How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O’Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life. How I Became a Human Being is Mark O’Brien’s account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. O’Brien describes growing up without the use of his limbs, his adolescence struggling with physical rehabilitation and suffering the bureaucracy of hospitals and institutions, and his adult life as an independent student and writer. Despite his weak physical state, O’Brien attended graduate school, explored his sexuality, fell in love, published poetry, and worked as a journalist. A determined writer, O’Brien used a mouthstick to type each word. O’Brien’s story does not beg for sympathy. It is rather a day-to-day account of his reality—the life he crafted and maintained with a good mind, hired attendants, decent legislation for disabled people in California, and support from the University of California at Berkeley. He describes the ways in which a paralyzed person takes care of the body, mind, and heart. What mattered most was his writing, the people he loved, his belief in God, and his belief in himself.

Biographies & Memoirs

Mark O'Brien

Gillian Kendall

Community & Culture

University of Wisconsin Press

This book is written for marketers, designers, and advertisers who are interested in making their website into a business-generating tool while developing the web marketing expertise they will need to guide their clients and win more web work. Using his 9-Step Process, Mark O'Brien provides a framework for creating website strategies that will help you take the lead on client web projects and plan sites that specialize in attracting, informing, and engaging the right audience. What You'll Learn: How to confidently approach and plan marketing websites both for your firm and for your clients How to create a site that will generate leads based on your expertise How to plan and implement a content strategy that will serve as the foundation of your marketing How to use SEO to attract well-qualified prospects

A Website That Works: How Marketing Agencies Can Create Business Generating Sites

RockBench Publishing

This new resource explains the critical steps involved in planning, designing, implementing, and sustaining the FirstNet (public safety) LTE network. Wireless network planners, engineers, and managers are presented with emerging broadband technologies and their immediate impact on FirstNet planning, such as LTE access-class mechanisms and digital television datacasting in its complementary role to LTE.

Building the FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network (Mobile Communications)

Computers & Technology

Robert I. Desourdis

Rob Dew

Holger Hinsch

Networking & Cloud Computing

Artech House Publishers

Book 9781739296933

john-brindley

Perish the privileged orders : a socialist history of the Chartist movement

Bookmarks

The Man in the Iron Lung

Lemonade Factory

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