Ch. 2 Analysis: Preserving American Sign Language

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Prompt #1:
For receiving feedback on my Ch. 2 analysis, there was no feedback on my paper, but I would agree with the score that I. The reason that I would agree is that for one of the prompts, I could have gone more into details, but know I know what to change for Ch. 3 analysis. What I would do differently is that I would go into the details more.
Prompt #2: They point in this chapter that is that the camera came an important for the deaf community because, know we can document people using ASL, and two key points were to
• Preserving American Sign Language
• To achieve permanence
Preserving American Sign Language is started by George W. Veditz who was the 7th President of the National Association of the Deaf. He initiated a campaign

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