Growing up in Today’s world!!!

Hello all… Welcome to my vlog… I have a story to tell you all… I wrote this story when I was in high school at Iowa School for the Deaf. I did win a award for writing this story…

Growing up in Today’s world

Why do I think today’s world is better? Well, in the past there was a lot more negative stuff going on. For example, there were quite a lot of wars and bad politics and president JFK was killed by a man. US was also worried about the atomic bomb back then. We also had things like child labor, which meant young children had to work to earn money for their families. Children had to work at Coal mines, factories and stuff. In the past children were not protected by law and were mistreated more often. A lot of times people ending up getting diseases and there was no cure. Capital punishment for prisoners, even if their crimes were no big deal, was more tolerated. Lower levels of education, poor health care, not enough respect for disabled people, and prejudice were all common.There were a few positive things about the past, like less crime, population, divorce, and pollution, but I think today’s world is better.

. Today is still dangerous in some ways because it seems like there are more crimes. The wars of today are more terrible because of bombings and better technology. We have had shootings in schools and a few people in the world still mistreat children, like in third world areas where there are places that lots of young kids have to work for clothes or shoes companies. There are also some prejudiced people that make fun of people who are different than they are. All of these things still happen today, but still we have some better things today than we did in the past. Yes there are alot of good postive things happened today like all the new good technology and postive things…

In the past, the deaf world was not equal with the hearing world. Hearing people did not accept deafness. In most areas, signing was not accepted because hearing people thought signing was insulting or dumb. There were no programs for deaf children in public schools before 1975. All the deaf kids did in school was sit there and learn very little. Then they would get punished for not paying attention. There were no interpreters in public schools. There were weird hearing aids that were so big it embarrassed deaf people to wear them out in public. Many jobs did not accept deaf people. In many ways the hearing people looked down on deaf people in the same way that some white people looked down on black people. There was prejudice!

Now, for example, we have the American With Disablities Act to help protect the rights of the disabled. We have child labor laws in many countries to protect children from being forced to work at a young age. We also have worked to have laws that support equality for people of all color skins.

Well since 1975 deaf culture has gotten much better treatment. There are now TTYs, video phones, pagers, sidekick, texting, closed captions, interpreters, A.D.A. laws, hearing dogs, better sign language, less prejudice, programs for deaf children in public schools. We have T.T.Y. pay phones in public, flashing lights for phones and doorbells, vibrating watches. Deaf people are allowed to have any kind of jobs that they would like to have, although Deaf people are still not allowed to fully join the Army. They but can be nurses, but that is not enough. Deaf people can still can sense shooting and do what hearing people can do in the Army. Just give deaf people a chance and we can do anything. Basically, we all deaf people can do everything but hear and that it…