Father Wolf Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Amazing how my brain take a short decent story and fined something and hates on it. im not asking for editing im asking if it is a desent and informational read. Normal HumanFebruary 16, 2009 Normal HumanWhen I see a disabled person cross my path; whether, he be blind, in a wheel chair, or mentally slow, I want to treat him with care and help, but in all actuality most disabled people have coped with their disability as though it was not even there. Many disabled people have told me to treat them as if they were just like me; a normal human.In the story “Cathedral” the Narrator is faced with a problem in his own home. That is the Blind Man, or as he knows him as his wife’s best friend. During the story several of his biased tendencies come out not only towards the Blind man but towards different people in general. In the end, the Narrator grows and becomes more rounded of a person through this experience.It is proven fact that nearly every person in the world has some type of biased feeling to a group of people. A biased feelings towards a group of people does not make a person raciest or a bigot towards that group of people. Mostly we hear of stereotypes between races or sexuality but in comparison we rarely hear of people’s stereotypes against disabled people. Most of the stereotypes in this story focused on the blind such as “In the Movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed (666).” The Narrator quickly realized that is was not the case with this actual blind man. Sure the man needed some help walking after he got out of the car, but he walked as fast as a normal person and he laughed throughout the story like a normal person. In today’s world, it seems nearly everyone has a disability of some sort; example is Attention Deficit Disorder or as it is known in the popular media: A.D.D. But what does society consider a handicapped person? When asked it seems the fallowing comes to mind: Blind, Deaf, the mentally Retarded, and of course the famous Paraplegic that you see in handicapped signs. We as a society have done nearly everything in our power to make it so that handicapped people have an easier time in life. Things such as parking, being able to skip in lines, bus seats, discounts and others have been done to ensure an easier life style for the disabled. But is there anymore that we can do? Or is this pampering just another form of bigotry? 25% of handicapped people will say that it’s a nice gesture but not truly necessary. 25% will say it’s not necessary while 50% will say this it is necessary for their daily lives. It truly comes down to a matter of opinion. For example: the blind man toke the help of the Wife only a few times in the story but nearly 90% of the story he stayed independent. The blind man will fall under the 25% that said yes and no, ‘most likely’. Yet another example is euphemisms. Euphemisms, a form of soft and comforting language that takes direct (some would say harsh) language and makes it sound less harsh without changing the general meaning, is another way society has tried to make disabled people feel better about themselves and their condition. Here is a few of these Euphemisms: Handicappible, physically challenged, and differently-abiled. Even more so, Television, movies, and the internet are the one exception to all of these rules. All three can be about showing support for disabled people or against helping disabled people. Through medias magic, people develop these stereotypes regardless if they are good or bad, but do not think the handicapped have been only talked about in the main stream media. They also have had a chance to speak their minds about how, we as normal people act towards them. “I thought I knew that much and that much only about blind people (671).” Apparently the narrator did not know as much as he thought, for most people do not understand what they do not know. The Narrator after this point in the story becomes astonished at how much the blind man can do on his own. The blind man can do most of a person’s daily tasks nearly effortlessly such as: smoking his cigar to the numb and getting another one, walking by himself, and eating dinner. Let’s not cross out books either. There are numerous stories about disabled people. Most being about a disabled person changing people’s lives or good athlete got hurt and how being in someone else’s shoes changed his life for the better, stereotypical stories. Not like it’s a bad thing it’s just one view repeated over and over again. Media can change our views on disabled people instantly. Regardless if read, watched, or lived with it; however, just remember it is not a bad thing necessarily it is just not a good thing. Another thing is the” walk in the person’s shoes” concept is where we as “normal” people have a disabled person show us; how hard it is for them to get by. This is not really true numerous disabled people have coped with their disability make it easy for them to live with us just closing our eyes doesn’t instantly make use equal to a blind person. The normal person would have to live like that for awhile, to really get to know what it feels like to truly walk in their shoes. The blind man in the story showed the Narrator what the cathedral looked like by closing his eyes and drawing it. “Never thought anything like this could happen in your lifetime, did you, bub? Well it’s a strange life, we all know that. (677)” Just then the Narrator had a breakthrough in his life he was able to see what was wrong with his life. This method really could never amount to an actual disability. No matter how life changing it is. Most handicapped people have learned to live good lives regardless of their disability. Even as independent as many of them are, they may still need help and us as “normal” people must do our best to help but not too much as to offend them. It is hard to find the middle ground on this issue but we must work together to help better our relationship and make this so called “normal” and “disabled” people become just people. Work Sited Raymond, Carver, “Cathedral.” The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues 6th ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008.777-82. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGAKITTY Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Wolf Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better, my good sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnarok1945 Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I'm surprised to see you only need ONE source (you might want more) Other than that it looks relatively decent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Wolf Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I'm surprised to see you only need ONE source (you might want more) Other than that it looks relatively decent we were only aload to use 1 sourse because she wanted to see how much info we could get out of it. thanks =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGAKITTY Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better' date=' my good sir.[/quote'] That depends on the teacher. I've definitely bs'd papers by using the biggest words I could find, and gotten A's on them before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnarok1945 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better' date=' my good sir.[/quote'] That depends on the teacher. I've definitely bs'd papers by using the biggest words I could find, and gotten A's on them before. I hope you know some professors actually take points off for big words (they count that as showing off, and they have no tolerance for that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbamber Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 I liked it. Could be a little better, but I'm not a professional writer either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrun Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 When I see a disabled person cross my path whether he be blind, in a wheel chair, or mentally slow, but in all actuality most disabled people have coped with their disability as though it wasn’t even there. Many disabled people have told me to treat them as if they were just like me; a normal human being. Read that over, and tell me why I bolded it. The first sentenced, you started ate pizza, and shat chocolate. Meaning you started talking an action, then some how went to a conclusion, your missing a couple sentences there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
「tea.leaf」 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better' date=' my good sir.[/quote'] That depends on the teacher. I've definitely bs'd papers by using the biggest words I could find, and gotten A's on them before. And that's why I write all of my papers with a thesaurus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Wolf Posted February 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 When I see a disabled person cross my path whether he be blind' date=' in a wheel chair, or mentally slow, but in all actuality most disabled people have coped with their disability as though it wasn’t even there. Many disabled people have told me to treat them as if they were just like me; a normal human being.[/b'] Read that over, and tell me why I bolded it. The first sentenced, you started ate pizza, and shat chocolate. Meaning you started talking an action, then some how went to a conclusion, your missing a couple sentences there... i know i just fixed it this was only my 2nd rough draft i turned the paper at 10pm yesturday just be for i went home. the final one came out with 1 more pg and all things corrected that was wrong with this copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Altair Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Holy sheet =O You wrote a post grammatically correct. If the next person to do so is tonisanoob then the world is coming to an end =O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrun Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Holy s*** =O You wrote a post grammatically correct. If the next person to do so is tonisanoob then the world is coming to an end =O Who was this in response to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuldur Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 It's brilliant. *starts clapping* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Altair Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Holy s*** =O You wrote a post grammatically correct. If the next person to do so is tonisanoob then the world is coming to an end =O Who was this in response to? Whom do you think >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrun Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Holy s*** =O You wrote a post grammatically correct. If the next person to do so is tonisanoob then the world is coming to an end =O Who was this in response to? Whom do you think >.> Ozzy Osbourne? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Altair Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Holy s*** =O You wrote a post grammatically correct. If the next person to do so is tonisanoob then the world is coming to an end =O Who was this in response to? Whom do you think >.> Ozzy Osbourne? Obviously I'm talking about Wolfy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azuh Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Huh, im suprised Hitler wasn't mentioned in here, since Disabled people were the one of the targets of his new revolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Wolf Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Huh' date=' im suprised Hitler wasn't mentioned in here, since Disabled people were the one of the targets of his new revolution[/quote'] the final title was "The Final Solution" =D lmfao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabHelmet Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 When I see a disabled person cross my path whether he be blind' date=' in a wheel chair, or mentally slow, but in all actuality most disabled people have coped with their disability as though it wasn’t even there.[/quote'] Stopped reading there. If the first sentence is a tangled mess of nonsense, the paper sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMGAKITTY Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better' date=' my good sir.[/quote'] That depends on the teacher. I've definitely bs'd papers by using the biggest words I could find, and gotten A's on them before. I hope you know some professors actually take points off for big words (they count that as showing off, and they have no tolerance for that) That's stupid. I'm "showing off" that I have a mastery of the English language? I'm sorry if I think using "big" six times in four sentences sounds tacky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Wolf Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Final Draft posted When I see a disabled person cross my path whether he be blind' date=' in a wheel chair, or mentally slow, but in all actuality most disabled people have coped with their disability as though it wasn’t even there.[/quote'] Stopped reading there. If the first sentence is a tangled mess of nonsense, the paper sucks. reason this was the 2nd draft AKA the first typed draft <.< learn2lurkmore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragnarok1945 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 It's biased. use bigger words. bigger words doesnt make a paper better' date=' my good sir.[/quote'] That depends on the teacher. I've definitely bs'd papers by using the biggest words I could find, and gotten A's on them before. I hope you know some professors actually take points off for big words (they count that as showing off, and they have no tolerance for that) That's stupid. I'm "showing off" that I have a mastery of the English language? I'm sorry if I think using "big" six times in four sentences sounds tacky. Call it a matter of professors don't like it when you try giving the impression you sound smarter than them (at least from their POV) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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