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Jim Ferris was born with what he describes as a "mobility impairment." [1] His actual disability was that one leg grew shorter than the other. He was born in Cook County, Illinois, not far from Chicago where he later attended a school for crippled children. [2] Ferris is cited as saying that he was a “defective child” who found himself in a ...
e. Disability culture is a widely used concept developed in the late 1980s to capture differences in lifestyle that are caused or promoted by disability. [1] Disability cultures exist as communities of people around topics of disability. The cultures include arts movements, coalitions, and include but are not limited to: poetry, dance ...
John Lee Clark (born 1978) is an American deafblind poet, writer, and activist from Minnesota. He is the author of Suddenly Slow (2008) and Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (2014), and the editor of anthologies Deaf American Poetry (2009) and Deaf Lit Extravaganza (2013). [1][2] Clark was the recipient of a ...
1954–1981. Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter whose cerebral palsy allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award -winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day ...
It was common in Late Antique art in both East and West, and remained the main way of depicting the actions or approval of God the Father in the West until about the end of the Romanesque period. It also represents the bath Kol (literally "daughter of a voice") or voice of God, [4] similar to Jewish depictions.
The Landing of William Penn, Ferris' portrait depicting the New Castle, Delaware landing by William Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 8, 1863 – March 18, 1930 [1]) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest ...
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham. The Blind Girl (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician, her concertina on her lap. They are resting by the roadside after a rainstorm, before travelling to the town of Winchelsea, visible in the background.
City of God consists of short stories and poems. The title of the book alludes to the theological masterpiece of Church Father Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, published in 426 AD. [3] [9] In his treatise, Augustine examines the conflict between the "City of Man" (an earthly city) and the holy, eternal "City of God." Cuadros's choice of ...