...On Being a Cripple Nancy Mairs’ essay, “On Being a Cripple”, has an emotional view on how she must cope with the life and struggles of being handicapped. Mairs strongly disliked her condition because it left her fragile and vulnerable toward her skills. After Mairs was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she was opened up to a new life that she had to adapt to. Her ability to perform tasks and to engage in various activities were limited by the declined use of her body parts. In the reader’s perspective, one can conclude that Mairs wants to give the reader a brief depiction of how his or her life would be like as a handicap. Mairs’ use of the word “cripple” is compelling because she adds a spontaneous description of what she had to cope with as a handicap individual. She defines “cripple” as a person who has difficult time adjusting to the struggles and situations that he or she must face in life, such as moving around and daily routines (putting on clothes or getting ready for work). She also finds the words “disabled” and “handicapped” to be ambiguous and different. These words were unclear to Mairs and she stated that disabled is resulted by a real injury or mindful matter while handicapped means to lose mobility in body parts. The reader...
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...“I grew up not being accepted by society for a long time due to having an accent, I wasn’t aware of the standards society sets for people with different backgrounds, Sherman Alexie and Nancy Mairs made me realize that there are indeed certain standards and norms society expect of you. I believe Sherman Alexie’s and Nancy Mairs essays are comparable because they both talk about what in their cases was acceptable by society and how they refused to be like everybody else. In Alexie’s and Mairs essays, I understand that they both have the same message I believe they both try to encourage and motivate people to break out of that stereotype and to make them understand it is ok to be different. Both talk about how they were expected to be and how they wouldn’t let anyone “non-Indians” as Sherman Alexie wrote or anything the disease multiple sclerosis in Nancy Mairs case defeat them....
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...Mairs, Nancy. "On Being Cripple". The Norton Reader. Ed. Linda Peterson and John C. Breteon. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. 59-68 In this well written essay, Nancy Mairs, a feminist writer who has multiple sclerosis, defines the terms in which she will interact with the world. She will name herself--a cripple--and not be named by others. She will choose a word that represents her reality. Nancy Mairs, talks about her disease "multiple sclerosis", she is well aware of her disadvantage, although she did not choose the disease the disease chose her. Mairs still has an positive attitude about life, despite all her limitaions she continues to make a good thing out of a bad situation. Mairs is aware she is not the only person who had this type of disease will experience some sort of mental and physical breakdown. Mairs has a goal, she would like to continue with her daily actiivies, as far as teaching, writing, raising children, speaking publicly about MS and depression. The author grabs my attention, in a positive way, knowing we are all human, with some type of disease , by way of mental or physical no matter what the problem is , we could all fall into a depression state at any given time for any given reason. But if we continue to keep positive thoughts we could all relate to Mairs. Mairs describes the diagnosis early on, the kind of person she was before...
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...CRAMS Essay In the essays, “Living Under Circe’s Spell” by Matthew Soyster and “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs the authors describe what it is like to have Multiple Sclerosis or MS. Multiple Sclerosis is a nervous system disease that is incurable. Although they are discussing the same subject the authors display different attitudes towards it. Soyster seems to with an attitude of longing for the past while Mairs approaches the subject with a more positive attitude about her disability. Both of the writers use diction, appeals to pathos, and allusion to effectively describe their lives with this disease. The use of diction in these essays plays an instrumental role in establishing the tone and ideas that the authors present. Both the writers...
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...Jesus Christ and made him his savior and accepted him at the center of his life, and now he goes from city to city talking about God and how he has created his own identity for himself with the help of God. The speaker told us about how through all of those things that have happened in his past have caused him to become a strong person, but how anyone can make their own identity regardless of their background or the actions that they have done in the past. In the essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs talks about being crippled and what it is like. She says “I made the choice” of whether to be called handicapped, disabled, crippled, or another term used for physically disabled people. (Mairs, 231) She goes onto to talk about how she doesn’t let her disability bother her as much, and how she has become the person she is today. When people let their disabilities or other problems affect them it changes the way they think, and the way they act towards other people, hence creating a poor identity for themselves. Mairs tells about how she has created her own...
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...In Nancy Mairs’ “On Being a Cripple” she lends us to the extensive view of the life of a person living with MS, and the day to day basis on how her life has changed. According the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disease of young adults. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease that affects myelin , a substance that makes up the membrane (called the myelin sheath) that wraps around nerve fibers (axons). Mrs. Mairs’ life has been changed to the point where her daily life is impacted by her disease, but not to the point where she allows the disease to define her life. She still tries to do daily activities and has adjusted her disability. She herself doesn’t say that her life is nothing but worry-free. but she does say that if anyone should be well adjusted to having MS, it’d be her. Her essay brings up a lot of points about being disabled, from the linguistics of identifying disabled people to how...
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...Praise for Succeeding with Agile “Understanding the mechanics of an agile process is just not enough. Mike Cohn has compiled a superb and comprehensive collection of advice that will help individuals and teams with the intricate task of adopting and adapting agile processes to fit their specific challenges. This book will become the definitive handbook for agile teams.” —Colin Bird, Global Head of Agile, EMC Consulting “Mike Cohn’s experience working with so many different organizations in the adoption of agile methods shines through with practical approaches and valuable insights. If you really want agile methods to stick, this is the book to read.” —Jeff Honious,Vice President, Innovation, Reed Elsevier “Mike Cohn has done it again. Succeeding with Agile is based on his experience, and all of our experience, with agile to date. He covers from the earliest days of the project up to maturity and offers advice for the individual, the team, and the enterprise. No matter where you are in the agile cycle, this book has something for you!” —Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com “If you want to start or take the next step in agile software development, this book is for you. It discusses issues, great solutions, and helpful guidelines when scaling up in agile projects. We used the guidelines from this book extensively when we introduced agile in a large, FDA-regulated department.” —Christ Vriens, Department Head of MiPlaza, part of Philips Research “If making the move to agile has always...
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