DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, February 5, 2014
-- possibly the bravest deaf female athlete
Ann Marie Stefaney, a deaf student at the Johnson & Wales
University in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a member of the
university hockey club. Why is she so brave while
playing hockey? Her team only has 8 players. That means
one goalie and seven other players - just two subs
on the bench - other teams have 20-25 players. She has
to play while being exhausted. Also, she is 5'3 tall
and in one game, had a violent collision with a much
taller opponent, and it broke her nose with blood
on the ice. Her coach told her to get out of the game
because of the broken nose. She refused and still
continued to play. But what is the biggest reason
she is so brave? She is the only woman on the men's
hockey team! All of her teammates and opponents are
bigger and stronger men! After college her goal is to
become a restaurant chef.
-- A fake Beethoven!
Was Beethoven a fake? Not the real Beethoven, but
Mamoru Samuragochi is well known in Japan as the
"Japan's Beethoven." He has just admitted he was
a fake! He copied great music and everyone thought
it was his own that he created. Very embarrassed
about the whole thing is Nippon Columbia, which
has distributed the CD's of this fake Beethoven!
Why the real Beethoven and the fake Beethoven?
Because both of them were late-deafened.
-- a movie scaring us, the deaf?
Could a movie scare us, the deaf? The End is a film
documentary, produced by Ted Evans. He films four
deaf kids growing up into an imaginary future.
Some of these kids accept their deafness; other kids
refuse to accept their deafness. Producer Evans is
saying that in the future Deaf Culture disappears
because more deaf kids would not mingle with the deaf.
As a result the kids that grew up accepting their
deafness may face the future without Deaf Culture.
This, indeed, is scary!
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