The language of the deaf community is ASL. ASL is a visual language that has no vocal component, but instead uses the placement, shape and movement of the hands, as well as facial expressions and body movements to convey information. Like any spoken language, ASL is a language with its own unique grammar rules and syntax. It is not a signed representation of English. Much like the many languages spoken all over the world, different regions have their own dialects.
Mary Eberstadt wrote Eminem is Right. She questions as to why the music today this is angry and violence filled so popular with our teens. Mary looks deeper into the music and farther into the meaning behind the lyrics and discusses them. His songs about women are directly “reserved for his mother and ex-wife Kim” (Eberstadt, 2004). Eminem blames the parents for not spending time with their children is turning them in to delinquents as to it being his music turning them into delinquents.
And, some people who had been deaf do not get the cochlear implant surgery, wanting to be remaining deaf as they used be. Bobby Jo Duffy who became deaf at the age of 2 and half states, ‘I value our own culture, our own language. How I express myself, my education is with deaf community. (qtd in ‘Voices of Deafness Transcript’) A consultant of Cochlear Implant Surgery says some patient with cochlear implant feel more comfortable when using sign language as they used to. (‘Sound and Fury’) There might be a group of people who are hearing with the help of implant surgery, but wanting to be a member of deaf community at the same time or sometimes.
Cochlear implants are used when the medical perception of deaf is taken; something is wrong with the child’s ears…this must be corrected. Parents are much to blame for this controversy. They are ridiculously obsessed with having a normal child; a child without the hindrance of a hearing loss. Instead of accepting this child as being different, and putting forth effort into learning his/her language, they perceive the child as broken or impaired. Overcoming the oppression experienced by the majority of deaf people needs to begin with the parents of the next generation.
Chapter 3- Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour – It’s What We are The case of Richard Speck raises several interesting questions. Among them are the following: 1. Might early events in Speck’s life indicate that something other than biology was at work in shaping his personality and behavior? Yes, his father died when he was eight and his mother remarried a drunkard. In addition he performed poorly at school and received frequent beatings from his stepfather in response to his behavior.
It is just crazy to me to think that the drugs that these kids are being prescribed are causing them to commit acts of violence upon other people or do very crazy things. The documentary opened up with a teenager named Cory Baadsgard, who was apparently on the prescribed drug Paxil which caused him to have hallucinations. He discussed an incident in where he did not want to go to school and decided that he would go later in the day. The only thing that he remembered was waking up in a juvenile detention center and was told that he held hostages at gunpoint. In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Alyson’s drugs addiction kept getting worse that she started to steal her sick father’s medication. Alyson later finds out that her boyfriend Ritchie was jail and tried to contact him with no luck. As a result of her boyfriend being in jail Alyson increased her drug usage because that was the only way to keep her from thinking about him in jail. Alyson’s addition became more severe every day that her father thought her addiction was getting out of hand. Her father believed if she didn’t stop he might die worrying about her and she might die also from her drug addiction.
The most noticeable for moment displaying how serious their drug addictions were was when I witnessed Brenda going through a withdrawal because her body was craving the drug. Seeing her inject drugs into her body is still difficult to process in my mind. Watching Dicky was equally as sad because of the possible career he threw away because of a drug addiction. All three people have very sad stories. Unfortunately Brenda passed away and Boo Boo still supports his drug addiction by stealing.
"(source) Says a girl who was being consistently cyber bullied through her freshman year. She became depressed and suicidal by the end. This shows how hate speech can become a physical harm to someone. People sometimes attack not just a single person, but a whole group. A bunch of homosexuals are cyberbullied and are too afraid to get help.