their constantly moving around was hard on the family, and especially hard to Tom. Tom never spent a lot of time any one school because the family moved around a lot. Not long after settling into Glen Ridge, NJ, Tom's parents divorced. Tom's mother was given custody of the children and the tight economic situation became even tighter for the family. With no older brothers, Tom was now the oldest man in the house, although still only a 12 year old boy.

In addition to problems at home, Tom like his mother, suffered from dyslexia. Tom is right handed when writing, but does most things left handed. Being dyslexic was yet another obstacle standing in the way of Tom's education. He was into the remedial classes at school. Not excelling in school, Tom entered a seminary for the priesthood at the age of 14. Tom left not long afterwards, and enrolled in Glen Ridge High School. Tom continued to struggle academically during his high school years. Tom joined the wristling team however, after suffering a serious injury he decided to do something else. That something else was acting.

He was diagnosed as dyslexic at seven, and tired to hide his learning disability from the other children at school. He has described his younger self as "a functional illiterate", through high school and his first several films. Explaining how such a functionally illiterate man can possibly make a good impression at auditions, he said, "I'd get the director and producer to talk about the characters and the film. I'd glean information from them and I'd use that... I got preety good at ad-libbing".

According to Spanish magazine XL Semanal, Cruise was frustrated and bored as a youth and coudn't concentrate in class. He was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980.

Honesty! Advisory to Everyone!!!

Hello Majors, i see that you have submitted some of your requirements... but what i have noticed or the way i look at it, some of you are just copying (copy and paste) or some other person are doing your write ups.... where's the honesty now? Soon you are going to be teachers, and being so, you have to practice honesty in everything you do. It makes me sad by the way i see it. It defeats the purpose of why we doing this. So please be original. Be yourself. And don't make me repeat what i have said because I wont. You know where it will reflect. Thank You!