The L.A.C.D. Story

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“The Los Angeles Club of the Deaf Story” captures the change in a club within a large city, not only a club but the biggest club ever to be made for the Deaf in the 1900’s. The video captures member’s feelings and memories towards their club. The movie also shows the rise and tragic fall of the major center of Deaf social events. It seems that the rise and fall of the Deaf Club was not only tragic but devastating towards their culture, in being neglected and having nowhere else to turn since their Deaf Club was no longer there. There are very few places Deaf people can call their own. For most of their history in the United States they have occupied spaces built by others and largely controlled by others. The fall of the Deaf Club was an eye-opener for the members in the club to expand and have more than one organization throughout the U.S., but there was still that invaluable place where people can just be themselves. In a clip I vividly remember members of the club showing facial expressions to identify their moods when presenting signs towards each other and movement with their whole body to fully express themselves. After watching the movie I found it surprising how difficult it was/ is for the Deaf to make friends. They do the unexpected, for instance travel half the country to meet with others with the same mastery in sign language. For this reason, I also feel that without a Deaf community the language barrier for the Deaf is enormous so traveling to meet up with others is acceptable. I pity us hearing people for taking our senses for granted, for example, a deaf person would have to see the instructor throughout the whole lecture, or he/ she couldn’t watch a movie without subtitles. Watching this video gave me a clearer picture of the deaf community as a whole, and a stronger hold in wanting to learn and keep learning sign language. The more I think about
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