Seeing Voices

A year later at the end of Love is Never Silent, Janice had a retirement party at the factory where she worked since she was seventeen (Love is never silent). She invited all the staffs, friends and family members to come (Love is never silent). With a pastor’s translation, her stand in the middle among the people and had a speech using American Sign Language. The speech was a conclusion of her work journey in the factory. She informed everyone in the party that “The word silent, for us, is never silent. Please understand we are listening always with our eyes.... Hearing and Deaf must learn together, live together, change together. I can tell you from the Deaf side. Even we can’t hear the rain falling, but we listen from our eyes. Hearing people have their eyes in their ears. Deaf have ears in their eyes and they can see the water falling (Love is never silent 96:30).” She expressed that after years of working she had many important moments in her life. There were times that she felt using Sign Language in the public was a stigma. She wanted the society to become more aware the importance of Deaf and Hearing people to work together to improve the sociality as a whole. Sign language has been existing for a long time in American history until the 1950s (William. 2000). It has been a long time using Sign Language was prohibited from hearing people. Deaf people were used to learn how to read lips in school as “Normal” people (Signing, Alexander Graham Bell and the NAD 2007).…

Section one Preface Seeing Voices is a mind opening book that gives you different lenses to look through. Oliver Sacks, the author explains the introduction of sign language, the roots of learning language, and one of the greatest historic moments in deaf history. At first, he had no curiosity in sign language or deaf culture. However, this changed when he read a book about the history of deaf. He discussed this subject with a colleague, who has work with many deaf people. Oliver Sacks then…

Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan” discusses the attempt by pharmaceutical corporations to effectively market and distribute their antidepressants amongst the Japanese population who have a different perspective on depression. John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing” discusses…

ideal happens when you take an opportunity. These opportunities are jobs, the voice of the people, and the freedom we are given. We have a right to these opportunities. These opportunities are what make so many…

In Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars, the author puts a twist on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Beddor writes the tale from the perspective of Alyss, the princess of Wonderland who had to escape her queendom when her evil aunt Redd attacks the palace. She ends up alone in the middle of England taken in by the Liddles until she returns to Wonderland with Dodge Anders to reclaim the throne. When these changes were made to the story, real significance was provided with meaningful themes…

Chapter 4 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a picture essay. It begins with religious pieces of art, mainly from the thirteenth century. It carries on with work from the 14th, 15th 16th century and so on. The images contain subjects like deceased bodies, children, life, nudity etc. The essay is bringing us through the history of art and what was considered important during those years. The next chapter is about oil paintings. As economies grew so did people’s want for materialistic objects. At…

connect to Stephen King on a deeper level, and I have his writing to thank for this. How characters interact through dialogue reveals a lot about them, although they may not know it themselves. On page 86, King recalls the time the paperback rights to Carrie were bought. He received a large sum of money, which was more than enough to provide for his family. On this page, he uses dialogue to grab the reader's attention and voice his emotions. His use of dialogue is very effective here because…

nostalgic about their childhood. What makes this film good has several factors: the plot, dialogue, music, scenery, animation, setting, story, and voice acting. Howl’s Moving Castle ,(ハウルの動く城, Hepburn: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro), was first released in Japan on September 5, 2004. A year later, it was released to the U.S. and Canadian by Disney in June 10, 2005. Then later it was released nationwide in September. The director of Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki, has made other brilliant films such…

audiences are influenced by this and become more immersed in the film. Some manipulations that are used in various films that we viewed throughout the course are things such as voice over narration that acts as a bridge while not completely breaking the fourth wall. As well as the careful planning of what soundtrack to use, which help to increase the influence a particular scene has on an audience such as in the Red Detachment of Women. Finally the use of silence or quietness to create a feeling…

cigarettes a day for 25 years. Amanda was referred to a speech pathologist for evaluation of her voice. An examination revealed an abnormal change in the voice, or dysphonia, most likely bilateral true vocal nodule on the medial surface of the left posterior. During therapy session, Amanda states that she first began experiencing hoarseness at least three to four years ago, when she developed a cyst in the neck. Eventually, the cyst was surgically removed in August; however, her voice never…