Wednesday 10 November 2010

Representation- Disability

Some Views people may have of disabled people;

  • Depends on the type of disability.
  • They are Brave.
  • People with disabilities should have equal opportunities.
  • Some people feel awkward when around them.
  • Have sympathy for them but don't want to patronise them. 
  • Rely on other people a lot.
  • Some people may try and avoid people with disabilities.
  • They are easier to poke fun at rather than empathise with.
  • Some people with a disability embrace it and others make you well aware of it.
  • They might be bitter about their disability.
  • Most disabled people can't help being that way.
  • When seeing people in wheelchairs, you don't know where to look.
  • Most people tend to be more comfortable around physically disabled people rather than someone that is mentally disabled.
  • You don't know how to behave/act around disabled people.
Some Celebrities with Disabilities;

  • Stephen Hawking- Wheelchair, motor neurone.
  • Heather Mills- one leg
  • Gordon Brown- One eye
  • Stevie Wonder- Blind
  • Verne Troyer- Dwarf.
  • Mohammed Ali - Parkinson's Disease.
  • Michael J Fox- Parkinson's Disease.
  • Gary Coleman- Dwarf.
  • Albert Einstein- Autism.
  • Leonardo Davinci-Autism.
  • Ian Dury- Polio.
  • Mozart- Deaf.


Characters in Film-

  • Rainman- Dustin Hoffman.
  • Forest Gump - Tom Hanks.
  • My Left Foot- Daniel Day Lewis.
  • I Am Sam- Sean Penn.
  • Born on the 4th July- Tom Cruise.
  • Waterboy- Adam Sandler.
  • The Ringer- Johnny Knoxville.
  • The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button- Brad Pitt.
  • Unbreakable- Samuel L.Jackson.
  • I Robot- Will Smith.
  • Million Dollar Baby- Hillary Swank.
  • Avatar- Sam Worthington.

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