MICAEL ALLEGADO

Activity 2 (PPT 11/12-lld-6.3)

To run her business and talk to people, Gilda uses her hands — either through
pen and paper or Filipino Sign Language. The definition of a successful Deaf
Entrepreneur, she runs a travel and tour business called Nakahara Lodging and Travel
Agency. Catering to those like her, it's primarily a travel service for deaf people around
the world, though they also provide services for hearing people.

Drawing inspiration from foreign deaf friends, she and her fellow deaf Pinoys met
in tourist spots, and she decided to set up her own business starting in 2004. A travel
agency like any other, she's known for her reliable arrangements and service which she
describes has "age-old" Filipino hospitality.

Pushing through discrimination and barriers, she managed to learn the ins and
outs of booking flights, accommodations, and tour management.

In 2007, she was recognized at the Go Negosyo Caravan for People with
Disabilities in De Salle –College of St. Benilde. But, as she said in her interview with
Manila Bulletin, representing the fellow deaf is its own reward.

“As a deaf person in this kind of business, I am proud to say that I have crossed
the border of so-called limited access. I honestly worked hard to achieve my goals. I
wanted to show the world that we are not cut off from mainstream society and we are
capable of regularly doing and keeping our jobs like the rest of hearing and speaking
people.”

Aside from all of this, Gilda has helped establish a deaf organization in her
province of Eastern Samar.

It's not huge acts that make someone inspirational. It's the daily effort to better
yourself in whatever situation you find yourself in. These three Filipinos are an
inspiration not just to PWDs, but to the rest of us as well.

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12-llc-6.1)

1. What is intersubjectivity? How is it related with respect?

Intersubjectivity can also be understood as the process of so-called

psychological energy moving between two or more subjects. In a room where someone
is lying on their deathbed, for example, the room can appear enveloped in a shroud of
gloom for people interacting with the dying person. The psychological weight of one
subject comes to bear on the minds of others depending on how they react to it, thereby
creating an intersubjective experience that, without multiple consciousnesses interacting
with each other, would be otherwise strictly solitary. Love is a prime example of
intersubjectivity that implies a shared feeling of care and affection, among others.

Intersubjectivity is used in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to represent

the psychological relationship between people. It is usually used in contrast to solipsistic individual
experience, indicating our inherently social being. Intersubjectivity is shared understanding that
helps us relate one situation to another.
The ways intersubjectivity occurs differs across cultures. In some Indigenous American
communities, nonverbal communication is so common that intersubjectivity may occur regularly
amongst all members of the community, in part perhaps due to a "joint cultural understanding" and
a history of shared endeavors. The cultural value of respeto may also help to intersubjectivity in
some communities; unlike the English definition of 'respect,' respeto refers loosely to a mutual
consideration for others' activities, needs, wants, etc. The occurrence of respeto in certain
Indigenous American communities in Mexico and South America may promote intersubjectivity as
persons act in conformance with one another within consideration for the community or the
individual's current needs or state of mind.
2. Do you know people who have disabilities and underprivileged? How do you deal with them?

People with disabilities travel, shop and do business in your community with their friends
and families, just like everyone else. By providing service that welcomes people with disabilities,
you can offer better service to everyone. Treating all your customers with individual respect and
courtesy is at the heart of excellent customer service.

You can broaden your customer base by welcoming everyone to your store, restaurant or
services, including customers with disabilities. By learning how to serve people with disabilities,
you can attract more customers and improve your service to everyone.

Treat people with disabilities with the same respect and consideration you have for
everyone else.

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12-llh-8.1)

For years, people all over the world have been going to great lengths to achieve
those fifteen minutes of fame. We all see it every day; people shamelessly putting
themselves all over YouTube for a few hundred measly comments, people creating
ridiculous stories to get in the spotlight, and even exploiting their children to be laughed
at throughout cyberspace. You may notice that the internet has become the fastest way
to get famous for a brief time. You may see Myspace.com’s girls with 10,000+ friends
they don’t know and probably never will, trying to make a name for themselves. So
many teens in America are craving fame; but not only teens have this thirst for the spot-
light, many adults worldwide are going great lengths to get famous. We all want the
attention and fame that many have done so many shameful acts to get, even if we won’t
admit it. It starts as early as grade school, when you want to get enough attention to be
a part of the in-crowd; and it continues. It leads to girls wanting to go on shows like “My
Super Sweet 16” or “American Idol.” Even as many people go into adulthood, their
crave for fame does not end. In a world ruled by the media, how could we not want it?

Oftentimes, power is more narrowly defined, even when both its actual and
potential forms are considered. While change is central in these definitions, the authors
tend to focus only on changing the other. Thus, power is often defined as the capacity to
influence others' behavior, to get others to do what challengers want, rather than what
the initial parties themselves want. It is, however, important to recognize that change
can be within rather than without, or that it may be a combination of the two. This
recognition is important in concerns about empowerment; beyond this, it opens up
additional strategies to consider in combating injustice and seeking social change.

Happiness. It is not measurable, profitable, nor tradable. Yet, above all else in the
world, it is what people seek. They want to have happiness, and want to know they
have a lot of it. But happiness, like air or water, is a hard thing to grasp in one’s hand. It
is intangible. So how does one know if they have it? Is it just a feeling? And if someone
does not feel happy, how can they go about achieving that feeling?Happiness is not
measured by material wealth. A new car or television, a waterskiing boat or a three-level
house does not equate to joyful feelings. They are status symbols, surely, and ones that
make others assume a person is happy, but they do not guarantee a happy life. The
clichéd phrase, “money can’t buy happiness,” is heard often… because it is true. People
who have wealth can be unhappy, just as the poor can be living on cloud nine.
Possessions can be gained and lost, and with that comes fear. And fear rarely leads to
happiness.

Activity 2 (PPT 11/12 IIi-8.3) (PPT 11/12 IIi-8.4)

1. What is your personal definition of life? How do you appreciate life?

Life is defined in the dictionary as “the quality that makes living animals and
plants different from dead organisms and inorganic matter. Its functions include the
ability to take in food, adapt to the environment, grow, and reproduce.” But, what is it,
really? What purpose in the grandest scheme of things does life serve? We have such a
small effect on the universe, and it was just fine for billions of years before we came
along. Philosophers around the world have been asking these questions for as long as
humans could think logically. Some would say that the purpose of life is to please a
God, while others would say that it is to be happy in the world.
 There are so many people living on this planet, and all of them have their own
views on what life means to them. There are optimists who choose to see the bright
side of this world. There are pessimists who might enjoy constant grumbling as to their
difficult and unfair fate. Every person decides for himself. I want to examine differences
in how people perceive our world and what both groups miss out on because of the way
of thinking they select.

No one can deny that there are many different moments in our life when we are
sad or disappointed; often there is injustice and various events that are bitter and very
unpleasant. We cannot totally avoid these aspects of our life, as it is always interrelated
with the other people and everything can drastically change any moment. A lot of
people, namely pessimists, find these challenges to be too hard for them and in such
situations they just choose not to interfere in the course of affairs and complain about
their life as if someone sympathizes with their misery. But as for me, it is too easy of a
way out. I choose to perceive these challenges in such a way that they polish my
character and make me a better person.

2. Is death absence of life? Why or why not?

Well if you compare life and death to light and darkness, they’re very similar. The absence of light
is darkness, and without darkness their wouldn't be light and vice-versa. So if we compare this to
life and death, death is in some way the absence of life, but without death we wouldn't have life
and vice-versa.

To go deeper into it, darkness is very unknown, when we see a dark room we don't know what's
inside, until we walk in the room and turn the light on, or we use our other senses(like touch and
smell). The same can be related death, it's impossible to know what it is, until we are there.

You can't know death without having been there, so it is very unknown. So yes, from certain
perspectives death is the absence of life and life is the absence of death. The answer depends a
lot upon on how you view life.

Activity 1 (PPT 11/12 IIf-7.1)

1. The relationship of individuals and societies.

The relation between individual and society is very close. Essentially, “society” is the
regularities, customs and ground rules of antihuman behavior. These practices are tremendously
important to know how humans act and interact with each other. Society does not exist
independently without individual. The individual lives and acts within society but society is nothing,
in spite of the combination of individuals for cooperative effort. On the other hand, society exists to
serve individuals―not the other way around. Human life and society almost go together. Man is
biologically and psychologically equipped to live in groups, in society. Society has become an
essential condition for human life to arise and to continue. The relationship between individual and
society is ultimately one of the profound of all the problems of social philosophy. It is more
philosophical rather than sociological because it involves the question of values. Man depends on
society. It is in the society that an individual is surrounded and encompassed by culture, as a
societal force. It is in the society again that he has to conform to the norms, occupy statuses and
become members of groups. The question of the relationship between the individual and the
society is the starting point of many discussions. It is closely connected with the question of the
relationship of man and society. The re- lation between the two depends upon one fact that the
individual and the society are mutually de- pendent, one grows with the help of the other.

2. Human relations are transformed by social systems.

Social transformation affects all types of society in both developed and less-developed regions, in
the context of globalisation of economic and cultural relations, trends towards regionalisation, and
the emergence of various forms of global governance.The issue can no longer be defined in terms
of development, since it is no longer possible to draw clear lines between developed and
underdeveloped areas, nor to put forward a universally-accepted goal for processes of change.

The study of social transformation refers to the different ways in which globalising forces impact
upon local communities and national societies with highly diverse historical experiences, economic
and social patterns, political institutions and cultures.

Any analysis of social transformation therefore requires analysis both of macro-social forces and of
local traditions, experiences and identities.

The response to social transformation may not entail adaptation to globalisation but rather
resistance. This may involve mobilisation of traditional cultural and social resources, but can also
take new forms of 'globalisation from below' through trans-national civil society organisations."

Globalisation is changing society in a lot of ways, and distribution of power and authority are two
such examples of change. There is a belief held by some that globalisation is not benefitting
people in the way that it could, and that many people find themselves disadvantaged, while a very
small number of people become incredibly wealthy. This will not be beneficial for society in the
longer term.