Clayton 4/15/ 2010 ASL Research Paper Deaf Like Me By Thomas S. Spradley James P. Spradly Epilogue By Lynn Spradley Deaf Like Me is a story compiled together by Thomas and James Spradley. It is a compelling story about two hearing+ parents struggling to cope with their daughters overwhelming deafness. This powerful story expresses with simplicity the love‚ hope‚ and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children. In the epilogue‚ Lynn Spradley‚ herself‚ now a teenager thinks back about
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The summer when Louise and Tom Spradley BISC 7A Paper #1 Summary of Deaf like Me Louise and Thomas Spradley are a fairly average American couple. They are young‚ married‚ and have one child‚ Bruce‚ and they of course love him deeply. One summer‚ Bruce becomes ill with German measles‚ or rubella. Just a few days before this diagnosis‚ Louise discovered that she was pregnant. The doctor tells her that contracting rubella while pregnant could lead to various congenital defects in the newborn.
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is expecting a child‚ the first thing you think of is a perfectly healthy child‚ ten fingers‚ ten toes. We don’t think about the negatives‚ you know‚ blindness‚ handicapped‚ or even deafness. In 2002‚ Thomas and James Spradley with an epilogue by Lynn Spradley released a novel titled‚ Deaf Like Me. Parents‚ Tom and Louise‚ had a child‚ Bruce‚ and were expecting their second. In the summer of 1964‚ it was discovered Bruce had been diagnosed with German Measles‚ also known as‚ Rubella. Arriving
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“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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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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“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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James Thomas was born november 22‚1980. His crime was that he raped and killed a women in wellston‚ Missouri in January of the year 1944. He murdered her after holding he at a knife point. His execution date was the 19th of october in the year of 1944. the Execution of James Thomas He was scheduled to make the walk to the prison chamber on February 10th. But a battle in court over the role of physicians in executions put his and two others lethal injections on hold last Thursday. “I’m keeping
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Deaf like Me The book starts with Louise and Thomas a couple who has one child‚ a son‚ Bruce. When Bruce is three‚ he gets German measles or rubella. After finding this out‚ Louise discovers that‚ she is pregnant with their second child. When Louise took Bruce to the doctor to get all of the information on the measles‚ the doctor was worried about Louise’s pregnancy‚ even thought she was not very far along. The doctor said that being around someone with these measles could possibly cause congenital
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Problems: | 1. Here is the URL for the Washington Monument. Go to the web site to retrieve the information for part A. A. If 1 meter = 3.28 feet‚ what is the height of the Washington Monument in meters? 169.30 B. A worker assigned to the restoration of the Washington Monument is checking the condition of the stone at the very top of the monument. A nickel with a mass of 0.005 kg is in her shirt pocket. What is the gravitational potential energy (GPE) of the nickel at the top of the
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In “White Like Me‚” Thomas Wise discusses the many ways White privilege influences other race’s‚ from a White male’s perspective. Three of the most interesting point relate to the of “white supremacy” and how the common white citizens unknowingly uses their powers. He expresses the belief that Whites should “guard their white privilege” because the United States‚ as a capitalist society‚ honors the majority. Another point he makes is that Whites are able to escape the blame for their unjust actions
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