A captioned introduction to the Deaf Community, worldwide, produced by DeafNation. Deaf people from 27 different countries are represented. We who know God and their language must step forward and make introductions – it is our prime directive.
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Letting Go
A little confidence and an encouraging supervisor went a long way as I built a database supported forms system. The next 20 years brought a time of learning, both technically and politically, but I wasn’t learning the important lessons well enough.
Child of the Dark
In many countries, the city dump serves not only as a place for discarded food and material goods, but discarded people as well – in Brazil, it is referred to as a favela, and Carolina was one of several people who called it home.
Life and Debt
‘Welcome to Jamaica’, the opening line of the documentary Life and Debt. This is followed by a comparison of what tourists see, and what they don’t. One clip shows a group of greeters singing ‘Welcome to Jamaica’, yet the tune carries a haunting resemblance to ‘So this is Christmas‘, a song with two messages. In short, …
Crude
Crude means unrefined, and like many English words, it’s meaning is too broad to be translated without surrounding context. Raw oil, unfancy functional items, primitive people, and crass, inappropriate people. In the documentary ‘Crude’ about oil contamination in the Amazon, all of these applications can be observed.