Asl Movie Analysis

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So to start off, before I watched this movie or even this class, I knew nothing about deaf people.
All I knew was that they couldn’t hear, I didn’t know about all the ways of communicating.
While watching the movie, it really showed me what it was like to be deaf. I was really interested in the origin of ASL, and how it grew. One of my favorite things I learned was about the deaf football teams, and how they invented the huddle so the other team couldn’t read their signs.

Another thing that I fount very interesting was the things that people did to try and cure their child’s deafness. Like put their kid in a plane, and make the plane do loops. Then there were people that would get their kids to meet famous people and hope that would

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