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    The documentary "Through Deaf Eyes" explores the history and culture of deafness and sign language. It notes that over 90% of deaf people are born to hearing parents. In the 1800s, deaf people were isolated and schools for the deaf emerged to educate them through sign language. However, some advocated for oralism and tried to suppress sign language. The documentary shows how sign language varies regionally and individually, with different dialects and styles of expression. It highlights how deaf culture helps bridge the gap between the "hearing world" and the "deaf world" through shared community and art like silent films. Sign language is a complete, legitimate language in its own right.

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    The documentary "Through Deaf Eyes" explores the history and culture of deafness and sign language. It notes that over 90% of deaf people are born to hearing parents. In the 1800s, deaf people were isolated and schools for the deaf emerged to educate them through sign language. However, some advocated for oralism and tried to suppress sign language. The documentary shows how sign language varies regionally and individually, with different dialects and styles of expression. It highlights how deaf culture helps bridge the gap between the "hearing world" and the "deaf world" through shared community and art like silent films. Sign language is a complete, legitimate language in its own right.

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    The documentary "Through Deaf Eyes" explores the history and culture of deafness and sign language. It notes that over 90% of deaf people are born to hearing parents. In the 1800s, deaf people were isolated and schools for the deaf emerged to educate them through sign language. However, some advocated for oralism and tried to suppress sign language. The documentary shows how sign language varies regionally and individually, with different dialects and styles of expression. It highlights how deaf culture helps bridge the gap between the "hearing world" and the "deaf world" through shared community and art like silent films. Sign language is a complete, legitimate language in its own right.

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    Sarah Aldrich

    CDIS101
    Through Deaf Eyes

    For centuries, hearing people saw deafness as a misfortune. However, deafness is not a
    physical handicap. That being said, there are accommodations, yes, that are made for people
    who are deaf to be able to survive. Thinking about it from another angle, if a whole room was
    full of people who are deaf, then the hearing person would also need some sort of
    accommodation also.

    The documentary started by sharing some statistics. Over 90% of deaf people have
    hearing parents, and often, deafness is a trait which lasts through one generation. It can be
    caused through heredity, illness, or accident. But would all deaf people trade in being deaf for
    being able to hear? No! Being deaf is just a part of these peoples lives and what makes them
    the unique individuals that they are. For people who are deaf, they do not focus on all the things
    that they cannot do, but rather the things that they are able to do. I appreciate this viewpoint of
    disability, since it is important to focus on the ability rather than the negative prefix dis
    attached to the word.

    In the 1800s, deaf people were isolated as they mostly lived in rural areas; they were
    outcasts and not believed to be capable of being educated. Galludet brought catechism to the
    deaf, and started a school for the deaf, later creating the first college for deaf individuals. More
    and more deaf schools opened, and along with them, an American Sign Language. Soon, sign
    language became taboo and controversial. Some thought that an oralist approach should be
    taken and that students/teachers should not be allowed to sign. The deaf were seen as people
    who should be assimilated into the American society. Alexander Graham Bell wanted to keep
    deaf people away from each other. Signing in public used to be seen as being shameful, and was
    something that should be done discreetly.

    Watching the documentary and seeing different people signing was proof of how varied
    sign language is to each individual. People used so many expressions to convey their emotions
    that go along with what they were saying. Speakers used body language. Southern state signers
    have their own dialects, different from the north, or the east, or the west. Each region has its own
    special signs and lingos, just as there are different dialects and phrases that are used in spoken
    languages. One black woman signer told about the differences between white people and black
    people when signing, as black people use their bodies more.

    For people who are deaf, they often feel caught between two worlds. These two worlds
    are one hearing (EARth) and one deaf (EYEth). Deaf culture helps to bridge this gap, through
    clubs, activities, and associations. One example is the National Association of the Deaf, which
    produced films to try and preserve sign language; these silent films were popular until 1929,
    when sound in films became possible. Deaf clubs had drama groups; one company was the
    National Theatre of the Deaf.

    Sign is a complete language and stands alone from English. It has its own structures as
    well as rules, just as all languages do, and should not be considered as less than its own
    language. Sign language dictionaries created with signs are arranged by hand shape and context,
    instead of alphabetically. Just as sign language deserves merit of its legitimacy, so do the people
    who sign it.

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