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    Through Deaf Eyes: A review of Deaf Education Watching the film Through Deaf Eyes was eye opening to Deaf history and culture. The film was a great introduction and snapshot of what it is like to be Deaf and to live in not only the Deaf world but to also be a part of the hearing world. Watching the film and learning the history and the achievements that the Deaf have overcome was inspiring. It was also depressing to see the kind of oppression that Deaf people have faced and within their own community

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    “Through Deaf Eyes” is another world that introduces to hearing people educate them about “deaf world” or “deaf culture” and how those deaf and hard of hearing people experiences in their world and their history happened in the past. My perspective on hearing loss as a disability or difference that is always on my mind and I never thought to be deaf or hard of hearing as a disability. One day, in the classroom at the University, a professor was discussing the list of disabilities. My interpreter

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    The movie, Through Deaf Eyes, taught me a lot about the deaf community. After watching the movie, I have a new perspective about the deaf community. The biggest thing that stood out to me was that they are just like hearing people and they never think that they are incapable of anything. I think it was really fascinating to see that how the deaf community does not think about the things they are unable to do. Instead, they focus on things they can do and what new things they get to learn. I also

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    Through Deaf Eyes is a documentary about Deaf people, Deaf Culture, and Deaf History. Throughout the movie there are many interviews of Deaf people. During the interviews they talk about their experiences and their life growing up. The movie shows us what it was like, and what it is like through the eyes of a Deaf person. The movie shows us events that took place in Deaf History and have made Deaf Culture what it is today. The movie Trough Deaf Eyes shows us that Deaf people are just like everybody

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    Through Deaf Eyes Reflection Paper “Through Deaf Eyes” was a documentary that really opened my eyes and allowed me to understand just a small fraction of what it may be like for a Deaf person to live in a hearing world. The first thing that really stuck with me was the fact that the film was all silent. The part that made it easy for me to understand was the fact that there was closed captioning. All throughout the film, all participants, both Deaf and hearing, were signing at what seemed like lightning

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    documentary called Through Deaf Eyes, the part that interested me the most was the deaf schools. Deaf Schools now range all around the United States. They are interesting to me because they are different than a public or private school you see everyday. They also interest me because I would like to know more about them than what the video talks about. The three topics that interested me the most about deaf schools was how they started, how today's deaf schools are, and what is different about deaf schools.

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    In “Through Deaf Eyes” you will find a range of perspective on the question what is deafness? This film is a balanced presentation of deaf experience. I believe that the film does a good job of revealing the struggles and triumphs of deaf people in society throughout history. The documentary covers a span of close to 200 years of deaf life in the United States. You will see experiences among deaf people in education, family life, work, and social activities. Sign language is language that uses

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    Through Deaf Eyes “To be deaf is to be a part of a tiny minority in a hearing world, but it is far from the uniform and tragic experience that most hearing people imagine”. After watching the film “Through the Deaf Eyes” I learned several things about the deaf culture, community, and history. Some interesting facts that I picked up where that over 90% of deaf people have hearing parents, and a majority of deaf parents have hearing children. Quoted by an individual in a film “Deafness doesn't make

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    “A Day Through a Deaf Person’s Eyes” portrays the daily struggles deaf people must endure constantly. The movie accurately emphasizes the reactions of hearing people to the deaf community during interactions such as with the police officer and the cashier at the restaurant. I learned that deaf people must be approached or interacted with via vibrations or touch to gain their attention, and that this impairment sometimes makes hearing people offended if they do not know the other person is not simply

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    The documentary Through Deaf Eyes taught me many things about the history of deaf culture. One of the first things I learned was that they have their own music. Although the deaf community may not have full hearing, they still have excellent music. The deaf community can play instruments very well, and can communicate lyrics through the ASL. They have jam sessions, they still feel the vibrations when the volume is all the way up, it’s an excellent way of bringing the community together. The next

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