Laura Bridgman Essay

She served as president of a local PTA, as a member of both the Hudson Guild's Advisory Council and Community Board 4, and as a secretary for the Citywide Council for Presidents of the New York City Housing Authority.

On the border between interior and exterior worlds, we find this café, connected to the outside by a revolving glass door on which dancers sometimes smash themselves. In this space, the interior women are blind to their surroundings except when bumping against the furniture. On the other, bodies coming from the outside can see their surroundings and avoid bumping into the furniture but are nonetheless unable to grasp the interiority of the other

Heather’s life as a mostly deaf person is very interesting. She didn’t learn sign language until her senior year in high school. This means that she can read lips, which is common in the Deaf and hard of hearing community. In elementary school, Heather struggled to keep up with her peers. She could not understand her teacher most of the time, so she fell a grade or two under the rest of her classmates. After this, she went to her mother and

Sophia Fowler was born deaf near Guilford, Connecticut, on March 20, 1798. At that time, there were no schools for the deaf in America. It was not until the age of 19 did she went to a deaf school called American School for the Deaf, in 1817 and stayed there until the spring of 1821. Where she married to Thomas Gallaudet, on August 29, 1821 and had eight children. As the founding matron of the school that became Gallaudet University, she played an important role in deaf history. Sophia often met with members of Congress and other prominent men in order to gain support for her goals, and through them, she helped to obtain funds to found and maintain Gallaudet College.

Benjamin James Bahan who was born by Deaf parents in New Jersey was very passionate about American Sign Language and Deaf Literature. As a child he attended Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in West Trenton, New Jersey as well as Gallaudet University where he is now a professor and chair of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies. Upon returning to Gallaudet University as a professor and chairs person in 1996 he went to The Salk Institute in La Jolla where he researched American Sign Language linguistics and acquisitions as well as receiving his masters degree in Deaf Education and helped operate the Deaf Studies Program in the School of Education at Boston University. Lucky for Ben, while attending Boston University he met his wonderful wife who was not only Deaf but had Deaf parents just like him.

In this constantly evolving television landscape, HBO executive Kathleen McCaffrey admits that she is uncertain about what the future holds for her career and for the industry, in general. However, McCaffrey confidently states, “There will always be people who have to choose content and support a creative mind.”

Heather Whitestone was born February 24, 1973 in Dothan, Alabama. She was the youngest daughter of Daphne and Bill Whitestone. Heather has two sisters, Melissa and Stacey. She was able to hear and speak until she became sick at eighteen months. Her family were unaware of her deafness. They found out that Heather was deaf during Christmas of 1974. Her mother happened to drop several pots and pans in the kitchen that scared the family members who heard the loud crash. But, Heather who was playing by the Christmas tree did not react at all to the loud commotion. Her mother took a spoon and a pot and banged them directly behind Heather’s back who still did not show any reaction to the noise.

On Mondays, Monica Wehby takes a break from campaigning to revisit her recent work routine: brain surgery.

Beth Brown is an African American woman who studied astrophysics. Astrophysics is an area of science which applies physical laws discovered on Earth to phenomena throughout the cosmos. Cosmos is the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system (Dictionary.com). Beth is a very appreciated and inspiring astronomer. An astronomer is an expert in or student of astronomy. She was an inspiration to women and minorities in encouraging them to pursue their careers in astronomy/physics. Beth Brown died at the age of 39 due to a pulmonary embolism. When she died, the astronomical community lost one of its most buoyant and caring individuals (Bregman 1).

Claudia Gordon, the first deaf woman with African decent to be an attorney in the United States was an important figure head. To talk about her, however, we have to look deeper, towards some of her actions.

Linda Bove is a deaf actress best known for her role as Linda the Librarian on the T.V. show Sesame Street. She was born to two deaf parents on November 30, 1945. While growing up she attended deaf schools in both New York and New Jersey. After high school, she attended Gallaudet where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Library Science in 1968. During the summer of her senior year at college she discovered the National Theater for the Deaf (NTD), which forever changed her life. A few years after joining the NTD, in 1970, she made her Broadway debut in the play titled “Songs from Milkwood and Sganarelle”. That same year she married another member of the NTD, Ed Waterstreet. A year later, in 1971, she auditioned for a role on the popular children’s show Sesame Street and won the role. The show

“To the hearing world, the deaf community must seem like a secret society. Indeed, deafness is a culture every bit as distinctive as any an anthropologist might study.” (Walker 1986) Lou Ann Walker’s autobiographical book, “A Loss for Words” details the story of her childhood with two deaf parents. She is the oldest of three children, with two sisters who are named Kay Sue and Jan Lee. All of their names were chosen for ease of lipreading for her parents. As she is the eldest of the three, she begins to act as an interpreter, and does so; often dealing with store keepers, mechanics, and others who would not know American Sign Language, but who would still need to understand what her parents are saying. Lou Ann, as she grows up, realizes

In 1957 was a very different times for blacks and whites. At the time there were big separation between blacks and whites because of how people judging by color and not character of the person. Because of those action the event of Elizabeth Eckford was brutally was harassed and bullied by Hazel Bryan and huge crowd made of white families and students who goes to Little Rock Central High School. From Hazel and Elizabeth event we can learn that things changes in the future.

Some of the more remarkable archaeological discoveries in the 20th century were made by Dame Kathleen Kenyon. Kathleen Kenyon was born into the heart of the English scholarly community and with all the help that influence and connections could provide became one of the foremost excavators in Great Britain. Even though Miss Kenyon was purported to be a Christian, she did not argue for the biblical account

Not only was everyone familiar with the deaf community but they understood it allowing them to not have to make a big deal out of the fact, shown when the island woman told Groce that, “those people weren’t handicapped[, t]hey were just deaf,” (Groce, 1985, p. 113) and when Gale Huntington took such a long time to remember those that were deaf. Those that are not as familiar and comfortable around deaf people often use this a main way to categorize them, however, people on the island frequently considered this only as an afterthought or when prodded by Groce.