Assignment #1:
Give the background of your project. What gave you the idea in the first place? What is your
prior knowledge and experience with your project topic and goal? What is the story behind
your project?
My project is about sign language, how to use it and the problems with it. I thought some
problems it could have is how people discriminate people who use it since it means they have
a disability. I got the idea because I often saw people at the station and sidewalks using sign
language to talk and communicate with each other. I found it really interesting and how easy it
seemed to them. Sometimes I even felt envy towards them because I had wanted to learn
sign language at a young age but never got to put it into action.
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I started to want to learn sign language and kept persistently telling my
parents. However, I was never able to actually do what I wanted to. I really regret not making
enough time to learn and do something that was my dream. Whenever I walked around
Japan I often saw people using sign language and felt envy within me since I was never able
to make my dreams come true. Immediately after I heard about the Personal Project, I knew
what I was going to do; what I am doing now, a project on sign language.
Assignment #2:
Define the goal of your project. How will this goal be challenging for you? Which global
context will guide your project? How does your global context directly relate to your project?
The goal of my project is to learn sign language by the end of the personal project to the extent that I can communicate with another person who uses sign language. The second half of my goal is to learn the struggles people face when using sign language. 1 big issue I have in mind is discrimination. Most people use sign language because they have an oral disability. I would like to raise awareness of these issues and let other people know that they are the same humans as us. Since this is a big task, I most probably will not be able to eradicate discrimination towards orally disabled people, or generally, people who use sign language. I feel we all deserve to be treated
Although a handful of individuals were born knowing what they want to do in life, the vast majority spends a considerable segment of their life searching for that one perfect career they’re passionate about. Luckily, I am part of the latter group, and thus dedicated most of my adolescence and adulthood experimenting, engaging, and attempting different avenues toward discovering my labor of love. Indeed, every course I participated in provided me with a distinct skill-set or talent, while my journey helped shape me into a more consummate and multi-dimensional individual. However, the first avenue I explored was American Sign Language Interpreting, an expressive visual language that forced me to think innovatively and shape a multicultural perspective. Although the language as a whole fascinates...
During registration last semester, when I decided to take this course to see if I wanted to continue onward with ASL as my minor, I was not sure what to expect. Through my brief introduction of Deaf culture during my first sign language courses, I knew some vague details about historical events. Gallaudet had been mentioned several times within not only my workbook, but also by my professor. I could have given you a short synopsis of the oral movement that threatened to wipe ASL out as a language. Though I knew these facts, and a few traits about Deaf culture that I had experienced firsthand, there was so much that I had not considered before the readings and journals for this course opened my eyes.
In the Unites States and Canada, an estimated range of 500,00 to 2 million people speak/use American Sign Language. According to the Census Bureau, ASL is the leading minority language after Spanish, Italian German and French. ASL is the focal point of Deaf Culture and nothing is dearer to the Deaf people’s hearts because it is a store of cultural knowledge and also a symbol of social identity, and social interactions. It is a fully complete, autonomous and natural language with complex grammar not derived and independent of English. ASL is visual manual, making visual manual words, moving the larger articulators od the limbs around in space. English uses audible words using small muscles
I realize that it is ironic that I, of all people, am taking classes in American Sign Language and am a CSD major. Devoting my future to working with people who have communication and hearing disorders is more than likely going to present a unique challenge to myself due to my low vision, but I have
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things” (American). For centuries, people from all walks of life have been using their hands to communicate with one another, and for centuries people from all walks of life have been learning. Today I am following in their footsteps with a passion from God for the deaf language, culture, and souls. For almost a decade, an intense ardor for American Sign Language and a desire to reach its native users for Christ seeded itself in my soul, wove its roots deeper and deeper, and blossomed into one of the greatest loves of my life. American Sign Language is a unique language with a rich history that not only provides a service to people in the deaf culture, but also to hearing people who seek to attain fluency.
In part two the book is about the view of American Sign Language and the way people have naturally created grammar and the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language from basically nothing. He demonstrates that this languag...
How many people do you know that know American Sign Language (ASL)? Sign language provides you with positive interests. You may not think ASL might be important to know, but actually knowing sign language can be ideal for oneself. ASL has been known as another way of communication that can help you improve your daily life. Sign language just means communication “spoken” through body language, gestures, and facial expressions. Sign language leads to a major change in communication. ASL was fully recognized in the 1960’s and became popular. Sign language has many benefits because many people in the U.S. are deaf or hard of hearing, it enriches relationships, and it promotes self-esteem and confidence.
THESIS STATEMENT (central idea + preview statement): American Sign Language didn’t begin until 1814 which is fairly new language compared to modern languages such as English, Spanish, and French. ASL started when deaf education was first introduced in America. In this speech, we will be discussing the following: where, when, and why did ASL started, the history of Martha’s Vineyard, evolution of ASL, recognition of ASL as a real language.
This paper will define the term sign language, give a brief history of how sign language was created, types of sign languages, grammar and syntax within American
This paper is a self-reflection essay, with the aim of discovering the authors personality, feelings and thoughts. These issues are reflecting on the skills, models and tools the author have learned in the lessons and during a further research of extra literature in the topic of coaching. First, there is an introduction part of the authors personality and things she has learned about herself. These noticed discoveries are built up on and written based on the results, which were investigated by using the theories of MBTI personality, Belbin test, conformist or non-conformist in a team, Johari window, defensive or receptive behavior, listening skills, etc.
Welcome to a written report of my personal project. The subjects the report refers to are listed below:
High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at Alameda High school and Alameda Community Learning Center have shaped me into the person that I am today.
Learning sign language was a big part of my life. I originally learned the language to get around the rules in the cafeteria my fifth grade year, and now here I am, advocating for the deaf community. I always thought sign was something everyone should at least know the basics of, but as I get older and I see the deaf all around me I know it’s more than that. We learn German and French as second languages, but why does no one teach sign language? Are we really more likely to go to France than meet someone who is hearing impaired? So many are surprised to have someone understand them, and that just isn’t
What knowledge and skills are you gaining? Which of these are new and which already existed?
Throughout this term, my fellow classmates and I have had a chance to participate in a group project with two or three of our peers. The general topic was a vivid problem in a industry. Our class had a very wide and diverse sets of topics: from Styrofoam, to industrial hacking, to corruption in an influential international organization like FIFA, and so many more. Our group decided to develop a project named “Outsourcing and the price we pay for brands”. The name itselves is somewhat self-explanatory, however the problem is so much more complicated and interesting. In this paper, many struggles and concerns, of the group and of my my own, will be unfolded as I reflect the progress of this project.