Story of hockenberry

2.  Hockenberry was born in Dayton, Ohio in June
4, 1956
 He grew up in upstate New York and Michigan
 He graduated from East Grand Rapid High
School Michigan

3.  In age of 19, he was paralyzed while Hitch-Hiking on
Pennsylvania Turnpike
 The driver fell asleep and car was crashed, killing himself.
 Hockenberry’s spinal cord was damaged and he remained
paralyzed without any voluntary movements from mid chest
down
 Before his being paralyzed, he studied mathematics at
university of Chicago
 After being paralyzed, he transferred to university of Oregon
and studied Harpsichord and Piano

4.  Hockenberry is an American TV Journalist and Author
 From 2008 to 2017 he was host of Take Away
 A Live National News Program created by Public Radio
International and WNYC New York
 He has written dozen of Magazines, Newspaper Articles, a
Play, Two Books, Best-selling memoir including Moving
Violations, War zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of
Independence and a novel A River Out of Eden
 Also written for New York Times, New Yorkers, Wired,
Metropolis and Washington post
 He has been distinguish fellow at MIT media learn and
serves on white fellow committee.

5.  He is prominent figure in Disability Rights
Movement.
 He is still alive.
 He lives in New York with his family happily.
May he live long.

6.  Hockenberry says:
“The song is just the given; it's how you
cover it that matters”
 So from his saying we can say it all depends
on us what we produce because raw
material can’t be changed.

7. A Presentation by Iqra Karamat