Hearing Folk Need Not Apply

Sound and Fury represented two major Discourses: hearing folk and non-hearing folk. The movie showed these Discourses in opposition with eachother. They were shown in very different light.

The movie didn't seem to favour one over the other. It did a very good job of remaining impartial, except for one thing: it was made for hearing people. Because of this, it was put together in a way that benefitted hearing people more. An example of this is that the non-hearing people were recorded over and given the voices of hearing people. I know that this was partially meant to make them easier to understand. Most hearing people don't know sign language. Still, giving them the voices of hearing people, in my opinion, somewhat took away their own voices.

The main conflict in the movie was cochlear implants for children. As a rule, the main hearing people were heavily in favour of the implants while the main non-hearing people were, to varying degrees, against them.

Hearing people argued that children would function better in society if they were given the chance to hear. They felt that it was abusive to not give a non-hearing child the cochlear implant. They believed that the implant would save the child from the lonely and frustrating childhood they observed other non-hearing children have.

Non-hearing people disagreed. They believed that the child could function just as well without it. They felt that giving the child a cochlear implant would be tearing the child away from deaf culture. They also saw that it wasn't a perfect solution. Many children who got cochlear implants never fully developed speech and hearing.

The two Discourses viewed cochlear implants in entirely different light. Hearing people saw impants as a solution for the problem of a child not being able to hear. Non-hearing people saw implants as an insult to their culture.

I'd follow him with no problem, just as long as he didn't turn around. He's so intriguing. Something draws me to him; I just can't turn away. He traps me, paralyzes me in my own curiosity.
I don't know why I feel the need to follow him. I know the moment will come when he'll turn around. I know that moment well. In that moment my curiosity will turn to terror. My paralysis won't shatter; no, that would be too convenient.
We'll sit there and stare at each other until I work up the courage to walk away. Walk, because that's all I will need to do. Sure, he'll run, and sure, he has four times as many legs as I do... But as afraid of him as I am, he's only a spider... Right?

My Writing

I write to remember. I might not record the events of my life or my feelings, but what I do write is there to remind me.

Most of the time I write lyrics or song names. When I look back at these pages, I am reminded of the times when they were written. Maybe a certain song had special significance to me at that time. Maybe a certain band was then the soundtrack of my life. Maybe the way I arranged the words on the page meant something.

Other times I write stories about my dreams. I keep them to look back on and sometimes to analyze. Sometimes the dreams directly relate to what was going on in my life at the time. Other times it's hard to tell what they might be about.

Less often I write small records of the events in my life. I only do this on occasion, but they really do help me remember what was important to me.

Many of my writings are in code. When I was in fifth grade, I made up my first code language. I've been using that and other codes ever since to keep my thoughts hidden in plain sight. Only few people know how to decode these writings, and that's just how I prefer to keep it.

My writings are for me. They are there to remind me of myself: who I have been, who I have wanted to be, what I have cared about, who I have cared about, and whatever I wanted to remind myself of.

Peace, man...

In 1969, Richard Nixon gave what seems to be a quite moving inaugural speech. It wasn't so much the speech that was so moving. It was the subliminal message it sends when you take the four most common words from it: World, People, Peace, Man. Those four words spoke to people.

It Starts...

Music is life. Video games are a good way to spend an afternoon. A brother is the best friend one can have. I agree with all of these statements. I spend my days listening to music and playing video games with my brother.

When I get out of high school I plan to go to college for computer engineering and eventually get a job in that field.

My favourite movie is The Lion King, and my favourite band is Depeche Mode.