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individuals are supposed to be knowledgeable of the culture which includes: the hours of the death club, the names of important Deaf leaders, which includes the presidents of various Deaf associations in the particular state, how to use the telephone relay service, major figures in the American Deaf history, and how to manage in various trying situations with people. I thought the Deaf Club was a place where Deaf people came to socialize with each other in an informal manner. I can certainly…

The Apple Falls Far From the Tree - Hearing Parents with a Deaf Child The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – according to the Urban Dictionary (Peckham, 2009) this idiom refers to a father/mother and son/daughter not being different from one another. But what happens when children are different than their parents? “Bill is a lawyer. He works for a corporation and is very successful. His wife is a graduate of an Eastern woman’s college. They travel, enjoy entertaining and reside in a…

The summer of my senior year I made the courageous decision to begin the first steps in my future career and give my time to a local hospital. Like any other day, I walked in to this sterile smelling hospital and sat at the front desk patiently waiting to greet new visitors. All throughout the hospital there were little kids yelling, elderly people holding hands, and families talking about their loved ones. It was around 7:00 pm when my partner and I were just about done delivering gifts to…

Reed Hastings vision for Netflix was an ingenious idea and evidently was a much desired product and service. Who would have ever thought a $40 late fee would have turned into a company worth $28 billion (LaMonica, 2014). Initially, Netflix competed with video stores such as Hollywood Video and Blockbuster but that soon changed as customers craved stream on demand (Parnell, 2015). There are three perspectives on strategy which are industrial organization, resource based theory, and contingency…

some form of cable and internet in their homes and many of them subscribe to Netflix. The idea behind Reed Hastings, starting the company in 1997 was triggered by the fact that he was faced with an outrageous late fee after returning a movie from a video rental company. He concluded that he could provide potential customers the entertainment they wanted from the comfort of their own homes with little or no hassle. Soon Netflix became a…

are isolated and separated by their deafness if those around them do not learn to sign or if they don’t learn to speak. Those who are deaf are often separated developmentally and academically, depending on when and what kind of early intervention services they receive, how extensive their hearing loss is, and whether it is accompanied by another disease or disability. This in turn, can cause them to isolate themselves and produce devastating effects on self-concept. There are often a lot of…

First Cinemas As we discussed in Lesson One, during the Evolution of Theatres section, there weren’t any dedicated cinemas at first. Screenings of films were shown in theatres or music halls, but as the popularity of film grew, it was recognized that dedicated cinemas were a necessity. Once such location that was only used for one showing was the Berlin Wintergarten Theatre. In 1895, Max and Emil Skladanowsky screened a film during the month of November. True dedicated cinemas arrived on the…

Advice for Interpreters: Timing Many people have said “in humor, timing is everything.” Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering (2011) test this theory to see if timing affects how people tell jokes and how those jokes are received by others. They examined if presenters paused or spoke faster when saying the punchline. Their findings for the pauses that occurred in a joke were longer at the beginning of the joke than the slight pause that happened before the punchline. Attardo and Pickering…

back to your business for service time and time again. That 's especially true in today 's struggling economy. You and your competition are constantly fighting for every last dollar your customer has to give. How terrible would you feel if you lost some of your highest paying customers to your competition simply because you or your employees weren 't concerned about proper customer service? So, how can you make sure you keep your customers impressed with your customer service and become…

The concept of video editing is introduced by Clive Thompson in his chapter The New Literacies. Where Thompson discusses moving image -video- as a literacy that has evolved “into a flexible format for communication, a way to speak one’s ideas to the world” (Thompson 98). The accessibility of cameras allows for video editing to be more convenient for individuals. Cameras have evolved into devices which allow individuals to express their ideas and overcome obstacles through video editing; in order…