Robert Panara
Robert Panara was a legendary professor of English, literature, and theater. He is also known as a poet, historian, drama-club coach, and an authority on deaf culture. Robert Panara was born in 1920 in the Bronx. One day, when he was ten years old, he awoke in hospital with blurry vision, and had no feeling in his right arm. When a nurse spoke to him, he heard nothing. Spinal meningitis had attacked his auditory nerves, leaving him completely deaf. But Panara did not give up. His strong reading and writing skills allowed him to attend mainstream public schools, and he often relied on classmates to take notes for him or mouth words so he could read lips. He learned sign language at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford,
Now, he is an advocate for parents of deaf children to learn sign language so that no one would ever have to experience what he had to.
In Mark Drolsbaugh’s educational and witty autobiography “Deaf Again”, he describes his journey as a child born to deaf parents, losing his own hearing in his childhood, and navigating both hearing and deaf worlds while trying to discover his identity.
Robert Philip Hanssen is a former U.S. FBI agent who spied for Russians for 22 years from 1979 to 2001.
Christopher Sly was born in West Cornwall, Connecticut. He lived in this extremely small town up to his sophomore year of college . He had a rough childhood, his dad was a drunk man who left when he was about twelve and his mother was a hard working waitress at the diner. Christopher had very good grades but always skipped classes. One day he was called down to the principal's office. The principal said, “ Kid you have a bright future but you won’t get anywhere if you don’t take the opportunities you are given, I’m offering you one last opportunity, I put in a word for you at the towns newspaper you haven’t got the job but I did get you an interview. I hope to hear great news”. He was a bright kid who had a bright future ahead him but it took
Paul Johnston was born Deaf and had hearing parents. He went to California School for the Deaf, that’s where he learned ASL. He was inspired by Felix Kowalewski, a Deaf art teacher from the Oregon High School for the Deaf, he also graduation from there. He was the first deaf student to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in furniture design and woodworking from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He also studied drama, literature, and Deaf culture. In 1975 he made his acting debut with the National Theater of the Deaf. Paul then graduated from Penn State University with a Master of Science degree in art education and a minor in sculpture. Then in 1980 got a doctorate in art education with a minor in philosophy from Penn State University,
Jack Andraka is a teen activist because of his invention thousands of lives were saved . Jack as some famous quotes that he made himself “one of them is “You will be able to take rejection” this is a famous quote because when he got rejected by 15 colleges and only 1 school got back to the cancer test.
I have Daniel Barriga who came to my class today and said in front of my class “that you argue that I don’t know how to grade.” Is this true or not? Because I have been teaching for more than 15 years now and is the first time I have this situation. Daniel Barriga had a lot of opportunities to make up the work he is missing instead he decide to play games and waste time in class. I talk to his mother and principal and let her know. I gave a makeup work day and instead of completing his work he decide to play games. Some of the late assignment that he turn in were copy from other student. I also delete one major and one grade which mean that I help him to get in to a 69. I he deserves the 70 I would give him the 70 but as you can see he do not
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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was the first well-taught Sign Language teacher in America, but he was French. He was born on December 26, 1785 in La Balme-les-Grottes, France. He was born hearing, but was left on a chair when he was only a year old and fell into a fire. He was left deaf and unable to smell, with a scar on the right side of his face that he later used to sign his name. When he was seven years old his mother took him to see a physician in the nearby town of Lyons to treat his deafness. After two weeks and many painful shots and injections, it proved ineffective. He had never gone to school, nor learned to read or write so his family had adapted their own sort of sign language so that he could express himself.
Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. She graduated from Radcliffe College, with honors, in 1904.
They congregate in this square (dimensions: 787 feet x 1,115 feet; 240m x 340m) whose vast expanse so impressively symbolizes the universal embrace of the Church.
Rilke's words to the aspiring poet instantly brought American Sign Language to mind. Prior to freshman year of high school, I had not possessed the slightest knowledge of the deaf community, their language, their beliefs, or their customs. Since then, I have immersed myself into these things to the extent that was then possible.
“[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.
His senior year of high school he applies to only two major colleges; Purdue University and Rochester Institute of Technology, he was accepted into both. He and his grandfather had dreams of him going to Purdue and playing on their wrestling team; he didn’t think he’d get in. RIT was out of the question but with his mother’s encouragement he applied as well. While at his first year at Purdue, he struggled. He only knew how to read lips, and the large fast pace classrooms were too much to handle. Although he had an interpreter in all his classes, it was useless. He barely knew any sign language and his grades were affected by his inability to comprehend what the professors where saying. Eventually he was kicked off the wrestling team due to his grades. This scene in the movie made me realize that Deaf people could not only read lips, but they should all learn how to sign as well. Sign Language is a universal method of communication between Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing people.
One of the key notes of Pather Panchali is the children nature interconnection. ‘The forest with its freshness and deep green shadows, had laid its fressness and deep green shadows, had laid its fingers on Opu and his sister alike, and had brought peace and consolation into their hearts. They had known it all their lives.’ (169) Durga and Apu, the siblings derive a lot of pleasure in nature; they explore the flora and fauna of their land; they enjoy the sweet rain; and arrange a feast in the forest. Bibhutibhushan himself being the true son of the soil, his creation Apu is also a child of nature. Like Wordsworth, his Apu also finds immense pleasure in the open lap of nature. He is bewildered at the astonishing rural beauty of nature. His heart soars high in the sky