Part 1- The name of the law that I chose is the Americans with Disabilities Act‚ also known as the ADA. This was signed into law in the year 1990. Part 2- The most basic component of the ADA entails a non-discriminatory behavior towards children and adults that may have a disability. Another basic component of the ADA is that all people who have any special needs are given equal opportunities alongside their fellow citizens who are classified as having no special needs. These components mean that
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Today‚ more than 60 million people in the United States‚ approximately one in five‚ have some type of disability (The Equal Rights Center. n.d.). The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity. In general‚ a physical or mental impairment includes hearing‚ mobility and visual impairments‚ chronic alcoholism‚ chronic mental illness‚ AIDS‚ AIDS Related Complex‚
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Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History. Douglas Baynton argues in this article that historians should see disability as a central issue in American history‚ rather than a special topic of interest only to those who study the lives of disabled people. To illustrate this point‚ he draws together historical narratives of three major political debates in American history that do not–on face value–seem related to disability: the women’s sufferage movement‚ debates over slavery
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writing to inform you with the problems of the disability laws. The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 needs to be updated because they do not state enough benefits with health care. The laws should include free health care for families that have a member with disabilities. These moderate views on this law could change many lives. The American with Disabilities Act as of now states that it prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment‚ state and local government programs
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The Americans with Disabilities Act it prohibits discrimination in recruitment‚ hiring‚ promotions‚ training‚ pay‚ social activities‚ and other privileges of employment. The employer is also required to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities‚ unless it results in undue hardship. Ms. Smith’s hearing impaired disability was known to Shop Here when she was hired. Both Ms. Smith and Shop Here also understood that
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Disabilites Disability has several definitions. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a disability as: a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity; or when an entity takes an action prohibited by the ADA based on an actual or perceived impairtment. I chose the movie Edward Scissorhands as my example for disabilities‚ and how it makes life so different from
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Mairs is a writer afflicted with multiple sclerosis. In her essay‚ "Disability"‚ she explains how the media fails to accurately portray individuals living with a debilitating disease. This causes people with a handicap to feel inadequate‚ isolated‚ and lonely. Consequently‚ the media’s lack of depiction hinders the able-bodied person’s ability to understand‚ interact‚ and accept disability as normal. Mairs wants disability to be portrayed in everyday life that way others can be aware of those
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Equal in Mind "Society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment." Society makes generalizations and stereotypes about the disabled and the disease stricken. Society as a whole has the belief that they are less of a person because of something they cannot change about themselves. Society places the disabled in a category by themselves‚ as an outcast from modern civilization. We think that if we
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Option 2 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed‚ in effort‚ to protect the hiring rights of disabled persons in the workforce. It sought to make the bigotry and prejudice that faced disabled people in the hiring process illegal and‚ also‚ to lesson the economic burden put on firms to accommodate disabled persons needs in the office by making it illegal to refuse to hire and accommodate to save money. The logic was that if all businesses must‚ then no business can gain a competitive
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Social Sciences Part- time Year 1. Assignment 2. Consider the Social Model of Disability. How useful is this model in helping us understand the nature of Disability discrimination? Inspired by the writings of various disabled activists and scholars the 1980’s and the 1990’s‚disability studies has taken on an emancipatory turn because of the paradigm shift by sociologists and activists from explaining disability in terms of individual pathology or biomedical to the ways in which environmental
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