Sound and Fury

I thought that the film was very interesting and gave all of us a different look at the deaf culture. There were a couple main arguements to point out in the film- was it disrespectful to the deaf families to get a cochlear implant, should heather get the cochlear implant, and how is the cochlear implant going to affect the future of the deaf culture. The twin's mother and father made the decision to give their son a cochlear implant, it was devistating to them because coming from a family of deaf people they did not want their child to grow up the same way. Their descision to give their son the cochlear implant really hurt their family, ecspecially the mom's mom. I think that it was hard for her mother to really understand because her whole life she was deaf and she doesn't know any other way. I think that if we switched perspectives, ( which this would never happend) if a family member came up to us a said I want to go deaf we would all be shocked and wonder why because that would be different from us and why would you want to do that?
Heather's father ecspecially made it seem as if he was against the hearing world, he loved the deaf culture. He was trying to argue that Heather did not need the cochlear implant because she would stray away from the deaf culture. He also felt disrespected if she were to get the implant. Her father was also worried about the deaf culture disinigrating. I personally don't think the cochlear implant is a bad thing because like they mentioned in the movie it opens up lots of new opportunities for people who are born or who have gone deaf.

Lilapsophobia

I have never in my life seen a tornado, nor have I experienced anything close to even a twister, yet nothing more in this life frightens me more than the sound of the sirens on a gloomy, hot afternoon. Once those screeching sirens go off my body tightens, and I feel as if I need to be in a dark cold basement until it all goes away. If I am in a car, or looking out the window my anxiety hits the roof. Having to be tortured by those dark, deathly looking clouds makes me feel as if the apocalypse is right around the corner.

Some people think I'm crazy, but yet the news feels the need to alarm us every 10 seconds when we are simply trying to watch a good show. There is just nothing more frightening than the thought of a whirly swirly cyclone of debris come at you full at speed. Here is where I would probably give you a bad experience I had with a twister, but in all honestly I haven't even come close to a tornado. When the big one hit in Stoughton ( a neighbor community to my own) I was luckily in California. This is one thing about summer I never cease to miss, the nice humid day at the pool can instantly change into night 4 hours earlier. For those who can tolerate these scary storms, good for you. This is something in my life I don't think will ever really change.

response to free speech

To me it seems that his motive is to try and help the U.S. but when i read things that say the consequencs of some of his leaks could be "potentially severe and dangerous" makes me think he is more of a traitor. If the U.S. Secretary of Defense is a witness against Assange, it makes me lean more towards the fact that these people are doing these leaks against the United States. I am confused though because when we watched the interview with Julian Assange he made it seem as though he was saving the world, this article made it seem as if he is hurting the U.S. ecspecially our military. Another thing from the article that makes me a bit untrustworthy is the opening sentence stated that he was in custody of having committed sex crimes. hm..