Friday, February 25, 2011
If we can invade Iraq on a lie, why can't we invade Libya on a truth? Geez!
If we can invade Iraq on a lie, why can't we invade Libya on a truth?
Monday, February 7, 2011
Note for CID, St. Joseph's, Moog and SSD!
Note for Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf, Moog Center for Deaf Education and Special School District -- Here is the video as it is truth and a proof that it works. Please adapt your programs to follow this workable solution for deaf education. You need to amend your evil ways and means to help more Deaf children be happy adults.
Your programs are the result of many suffering mental health. Two federal studies have proven your programs flunked twice! You need to stop your lies and dishonesty! Hire deaf teachers and implement ASL into daily program at schools. The lives of deaf children are precious. You have done nothing, but harm poor deaf children.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Thursday, December 9, 2010
PAH! PAH! PAH! ASL GETS MORE RESPECT!
Now the news are out that American Sign Language is the rising star in the community!
According to NY Times, that colleges see 16% increase in Study of Sign Language. More information can be seen at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/education/08language.html
And USAToday mentioned about it being the 4th most studied foreign language. More information can be seen at this link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-12-08-1Alanguages08_ST_N.html
Thinking back the last 50 years, I remembered how oppressed the society was towards sign language. I grew up in an oppressed environment where signing was NOT allowed. It was embarrassing to sign in public with rude people staring and making faces. I thought sign language was the answer to communication. It helps understand what is said and be expressed in ways we visually understand. It makes two way street communication. A person sends message and the other person receives it and responds. It is a communication process.
This positive step in the right direction is a blessing and I am delighted that ASL is gaining respect like we had in the 19th century. We thank Laurent Clerc for starting it in 1816. We have come a long way and we can be persistent in our belief of American Sign Language.
We ought to celebrate 200 years of ASL in 2016. It is soon arriving and what will you do about it? I have plans and ideas to herald everyone from sea to shining sea to celebrate 200 years of American Sign Language. Watch for August 19-22, 2016 for ASL BICENTENNIAL 1816-2016. We need to start celebrating on August 22 every year in recognition of the birth of ASL in the new world. This was when Laurent Clerc arrived at Hartford on August 22, 1816. We can witness the boat with Clerc and Gallaudet arriving 200 years later as part of celebration.
I am looking for partners and sponsors for this exciting event in 2016! Here is link for information about being ASL BICENTENNIAL Community Partner. http://www.deafimages.tv/custom9.html
Thank you,
Paul Kiel
ASL BICENTENNIAL 1816-2016 Coordinator
www.deafimages.tv
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
CONFRONTATION AT GALLAUDET
Dr. Edward C. Merrill, President, Gallaudet College 1973 from Tower Clock 1973
He quoted,
"Confrontation has been and is prevalent in our society. It has made its mark on college and university campuses across the nation. It would be unfair to say that confrontation is no way to do business.
Frankly, I think it is fundamentally an expression of a basic right, and I am pleased that confrontation is the theme of the Tower Clock for 1973.
To me, confrontation means facing the issues. It means bringing problems to the surface for all to see. It means providing opportunities for everyone to participate in achieving a solution, permitting all points of view to be expressed.
It is only when confrontation takes the form of coercion, intimidation, or is directed toward individuals on a personal basis that it loses both its value and effectiveness as a means of bringing people together and arriving at decisions. When it deprives individuals and groups of an opportunity to deliberate, it is in violation of basic rights and is no good.
It is my hope that Kendall Green can become increasingly an open forum where issues that are vitally important to people and when causes to which individuals are committed can be not only discussed but pursued actively. Thus, confrontations will continue to be one of several valuable procedures by means of which we relate to each other and work toward improving Gallaudet College as an institution of learning and as a setting where we demonstrate important values in our daily lives."
This was in 1973 and it is 2010 now. Confrontations continue and Gallaudet learns to grow and improve. ASL is the sacred language and should be respected as a form of communication on the campus.
Dr. Merrill has this quote whenever he presented Gallaudet on his travels. I try to remember something like this, "Hiring hearing teachers for deaf classes is like hiring Japanese teachers with no English skills to teach English classes.
That was something then and this is something now!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Deaf Santa
A video about Santa and Mrs. Claus sharing holiday stories.
* Captioned for the Signing Impaired *
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Paul Kiel's Message to Deaf Missourians: MCDHH needs you!
This is Paul Kiel's Message to Deaf Missourians: MCDHH needs you! It is captioned for hearing.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Aunt Wowee tried to cure my deafness...
Thankgiving 1959, we were at Aunt Wowee's apartment. The apartment was packed with all the relatives having fun and eating Turkey dinner. She was my grandmother' s cousin. I called her Aunt Wowee. I used to scream "Woweeeeee...!"
After dinner and washing dishes into the evening, she sat down at the kitchen table. The relatives were in living room chatting. She caught me running down the hall and screaming. She asked me to be quiet so she can pray. She was a devout catholic who said rosary several times a day into the eighties when she passed. She grabbed my jaw and made me pay attention to her.
She said that she prayed and prayed to get me to hear again. She cried a little bit and did not understand what happened. I looked at her with a smile. I did not fully understand her. I gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She began ranting with the rosary. I looked at her frail face. She was in late 60s. I stared at her closed eyes and her lips moving.
The last time I saw her in 1970 in the evening before I left her apartment, she was still praying at the kitchen table. She went to church every Sunday. She told me that I must go to church every Sunday. I liked playing hooky from church as it was boring and how can I read the priest's lips when we were in over 100 year old and gigantic church. She was furious, but lacked understanding of my frustrations in lipreading and speaking.
After the funeral, I took the cross off her casket and it still hangs in my room to this day. I thank Wowee for caring and looking over me. I am still deaf to this day and I do appreciate being deaf this way. Silence is golden!
Have a Safe and Happy Holidays!
Remembering Kennedy Assassination 47 Years Later
Remembering Kennedy Assassination 47 years later, I am. It was a sad day and how it happened.
After lunch, we were returning to classroom. Then we were told to go to another room to watch that black and white television. Of course, it was 1963 - color television was starting and rare. We watched the box that was television ( probably from 1958 ) and learned about President Kennedy being assassinated. The teacher would explain orally what happened and we were shocked. There was no captioning in those days and it was not even available in 1963. Not even tty! Not even pagers! No internet! I was only 11 years old at that time and I was kind of upset that a nice man was shot.
Reflecting on that warm day of November 22, 1963, I remembered returning to classroom and we stood up and prayed for the Kennedy Family. It was short and sweet. We discussed what happened and who did it. We did not have that answer.
As the days went on, more information came out. Then the assassin was shot. Then the conspiracy theories spun for the next 47 years to this day. No one knows for sure. No matter how many reports, how many investigations came out...the answer is still unknown.
Now with the recent memoir by former Secret Service agents, I am scratching my head. I humbly do not know anymore who is telling the truth.
If we have a time machine, we could go back and stop the Kennedys from going through that area. Wonder what the history be like if JFK lived longer. It is unusual how series of assassinations happened - 1963 - JFK - 1968 MLK - 1968 - RFK.......Still they are spinning conspiracy theories to this day.
Wonder who is behind it all?
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Paul's Comments in Buff and Blue about WDCF and DIG-IT
You can click on the headline above to reach the Buff and Blue website for the story.
Paul was interviewed by Derrick Behm during WDCF (Worldeaf Cinema Festival) at Gallaudet University. He wrote an article for the Buff and Blue. Paul's comments are in the article.
More comments on the way.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
What in the world are they thinking?
With the recent television show, I am pondering what is it? What happened to ASL? It seems like they were promoting CI and Hearing aids. Does it remind you of something?
Monday, November 1, 2010
TRIP TO DC SERIES NOV 2 to 8
Countdown to WDCF! A series of TRIP TO DC by Paul Kiel - a dairy of going to Gallaudet after 26 years...
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