Christopher Reeve Research Paper

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Shawn McDaniel and Christopher Reeve are alike in multiple ways. They are also different in many ways. They sound very similar and different at times. Shawn was born with his disability, when he was born a vessel in his brain popped. Christopher Reeve got his disability in a horse-accident. The similarities and differences will be pointed out below.

Some differences are Shawn’s disease is called cerebral palsy. The vessel that popped and took out the ability to control his own movements. He has a wheelchair and he can’t talk. Unlike Christopher Reeve because he (Christopher Reeve) can’t move his body from neck down and has to have an oxygen tube to breath. His wheelchair is powered by him blowing into a tube and it moves. Also everyone thinks shawn is stupid but he really isn’t, people think this because he can't speak and he can't control his own motions.
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They are different wheelchairs but it is still a similarity. Shawn’s accident was super accidental and it happens in only a multiple people per year, and Christopher Reeve was accidental but you can't really control if you will or won't fall off of horse and be disabled from anywhere on the

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