What Made "Sound and Fury"

Sound and Fury is a documentary that displays and explores Deaf Culture, and how it lives in life as a large-scale reality. The creator effectively used several personal perspectives and discourses to portray how crucially a coclear implant, a device used to neurologically aid the hearing for the deaf, effects the people in the Deaf Culture.

The Father of the little girl named Heather was opposed to his daughter having the colear implant, because he hails from a discourse where his entire family is deaf, and to make an exception for one family member would go against his belief that "signing [sign language] is visual, with emotion". The father was very consistent with that, and reinforcing the idea that giving his daughter an opportunity to hear would only take Heather out of the Deaf Culture and rid her of who she really is, because she would in time forget her individuality in being deaf.

With that in mind, the little girl, Heather, shows her desire to hear. In the beginning, she tells her parents that she wants to be able to speak and hear because there are so many important things that go with the ability to hear, like "hearing smoke detectors" and other vital factors. Throughout the documentary, Heather is swayed by her parents' dislike of the idea of her being able to hear when they take her to experience how being deaf is natural and okay to live with.

The grandparents on the father's side of the family disagreed ith the parent's decision to not have their daughter implanted, because they experienced the sadnesses and hardships of having to raise deaf children. They saw the implant as an opportunity for Heather to be able to live life more fully, rather than the implant being an escape from her true self. The grandmother played a large role in reinforcing her belief that "the world is changing" and Deaf Culture was becoming less important in the world. Therefore, she saw her granddaughter's desire to hear as a signal that she should be able to. The grandparents believed that Heather's parents were not thinking about Heather's benefit, but rather focusing on their own beliefs and forcing them upon her.

The brother to the father had a deaf child, but the brother himself could hear. He and his wife wanted their infant son to be implanted, because the mother claimed that when she learned her son was deaf "a part of her died". Therefore, they proceeded in getting the surgery, and believed that what Heather's parents were doing was "abuse" because they were withholding her from the beautiful opportunity to live as a hearing person.

The differing discourses gave a lot of content to the documentary on Deaf Culture, and how a simple surgical procedure could profoundly affect the people within it.

What if You Don't Make It? A Fear of Insignificance

Directionless. It is a feeling that approaches me so easily when I have nothing but time to think about every facet and factor of my life so far. When I talk to someone close, they tell me that it is only a common concern to not have a crystal visual of the road ahead. I feel that this means something completely different to them than it does to me. Why is that? It is because I do not want to live in this world with a grand void like the spaces between rocks in a canyon, and not feel like I've done something different enough, and significant enough, to feel like I am alive. That directionless feeling always returns to me, because I do not want to wake up one day, stuck like a mistaken footprint in the cement in a place where I am doing nothing purposeful because I couldn't find the right sign.

That loss of direction feeds into my main fear of not attaining some sensation of significance in life. Now, I am not implying that I feel insignificant as if I experienced neglect and have emotional doubts about my self-worth. It is entirely contrary. I personally feel that I have that internal something to do great things someday. But I fear that I will miss a subtle opportunity, like the closing of a door that's locked from the outside, and I will not be able to attain that significance. 

Leaked?

After gaining more insight on the topic surrounding WikiLeaks, I realized the power that classified documents harness. Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden could be considered vigilantes by revealing harsh truths about governments with the refuge of foreign security and state of the art technology.
In Kenya, Julian Assange's efforts to expose secrets on the presidential candidate resulted in chaos throughout the country, but also gave Kenyan people truthful insight on who they could've elected. This shows the severity that secrets possess, especially ones of political nature that concern humanity.
Chelsea Manning aided Assange in passing footage along to WikiLeaks of several airstrikes inflicted upon Iraqi soldiers by the U.S. military, and many classified army reports. Manning was charged on 22 counts and discharged from the military.
According to wikipedia.com, Edward Snowden leaked information about telephone and internet surveillance that was passed between The U.S. and Europe to WikiLeaks, and he, like Assange and Manning, was charged with espionage.
While it causes controversy concerning national confidentiality, Assange, Manning, and Snowden are not the hidden information that hangs above the world on a string, but simply the medium through which these truths pass. In my opinion, they are brave individuals who had the courage to personally jeopardize their careers for the sake of exposing such sensitive, and secretive, information. What they did should not be considered a violation of the freedom of speech, and that should be remembered because it serves as the basis of our liberated country. Their revelations are profoundly influential and informative, and I believe people of the world deserve to know the truth about the governments who are ruling them.