...Deaf Event For my American Sign Language class I needed to attend some type of Deaf event. The event I chose was the showing of Love is Never Silent on October 22nd from 6-8pm in Wiley Hall at the University of Minnesota. Love is Never Silent is a very touching and powerful television movie from 1985. This movie can help the hearing world get a look at what it is like to have family members that are Deaf. This movie was also probably an inspiration for Deaf people by how relatable it could be to their life. The movie follows Margaret, a child of Deaf parents, through childhood until she is a grown adult. During the stages of Margaret’s life depicted through the movie I learned new information about Deaf culture and was able to make many comparisons between Deaf and hearing culture. The movie begins with Margaret’s mother sewing in their tiny apartment while Margaret and her younger brother are goofing around. The father arrives home and shortly after a man shows up at the apartment and knocks on the door. The parents cannot hear the door so Margaret is left to not only answer the door, but also deal with the man at the door who tries to speak to her parents first, only for Margaret to necessarily intervene later. The man is taking Mother’s sewing machine; she is no longer allowed to work at home and must work in the factory. This is where I first noticed differences in Deaf and hearing culture. The mother worked at home because it was easier and more comfortable for her...
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...dependents on her from a young age, as they found it difficult living in a world of hearing. She was their ears for they couldn't hear, and their voices when they weren't being heard. During the time of the Great Depression, being Deaf wasn't a norm. Many Deaf people were ashamed of their identities and shied away from using hand gestures as a form of communication. As shown throughout the movie, the hearing world did not understand the silent, and the silent world did not understand the hearing. As Margaret struggled with her youth, she found it difficult gaining independence as her parents relied on her often. As she falls in love and gets married, she's torn between her parents and the hearing world. A good example of how deaf and hearing people didn't understand each other was the scene where Margaret's in-laws and parents meet for the first time. They didn't want to embarrass themselves by signing so they refused to sign at all. This brought confusion to Margaret's in-laws as the communication barrier was lacking. Another example from Deaf is never silent, is how Deaf people tried to fit in. In the movie, Abel, Margaret's father, as a graduation gift to her, got hearing aids so she can feel normal. This made Margret ashamed of her actions, and for making her parents feel ashamed of their...
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...inception, so that in some sense the silent cinema represents a thirty-year aberration from the medium's natural tendency toward a total representation of reality." This quote by David Cook deals with what is referred to as the “silent era” in film history. This era was between 1894 to the early 1920s and dealt with films with no synchronized sound. These films that were produced in this era were known as silent films and include motion pictures with subtitles instead of sound. Some of the motion pictures known as silent films include: The Gold Rush, Girl Shy, For Heaven’s sake, The Dark Angel, and Dangerous Money. The film reviews of these motion picture films will be looked into for a better understanding of how the audience felt about these films. These American films were born in the age of reform and addressed themes that focused on major social and moral issues that the audience could relate to. A common theme that was prevalent in the aforementioned movies is the openness of romance in the American society. Romance films mainly involve a connection or bond shared between the two protagonists. There were many ways the theme love was displayed in these silent films. Some examples of the themes displayed in these romance films include: young love, love at first sight, unrequited love, spiritual love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, tragic love, and forbidden love. The film, The Dark Angel, could be looked at as a tragic love story at first and then at the...
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...Theresa Luke 11/24/14 ASL 101 “Love is Never Silent” Reaction Paper The movie, “Love is Never Silent”, a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film, is based on a young girl whose parents are not part of the hearing world during the Depression of the 1930’s. Margaret, the daughter of Janice and Abel, is the only hope they have in order to stay connected to the hearing world. By using American Sign Language, Margaret has helped her parents stay in tune with what’s going on in the outside world. Margaret’s childhood consisted of keeping her parents connected with the hearing world. This meant that she hardly had any time to herself. She had to grow up a lot faster than the kids she went to school with because it was like Margaret was taking care of her parents and not being raised by them. Most, if not any of the kids she went to school with were not interpreting American Sign Language for their parents. In fact, nobody even knew that Margaret’s parents were deaf because she was worried that people would look at her funny or make fun of her parents for it. Margaret grew up hearing awful comments and stereotypes about deaf people that fortunately couldn’t be heard by her parents. As Margaret grew older and found love and independence outside of her home, her parents become bitter and distraught by it. Her wanting to be able to be free and do things like getting married to a man upset her parents. Janice and Abel looked at this as Margaret deserting and leaving them lost in the hearing...
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...Love is beautiful. Love is unconditional. Love is non judgemental. Love is care. Love is acceptance. Love is bliss. Love is pure. Love is serene. Love is calm. Love is silent. Love is not I, me or you. Love is us. Love is not wanting or expecting, Love is giving and accepting. Love is a strength that gives you courage to stand and act in a situation when you don’t even have the capacity to move. Love is a vibration that makes you strong. Love is a signal that binds the souls together. What I feel for my mother is Love. What I feel for my father is Love. What I feel for my sister is Love. What I feel for my brother is Love. What I feel for my grandparents is Love. But I don’t know how to show this Love. I never kissed my brother, or hugged my sister unoccassionaly or thanked my parents unreasonably or gifted my grandparents ever. I just don’t need these gestures to show my unconditional emotion to them. Do I? Dressed in a gorgeous piece came my princess and asked, “How am I looking Di?” And my “Yeah!!” Is enough for her to know that she is looking “Just Perfect”. On the Christmas Eve this year, a bundle of beautifully packed gift lied under my pillow. Holding them in my hands I rushed to my father and said, “Papa!! Santa gave me this”. And he knows that I was thanking MY PAPA SANTA. No matter how much treacherous our fights may be, and the next moment we are together playing Subway Surfers. This is my brother. Do I need to tell him SORRY explicitly? NO. Long days at...
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...if you ask me That’s where you’re supposed to be… Home Our lives came spiralling down Nearly a week after you left When a man in a suit as dark as night Came through the door with a face Full of regret He bowed his head And told us you’d gone to a better place They tried their “hardest” he said Well Their hardest wasn’t good enough Forget the crimes I say Forget those who may have wronged String up the real criminals The ones who drive our loved ones away Find my Granddad’s silent assassin Please? Please! Lock him up Catch this killer Dementia is his name 01 Coffee licked the lips Searing pain A jolt to her sockets Extra wattage She envisaged a bitter strain Eyes shook Shattered Bitter, unlike god She’s kicked and bloody Another bolt shook her And encouraged walking 02 Opium lock Magic! Rebirth? I’m in pain Utopia surrounds Diamonds love and land I’d bow to the breeze and sun Light glistens in my hair Gold spell over the rocks of the kingdom No! Broken glass Beetles scatter over the hills Not calm, no serenity Orange crackle Gone! 03 Quiet nights alone Covered in a quilt of depression And dirty clothes Bloody scraped elbows Pounding head Disorientated, must have been the liquid courage Whole body aches, sore, limp Somewhat lifeless Daily battles...
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...University of Phoenix Material Environmental Movement Matrix Choose five items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1970s: • Cuyahoga River, OH (Cleveland) fire 1969 • Love Canal • Silent Spring • Population Bomb • Endangered Species Act (1966, 1969, & 1973) • Clean Water Act (1972, 1977) • Conservationism vs. environmentalism • Acid rain • Ozone layer • Rainforests • Depletion of fossil fuels • Climate change Event Significance Silent Spring The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 marked the beginning of modern environmentalism. Carson, known as the “godmother of modern environmentalism, impacted the American public’s consciousness with her detailed exposition on the dangers of environmental pollution to human health. By examining the ecological impacts of hazardous substances that pollute both the natural and human environments, like pesticides, Carson fundamentally altered the way Americans perceived the environment and the dangers of toxins to themselves. Conservationism vs. environmentalism By the 1870s, resource exploitation dominated development patterns in the West. Natural resources were devoured by destructive practices in mining, overgrazing, timber cutting, monocrop planting, and speculation in land and water rights. In 1902, for example, the Reclamation Act established the Reclamation Service, whose mission was to accomplish “the reclamation and settlement of the arid lands. The Reclamation...
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...Kinnell compares the beloved past time of eating berries with his love of expressing language in verbal communication. He uses the sound devices to develop how he enriches his poem to show his love of language and words. He uses alliteration to give meaning and depth to words. Kinnell also uses consonance heavily in this poem to lead the reader through the poem. He uses cacophony to slow down the reader to deliver emphasis on certain words. The title starts off with a cacophonic phrase. “Blackberry Eating” starts off rolling off your tongue with the first word. Then you encounter “Eating”, this word breaks up the flow of the title. This stops the reader and makes them assess the action that is occurring with the berries. In the phrase, “the stalks very prickly, a penalty” you stop and restart. You are led back to prickly with the word penalty. You get the understanding that the thorns are a punishment to the reader for enjoying the forbidden meal derived of the “black art of blackberry-making”. Another example of cacophany is the use of the letter B in the poem. The use of black, blackberries, breakfast provide a bounty of bold words that give a movement to the work that is very melodic. Alliteration is used throughout the poem to create a slippery, smooth progression of the poem. When he says “black blackberries” it describes the richness and ripeness of the fruit. Another example is “silent, startled”, here the alliteration in the phrase provides emphasis...
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...Ever heard of the expression “love hurts”, it really does. What is love? To me Love is something you can’t live without it or with it. Love is something that gets you hyped up when you look at special someone, it’s something that makes butterflies fly in your stomach when you talk to talk to that special someone, it’s the last thing you think about before going to bed. Have I have been love? Of course I have. It was a dark morning, so quiet you can hear pin drop, it was the first day of summer school. After leaving my house I had soon reached my school, as I stepped out of my dad’s car and see huge of pile of students outside the school, my dark silent morning wasn’t silent no more, due to loud chatter of the students. It was just another normalschool day for me or it was until I went to my class and saw a “sexy” girl that made me want to come to school every day despite the fact I had to wake up early or the long distance I had to travel to school or how boring the lesson was to boring, there was something about her that made me crazy, was it love? Not yet it wasn’t, I simply like her for her body and pleasure however this would change soon after. After two days of summer school, on a bright sunny day, my new friend had started has started to interact with her, he would ask questions and she would answer and I would sometimes jump in and also start a conversation with her. I soon became a friend of her and got to know one another. Being the person I am, I would annoy the...
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...to do it anyways. I love the reply that Mordecai gives Esther, “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish,” (Esther 4:14a). Mordecai had complete faith that his God would be able to deliver them. When Esther is saying that she is unqualified, Mordecai responds with agreement. He is telling her that it is Gods power working through us that would get the job done. So if Esther decides to ignore her calling, “and remain silent,” then the ultimate goal of deliverance will still be met because God will get some else who is willing. But Mordecai goes on to say later in the same verse that she should take up the calling, “And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” I believe that all humans have the same purpose for being created: to worship and love our savior. However, God has given us different gifts and challenges in order to show and prove our love and adoration for him. So Mordecai is telling her that if she chickens out she may be missing the unique calling that God had placed specifically for her. Now that is scary to think. God has made me for specific opportunities and I have chickened out and not fulfilled my design. Finally, Esther agrees to go and refuses to remain silent. She understood that it was in her power to act so she did. God created us with a voice for a reason. We were not meant to be silent. There are so many problems...
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... Ed and I would be a fantastic couple because I play the ukulele and he plays the guitar (amongst other instruments), so we would be able to spend time writing songs together. This is beneficial to him because he would be able to spend time writing songs for work, whilst spending time with his girlfriend. If we were to have true feelings for each other, I could be his muse. As every genuine sheerio knows, he writes a lot of his songs based on the people in his life. More often than not they are love songs, and I would be thrilled if he wrote them about me. Thirdly, Ed and I would be an amazing couple because on March 7th, 2015 at the AEG Mercedes-Benz Live arena we said our ‘I love you’s ‘ to each other. I was sitting in the third row and during the concert, while he sang Tenerife Sea (a slow song), and he took an extra 30 seconds to play a tune on the guitar. While the audience was dead silent, I took my chance and yelled, “I Love you, Edward Sheeran!” The audience was still silent,...
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...Surname Instructor Course Date Charlie Chaplin; The Prominent comedian Introduction During the silent era, films had did not have harmonized recorded sound and also spoken dialogue. The dialogue was through use of signals, mime and title cards. There were a lot of technical problems that resulted from trying to coordinate motion pictures with recorded sound and this is why during the silent era (1894–1929) most films remained “silent” until the late 1920s when the first film was released with sound and it became the order of the day until now. The advantage of the silent films is that they provided inexpensive entertainment and also overcame the verbal barriers for immigrants who had had just migrated to America in the early 1920s. One of the most prominent film stars during the silent era was Charlie Chaplin, who was born on 16 April, 1889 in London, England as Charles Spencer Chaplin; he died on the 25th December 1977 as a result of natural reasons. He was born from a very humble family, and his parents were also involved in the entertainment industry and this is why he started of his career at the tender age. During his American tour, he was spotted by Mark Sennet, who was a famous comedy director. He had two half-brothers who were also film actors; Sydney Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden and was the husband to Mildred Harris, who he divorced in 1920 and got married again to an actresses Lita Grey with whom...
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...i fall through these cloulds of fire watch me as i burn uncontrolling bust rest assure that you wont suffer because love takes all its angst out on me the harder i try to breathe the more i chike and fall blindly into where i can see you as i drown and sink cant wish it all away cant cry it all away cant close my eyes to escape cant hold my breathe to fade hold me as i slip through the dark cast me in te shadows,love what i forgot say you'll only love me because i cant bear this all alone cant fight it all away cant hope it all away cant scream it all away it just wont go away!!!! guess i'll just have to bleed it though with your love,i once thought i'll endure but it hurts right down to the core as these stab wounds sink deeper in because they go through slowly i fall into silent nights watch the dark red sky fly over me as i stand still where i once knew away you went,i stand invisible the silent ringing in my ears are cause by the screaming every night of what i lost as i slip into what they call a nightmare its what i use to escape reality where i go to help bleed these feelings the one place where i can cry and no one see i close me eyes so i wont see you leave i know you can taste it in my tears drowning before i reach the floor i'll bleed before you reach that door you cant go in because its locked and im forever lost away from it so go ahead and scream scream til my ears bleed because if you break that door you would...
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...original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) 1-2 ¶‘s * Adaption is one basic type of music heard during the silent film era. With adaptation you borrow substantial portions of existing music, usually classical, for use in film score. The music should remain largely in tack, although it can be altered or adapted to fit the film. Some examples of adaption can be heard in The Birth of a Nation, one is the use symphony No.6 by Ludwig van Beethoven and another is Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner. The latter serving as a leitmotif for the ride of the KKK. * Arrangement is another basic type of music heard during the silent film era. With arrangement you also borrow music, unlike adaption though, you only borrow melodies, usually well known, and create new accompaniments and arrangement to it. The Birth of a Nation also uses arrangements such as popular southern tunes like “Dixie” and “Maryland, My Maryland”(the same melody as “O Christmas Tree”). * Lastly, original Music was also heard in original score during the silent film era. As the name implies this is music written specifically for the film and is not borrowed from other previously composed music. This type of music is also expressed in The Birth of a Nation. Carl Breil who wrote the score created numerous leitmotifs for characters in the movie such as Elsie’s, a playful tune to suggest that she is innocent and a love theme published as “The...
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...Silent Film Era Chapters 6 - 8 Silent Film Era 1895-1927 ! Principal Questions ! ! ! ! Where were films shown? Who played the music? What music did they play? Who created the music? ! Some major silent films Theaters ! Films were first viewed as part of other shows, often vaudeville shows ! Nickelodeons began to appear in 1905 ! By 1908, over 5,000 established in US ! After 1913, building of Movie Palaces ! Roxy theater, built in 1927, seats 6,214! The Music ! Who chose the music? ! Generally the theater music director ! Original scores rare until the 1920s ! What type of music was played? ! Adaptations of Classics ! Arrangements of tunes ! Newly composed Who Played the Music? ! Nickelodeon - pianist ! Organs became dominant instrument: Wurlitzer ! Gradual growth ! Small number (chamber group) ! Small orchestra (13 or 14) ! Full orchestra (50 - 100) The Birth of a Nation ! Director: D.W. Griffith ! Composer: Joseph Carl Breil ! First masterpiece in film ! ! ! ! Noted for length Exploration of cinematography techniques Brilliant use of film to further the plot Film score created specifically for this film ! Flaw: racist The Big Parade Music for Birth of a Nation » One of the best American silent films » The biggest box-office hit of the 1920s » Much is playful and romantic, increasing the horror of realistic battle scenes ! Uses all three types ! Adaptations ! Arrangements ! New ! Best remembered...
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