The Politics Of Staring Visual Rhetorics Of Disability

Despite the fact that we like to think we have a free choice in our individuality, normalcy is forced through the constant pressure from society around us. In conforming, we receive advantages such as jobs, money, affection, all of which originate from conforming to the normalities of our society. In conforming, we try to satisfy others but not ourselves in fear of rejection. In our desperate attempts to please others, we often lose a part of ourselves in the process. Being deemed normal in society is a major part of everyone s lives and the abnormal are usually excluded from the public eye. In this paper I will prove how the forced sense of normalcy is ingrained into our minds even if we believe that we are free. Garland-Thomson’s â€Å"The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography† explains that normalcy is promoted and forced through the manipulation of photographs of disabled people. Creating photographs of the disabled forces an im age upon the viewer that may not be a realistic depiction of that disabled person’s daily life. Most disability photography gives an image that the reader will take as truth, and gives no room for the viewers own interpretations. This is done for many reasons, capital being at the top of the list. Producing images that are intended to be heartfelt like a March of Dimes campaign with a baby in a hospital is specifically made to raise awareness and raise money from donors who believe that their dimes will make aShow MoreRelatedThe Modern American View Of Disability1201 Words   |  5 PagesGonzalez 1 Odette Gonzalez Professor Jason Tucker WRI-102-L Assignment 1 3 February 2015 The Modern American View of Disability In Rosmarie Garland -Thomson: â€Å"The politics of Staring†, expresses how our society has changed over time. She views human’s theories in four different visual rhetoric’s which in this case I am going to call them speechmaking’s: the wondrous, the realistic, the sentimental and the exotic. From these four figures of speech Garland has shown our inclination to see disabledRead MoreStatement of Purpose23848 Words   |  96 Pagesstrategies, motivation, and a good instructor to help students to overcome the sense of alienation toward a new language or culture. My teachers started our English education by teaching the alphabets and phonetic symbols. Interesting games, colorful visual aids, or strategies were used to help raise our interest in learning English and the new culture. Some activities worked and indeed helped us a lot in training the so-called ―four skillsâ€â€" of a language; however, others failed. Frankly speaking, thoughRead MoreDev eloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 PagesProject Manager: Kelly Warsak Senior Operations Supervisor: Arnold Vila Operations Specialist: Ilene Kahn Senior Art Director: Janet Slowik Interior Design: Suzanne Duda and Michael Fruhbeis Permissions Project Manager: Shannon Barbe Manager, Cover Visual Research Permissions: Karen Sanatar Manager Central Design: Jayne Conte Cover Art: Getty Images, Inc. Cover Design: Suzanne Duda Lead Media Project Manager: Denise Vaughn Full-Service Project Management: Sharon Anderson/BookMasters, Inc. Composition: