Gabriel Arellano 04/10/10 Period 1 Economics Sign Language Outline I. My interest in Sign Language: Sign language is a type of language in which you use visually transmitted hand movements to convey meaning. It can be a combination of any body movement as well as reading “lips”. II. History Starting from the 17th century in Spain was when a Spanish Priest named Juan Pablo Bonet published deaf education. Since then, his writings has influenced many sign languages. Two centuries later, there’s Charles-Michel de l'Épée, a philanthropic educator known as “Father of the Deaf” because he opened the first school for the deaf which expanded to the United States. Ever since then, there had different kinds of sign languages. III. Rules To understand sign language is very easy, as long as you pay attention and observe. It’s all about the hand gestures and its position. If you were a translator, you would have to translate what the person is saying and if there’s a word that you can’t sign or you don’t know how, just spell it out. IV. Tools There are several ways other than signing to help communicate with those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Hearing aids and notepads, for example. If you were watching a movie or a show, you can put subtitles. V. Economic Vocabulary a) Service – Very helpful when a deaf person is in need or when you’re needed to be a translator. b) Technology –Hearing aids, subtitles for when you’re watching something, or if you wanted to learn, you can check out tutorial videos on the internet. c) Partnership-It’s a good idea for when you have someone who is more experienced to help train you and assist you. It’s also essential that one would become the speaker while the other translates, therefore working together as partners. d) Profit-Particularly in hospitals and events, sign language is useful to doctors and nurses to communicate to patients and in events, same thing for speakers to audiences. e) Utility-Sign language is useful anywhere, anytime, much like a service. f) Entrepreneurship-The more knowledge of signs, the better you’ll know what to say and do. g) Substitution Effect-I don’t wear hearing aids, and the best way for me to hear or understand something or someone is to be seated in front, ask if the person can wear a mike, read overhead/powerpoint presentations and so forth. In this case, for most deafs, they prefer anything that makes them comfortable. h) Voluntary Exchange-As long as you know what you’re signing about and that it’s understandable to who you’re signing to, it’s just like a regular casual conversation. i) Labor-Signing can be tiring. Some sign fast, some slow. Especially the fast ones, for example, when you’re translating, you can’t always remember every word the person is speaking and that can be troubling. j) Elasticity-Satisfaction is important when you’re signing the right words. Otherwise, they’ll be confused.

Reality vs. Expectations It’s a typical day. Your alarm goes off, you wake up and you do your morning ritual: take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush your teeth and off to school you go. You want this to happen like you expect it. You only realize however, you overslept, you skip breakfast, forget to brush your teeth and you quickly find the clothes you see to wear. You become mad at yourself because this was not what you had in mind. This is a phase called Expectations vs. Reality. Everyone has gone through this phase at least once. It can apply to anything, anywhere of daily life. On one mind, you have the expectations. This is when you expect something to happen or what you want to happen. On another mind, there’s reality: the actuality of your expectations. Let’s say you take a test knowing you’re going to ace it only to find that you failed. That sucks. Another example would be going on a date. You’re nervous; you think it’ll be a disaster. It’s concluded that it actually went well as you thought it wouldn’t. Which is a good thing, right? An alternative name to this is called Reverse Psychology, persuasion technique involving the advocacy of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what is desired: the opposite of what is suggested. So, they’re almost the same but the difference is that you can be able to control reverse psychology by telling something or someone the opposite of what you want them to say or do, expecting that they will do the opposite of what you say. Examples are presented everywhere in books and media. Having been inspired by one of my favourite scenes, (500) Days Of Summer gave me the inspiration when a particular scene where two panels are separated in half with expectations on one side and reality on another. In expectations, main character Tom goes to a party and wins back his ex-girlfriend, Summer. In reality, he doesn’t win her back, he finds out she’s engaged and he storms out, frustrated. I think that if everything does go as planned, it’s just merely coincidental and luck. If not, well, you can’t always get you want. Whatever happens happen.