It’s My World Too: Accepting Challenges, Embracing Life - Couverture rigide

Page, Homer L

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1458214192 ISBN 13 : 9781458214195

Editeur : Abbott Press, 2014

Synopsis

In 1941, on a farm outside Troy, Missouri, a boy named Homer Page was born. Blind since birth, Homer has lived his life in vibrant determination to be a part of the game. He has known success and failure, felt hope and heartache, and experienced joy and despair. He struggled to find the courage to act and the wisdom to accept what he could not change. Through it all, he never let circumstances become limitations.

Homer received two letters in wrestling from the University of Missouri, earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago, and went on to teach at the University of Colorado. He later pursued and enjoyed a career in elective office. He is a leader in the disability rights movement and has lectured on the topic of the rehabilitation of the blind in both Sweden and Poland.

In this memoir, he shares the story of his life-the challenges and disappointments that he overcame on the way to a meaningful and successful personal and professional career. But he also tells a larger story about living with disability in mainstream America. Homer explores the joy and pain that he and others have experienced as American society has changed over the past seventy years.

Most of all, however, his is the story of a realist who refuses to give up. In the end, it is a story of the affirmation of life and the joy of living.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abbott Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1458214192
• ISBN 13: 9781458214195
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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