MARY JOYCE BRANE

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

Deaf Education - "for her inspiring international achievements as a Deaf student,

and for sharing her knowledge to the country's Deaf communities, amplifying the need
to improve on existing means of communication through education"

Arce is the youngest recipient of the Lasallian Achievement award and has made
strides in her career to become an internationally recognized expert in her field. She
was the first Filipino to be awarded the World Deaf Leadership Scholarship at the
Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. in 2012. This institute is the world leader in
liberal education and career development for students who are Deaf and hearing
impaired. It was here that Arce built her educational foundations and graduated with a
master's degree in Deaf Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies. She quickly
went on to apply her knowledge and expertise in the professional world.

Driven by her desire to help those in need, Arce is presently teaching Deaf
undergraduate students. Using her specialized bilingual method, Arce seeks to
empower hearing impaired individuals who face the challenge of acquiring basic literacy
skills early on in their lives. She strives to help them develop their reading and writing
abilities in order to prepare them for college and beyond.

Moreover, Arce aims to educate parents of Deaf children and special education
teachers in the use of Filipino Sign Language (FSL) as part of her holistic approach to
Deaf awareness. The impact Arce has made in the lives of her students is
immeasurable and will benefit them for decades to come.

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

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

"Intersubjectivity" can 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)

Being happy with who you are and what you have, is a decision that has to be
consciously made. Goals can help lead to happiness. Finding laughter in life is
important. But at the end of the day, a person needs to make a choice about happiness.
They need to agree they want it, deserve it, and have it.eople need to have a sense of
purpose. It is no coincidence that Peanuts creator Charles Schultz died a week after
ending his famous comic strip. Without a purpose, he was lost. But people that have a
sense of purpose in their life often have a feeling of satisfaction about them. They sense
they were put on this planet for a reason. To each person, this purpose can be different.
Maybe they were meant to teach. Maybe they were meant to mother. Maybe they were
meant to learn. And goals can be small things, like taking an extra moment each day to
breathe. But having progress in life, a feeling of forward motion, can make people feel
happy.

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.

WHO defines health as “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and

social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Illness is
commonly defined as absence of good health in a person.Ill-health of a person can
have many causes and consequences. Illness is not always physical but may be
mental, social or psychological. A person, who is ill, lacks the experience of soundness
in his body, mind as well as spirit. Once illness sets in a person, he is deprived of the
happiness and the joys in the outside world that he seeks otherwise in state of wellness.
Illness in any form is not desirable and every person should get the right to live a
healthy and happy life, free from illness of any kind. A positive attitude, a healthy
lifestyle, concern for hygiene and safety and right diet can go a long way in keeping
illness away.

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?

There are things no matter where we go in life that are important to us. What is important to one
person may not be important to another. People wonder if they are important to anyone. We may
never know at all if we are important to anybody else, but the question will linger in our minds no
matter what. When creating an essay about life, you have a broad range of topics available for
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Some of the thoughts or concepts below may provide you with somewhere to start writing your
essay about life.

We can sometimes get lost and forget about what is important to us. A lot of people will spend their
whole lifetime looking for what they think is important and never find it. It is the culture and society
that we live in that makes us put a value on our importance. Many people join social media network
sites and seek acceptance of some kind and seek being important to someone else. Maybe its
loneliness or something other void that they are trying to fill, but they are trying to fill it nonetheless.

Does it really matter who thinks we are important? Why should it? We all have family and children
and friends who obviously think we are important to a certain degree, but outside of that, what
does it really matter who thinks we are important or not? People will always want to feel important
because it gives them a self satisfaction or gratification that they think they need to have. This
couldn't be further from the truth.

We must always remain true to ourselves. We can care about other people and think that they are
important to us, but the only true person that is important is ourselves. We have to be important to
ourselves in order for other people to see the same in us. Too many people nowadays want the
acceptance of others because they do not accept themselves as an important part of the life they
live.

We must never forget who we are, where we came from, and what is important to us first. Once we
have accepted that we mean something to ourselves, we can open the door to others and then,
and only then, seek their acceptance. A

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

Death is the cessation of a living organism’s identity. That’s not the same as the cessation of life.
Death marks the beginning of its dispersal (“decomposition”) into its component molecules, which
are then recycled into new 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.