Deaf people are more like feathers than rocks. While rocks are strong individually, deaf people rely on community for strength, like feathers which are powerful together but vulnerable alone. Feathers come in diverse shapes and sizes, as do deaf people with different backgrounds and experiences. Just as feathers have purposes beyond beauty, sign language and deaf culture are about communication and identity, not just aesthetics. The deaf community supports each other through challenges like "audism", preening away harmful influences, working as a cohesive whole like feathers in flight.
Music played an important role in early sound films from the 1920s-1930s to enhance emotion and storytelling where dialogue was limited. As sound technology advanced, full soundtracks with synchronized dialogue became possible, known as "talkies", but this transition posed challenges for filmmakers and composers. Devices like organs, pianos and orchestras provided music, while innovations like source music and theme songs aimed to realistically place music in scenes or advertise films. Composers and directors had to learn new techniques of scoring films with synchronized sound.
The document provides summaries of 14 different works related to deaf literature and culture, including films, performances, videos, and books. The summaries are concise, typically 1-3 sentences, and highlight the essential information about each work such as main characters, plot points, themes, and connections to deaf culture or literature.
At emoi, we believe beautiful things have no boundary. Good design offers an emotional connection to people. We wish to share with you a simple, beautiful and sustainable lifestyle.
A relation is a set of ordered pairs that relates inputs to outputs. A function is a special type of relation where each input is mapped to only one output. To determine if a relation is a function, check if any elements in the domain are repeated - if there are repeats, it is not a function. The domain of a relation is the set of first elements in each ordered pair, and the range is the set of second elements. Practice problems are provided to identify the domain and range of relations and determine which relations represent functions.
With Bowery Bagels, Madigan Brings A Little New York to Portland | Daily BlenderKatherine Vetrano
Michael Madigan is opening Bowery Bagels in Portland, Oregon, bringing New York-style bagels to the city. He is originally from Brooklyn. Madigan also runs KitchenCru, a culinary incubator space that has helped launch many food businesses. Bowery Bagels will be a grab-and-go style shop located across from KitchenCru, offering traditional and experimental flavors of bagels and schmears. Madigan developed the bagel recipe over many years but had to adapt it for commercial equipment at KitchenCru. He hopes to fill the need for good bagels in Portland since a previous local favorite closed.
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This document provides an overview of Deaf American Theater. It discusses the range of play formats including mainstream, vaudeville, original scripts, and hybrid productions. Original scripts by Deaf American playwrights often incorporate both indigenous and conventional elements. The document also examines characteristics of Deaf American Theater such as focusing on reflecting Deaf culture and community, utilizing visual/tactile communication, and emphasizing collaboration and audience participation. Examples of plays and theater groups discussed include Institution Blues, My Third Eye, and the National Theater of the Deaf.
Music played an important role in early sound films from the 1920s-1930s to enhance emotion and storytelling where dialogue was limited. As sound technology advanced, full soundtracks with synchronized dialogue became possible, known as "talkies", but this transition posed challenges for filmmakers and composers. Devices like organs, pianos and orchestras provided music, while innovations like source music and theme songs aimed to realistically place music in scenes or advertise films. Composers and directors had to learn new techniques of scoring films with synchronized sound.
The document provides summaries of 14 different works related to deaf literature and culture, including films, performances, videos, and books. The summaries are concise, typically 1-3 sentences, and highlight the essential information about each work such as main characters, plot points, themes, and connections to deaf culture or literature.
At emoi, we believe beautiful things have no boundary. Good design offers an emotional connection to people. We wish to share with you a simple, beautiful and sustainable lifestyle.
A relation is a set of ordered pairs that relates inputs to outputs. A function is a special type of relation where each input is mapped to only one output. To determine if a relation is a function, check if any elements in the domain are repeated - if there are repeats, it is not a function. The domain of a relation is the set of first elements in each ordered pair, and the range is the set of second elements. Practice problems are provided to identify the domain and range of relations and determine which relations represent functions.
With Bowery Bagels, Madigan Brings A Little New York to Portland | Daily BlenderKatherine Vetrano
Michael Madigan is opening Bowery Bagels in Portland, Oregon, bringing New York-style bagels to the city. He is originally from Brooklyn. Madigan also runs KitchenCru, a culinary incubator space that has helped launch many food businesses. Bowery Bagels will be a grab-and-go style shop located across from KitchenCru, offering traditional and experimental flavors of bagels and schmears. Madigan developed the bagel recipe over many years but had to adapt it for commercial equipment at KitchenCru. He hopes to fill the need for good bagels in Portland since a previous local favorite closed.
This document provides instructions for creating and customizing a Crumbnet. It describes how to create a new Crumbnet, add nodes and relationships between nodes, and add supporting evidence like documents and images. It also explains how to save the Crumbnet and add it to a Space.
This document provides an overview of Deaf American Theater. It discusses the range of play formats including mainstream, vaudeville, original scripts, and hybrid productions. Original scripts by Deaf American playwrights often incorporate both indigenous and conventional elements. The document also examines characteristics of Deaf American Theater such as focusing on reflecting Deaf culture and community, utilizing visual/tactile communication, and emphasizing collaboration and audience participation. Examples of plays and theater groups discussed include Institution Blues, My Third Eye, and the National Theater of the Deaf.
DST 225 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interpretation outlineKaylee Teixeira
The story follows the journey of a caterpillar from hatching from an egg to transforming into a beautiful butterfly. Over the course of a week, the caterpillar eats through various foods like apples, pears, and more, but remains hungry each day. By Saturday, after eating through many treats, the caterpillar gets a stomach ache. The next day, the caterpillar eats a leaf and feels better. It then builds a cocoon and stays inside for two weeks before emerging as a beautiful butterfly.
El documento resume los contenidos de un curso sobre el diseño y desarrollo de materiales de formación. Cubre tres unidades: 1) fundamentos del diseño instructivo de materiales multimedia, 2) diseño, elaboración y desarrollo de materiales multimedia para la formación, y 3) proyección práctica que incluye principios de la Web 2.0 y herramientas.
This document discusses volcanoes, including different types of eruptions, the structure of volcanoes, common types like shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and where volcanoes typically form. It reviews key topics about volcanoes such as types of eruptions, the internal structure of volcanoes, common types of volcanoes, and locations where volcanoes are found on Earth.
This document discusses volcanoes, including different types of eruptions, the internal structure of volcanoes, common types like shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and where volcanoes typically form. It provides an overview of volcanoes, eruptions, internal structure, types, and locations as a review.
Optimism is the belief that assumes positive future outcomes and is a conscious choice to empower oneself and celebrate life. The document discusses how language and thoughts shape one's experience and recommends four simple changes to develop an optimistic language: banish always and never, choose empowering verbs, structure language for positivity, and inflate adjectives. It also provides contact information for Rebecca Rapple.
Fear causes many people to fail and not pursue their dreams. Happiness and optimism are the tools needed to help overcome fear. Presentation to Touro College Los Angeles, 2015
The Tudor government took two approaches to dealing with the poor - harsh punishments to deter vagrancy and begging, and making parishes responsible for their own poor. Parishes were required to appoint beadles to identify the truly poor and expel vagabonds, and could set up workhouses to provide basic shelter and food in exchange for work. This system was intended to replace support previously provided by monasteries and lasted until 1834.
This document provides an overview of cryptography from a historical and practical perspective. It discusses early crypto systems like the Scytale and Caesar cipher. Modern systems like the Enigma machine and the One-Time Pad are explained. It also summarizes public key cryptography pioneers like PGP and the "Crypto Wars" debates around government access to encrypted communications and privacy rights.
The document shares photos of a luxurious mansion owned by a royal family in the United Arab Emirates and a silver Audi car. It then discusses the relatively low gas prices and contrasts the luxuries with images of suffering children to encourage gratitude for what people have and support for those in need. It asks readers to share the message to spread awareness.
This document discusses racism and racial discrimination. It defines racism as offensive or aggressive behavior toward another race stemming from the belief that one's own race is superior. Racism can be direct, such as unfair treatment in hiring or rules based on race, or indirect, such as policies that unfairly impact certain races. The document provides facts on racial disparities in criminal sentencing and drug arrests. It also profiles the artist Kara Walker who explores issues of race, gender, and identity in her silhouettes. The remainder discusses a student group's project ideas for representing racism, including using color or everyday objects to symbolize diversity rather than focusing on physical characteristics. The group decides this approach can effectively portray racism and inequality in a visually engaging
Racism can be portrayed through everyday objects and color symbolism. The students will use objects in different colors to represent diversity and inequality based on race in a visually engaging way for the audience. Rather than black and white imagery, color will be used to creatively show the issues and impacts of racism in a simple yet effective manner, drawing from lectures about using connotation of color to represent race.
Interpersonal Communication Deaf Culture PresentationKaylee Teixeira
1) The document discusses the pathological and cultural views of deafness and how most deaf people do not want to be "fixed" with cochlear implants.
2) It provides a history of deaf education in America from Martha's Vineyard to residential schools and the development of Deaf culture and American Sign Language.
3) Oppression of the deaf community included the banning of sign language, eugenics efforts, and restrictions on driving and marriage that continued into the 20th century.
4) The document outlines important aspects of Deaf culture and community including clubs, sports, technology, resistance movements, and prominent Deaf figures.
This document explores the reality of ghosts and clarifies misconceptions. It discusses various theories on what ghosts are from different cultures and religions. Ghosts are described as spirits of the deceased that can appear visible or manifest to the living. The document examines evidence theories such as astral worlds and multi-dimensions to explain ghost sightings, as well as non-evidence theories proposed by scientific committees. References are made to descriptions of ghosts in Islam from the Quran and hadith.
Prem Ranjan is seeking a challenging position in a professional organization to enhance his skills. He has over 5 years of experience as an accountant. His responsibilities have included sales tax, tax computations and returns, bank reconciliation, cash vouchers, journal entries, receivables, and preparing income tax returns and audit reports. He is proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, Tally, and IMPECT. He holds a B.Com degree and is located in Patna.
1) The document discusses key terms and concepts related to deaf culture and identity such as the differences between Deaf, deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing.
2) It outlines important aspects of deaf culture such as American Sign Language, etiquette, technology, education approaches, deaf clubs, and perspectives on music.
3) The document encourages keeping an open mind and imagining what it would be like to be deaf without language as a way to better understand the deaf experience.
The document discusses concepts related to deafness and sign language. It provides information on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) including that it is the natural sign language of Filipino Deaf communities and is used to communicate and express creativity. Several terms related to deafness are defined and some misconceptions about the deaf are addressed. The document also discusses the difference between viewing deafness from a medical perspective versus a socio-cultural perspective where deaf people are respected as a cultural group with their own language and identity.
This document summarizes a study that examined differences in hearing thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) results between college music majors and non-music majors. The study found that university student musicians are at high risk for noise-induced hearing loss due to repeated exposure to loud music. Previous research also found high rates of noise-induced hearing loss among student musicians. The current study aimed to further examine hearing abilities in these groups to determine if hearing conservation programs are needed on college campuses.
Deaf culture meets the definition of culture according to the author's Deaf Culture class. Deaf culture has its own norms around social interactions and communication. It is a shared group identity with common beliefs, values, and experiences of discrimination. Deaf culture is expressed through its own art, literature, traditions, technology, and shared American Sign Language. It is created and inherited within Deaf families and communities, and continues to be carried on through schools and history.
This powerpoint is from my psychology class. It has borrowed material and some duplicate slides due to some rearranging I was doing in the presentation.
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Natural selection refers to organisms being better or less suited to survive based on characteristics. Convergent evolution occurs when different species independently evolve similar traits to solve common problems. Divergent evolution happens when a species branches off into multiple forms suited to different environments or food sources. Coevolution is when two dependent species evolve together over time, such as flowers and the insects that pollinate them.
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The Global Village
Thinking of the world close up, as if it were a village of one hundred people, forces us to confront what we mean we say “we”.
…How often does our we come to include people of other faiths, other nations, other races? How often does our we link rather than divide? Our relations with the “other” may move through a number of phases. First we talk about them—an objective “other.” Then perhaps we talk to them, or more personally, we talk to you. And finally, we all talk with one another about us, all of us. This is the critical stage to which our…dialogue must take us if we are to be up to the task of creating communication adequate for an interdependent world.
If the world was a village of 100 people,
In the village would be:
57 Asians
14 Africans
12 Europeans
6 North Americans
7 Latino Americans (Central and South Americans)
3 Australians/Oceanians
1 Caribbean Islander
There would be:
33 Christians
22 Muslims
15 Hindus
4 Chinese Folk Religionists
6 Buddhists
6 Other Religions
14 Atheists or Nonreligious
If the world were a global village of 100 people, one third of them would be rich or of moderate income, two thirds would be poor.
Of the 100 people, 5 of them would be U.S. Americans. These 5 would have over a third of the village’s entire income, and the other 95 would subsist on the other two thirds.
Of the 100 residents, 47 would be unable to read, and only one would have a college education.
About 35 would be suffering from hunger and malnutrition, at least half would be homeless or living in substandard housing.
How could the wealthy live in peace with their neighbors? Surely they would be driven to arm themselves against the other 95, perhaps even spend as U.S. Americans do, about twice as much per person on military defense as the total income of two thirds of the villagers.
The casual we for most of us does not include the 50 percent hungry, the 60 percent in shantytowns, and the 70 percent illiterate. Most of us construct our we without including them. Thinking of the world close up, as if it were a village of one hundred people, forces us to confront what “we” really means.
-Diana L. Eck
-Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banares (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), 202-
203.
The Deaf Culture: Is it Really a Culture at All
Carol Padden has defined Culture as a set of learned behaviors of a group of people who have their own language, values, rules of behavior, and traditions. (1988)
Culture results from a group of people coming together to form a community around shared experience, common interests, shared norms of behavior, and shared survival techniques. Such groups as the deaf seek each other out for social interaction and emotional support.
The essential link to Deaf Culture among the American deaf community is American Sign Language. This community shares a common sense of pride in their Culture and language. There exists a rich heritage and pride in the ability t.
DST 225 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interpretation outlineKaylee Teixeira
The story follows the journey of a caterpillar from hatching from an egg to transforming into a beautiful butterfly. Over the course of a week, the caterpillar eats through various foods like apples, pears, and more, but remains hungry each day. By Saturday, after eating through many treats, the caterpillar gets a stomach ache. The next day, the caterpillar eats a leaf and feels better. It then builds a cocoon and stays inside for two weeks before emerging as a beautiful butterfly.
El documento resume los contenidos de un curso sobre el diseño y desarrollo de materiales de formación. Cubre tres unidades: 1) fundamentos del diseño instructivo de materiales multimedia, 2) diseño, elaboración y desarrollo de materiales multimedia para la formación, y 3) proyección práctica que incluye principios de la Web 2.0 y herramientas.
This document discusses volcanoes, including different types of eruptions, the structure of volcanoes, common types like shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and where volcanoes typically form. It reviews key topics about volcanoes such as types of eruptions, the internal structure of volcanoes, common types of volcanoes, and locations where volcanoes are found on Earth.
This document discusses volcanoes, including different types of eruptions, the internal structure of volcanoes, common types like shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and where volcanoes typically form. It provides an overview of volcanoes, eruptions, internal structure, types, and locations as a review.
Optimism is the belief that assumes positive future outcomes and is a conscious choice to empower oneself and celebrate life. The document discusses how language and thoughts shape one's experience and recommends four simple changes to develop an optimistic language: banish always and never, choose empowering verbs, structure language for positivity, and inflate adjectives. It also provides contact information for Rebecca Rapple.
Fear causes many people to fail and not pursue their dreams. Happiness and optimism are the tools needed to help overcome fear. Presentation to Touro College Los Angeles, 2015
The Tudor government took two approaches to dealing with the poor - harsh punishments to deter vagrancy and begging, and making parishes responsible for their own poor. Parishes were required to appoint beadles to identify the truly poor and expel vagabonds, and could set up workhouses to provide basic shelter and food in exchange for work. This system was intended to replace support previously provided by monasteries and lasted until 1834.
This document provides an overview of cryptography from a historical and practical perspective. It discusses early crypto systems like the Scytale and Caesar cipher. Modern systems like the Enigma machine and the One-Time Pad are explained. It also summarizes public key cryptography pioneers like PGP and the "Crypto Wars" debates around government access to encrypted communications and privacy rights.
The document shares photos of a luxurious mansion owned by a royal family in the United Arab Emirates and a silver Audi car. It then discusses the relatively low gas prices and contrasts the luxuries with images of suffering children to encourage gratitude for what people have and support for those in need. It asks readers to share the message to spread awareness.
This document discusses racism and racial discrimination. It defines racism as offensive or aggressive behavior toward another race stemming from the belief that one's own race is superior. Racism can be direct, such as unfair treatment in hiring or rules based on race, or indirect, such as policies that unfairly impact certain races. The document provides facts on racial disparities in criminal sentencing and drug arrests. It also profiles the artist Kara Walker who explores issues of race, gender, and identity in her silhouettes. The remainder discusses a student group's project ideas for representing racism, including using color or everyday objects to symbolize diversity rather than focusing on physical characteristics. The group decides this approach can effectively portray racism and inequality in a visually engaging
Racism can be portrayed through everyday objects and color symbolism. The students will use objects in different colors to represent diversity and inequality based on race in a visually engaging way for the audience. Rather than black and white imagery, color will be used to creatively show the issues and impacts of racism in a simple yet effective manner, drawing from lectures about using connotation of color to represent race.
Interpersonal Communication Deaf Culture PresentationKaylee Teixeira
1) The document discusses the pathological and cultural views of deafness and how most deaf people do not want to be "fixed" with cochlear implants.
2) It provides a history of deaf education in America from Martha's Vineyard to residential schools and the development of Deaf culture and American Sign Language.
3) Oppression of the deaf community included the banning of sign language, eugenics efforts, and restrictions on driving and marriage that continued into the 20th century.
4) The document outlines important aspects of Deaf culture and community including clubs, sports, technology, resistance movements, and prominent Deaf figures.
This document explores the reality of ghosts and clarifies misconceptions. It discusses various theories on what ghosts are from different cultures and religions. Ghosts are described as spirits of the deceased that can appear visible or manifest to the living. The document examines evidence theories such as astral worlds and multi-dimensions to explain ghost sightings, as well as non-evidence theories proposed by scientific committees. References are made to descriptions of ghosts in Islam from the Quran and hadith.
Prem Ranjan is seeking a challenging position in a professional organization to enhance his skills. He has over 5 years of experience as an accountant. His responsibilities have included sales tax, tax computations and returns, bank reconciliation, cash vouchers, journal entries, receivables, and preparing income tax returns and audit reports. He is proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, Tally, and IMPECT. He holds a B.Com degree and is located in Patna.
1) The document discusses key terms and concepts related to deaf culture and identity such as the differences between Deaf, deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing.
2) It outlines important aspects of deaf culture such as American Sign Language, etiquette, technology, education approaches, deaf clubs, and perspectives on music.
3) The document encourages keeping an open mind and imagining what it would be like to be deaf without language as a way to better understand the deaf experience.
The document discusses concepts related to deafness and sign language. It provides information on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) including that it is the natural sign language of Filipino Deaf communities and is used to communicate and express creativity. Several terms related to deafness are defined and some misconceptions about the deaf are addressed. The document also discusses the difference between viewing deafness from a medical perspective versus a socio-cultural perspective where deaf people are respected as a cultural group with their own language and identity.
This document summarizes a study that examined differences in hearing thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) results between college music majors and non-music majors. The study found that university student musicians are at high risk for noise-induced hearing loss due to repeated exposure to loud music. Previous research also found high rates of noise-induced hearing loss among student musicians. The current study aimed to further examine hearing abilities in these groups to determine if hearing conservation programs are needed on college campuses.
Deaf culture meets the definition of culture according to the author's Deaf Culture class. Deaf culture has its own norms around social interactions and communication. It is a shared group identity with common beliefs, values, and experiences of discrimination. Deaf culture is expressed through its own art, literature, traditions, technology, and shared American Sign Language. It is created and inherited within Deaf families and communities, and continues to be carried on through schools and history.
This powerpoint is from my psychology class. It has borrowed material and some duplicate slides due to some rearranging I was doing in the presentation.
This document discusses several key terms related to evolution:
Natural selection refers to organisms being better or less suited to survive based on characteristics. Convergent evolution occurs when different species independently evolve similar traits to solve common problems. Divergent evolution happens when a species branches off into multiple forms suited to different environments or food sources. Coevolution is when two dependent species evolve together over time, such as flowers and the insects that pollinate them.
The Global VillageThinking of the world close up, as if it w.docxrtodd194
The Global Village
Thinking of the world close up, as if it were a village of one hundred people, forces us to confront what we mean we say “we”.
…How often does our we come to include people of other faiths, other nations, other races? How often does our we link rather than divide? Our relations with the “other” may move through a number of phases. First we talk about them—an objective “other.” Then perhaps we talk to them, or more personally, we talk to you. And finally, we all talk with one another about us, all of us. This is the critical stage to which our…dialogue must take us if we are to be up to the task of creating communication adequate for an interdependent world.
If the world was a village of 100 people,
In the village would be:
57 Asians
14 Africans
12 Europeans
6 North Americans
7 Latino Americans (Central and South Americans)
3 Australians/Oceanians
1 Caribbean Islander
There would be:
33 Christians
22 Muslims
15 Hindus
4 Chinese Folk Religionists
6 Buddhists
6 Other Religions
14 Atheists or Nonreligious
If the world were a global village of 100 people, one third of them would be rich or of moderate income, two thirds would be poor.
Of the 100 people, 5 of them would be U.S. Americans. These 5 would have over a third of the village’s entire income, and the other 95 would subsist on the other two thirds.
Of the 100 residents, 47 would be unable to read, and only one would have a college education.
About 35 would be suffering from hunger and malnutrition, at least half would be homeless or living in substandard housing.
How could the wealthy live in peace with their neighbors? Surely they would be driven to arm themselves against the other 95, perhaps even spend as U.S. Americans do, about twice as much per person on military defense as the total income of two thirds of the villagers.
The casual we for most of us does not include the 50 percent hungry, the 60 percent in shantytowns, and the 70 percent illiterate. Most of us construct our we without including them. Thinking of the world close up, as if it were a village of one hundred people, forces us to confront what “we” really means.
-Diana L. Eck
-Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banares (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993), 202-
203.
The Deaf Culture: Is it Really a Culture at All
Carol Padden has defined Culture as a set of learned behaviors of a group of people who have their own language, values, rules of behavior, and traditions. (1988)
Culture results from a group of people coming together to form a community around shared experience, common interests, shared norms of behavior, and shared survival techniques. Such groups as the deaf seek each other out for social interaction and emotional support.
The essential link to Deaf Culture among the American deaf community is American Sign Language. This community shares a common sense of pride in their Culture and language. There exists a rich heritage and pride in the ability t.
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Are Deaf people more like rocks or feathers
1. “Coming together is a beginning,
keeping together is progress, and
working together is success.”-Henry
Ford
Are Deaf
More Like
Rocks or
Feathers?
Feathers
Kaylee Teixeira
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Kaylee Teixeira
DST 101
Sandra Lygren
12/23/15
10:55 am
Are Deaf people more like rocks or feathers? This is a question I’ve pondered, dissected,
and put back together again. Strong arguments can be made for both objects, they are like both in
many ways. However, the question is what are they MORE like, so one object must be chosen.
The whole time I was brainstorming, I was certain I would choose rock because I had labeled a
rock as strong and a feather as weak or flimsy. But then, I realized that perhaps that’s the point in
which I was wrong. Not only was I making a choice based on my initial labels, but I was making
a choice based on misrepresentation when comparing Deaf to these labels. Are Deaf people
strong? –yes. But one single rock on its own is a solid mass; it is strong. Deaf people, alone, with
no one to communicate with, would withdraw into a deep pit of isolation. This is why I chose
feather. Feathers are associated with lightness, but in common riddles, “Does a pound of gold or
a pound of feathers weight more” we realize that together they are as hefty as any other mass.
One Deaf person has a backbone, as does the vain in a feather, but is still not nearly strong as
feathers put together; Deaf community needs each other.
Deaf individuals come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors. What I mean by that is
they each have a different story as their background, and while many might be similar, no two
are alike. Some are born Deaf of Deaf, most were not since more than 90% of deaf are born to
hearing parents. A wide spectrum of educational options can really make one’s story further
unique. Residential schools, mainstreaming, total communication, oral, and Bi lingual-Bi cultural
teachings all have a significant impact on shaping the lives of the Deaf. As a result, many sign
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using ASL; a visual language, many do not. Many read lips and are oral, many are not. Many use
assistive technology such as hearing aids, many don’t.
Feathers can certainly be beautiful, take the peacock for example. The peacock is a
beautiful creature with lengthening feathers commonly of blue and green. When light shines on
the feathers we see thousands of shimmering colored spots. We stare in amazement, the beauty
of it often making us forget that those feathers have a purpose. Feathers send visual signals, as
George Veditz said, Deaf people are “People of the eye”. In the human eye beauty often clouds
our vision of function. Hearing society does the same thing in relation to the Deaf. ASL is not
just swaying your arms back and forth to a beautiful rhythm. It is not something to gawk at. Deaf
view sign language as a necessity not an accessary. ASL is a survival tool used to get down and
dirty not just something pretty. Deaf are often overlooked because of their “beauty” and treated
as they are not capable of a function in the human society. This is why employment, even after
the ADA and Rehabilitation Act, is a constant struggle in the deaf community. But just as the
peacock feather has its purpose to attract a mate, Deaf people have a purpose in this world; they
have fought for it as we’ve seen in the Deaf President Now movement, and they still continue to
fight every day for the opportunity to live out their desired with equal accessibility.
Humans use feathers for a variety of uses, such as: stuffing, insulation, arts and crafts,
and decorations. A problem is that many feathers are plucked from live birds. Sound like audism
to you? The Deaf population is plucked apart by the idea of superiority. Speech is what language
is according to hearing society. Deaf are discriminated against, denied rights, paternalized, and
sometimes even physically harmed. Deaf people sometimes begin to believe that they are the
subordinate to hearing world. When they begin to believe that maybe they really can’t do
something or they aren’t good enough, not only do they not have a strong Deaf identity, but they
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now are in a state of dysconcious audism. When this happens it is hoped that they are surrounded
by other feathers whose purpose it is to protect one from the outside elements of harm.
In order for a deaf person to stand up for the deaf community; to stand up against audism,
they must first themselves have molted their own feelings of dysconcious audism and reached
the point of Deafhood. Deafhood is extremely important to Deaf individuals. No matter what
label a deaf person has been given: born deaf, late deafened, hard of hearing, oral; they all,
through life’s journey become confident in their identity and would not want to change who they
are. They can all fit under the umbrella of deafhood when the rain of oppression’s struggle is
pouring down on them.
The Deaf community is strongly woven together. Just as a bird plucks out its diseased or
damaged feathers, the Deaf must do the same in order to fly. Those who tear each other down in
the community, who criticize other Deaf individuals successes, those who judge the choices of
others (perhaps a choice to receive a cochlear implant), those who are jealous and gossip, fit into
the Crab Theory. The analogy is to a bucket of live crabs: whenever one crab attempts to escape
the bucket by climbing out of it, the others reach up and pull it back down. The result, of course,
is that no crab succeeds in escaping the bucket. This is the official analogy used by the Deaf
community, but for just this once imagine it as a group of baby birds in a nest. One tries to
spread their tiny wings of flight feathers to fly but the other birds grab ahold with their beaks and
pull it back down. The result is that the Deaf community doesn’t move forward until these bad
feathers are removed or healed. In a recent event at
BCC (which was amazing Sandy!), Chris Wagner stated, “But we in the Deaf community,
what do we tend to do? We complain, complain, complain. Turn the complaining into action.
You must do that. Stop complaining, do something about it. Oh it’s broken, it’s not working,
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they’re shutting down. Well what are you going to do about it? You have to take the
responsibility and turn that complaint into action.” This is what Deaf individuals are currently
working on today. They are becoming accountable to one another working together like a well-
oiled bird (As they preen, they distribute natural oils to help keep their feathers maintained.)
To conclude, as Henry Ford said “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is
progress, and working together is success.” How are Deaf like feathers? Birds of a different
feather flock together. No matter the differences Deaf people have, they are all under the same
umbrella and run like hell, they fight to get out of the rain.
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Environment
•Indicatehealth ofthe
environtment -amountof
rocks facter into
determining soilquality
•shape the environment-
mountain ranges,
watersheds
•Alter the environment -
mountains changeclimate
•Bedrock -Deaffoundation
in ASL
Erode/Refine
•water or wind dissolving
or removing geographic
materials
•^Born to hearing or deaf,
school attended, life
experiences, audism,
community or lack of,
marriage..etcall shape
deafperson
Classification
• ParticleSize
•Shape
•Colors
•permeability
•texture
Geology
•Rocks arecomposed of
grains ofminerals held
together by chemical
bonds
• ^ Attributes makeup one
person whothen belongs
to a group who thenjoins
a community
•igneous,sedimentary,
metamorphic
•^labels =born deaf,late
deafened, hardofhearing,
oral
Human Use
•Mining extracting
valuables
• we completely change it
into what wewantit tobe
or function as
•^colonization
•^Audism-usewhen
needed WWIIextracted
their work butthen
treatedas insufficiantin
society
•building
•used as monuments -
digton rock / plymouth
rock.
•^monumentous moments
in deafcultureDPN
• ^ Deafare a gain to
society
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classification
•vaned
•down
•synthetic
•contour
•labels= born deaf, late deafened,
hard of hearing, oral
physical
attributes
•size
•colors
•parasites
•^parasites community =crabtheory
•function overlooked bybeauty
Functions
•insulation
• decorative
•flight control
•protectionfrom outside elements
•sending visualsignals
•camouflage
•moult ^achieving deafhood
Human
Use/Animal
Cruelty
•stuffing
•Pluckedfrom live birds
•^Audism
•Arts and cafts