MHEL ROSE BACORDO

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

Gilda who was born onAugust 16, 1971at San Julian, Eastern Samar, finished
her basic education at the Philippine School for the Deaf and took vocational & diploma
courses atCAPCollegefor the Deaf and the Manila Christian Computer Institute.

As in Tom Peter’s Pursuit of WOW, Gilda started her travel and tour business,
inspired by foreign deaf friends who came to bond with her and other deaf Pinoys
amidst rich tourist spots in the country. Her disability did not get in the way of making
M.G.L.Q. Deaf Tour Assistance an outfit she started in 2004 known for fast and reliable
tour arrangements for deaf and non-deaf tourists all over the world. For Gilda’s trade
secret (which she generously shares with anybody who asks) is quick, quality service
and the “age old” warm Filipino hospitality.

Starting small in 2004, Gilda herself mastered quality and quick dispatch though
many labor pains, hurdling the same discriminating public. Going by her motto
“honoring commitments” and following a strict work code, she eventually got the feel
and skill to juggle a flurry of bookings for international and domestic flights,
accommodations and tour management here and abroad.

It was therefore inevitable that her unique travel agency would widely spread by
word of mouth of satisfied deaf and hearing tourists. In 2007, she joined 4 other
outstanding PWD entrepreneurs awarded by the “Go Negosyo Caravan for People with
Disabiities in De Salle –College of St. Benilde. For who would want to deal with
frenzied loud tourist agent, if you have a calm, smiling and reliable Gilda minding your
flight, hotel and tour bookings, getting free sign language lesson on the side.

In her interview at the Manila Bulletin Websites & Publications dated August 15,
2009she mentioned that “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.”

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

Contemporarily, intersubjectivity is a major topic in both the analytic and the

continental traditions of philosophy. Intersubjectivity is considered crucial not only at the
relational level but also at the epistemological and even metaphysical levels. For
example, intersubjectivity is postulated as playing a role in establishing the truth of
propositions, and constituting the so-called objectivity of objects.

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)

Although being financially secure is one of the best things in the world, it won’t
necessarily bring you happiness. Money is an important component of happiness, but
money alone won’t suffice in bringing you the highest level of happiness possible. You
also need to have good, solid relationships with your friends and family to maximize
your level of happiness. All in all, money alone won’t bring you happiness, but if you can
effectively manage your time and balance the amount of time you spend making money,
and the amount of time you spend with your friends and family, that will bring you
happiness. I believe that money can’t buy you happiness. Sure, having a lot of money is
a great thing and gets rid of the stress of financial insecurity. But real happiness can’t be
bought by money. Thinking about life has led me to think about this popular belief and
realize it’s completely true. Although being financially secure is one of the best things in
the world, it won’t necessarily bring you happiness. Many people dream of being rich.
They think of all the things they can buy with money such as big houses, fancy cars,
and long vacations. People make it their goal to get into a good college to get a good
job and make a lot of money. With financial security, people think they have more time
to spend relaxing and being happy. There are so many success stories of people going
from “rags to riches” and people try to follow their footsteps and do the same thing.
Basically, we all get this idea that being rich is a great thing and it will guarantee
happiness, but is it true?

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.

Everyone at some point in their lives has experienced love, whether they were
loved or have loved. Love seems to be the main underlying goal that we all strive for in
our lifetimes. It is the one thing that we all, as humans, have in common. There are
many different types of love: family love, friendship love, conceptual love, and intimate
love. Many people have a hard time finding words to express this intense feeling
because everyone’s experience and meaning of it is different. The thing is that with love,
it is not positive or negative; it seems to have its ups and downs. However, we still go
throughout life searching for it, without ever giving up. Family love is unconditional,
meaning it is timeless, and everlasting. It is a feeling shared between a young girl
listening to her grandfather stories of the olden days. It may even be the strict rules that
a parent enforces, that a child feels are unfair. The great part of this love is that you can
be yourself, make mistakes, and you will always be forgiven.

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?

A good life is what everybody wants. But what does it mean to have a good life? Everybody
has different ideas of a good life. Some people think more about themselves, others like to help
people. Both are examples of good life, but as long as you are happy with yourself, you are having
a good life. In my essays, I'll tell you my ideas of a good life. You might not totally agree with me,
but I'll guarantee you will learn something from it. .

First and I personally think it's the most important quality of a good life is happiness.
Nobody tell you to get happy, it is something that you have to require by yourself. When you are
happy, you feel like you have the power to do anything, say anything, and go anywhere you want.
When you are happy, you see everything positive, then you will be nice to your co-workers or
classmates. If you are happy, you will have more friends. The more friends you have, the happier
you will be. It's like going in a positive cycle. If you are unhappy all the time and not very cooperate
with other people, you will most likely to get no friends. When you dont have friends, you feel sad
and feel left out. Now you are going on a negative cycle and it's hard to get out of that. So it's
important to start of in a positive attitude.

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.