American Disabilities Act Analysis

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Intro: Reeve states that he is trying to prove to the audience that the Americans with Disabilities Act is important and why it's important for it to be passed. He is trying to better explain why this act is important to the disabled and us because it's a very caring act and i would make a lot of people happy First, In paragraph 2 Reeve states that ? One in five of us has some kind of disability?we?ve got to do something about it.? and he is basically saying that we need to help the ones that have disabilities. Help them achieve their life goal that maybe they can?t do because they got disabled.Disabled people don't have many rights to do what they want because people think they can't do it but if u think about it it hurts the disabled people's feelings because they can?t do something they really wanted to do so that's why Reeve?s is trying to explain to us why this act should be passed. Next, …show more content…

What he means is that instead of not including people who are disabled in our everyday activities he wants to help overcome that and make it where disabled people have every right to do what regular humans every day and disabled don't get to have the same rights we do they don't get to participate in all the activities we do or the sports and that makes them feel like they?re different from us when they?re actually

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