The Greatest Annotations NHD 2008-2009!!

- "Ryan's Story." http://www.ryanwhite.com/pages/story.html. 16 Oct 2008 .

The story of Ryan White, his actual website explains the conflicts and compromises that he went through while suffering with an unknown disease,and making history for the world ahead him. Ryan White was diagnosed with Aids at the age of 13 years in the year of 1984. Now you see HIV/Aids was known by very few people. At the time Aids was known as a "gay" disease. Once his disease hit the media Ryan had problems. He fought for his rights to attend school,he and his family took it to the courts,and the courts overruled that he return to school immediately. Many students were homes schooled prior to Ryan's return. Ryan suffered from harrassment and many threats but he stayed a strong young man, and act as a young normal man. Stay tuned for more!



- White, Ryan. "Ryan's Words." march,3,1988. 20 Oct 2008 .

The testimony of Ryan White before the National Commission on Aids. It is his actual words that he spoke before them, explaining his life and struggle he went through once he found out about his disease. His whole purpose of speaking to them is to get the disease known and he didn't care for discrimination he was worried about it getting known. He let them know about the fact that once his disease hit the media he was actually not able to attend school, he had to attend school over the phone. Once he took it back to the court it was ordered for him to actually go back to school but with limitation separate everything from everyone , it was such a shame but through it all ryan stayed a happy young man.


- White, Ryan. "Remarks to the National Education Association." 126th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana july,4, 1988 (1988): 1.

This annotation is the remarks Ryan White made to National Educational Association explaining to them his struggles of trying to attend school, becausehe was kicked out because of his barely known disease.
He felt that the school was discriminating against him because he felt that they were overreacting because the disease isn't contagious u cant get it from breathing in his air. He was fighting to be able to attend school again.


- "overview of the ryan white care act." overview of the ryan white care act. rya white care act. 30 Oct 2008 .

The overview of the Ryan White Care Act. The Ryan White CARE Act is structured to address the needs of the communities affected by HIV/AIDS.




- "1,500 Attend Funeral of Courageous AIDS Fighter." The New York Times April, 12, 1990: 1.

Ryan whites funeral,many people attended. It was a very big but little funeral, a private funeral. I learned that he had a big effect on the people back then it was very emotional.



-Diana, Hart. History ALive!. student Edition. palo alto: teachers curriculum institute, 2008.

From this citation I learned that Aids was a very unknown disease many of the first cases were among gay men which led to the mistaken belief that Aids was largely a "gay disease". The mid 1980's, Aids began to appear in patients who had received blood transfusions. Ryan white. Also in the 1980's statistics showed that over 8700 U.S deaths came from Aids and by 1984 Aids had grown over 46,000 U.S deaths. By 1988 Aids became public health enemy number one.

- Lamrock, Bonnie. "Taking Some Time To Remember Ryan White." Bonnie Lamrock/MJ-upbeat 1990 4 Dec 2008 .

Ryan white courageously fought AIDS-related discrimination and helped educate the Nation about his disease. He knew he had Aids and it wasn't contagious but the public didn't He states, "It was difficult at times, to handle: but i tried to ignore the injustice, because I knew the people were wrong.


-Poz, Mikey. "An Interview With Jeanne White-Ginder (The Full Interview)." blogger.com. 07-19-2006. 8 Dec 2008 .

This Source is an actual interview from a Aids victim that's interested in Ryan White also. Additionally this source helped me understand how Jeanne, Ryan's mother, her views of her sons disease and what he had been through. I even found some information about Ryan's father because through the events of Ryan's disease i realized that his father was never brought up in any of the press or documents i found, I learned that Ryan's father and mother were divorced before Ryan's diagnosis of Aids he paid child support but anted very little to do with Ryan.


-Brown, George,"America. A Narrative History!",Emery, David. SHI

The Reagan administrstion showed little interest in Aids because it was initially viewed as a,"gay disease". Nearly 1 million americans were esimated to be carrying the deadly virus, and it had become the leading cause of death among men ages 25-44.


-Sutherland, Jean. "Ryan White." Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 2008. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 11 Dec 2008 .

This annotation explains his relationships with his friends and family, and explains better understanding of his feelings. It also takes us into his teenage years after the family moves to Cicero. Meet his friends, explore his relationship with the many celebrities he met, see him become a spokesperson in the fight against AIDS, learn of his feelings toward girls, watch as his body continues to battle against tremendous odds, and, finally, mourn as he moves through to the years of physical and emotional pressures. It is made clear to us that he has “survived”. His endurance allowed him to live and share his story, a story that reaches far beyond his life.