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x f: <br />individual you know w ho uses a wheelchair but can also handle Honors <br />Social Studies is probably much more effective than a spe <br />about <br />hoer to treat others. <br />One factor that sometimes gets in the way of more equal treatment <br />is the cost of renovations. For example, ple, in schools that were built before <br />the days when students with disabilities were included elevators tend t o <br />be tucked away in a far corner of the building. Sometimes entering <br />church or restaurant involves rolling through a alley and coming in the <br />back door past a storeroom. Although no discrimination was intended it <br />sometimes feels like the days when Africa n Ame.ric ns had to use <br />separate entrance because. of segregation. <br />One document that deals with this issue of public accommodations <br />is the Minnesota Human Rights Act. Statute 363A .11 states that "it is a <br />unfair discriminatory practice for a place of public accommodation not to <br />make reasonable accommodation to the known physical disability of <br />disabled person.' For example., one year my family and I visited <br />Glensheen Mansion in Duluth. There w no elevator, so although I could <br />see the rain floor, I couldn�t get to the upper floor. I think it would have <br />qualified as "reasonable" to add a n elevator. (Although they did show <br />video filmed upstairs,, it wasn't quite the sane.) <br />Two other documents seem to nee to deal more with the reasons <br />we believe that all people should be treated equally. The Universal <br />Declaration of Human fights states in its preamble that ""the p of <br />the United Nations have In the Charter reaffirmed their faith in the <br />dignity and worth of the human person Xr Lastly, the B ill of Rights has <br />two amendments that I thinly can be applied to disabled people. <br />Amendment I says Congress shall make no law abridging the <br />right of the people to petition the government for a redress of <br />grievances. Amendment v states that ono person shall be deprived <br />of life, liberty,, or property.{ These amendments were actually used as <br />the basis for a suit against a courthouse in Tennessee <br />that was totally <br />