Category: ECS 102

When we hear the term “disability”, there is one idea normally comes to mind. That is this idea that someone is less than or not as valuable as those without a disability.  Within Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability  the prefix  “dis” is broken down and explained as something negative, and to deprive something of the power…

Majority of us are aware of our economic class and the range of what we are able to do and no to do. However, it is not so easy to identify another person’s economic class. We normally associate being of a lower class with wearing dirty clothes or not having this, whereas with higher or…

It was the last day of school before the summer break, the sun was beating down making the heat almost unbearable. The classroom was so hot that I could feel the sweat forming on my back, as I was walking back into the school. As I walked into the classroom, it was filled with excited…

It was 4:00, I had just gotten picked up from the last day of school before Christmas break and we had just had our Kindergarten Christmas gift exchange. I went running into our house, trying to keep up to my dad, holding the little plastic doll I had received in the exchange and had the…

I am sitting in class talking with my friends, trying to talk over everyone else just to be heard, waiting for class to start. Our teacher is sitting at the back talking with some other students. It will probably be about ten more minutes before we start. We all had our phones out looking for…

It was another freezing day in February, and the bell had just rung to go inside from recess. My friends and I went running towards the door to wait in line. I could nearly feel my toes and fingers freezing off at this point. I thought to myself it was good thing I listened to…