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**What is it?** The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits places of employment from turning away potential workers because of any physical disabilities they may have.

**Disability** is defined by the ADA as "//a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity//." __Similar Government Acts__: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex national origin, and other characteristics illegal source: []

Write a journal/newspaper style article in which you take a neutral stance (as a reporter) and give the facts about the actual event. What led up to the event? What happened during the actual event? Did it have an “end” or is it unresolved? You are to write about this event __when it happened__, you are assuming the role of a reporter in 1850, 1920, etc., __not someone looking back from 2011__. You need to cite your sources, and they must include information only available during that time period. At least one source must be primary and/or an eyewitness account. **Important - This work will be submitted to TurnItIn.com. We will provide you information about using this helpful resource**! Wednesday, September 21, 1990 5:04PM
 * TASK I:**


 * Disabled Workers now protected from discrimination in workplace **

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">Washington, D.C - // Up until now over 30% of all working Americans with disabilities are unemployed due to unfair treatment // By Annie Trexler Writer, UAHS News

The American economy is growing, according to the recent statistics it’s increasing at an annual rate of seven percent. However when we read the newspapers we see reports of unemployment. Thirty percent of these people are Americans who have disabilities (Joyce, The Bias Breakdown). Most have either been fired for their impairment or were treated so poorly that they had to quit. Disabled employees nation-wide have been asking for a set of rules to be set in place for companies. Recently in this year of 1990 President George H W Bush signed a bill into law that promised to help settle the disputes ( Devine, Defin ition of the ADA). It required all private and or state-run workplaces with 15 or more employees to make accommodations to disabled workers. This bill was called the Americans with Disabilities Act and was made to prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities.

According to the ADA someone who has a disability is someone who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. It could also be someone who has a record or is regarded as having such impairment (Devine, Definiti on of the ADA). To be qualified to work and protected by the act they must be an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the job in question. If all of this is true, the company must provide the necessary equipment or devices needed for the employee to do their job. For example, a deaf employee may need a sign language interpreter during the job interview. A blind employee may need someone to read postings on a bulletin board. Or an employee with cancer may need to leave early to have radiation or chemotherapy treatments.

Although an employer is not required to lower quality or production standards to make an accommodation, the act didn’t want to impose an “undue hardship” on the employers business. So far the ADA has allowed qualified disabled people to go back to work and for existing employees to enjoy equal treatment like their co-workers.

source : "Facts about the Americans with Disibilities Act." //The U.S. Equal Employment// //Opportunity Commission//. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 9 Sept. 2008. Web. 18 Sept. 2011. <http://www.eeoc.gov /facts/ fs-ada.html>.

*source: Cochran, Kathryn A. "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990." //The Nineties in America//. Ed. Milton Berman. 3 vols. Salem Press, 2009. //Salem History// Web. 06 Oct. 2011.

Task 1: Mastery Rubric A quality news article will: •open with an attention-grabbing headline •identify the author's name and the date of the publication (in the past) •develop the 5 W's in three power paragraphs •paragraph 1: contain an interesting lead •paragraph 2: correctly cite a secondary source (an indirect quote) •paragraph 3: correctly cite a primary source (eyewitness account) •maintain appropriate journalistic voice •read like an article written in the same time period as the event occurred •be free of mechanics and Works Cited errors



TASK II What is the Argument?

Are disabled working Americans getting fair treatment from their workplaces, or are they being discriminated against?

<span style="color: #220202; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">PROMPT 1: Why did the majority of Americans not recognize the rights of members of this group? In the 1990's there was an unemployed percentage of thirty percent in the disabled Americans group. Seventy-nine percent of these people claimed they were unemployed due to discrimination in the workplace and lack of transportation for them. According to a recent ADA lawsuit, a defending attorney referred to a study that said "people with disabilities who find jobs earn less than their co-workers, and are less-likely to be promoted." This is just one of the many examples of unfair treatment that was used.

source: []

<span style="color: #220202; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">PROMPT 2: How did advocates for the minority group shed light on this injustice?

Since the day it was put into action, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been the source of many legal debates. One example is how a blind man sued Southwest Airlines for making their website too hard to navigate. Robert Gumson (the blind man) and his attorney "asked the judge to order Southwest to provide text that could serve as an alternative to the graphics on it's site and to redesign the site's navigation bar to make it easier for him to understand" (McCullagh). When the public heard about Gumsons troubles they helped to support him and make sure people knew the difficulties disabled people were having keeping up with our rapid-growing technology.

Source: CNET News, staff writer Delan McCullah


 * TASK III: **

** Different ** // by Vincen Tabatha // How are we so "different"? If "different" is just a thing. If we all have certain features, What does "different" bring?

People filled with hatred, Can't possibly see, That there's not really "differences" Between you and me.

Looks can't show "difference", If they're just there to be seen. If you don't look like someone else, Why are they so mean?

If being "different" is what is wrong, I'd rather not be right. And I'd want to finish living, Doing the "different" fight.

__Paragraph 1:__ Analyze the impact of the literary work for the disabled Americans who have been discriminated against. "//Different,//" a poem by Vincen Tabatha reflects the feelings of working disabled Americans who have been discriminated against. It shows how they feel when people judge them because of reasons they can't seem to understand. People might treat them differently because they may not look the same or have the same qualities as them. This can be found in the fourth and fifth line when he writes,"if we all have certain features, what does "different" bring?" What they lack physically they make up for in other areas, so why should we judge them if we ourselves are just as "different" in our own ways. This poem shows how hypocritical we can be when we make fun of them for not being exactly like us but yet we strive to be unique and different ourselves. Source: []

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11px;">Paragraph 2: __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> CLOSING-- How did the American Disabilities Act (ADA) impact the argument of workplaces discriminating against their disabled employees? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">The American Disabilities Act ended the mass discrimination against disabled employees and opened up new doors for them. With their new rights, they were able to pursue their careers and be equal to their co-workers. With time, the percentage of unemployed disabled Americans went down and the percentage of working ones increased. The ADA is something that will always be needed and is an accomplishment to our society because it gives a growing group of people more freedoms and rights to be their own individuals.

Source: information i have learned from reading all of my cited sources <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">An outstanding product will. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•showcase a work that expresses a profound idea about your event and the argument surrounding it <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a good poem to showcase the emotions of disabled persons. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•be the **best** example available, not simply the first one you find <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•demonstrate your ability to interpret the meaning of the literary or artistic piece <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•use the extended power paragraph format as a means to express your understanding of the event, argument, and how art literature and art <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">can reveal emotions and ideas <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Make the strongest, clearest points you can. Keep your focus on discrimination in the workplace and all public spaces. While being made fun of is certainly a concern to anyone who is "different," this is not the strongest way to emphasize your event. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•reference sources accurately <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Be sure to follow MLA format <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">•mechanics are clean and effective
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 17px;">TASK III: Artistic Expression Element Rubric **



__Important Dates:__-On April 14, 1969 Senator Dole gave a speech that got the ball rolling-In November, 1978, the National Council on the Handicapped was created-By 1987, the first draft of the Americans with Disabilities Act was written-Signed into law on July 26, 1990

*source: Cochran, Kathryn A. "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990." //The Nineties in America//. Ed. Milton Berman. 3 vols. Salem Press, 2009. //Salem History// Web. 06 Oct. 2011.

*source = article found by using a website from the gold LC Databases sheet //please note//: ALL pictures on this page have a direct link to the website i found them on. You can find this by simply clicking on the picture and it will take you straight there. If i would had included the full web address underneath each picture it would have looked too cluttered.

An outstanding time line entry includes the following: • Opens by identifying you, the author, and your event with a banner headline (see an example of a banner on the top of this page). • Under the banner, in the table place two graphics or photos that illustrates an important aspect of the event. • Thoughtful responses to each prompt are supported by credible sources representing diverse perspectives on the event. • Each response should be posted in order (follow template instructions), contain few mechanic errors and follow the power paragraph format. • The credibility of each cited source is established and internal citations accurately match the Works Cited.• TASK I and TASK II each introduce and cite two new sources; TASK III cites one new source.• The Works Cited lists 5 credible sources from the LC databases.
 * Rubric for the Time Line Page**