Other than Gallaudet University, many univeristies have deaf immersion into their schools. These univeristies typically cater to the needs of deaf people quit well. Some have deaf housing and special needs based classes for them. Usually the students are very welcoming towards deaf students, and they all integrate very well.
II. The past few weeks in Ethics, we've been focusing on a variety of things. One of which has been the art of magic and being able to see through the fakeness of it all. The man that went through and outted all the fakes had to be extremely intelligent. He made people see how Uri made spoons bend and etc. By him bringing all their own props to the show it proved he was a fraud. But people were still ignorant and believed the guy. He also outted many "psychics" claiming to have psychic abilities and proved some ancient island surgeries done with their own hands wrong.
I was truley disgusted by some of the frauds that were outted. Especially the man claiming to be able to heal people of their health problems in order to make a profit. That just goes to show how the human race can be filled with horrible people. You have to think of how you're instilling false hope in others by "curing" them. I decided to research further into these so called "psychic abilities" and found the whole science of faking it. It said that a lot of the "mind reading" has to do with the person's body language and facial cues. If you're someone that reads others well you could easily pull it off.
When thinking of psychics, I think of tarot card reading and the science behind that. In my research I realized that tarot cards have turned into modern oracle decks. Apparently these decks lack the necessary suits and numbers needed for actual tarot reading that was often used in the 15th century in France and Italy. Therefore this is even more proof that modern day "psychics" are all in fact frauds.
III. After looking so much into magic, I would say that in my next journal (if we were having one) I would want to take a deeper look into the history behinfd tarot card readings. Where did it all originate?
Sources:
Berke, Jaime. (July 4, 2010). Education- Gallaudet University. http://deafness.about.com/cs/colleges/a/gallaudetuniv.htm
Kaynak, Kate. (June 2010). Psychic Abilities and How to Fake Them. http://ezinearticles.com/?Psychic-Abilities-and-How-to-Fake-Them&id=4316259
(May 23, 2012). Tarot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot#Popular_culture_tarot_decks
Obringer, Lee Ann. (June 8, 2012). How Tarot Cards Work. http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/tarot-card.htm
