Images. Icons, and Pictures |
Sorry, did not mean to scare you. This is me, Edward Janus (pictured), in a head support halo after a cervical spinal surgery in 2001. I had to wear this stupid thing for six months. I'd Never thought I'd make it. |
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| Site Gossary | Definitions and Explainations |
| Ability | NOT relating to a person's mental or psyhical limitations. Being Able: a natural tendency to do something successfully or well. |
| Advocacy | Active support, the act of pleading or arguing in favor of something, such as in disability issues and rights. Or pleading or arguing for a cause, idea, or policy. |
Advocate | Somebody who supports or speaks in favor of something. |
| Activism | Persons whom take vigorous actions, protests, demimtstrations e.g. for rights, causes or issues. Vigorous and sometimes aggressive actions in pursuing a political or social end. |
Activist | Vigorous and sometimes aggressive action in pursuing a political or social end. |
| Archives | Storage place where public records or other historical documents are kept. |
Campaign | A planned and organized series of actions intended to achieve a specific goal, especially fighting for or against something or raising people's awareness of something. |
Causes | To be the cause of or reason for, to result in a special need. A basis for an action or response for a reason. A goal or principle served with dedication and zeal. The one, such as a person, event, or condition, that is responsible for an action or result. The interests of a person or group engaged in a struggle. The producer of an effect, result, or consequence. |
Disability | Ability and not DIS-ability – It is the attitudes and lack of education, understanding or caring with some in society that puts one at a disadvantage. |
| Dummy | No Longer Used, Lang word for meaning Deaf or Hearing Impairment. |
EdwardJanus.net | Disability Networks Connections. |
Fighting | Our fighting voices tending for disability issues and rights to stir up a political fight or hostile attention meant for a positive political and social change for everyone in the disabled community. |
Glossary | Site alphabetical list or collection of specialist terms and their meanings the way they are used here. |
Mission | A special task given to a person or group to carry out. An objective or task that somebody believes in to carry out or to which attaches special importance and devotes special care. |
Motto (our) | The Organizing Power of the Internet Empower Persons With Disabilities©. |
Netroots | Netroots is a latest recent term to describe political activism organized through blogs and other online media, including wikis and social network services. The word is a portmanteau of Internet and grassroots, reflecting the technological innovations that set netroots techniques apart from other forms of political participation. |
Network | Networking is any method of Sharing Information and Spreading News and Resources. A new world of internet advocacy and social networking. |
| Participation | The act of participating is by taking part in or sharing in something. Being in, or taking part in, doing some actions or attempts. Being involved in a venture together. |
PWD | Persons With Disabilities or People with Disabilities. |
Rights | Something, especially humane treatment, claimed to be due to Persons With Disabilities by moral principle.
In or into a satisfactory state or condition: put things right. That which is just, morally good, legal, proper, or fitting. People and groups who advocate the adoption of conservative or reactionary measures, especially in government and politics. The opinion of those advocating such measure that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature. |
Voices | An expression or utterance by giving voice to their feelings regarding dissabled issues or rights. The right or opportunity to express a choice or opinion. A person, group or media that has a voice, but not a vote on the issues. |