Temple Grandin

overcome by endurance.”- Virgil Endurance noun en·dur·ance: the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Endurance is an important factor in everyone’s life and it works in some way or another. There is physical, mental, and verbal endurance. Temple Grandin having endurance to use her abilities to her advantage to prove to the people that didn’t believe in her that they were wrong. During the attempt at integration at the Little Rock High School the African American students need the…

Temple Grandin as the Autistic professor at Colorado State University, that made handing animals with squeeze chutes more humane. In Dr. Temple Grandin's book, "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior", Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal's mind and an autistic mind—her own. Autistic people are closer to animals…

Contemporary Issues in Agriculture Dr. Temple Grandin is one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world and she has played a large part in improving the animal agriculture industry. She is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, world renowned autism spokesperson and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior (Hauser, 2010). She has influenced the lives of many people and has made many accomplishments that have influenced…

Animals are helpful, passionate, and sometimes dangerous. In Autobiography, Dogs makes us human by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson describes when a dog named Max that is helpful to his owner. ”The lady who owned him was a severe diabetic, and if her blood sugar level got low during the night Max would wake up her husband and bug him until he got up and took care of her (Grandin, pg 154, pp 4).” For instance, the quote from the story proves that Max truly care of his owner and wanted…

Temple Grandin Discusses Autism and Animal Communication How have animal studies helped us understand autism, or how have studies of Autism helped us understand animals. The life and contributions to understanding the world of autism coupled with the life of animals, has been remarkable. As a true champion of animals and people with autism, she has overcome the odds to become the foremost expert on the topic of our relationship with our non-human animal friends, “using the mysteries of autism…

In support of these questions, I think her autobiography movie “Temple Grandin” has provided many evidence of why she was in panic and fear. She felt like she was separated from society. When she came to farm in her summer break from high school, T. Grandin saw cows and how they were punished by cowboys and by other farm employees. Temple could not tolerate the violence towards the livestock and she was scared of being around those cowboys and other…

The Disabled: Treated as Humans Throughout history, people with disabilities have been socially disadvantaged, not because of limitations but because of assumptions made about them based on group characteristics (Schaefer, 2015 p.372). Scapegoating someone because they have a disability, assuming that the individual is the same as someone else with the same disability, is the same as saying that all people with tattoos are dangerous. If there is a news article about someone with bipolar disorder…

education (further than the eighth grade) made it difficult for him to acquire more knowledge since he was unable to read. “… every book I picked up had a few sentences which didn’t contain… the words that might was well been Chinese” (241). Similar to Grandin, Malcom X had attempted to leave out words he did not understand. However, without those words, the sentences and books he read were senseless. Malcolm X decided to take charge of the situation by learning more words. He did so by copying…

The empathy and short stories have helped me look at the world in a differently in many ways. Such as the the short film we watched called “ Under the Surface”. This film helped me realize that everybody has something going on that you don’t know about. It also taught me that nobody is perfect and that you should never judge anybody because you don’t know what their life is like outside of school. It was a film that had pictures of people at school and what is going on outside in their life. The…

This discouraged me from trying on several occasions. After I discovered that I am a visual learner, I was able to turn the tables around. I found that there were ways to make things work in my favor. This was also achieved by Temple Grandin and Mike Rose. On one hand in Temple Grandin’s passage “My Mind is a Web Browser” we, as the readers, are able to analyze her unconventional thought process due to her autism. On the other hand in Mike Rose’s passage “Blue Collar Brilliance” we receive an…