“DEAF LIKE ME” By: Thomas Spradley & James Spradley My first reaction to this book was not good. I had barely gotten into it and the parents were contemplating aborting this precious little child just because it might turn out to be abnormal. It wasn’t even a sure thing that the child might be different; just a possibility. Still‚ they wanted to abort this tiny life on the mere possibility and would have if the mother had not already been too far along. The fact that they could even consider
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“Deaf Like Me” This book was really interesting and touching. The parents of Lynn‚ the deaf little girl‚ were very strong parents and their struggle to be able to make their daughters life as normal as possible was hard for them since everywhere they went the answer the always got was‚ for Lynn to try to talk and be treated as a normal child. As parents‚ Louise and Tom did everything they were told and only hoped for the best and that one day their deaf child would be able to talk. Since the beginning
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For my research paper‚ I read Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley. This is the story of Lynn and her parents learning to accept her deafness. This is set in the 1960s. During this time‚ there were fewer medical advancements compared to today‚ such as the rubella shot. There was also not much of an understanding disabilities and people who faced issues with deafness. Tom and Louise Spradley were a couple that had one child‚ Bruce. Bruce gets diagnosed with rubella just as Louise finds out she was pregnant
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White like me is a documentary tracking Tim Wise detailing the history of racism in America and how it still affects us in the present. Tim Wise attended a school where the teachers and students were mostly black‚ and he said he had learned to respect the “black authority figures” from a young age. During college Tim realized he was privileged as a white person: by having the choice to speak out against racism from a distance and not doing anything about locally. The white privilege included having
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Hurston‚ growing up in an all-black town‚ began to take note of the differences between blacks and whites at about the age of thirteen. Before this she did not think there was a difference between the two whatsoever. She looked at herself as a white person at the time‚ with all the same capabilities as a white person. Even though she was black‚ she made a huge impact on literature‚ American readers‚ and shows us how hard it was to be successful as a woman with color. Black and whites had little difference
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What Black History Month Means to Me By: Ciara Alers-Varela This month many organizations on base are mentioning the following names: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Rosa Parks‚ and many more. Black History Month is the month to remember the heroes that earn black people their rights. Black History Month was started by Carter G. Woodson. His purpose was to promote African American History. Black History Month means a lot to me. If it wasn’t for Black History month Barack Obama wouldn’t
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In Black Like Who?‚ Rinaldo Walcott addresses the erasure of the Black body in national historical narratives to the extent that “many people continue to believe that any black presence in Canada is a recent and urban one spawned by black Caribbean‚ and now continental African‚ migration (43).” As a matter of fact‚ as exemplified by Myriam Chancy‚ Canada is widely considered as a harbor‚ as a place of tolerance and diversity for people seeking refuge “differentiating it from the United States and
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“Black Like I Thought I Was” Q1- Wayne Joseph struggles whether to tell people h’s black because of all the racial segregation going on. He doesn’t have a problem being black. As he was still qualified as colored‚ he was not raised as one so he didn’t think of what he was. He was perfectly fine with what he was but he just didn’t want to tell anybody he actually was. Personally‚ I don’t think there’s anything wrong with him‚ maybe he just had a complex about being colored and didn’t want to say
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Fate Some people believe that each step steps on the way of life is predetermined through the beginning to the end‚ and people are powerless to resist it. The main character who is the narrator of the short novel‚ “A Woman Like Me” by Xi Xi‚ is trying to convey to us the same concept which is called the fate. She has been an orphan since she was very young‚ and she and her brother were raised by her Aunt Yifen. Her aunt has so much pressure that she pays less attention on their education‚ so when
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Strengths and Weaknesses Communication is essential in my life if I am going to have successful relationships with my family‚ friends‚ and co-workers. When I think of communication I think of all the ways in which I express myself to those around me. Communication could mean a phone call‚ letter‚ e-mail‚ face to face conversation or simply snuggling up on the couch to watch a good movie. There are ways in which my communications skills are powerful‚ and other times when I feel as if I should place
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