Mean Baby Thesis

Nancy Mairs comes into view as a woman who recognizes who she is. Mairs knows she can do anything she sets her mind too. She doesn’t let her disability stop her from what she manages to do. She has put herself to deny what she has giving her a positive outlook on what she can do. She says in lines 10-11 “I want them to see me as a tough customer.”

In the essay, “Carnal Acts”, Nancy Mairs speaks about the difficulties of coping with MS and how her voice as a writer helped her through it. At first, she has difficulty making a connection between dealing with multiple sclerosis and how she discovered her voice as a writer. After deliberating for weeks about the connection between these two very different aspects in her life she gets to the realization that they are connected. She first describes the difficulties of dealing with MS and societies perception of a woman with a disability. Then she talks about the struggle of coping with the shame she feels about herself.

Despite the fact that Nancy Mairs chose a well diction and sarcastic tone to evoke readers empathy toward her essay , she also evokes a sympathetic response to her audience by telling reader that she does not feel sorry for being a cripple. She uses satirical description of her feelings , by allowing reader to see that she also felt sympathy for herself. Although Mairs, evokes empathy when telling her story, her sympathetic response toward her illness shows that she felt disconnected with her illness and that she did not have nothing else than to take what her destiny brought her. According to Mairs “

Multiple Sclerosis is when the immune system attacks the nervous system. Higgins has multiple lesions on her brain and spine and she relapses and remits which means she gets sick and then better but she never restores complete function of her brain and body. To her children, MS means “Many Scars” because she has scars on her brain and spine. Harper and Hudson are too little to understand Multiple Sclerosis but they understand that sometimes Higgins is sick and in pain.

Even though she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, she is still able to have the strength to achieve anything that is possible to her. Because of having MS, the unpredictable course of the disease were terrifying to her. Each night she would get into bed wondering whether she will ever get out again the next morning. Whether she be able to see, speak, to hold a pen between, knowing that one day might come. With the horrible situation in Nancy's life she had the strength to overcome any obstacle.

Nancy describes her experience with multiple sclerosis, indicating how hard it is to lose your own body slowly. Mairs hated her disease and conforms to many harsh realities of

Terminally ill patients lose control over so many aspects of their lives, in many ways physician-assisted death gives them back some of the control they lost. Illness is not discriminatory. Therefore, people of all ages and backgrounds are diagnosed with things like cancer, kidney failure, and heart disease every day. Also, for anyone who is unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with any terminal illness, it can feel like their disease controls every aspect of their lives and they have no choice in the matter. Authors for the Journal of the American Society on Aging Lee Combs and Grube describe how persistent pain took control of a young woman named Brittany Maynard’s life, “Even after undergoing a sophisticated surgery and numerous cancer treatments,

Nancy Mairs has long been renowned for her essay on disability, providing a powerful insight into the struggles of living with a disability. Having multiple sclerosis herself, Mairs uses her personal experience to paint a vivid picture of the physical and emotional difficulties those with disabilities face in everyday life. By discussing her experiences, Mairs allows readers to gain a more profound understanding of what living with a disability is truly like. From the physical toll her disease takes to the mental health problems it brings, Mairs' essay serves as a reminder of the hardships those with disabilities face and serves as a wake-up call for society on how to better interact with people with disabilities. Throughout her essay, Nancy

Her disease was my disease. I would walk down the hallways and see people whispering and blatantly looking or pointing in my direction. Maybe they were talking about my mother being arrested last night, the number of times she had been thrown in jail and went to rehabilitation centers, or even how often she had been caught drunk driving. Fortunately, they did not know about the time I painfully watched my mother get tasered by the police. Watching her drop to the ground in my backyard like a shot deer, fracturing her wrist as she fell, was an event that will forever be ingrained in my memory.

This quote shows that even though Mairs sometimes has difficulty accepting her illness, she knows that there is a growing acceptance of people who must deal with the difficulties that she faces. This ultimately lends a hopeful and positive tone to an otherwise serious and depressing section of her essay. This contrast in tone, but general feeling of hope is key to the type of emotions that Nancy Mairs is trying to educate her readers about. Mair is successful in using multiple rhetorical strategies to connect with the reader.

Demi Lovato’s capacitating speech delivered at the National Alliance of Mental Illness Convention brought awareness to mental health illnesses and how recovery treatments are obtainable with the support of the entire community. The hardships and sufferings brought upon by mental illnesses, the positive possibilities created by the passage of the Mental Health Comprehensive Bill, and the effects of communities coming together to help those suffering with a mental health illness, were mentioned in this speech through the usage of rhetorical devices; tone, anecdote, repetition, and aphorism are the distinct devices included in this speech. All a mental health illness victim needs is hope and support while recovering from this painful experience.

The poet successfully illustrates the magnitude with which this disease can change its victim’s perspective about things and situations once familiar to

This combination of many mind and life altering diagnoses leads to an interesting point of view, and a deeper look into the lives of people living with the

Although we are told some of our stars are stronger than those of others, as one grows throughout their lifetime, they realize that this does not hold to be true. There are faults in everyone’s stars, hence each individual faces pain in one way or another. In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, we see the lives of two teenage individuals both suffering from cancer, along with their different perspectives about life. We also see the struggles and pain they must face society with mentally, physically, and emotionally due to their illnesses. In society, we encounter the same types of pains but in different ways; many people experience the lack of the presence of basic life necessities.

The arrival of a new baby, especially the first always marks a new beginning for a mother. It comes with a lot of challenges more so if the mother is less knowledgeable about baby care. Take such as cleaning the baby for the first time, or feeding, it is not easy. The baby is still fragile and slippery and needs a special care. But if the mother is not ready for all these, or maybe, does not have any knowledge on what to do, the baby’s life might be endangered since the baby needs a special care which only the mother can give.