Read the passage. Sign Language on Martha's Vineyard
While researching Martha's Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts,
anthropologist Nora Groce made a remarkable discovery. She learned that from the
1600s until the early 1900s, almost all the residents of two towns on the island-West
Tisbury and Chilmark-were fluent in sign language. During these years, the towns had
an unusually high population of deaf people, due to a form of hereditary deafness that
ran in many Martha's Vineyard families. Consequently, a bilingual society developed. The
islanders didn't attend special sign language classes; they simply learned the language as
they grew up. One of the most interesting aspects of the phenomenon was that, in the
absence of language barriers, deafness was not perceived as a disability. As one
Vineyarder explained to Groce, deaf people were seen as "just like everyone else."
What is the main idea of the passage?

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).

its c

explanation:

thunder! imagine dragons

b) the sentance would correctly look more like this: jerry's team manned the winning boat with a broken rudder.