Charles Sherwood Stratton: History And Analysis

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Regularly dwarfism means unusually or abnormally low stature or small size. In particular, “General Tom Thumb, The Most Famous Midget, Charles Sherwood Stratton is one of the most famous midgets in history. By age four he stood 25 inches, and weighed 15 pounds” (Pednaud, 2014, sect. 1). Many small folks use everything they have to get through the day. Dwarfism can also be mixed with other mutations specifically like, “Samuel Parks, Hopp, The Fearless Frog Boy, Sam Parks was likely born with Osteogenesis imperfecta- a condition resulted in brittles bones. His legs were twisted and bowed, causing the stage name” (Pednaud, 2014, sect. 2). Back in the day we also idolized many mutations as something greater than it was such as, “ Pauline Musters,

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