...Deaf Event For my American Sign Language class I needed to attend some type of Deaf event. The event I chose was the showing of Love is Never Silent on October 22nd from 6-8pm in Wiley Hall at the University of Minnesota. Love is Never Silent is a very touching and powerful television movie from 1985. This movie can help the hearing world get a look at what it is like to have family members that are Deaf. This movie was also probably an inspiration for Deaf people by how relatable it could be to their life. The movie follows Margaret, a child of Deaf parents, through childhood until she is a grown adult. During the stages of Margaret’s life depicted through the movie I learned new information about Deaf culture and was able to make many comparisons between Deaf and hearing culture. The movie begins with Margaret’s mother sewing in their tiny apartment while Margaret and her younger brother are goofing around. The father arrives home and shortly after a man shows up at the apartment and knocks on the door. The parents cannot hear the door so Margaret is left to not only answer the door, but also deal with the man at the door who tries to speak to her parents first, only for Margaret to necessarily intervene later. The man is taking Mother’s sewing machine; she is no longer allowed to work at home and must work in the factory. This is where I first noticed differences in Deaf and hearing culture. The mother worked at home because it was easier and more comfortable for her...
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...Theresa Luke 11/24/14 ASL 101 “Love is Never Silent” Reaction Paper The movie, “Love is Never Silent”, a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film, is based on a young girl whose parents are not part of the hearing world during the Depression of the 1930’s. Margaret, the daughter of Janice and Abel, is the only hope they have in order to stay connected to the hearing world. By using American Sign Language, Margaret has helped her parents stay in tune with what’s going on in the outside world. Margaret’s childhood consisted of keeping her parents connected with the hearing world. This meant that she hardly had any time to herself. She had to grow up a lot faster than the kids she went to school with because it was like Margaret was taking care of her parents and not being raised by them. Most, if not any of the kids she went to school with were not interpreting American Sign Language for their parents. In fact, nobody even knew that Margaret’s parents were deaf because she was worried that people would look at her funny or make fun of her parents for it. Margaret grew up hearing awful comments and stereotypes about deaf people that fortunately couldn’t be heard by her parents. As Margaret grew older and found love and independence outside of her home, her parents become bitter and distraught by it. Her wanting to be able to be free and do things like getting married to a man upset her parents. Janice and Abel looked at this as Margaret deserting and leaving them lost in the hearing...
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...inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium's natural tendency toward a total representation of reality." This quote by David Cook deals with what is referred to as the “silent era” in film history. This era was between 1894 to the early 1920s and dealt with films with no synchronized sound. These films that were produced in this era were known as silent films and include motion pictures with subtitles instead of sound. Some of the motion pictures known as silent films include: The Gold Rush, Girl Shy, For Heaven’s sake, The Dark Angel, and Dangerous Money. The film reviews of these motion picture films will be looked into for a better understanding of how the audience felt about these films. These American films were born in the age of reform and addressed themes that focused on major social and moral issues that the audience could relate to. A common theme that was prevalent in the aforementioned movies is the openness of romance in the American society. Romance films mainly involve a connection or bond shared between the two protagonists. There were many ways the theme love was displayed in these silent films. Some examples of the themes displayed in these romance films include: young love, love at first sight, unrequited love, spiritual love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, tragic love, and forbidden love. The film, The Dark Angel, could be looked at as a tragic love story at first and then at the...
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...rest assure that you wont suffer because love takes all its angst out on me the harder i try to breathe the more i chike and fall blindly into where i can see you as i drown and sink cant wish it all away cant cry it all away cant close my eyes to escape cant hold my breathe to fade hold me as i slip through the dark cast me in te shadows,love what i forgot say you'll only love me because i cant bear this all alone cant fight it all away cant hope it all away cant scream it all away it just wont go away!!!! guess i'll just have to bleed it though with your love,i once thought i'll endure but it hurts right down to the core as these stab wounds sink deeper in because they go through slowly i fall into silent nights watch the dark red sky fly over me as i stand still where i once knew away you went,i stand invisible the silent ringing in my ears are cause by the screaming every night of what i lost as i slip into what they call a nightmare its what i use to escape reality where i go to help bleed these feelings the one place where i can cry and no one see i close me eyes so i wont see you leave i know you can taste it in my tears drowning before i reach the floor i'll bleed before you reach that door you cant go in because its locked and im forever lost away from it so go ahead and scream scream til my ears bleed because if you break that door you would never be able to find me you'll never see through this darkness darkness so...
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...Love is beautiful. Love is unconditional. Love is non judgemental. Love is care. Love is acceptance. Love is bliss. Love is pure. Love is serene. Love is calm. Love is silent. Love is not I, me or you. Love is us. Love is not wanting or expecting, Love is giving and accepting. Love is a strength that gives you courage to stand and act in a situation when you don’t even have the capacity to move. Love is a vibration that makes you strong. Love is a signal that binds the souls together. What I feel for my mother is Love. What I feel for my father is Love. What I feel for my sister is Love. What I feel for my brother is Love. What I feel for my grandparents is Love. But I don’t know how to show this Love. I never kissed my brother, or hugged my sister unoccassionaly or thanked my parents unreasonably or gifted my grandparents ever. I just don’t need these gestures to show my unconditional emotion to them. Do I? Dressed in a gorgeous piece came my princess and asked, “How am I looking Di?” And my “Yeah!!” Is enough for her to know that she is looking “Just Perfect”. On the Christmas Eve this year, a bundle of beautifully packed gift lied under my pillow. Holding them in my hands I rushed to my father and said, “Papa!! Santa gave me this”. And he knows that I was thanking MY PAPA SANTA. No matter how much treacherous our fights may be, and the next moment we are together playing Subway Surfers. This is my brother. Do I need to tell him SORRY explicitly? NO. Long days at...
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...Darkness in seconds, a stadium so silent in which one could hear a pin drop, and all of a sudden, a large storm of screaming fans uproars and making its mark throughout the city. It was a a a football sunday in pittsburgh and Playoff football is like no other. It was my brother and I first playoff game game and we were not able to sleep due to the excitement of being in the same atmosphere as some of the greatest players in the game. Walking into the stadium with snow flurrying in the air, and the smell of all the greasy foods from the stands around, you know it was time for Steelers football. The game began and throughout it all you could see every fan in the stadium made sure be standing and hollering the whole game. The love of the game from my brother and I had us standing with everyone else there and screaming like we had just won the lottery, even though we could not feel our toes from the cold wind that was not going to stop us from the love of the game....
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...history. This discovery revolutionized medicine and allowed people to fight of infection which used to end up killing someone. If penicillin was not discovered could mean that an amazing person like Mr Caldwell may have never existed because one of his relatives may have died of infection. Today penicillin is still widely...
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...IX SHE had known him but a little while and had never taken much notice of him. She had no idea when or where they had first met till after their engagement he told her that it was at a dance to which some friends had brought him. She certainly paid no attention to him then and if she danced with him it was because she was good-natured and was glad to dance with any one who asked her. She didn't know him from Adam when a day or two later at another dance he came up and spoke to her. Then she she remarked that he was at every dance she went to. "You know, I've danced with you at least a dozen times now and you must tell me your name," she said to him at last in her laughing way. He was obviously taken aback. "Do you mean to say you don't know it? I was introduced to you." "Oh, but people always mumble. I shouldn't be at all surprised if you hadn't the ghost of an idea what mine was." He smiled at her. His face was grave and a trifle stern, but his smile was very sweet. "Of course I know it." He was silent for a moment or two. "Have you no curiosity?" he asked then. "As much as most women." "It didn't occur to you to ask somebody or other what my name was?" She was faintly amused; she wondered why he thought it could in the least interest her; but she liked to please, so she looked at him with that dazzling smile of hers and her beautiful eyes, dewy ponds under forest trees, held an enchanting kindness. "Well, what is it?" "Walter Fane." ...
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...of the several scenes that are illustrated on the urn. He says that the painting is silent and does not change. What is painted on the urn is there forever. In its never-changing aspect, all the people stay fair and young, untouched by time. However, they cannot fulfill what they want to in life. Although people get old, the urn itself will remain. The urn teaches us that all we can do in life is to appreciate beauty and to be aware. The narrator’s idea of living in the eternal world of the illustrations on the urn changes from excitement at the beginning of the poem to nervousness at the end. At first, the narrator is fascinated by never-changing nature of the urn. He is amazed and describes each scene. The first scene tells a story through pictures that is set in Greece, either in Tempe or Arcady. The narrator asks many questions. He wonders whether the images represent men or gods. He also wonders what is going on in the illustration and whether it is a scene of pursuit, struggle, or ecstasy. The second scene is that of a young man playing the pipe beneath the trees. The man is similar to the leaves on the tree in that they are both fixed in time and will never die. The songs of this “happy melodist” and the “happy boughs” of the tree will live forever. The third scene is of a young lover who is very close to kissing his maiden. His maiden will stay young and beautiful forever and their love will continue endlessly. The last scene is an image of people approaching an altar...
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...On the remote island of Shalott, embowered by four gray walls, lies a legendary castle, where the Lady of Shalott spends her days weaving a magic web. People pass the island all the time, but have never set eyes on the fair lady, occasionally, her mystical songs will drift to the people working in the nearby islands. She is encumbered with a curse that forbids her from looking outside, thus she views the world only through the shadows in her magic mirror. The lady represents the artist, above ordinary life, practicing her art and observing the world below but never mixing with it directly. Once she is drawn back to real life, her art is destroyed, and she dies. In The Lady of Shalott, Lord Alfred Tennyson uses visual imagery, contrasting sound devices, and...
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...280113 Normality just went out of the window for you, Didn’t it? No-one really panicked until that day The day that you got in your car But never came back You drove all the way to where you remembered Then walked the rest of the way Pretty far from home if you ask me That’s where you’re supposed to be… Home Our lives came spiralling down Nearly a week after you left When a man in a suit as dark as night Came through the door with a face Full of regret He bowed his head And told us you’d gone to a better place They tried their “hardest” he said Well Their hardest wasn’t good enough Forget the crimes I say Forget those who may have wronged String up the real criminals The ones who drive our loved ones away Find my Granddad’s silent assassin Please? Please! Lock him up Catch this killer Dementia is his name 01 Coffee licked the lips Searing pain A jolt to her sockets Extra wattage She envisaged a bitter strain Eyes shook Shattered Bitter, unlike god She’s kicked and bloody Another bolt shook her And encouraged walking 02 Opium lock Magic! Rebirth? I’m in pain Utopia surrounds Diamonds love and land I’d bow to the breeze and sun Light glistens in my hair Gold spell over the rocks of the kingdom No! Broken glass Beetles scatter over the hills Not calm, no serenity Orange crackle Gone! ...
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...its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable. Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill. 2 When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my heart would break with pride; and I look to thy face, and tears come to my eyes. All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony---and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea. I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer I come before thy presence. I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of my song thy feet which I could never aspire to reach. Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord. Page 1 3 I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement. The light of thy music illumines the world. The life breath of thy music runs...
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...to do it anyways. I love the reply that Mordecai gives Esther, “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish,” (Esther 4:14a). Mordecai had complete faith that his God would be able to deliver them. When Esther is saying that she is unqualified, Mordecai responds with agreement. He is telling her that it is Gods power working through us that would get the job done. So if Esther decides to ignore her calling, “and remain silent,” then the ultimate goal of deliverance will still be met because God will get some else who is willing. But Mordecai goes on to say later in the same verse that she should take up the calling, “And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” I believe that all humans have the same purpose for being created: to worship and love our savior. However, God has given us different gifts and challenges in order to show and prove our love and adoration for him. So Mordecai is telling her that if she chickens out she may be missing the unique calling that God had placed specifically for her. Now that is scary to think. God has made me for specific opportunities and I have chickened out and not fulfilled my design. Finally, Esther agrees to go and refuses to remain silent. She understood that it was in her power to act so she did. God created us with a voice for a reason. We were not meant to be silent. There are so many problems...
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...Elie Wiesel’s Break Of Silence One of the most dreadful events in the history of mankind: the Holocaust during World War II. The holocaust was a genocide of Jews, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, and crippled. The holocaust killed more than six million Jews alone. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who went through the terror of the holocaust and its concentration camp. He tells his story in his book Night. Night reveals how Wiesel lost his family, faith, and innocence to the evil of mankind during the holocaust. Wiesel believes it is important for people today to read this book because they need to be shown how important it is not to keep silent and let something like the holocaust happen again. Elie has some of the most marvelous figurative language throughout the novel, starting off with some metaphors. Elie and the rest of the block are running to a peculiar concentration camp, with no rest Elie starts having speculation of what will happened if he stops running. “ A great ideal wave of men came rolling onward and would have crushed me like an ant” (87). No analysis How does this relate to the author’s purpose? The next phase awkward phrase is about when there was two cauldrons of soup in the middle of the road with no one to guard it. “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in the wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. But who would dare?” (59) Have you ever been so mad at someone that everytime you talk to them you questioned them with anger or say...
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...OUTLINE: I. Introduction- II. WHY did Silent Spring make such an impact that, to some degree, it ushered in the 1960s? a. Paragraph I i. Topic Sentence: Before one can evaluate the enormous success or Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring one must weigh in on the era Carson was coming off of in order to understand why her book had such an impact at the time that it did. 1. By 1950 American had faced 2 World Wars and an economic Depression U.S. becomes super power 2. 1950’s there is a shift to consumerism and conservatism 3. Average Citizen wants nuclear family and suburbia b. Paragraph II ii. Topic Sentence: Now that the United States was finally economically sound and our international relations, while not at its best, were somewhat stable; American society was able to focus on issues that for so long had not had the time to address. 4. The Cold war and nuclear threat became a key role in the formation of the environmental movement 5. Humans now have power to significantly change the environment around them 6. Nuclear weapons also introduced other technologies that threatened nature such as pesticides and chemicals for agriculture iii. Concluding Sentence: These new threats along with the a shift to a more liberal U.S. mindset provided Rachel Carson and Silent Spring impeccable timing to make the largest impact and start a revolution that at any other...
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