Endangered Me List

As much as I had wanted to pursue writing a paper about the relationship between rhetoric and sign language, or the deaf community I have decided to write about the Endangered Species Act. When I made attempts at discovering resource material for what I may want to write about regarding sign language and rhetoric I wasn't able to find anything that really seemed useful or interesting.  For awhile, I thought that my idea was so unique, so brilliant that I was the first person to have thought to investigate how rhetoric applies toward the deaf community, or if it even does. There is a lack of acknowledgement from previous generations regarding minority forms of communication -- Aristotle certainly hadn't considered rhetoric anything but an oral or written exercise.  There still is a divide between speaking culture and the silent culture of the deaf.  I thought for sure that this would be a successful endeavor -- fertile ground for exploration, yet I could find nothing that directly dealt with sign language and the study of rhetoric.  I don't feel qualified to begin writing a massive aper in less than a semester piecing together a quilt or mosaic of information to tell a story or impart some information, certainly without having any personal experience to rely on.

I was able to find more information about endangered species and the Endangered Species Act. I believe that I can find more suitable information easier and therefore helped make my decision.  I don't yet have a thesis, but I am hoping to have one soon.  That will help me sort through the resource material wiser and with a more critical eye.