Through Deaf Eyes Review Essay

Moreover, the movie discussed the way deaf people and hearing people criticize and. Deaf people are more straight up on giving feedbacks. They use "Direct Approach" to criticize which means they go straight to the point and not worry of hurting the other's feeling. This is because in deaf culture, people believe they should be frank and clear in order to show that they care. In contrast, hearing culture uses "Sandwich Approach" to criticize. This means they will start with a positive point first then the negative and finally end with a positive point. They do this because they don't want their friends to feel bad about his wrong or unqualified work. In my opinions I think that both cultures have their points and actually I prefer the "sandwich approach". However, I sometimes use the "direct approach" with my closest friends.

In the movie they show many people who share their stories of oppression due to the fact that they are either deaf or hard of hearing. They discuss that they don't want to be seen as people who need help or want sympathy because being deaf is not a disability. In the movie they state just some of the misconceptions that people have of deaf people. One being that they can’t do the same jobs as hearing people because its hard for them and theyre going to need assistance; that is not true; it’s sad that people believe that just because they can’t hear that they’re anything less than intelligent in a certain field.

In this 2 hours of deaf history I found it very interesting. It taught me a lot about deaf history. In those 2 hours I found out about how people would treated deaf people. Deaf people were treated very badly, they were treated like something was wrong with them. There is nothing wrong with them even though they can’t hear, nothing is wrong with them they are still humans with feeling. Deaf people were told that they had to go to a school so they could learn to talk (oral schools). In those they were not aloud to sign or use hands in class. They would try and teach deaf kids how to speak by putting their hands on the teacher's throat to feel the vibrations of when the teacher speak and the kids had to copy that feeling on themselves and when

The book also describes how life has changed for deaf adults through the years. Previously, many deaf adults were not able to get jobs in many places, because there were not many places that were accepting to them. These days, however, almost every business or company is looking for those that are fluent in American Sign Language, due to the simple fact that they would be able to accommodate that many more people and earn more money for their business. Also, there were not many outlets for deaf adults to use in relation to entertainment or basic needs, because again, mostly everything was catered to hearing adults only. However, they have recently developed many different ways for the deaf to communicate with the hearing and with one another, including TTY, full-keyboard, and internet phones and closed-captions on television stations and movies.

In the autobiography Deaf Again, Mark Drolsbaugh writes about his life being born hearing, growing up hard of hearing, to eventually becoming deaf. By writing this book, he helps many people view from his perspective on what it is like for someone to struggle trying to fit in the hearing society. Through his early years, his eyes were closed to the deaf world, being only taught how to live in a hearing world. Not only does the book cover his personal involvement, but it covers some important moments in deaf history. It really is eye-opening because instead of just learning about deaf culture and deaf history, someone who lived through it is actually explaining their experiences.

It is known that hearing people are superior to Deaf people. No one can sit and prove it, but you can tell how a hearing person acts compared to how a deaf person acts when they walk into a room. The hearing people are chit-chatting and enjoying their time. The deaf person is looking around trying to read lips but deep down is feeling isolated. Most Deaf people understand that they are equal to hearing people and should not feel discriminated against. Deaf people sometimes still get treated different, but most of the world is starting to treat them equally. They have been able to get more employment, higher education, and higher job positions. In Bernard Bragg’s book, “Lessons in Laughter: The Autobiography of a Deaf Actor”, he expressed

The Deaf President Now movement and Gallaudet University protest did not only achieve its aims, this revolution brought unity to the Deaf Community and awareness to the general public. This revolution grew into a civil rights movement, consequently enacting legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and The Telecommunications Accessibility Enhancement Act of 1988, to benefit deaf citizens. The events of February- March 1988 are still a great source of pride and enlightenment that are still nostalgically looked back on by this generation of deaf citizens. The Deaf community can be described as being a relatively private community, consisting of many people with various ranges of hearing loss. Like any culture, the deaf have their own community, culture, language, and essentially a separate world from the hearing majority. However, it has only been in the last few decades that there has been awareness and acceptance of this culture, nevertheless there is not full acceptance and understanding of this community and deafness in

As I watched the film, I was shocked and disturbed at the extreme measures that was taken to experiment on ways to get a person’s hearing back throughout history. The thought of putting someone in a plane and doing loops in the air brings out the fear in me, but putting someone that was deaf in the plane just because they were different from the hearing culture filled my head with sad and horrid thoughts. Even a child’s happiest moments, throughout deaf history, were used to try to “cure the deaf child.” What was supposed to be a joyful memory was constructed with a bad thought of trying to be changed. In the movie when Professor Robert Panera was talking about how his dad took him to meet Babe Ruth in hopes the thrill will get his hearing

This movie gives an account of the history, modern life, and personal experiences of the deaf and those in the Deaf community, along with their families. Viewers are shown interviews, mini-movies, pictures, and video to illustrate the information presented in this film. Through Deaf Eyes delves deep into deaf history and life, gives viewers interesting insights into the experiences of the deaf through mini-movies, and has permanently altered my understanding of these experiences.

The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making by Melvia M. Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland is a book written to describe the changes the Deaf community, with a capital “D”, has encountered throughout time. The authors mention, “By using the capital ‘D’ to refer to a community of people who share a language and culture and the lower case ‘d’ to refer to the audiological condition of hearing loss” (Nomeland 3). In this book we are taken through a time line on how the Deaf community’s life changed socially and educationally allowing them to live normally.

When I finished reading the book I realized that I had just learned way more than I had been expecting. Just reading the first chapter was enough for me to be awestruck by the intricacies of the Deaf culture, but as I continued reading I realized that the depth and many levels of social structure are so detailed that being able to fully understand them would be simply impossible. I was very impressed with the amount of respect that the word Deaf conveys among the Deaf community. The first chapter to me seemed to be the most interesting. The many stories about Deaf children meeting friends and interacting shed a new light on the way that Deaf people learn to communicate. The word Deaf itself is

Deaf people have influenced our lives and the lives of our deaf people because they show us that anything is possible. Just because you are different from the rest of the world doesn't make you different in a bad way. Many deaf Actors and stars show us that it isn’t impossible to follow your dreams do something that can change the world.

The movie Trough Deaf Eyes shows us that Deaf people are just like everybody else. One individual in the movie said, "Being deaf is part of me, it's something I have to deal with, but it doesn't keep me from being happy. It's just like being tall instead of short." One thing that I thought was interesting, that was explained

Deaf community has their different world, culture and language. Normal people might see deaf people not normal as others. They describe them as other individuals with disability. Indeed, deaf people have their own culture that let them see us as strangers and they are normal. As I saw in the video, I can see how they communicate with other normal people and how they try hard to describe something. If we stop for a moment we will see that they might think that we are who have a disability. What is amazed me most about the video is the deaf culture that makes them enjoy the life. I think that they have better social life than us. They usually meet each other and go to interesting clubs. They also go to sport clubs and participate in important

“[Charlie Chaplin] is able both to make himself understood and to understand me. He is an artist” (Schuchman, 1988, p. 24). This was told by Granville Redmond, a prominent deaf actor and painter in Hollywood during the silent movie era, with the height of his career mainly in the late 1910s. He was a close friend to Chaplin, acting in multiple movies with him and being a documented member of Chaplin’s close group of friends. This description of their relationship, captured by Redmond, documents the shared sense of acceptance and inclusion not only in this working relationship and friendship, but can be viewed as a greater example for the acceptance and equality that deaf people in general felt during the era of silent movies. This time was one of the first, and only for many decades to follow, that truly allowed opportunities for deaf individuals to work with hearing people on equal grounds. It was a time that allowed the Deaf community to participate in mainstream American society’s cultural events by attending movies just as freely and often as hearing people. In essence, the silent movie era was a time for inclusion, acceptance, and equality for deaf people in America.