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

Her inner fire was not extinguished but continued to rage on, as Arce’s academic
and personal journey arrived at a new chapter – she became the first Filipina to be
awarded the Nippon-Gallaudet World Deaf Leadership Scholarship and was accepted
for graduate studies at the prestigious Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. The
institution, named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet by his son, Edward Miner, was
started in 1864 as part of the United States Act of Congress signed by the great
egalitarian Abraham Lincoln. The then US Postmaster General Amos Kendall donated
the two acres of land to establish the initial avenue founded specifically for deaf and
blind children.?

Now, it is a sprawling 99-acre federally chartered property prominently defined by

a maroon 19th century building of brick and stone, with courses on business, performing
arts, communication studies, physical education and over 30 masters programs for both
deaf and hearing individuals.?Arce shared how its classrooms, halls, libraries and the
cafeteria with its distinctive rounded tables have become part of her, as she adjusted to
learning American Sign Language and earning her degree.

With her thesis “Deaf Studies: Cultural Studies,” she received the George V.
Veditz Award, after the educator and social mover who fought for signing as a medium
of teaching and understanding the deaf.?She related with candor how the world was
tailor fit for people without disabilities. But gifted with intellect and an unfailing belief in
herself, Arce fought through, with passion and a genuinely good heart and
comprehension of the prevalent issues her community faces, and now has the perfect
platform to speak for those like her.

“It was crucial for me to bring it out there in the open that we are people with an
identity beyond our auditory conditions. We are human beings, like any other, with
inviolable dignity, and dreams. Words have a certain power, spoken or otherwise. We
are Deaf with a capital D, in recognition of our experiences of what makes us who we
are in society, with a culture we can share,” she expressed.?

Arce now pursues the same path of her predecessors in Gallaudet as an

educator and advocate, in a country whose realities are still harshly crafted against the
needs of persons with disabilities.

Lack of data on their current conditions is a serious impediment to collectively

address the present limitations. One indicator of state indifference is that even their
estimated numbers are not well documented. Many buildings and transport systems are
also not PWD-friendly.?
 She is aware that her opportunities in life, to study and to have a loving
environment to support her is not accessible to all PWDs, or any other marginalized
sector for that matter. Her studies abroad heightened her sense of social justice, with
the work of her South African professor Lindsay Dunn having a profound effect on her
perspective of oppression and disempowerment – from racial war, to the systematic
abuse of women – all different but all the same dehumanizing.?

A prominent voice despite her physical silence, Arce resonates in Philippine

society as she teaches for a more intimate view of the Deaf and the universe they walk
in, that their difference from the common person is not an issue of normalcy or disability,
but an equal right to prosper, beyond Deaf or Hearing, as people who earn the space
they deserve in humanity.

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

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

Intersubjectivity argues that each thought community shares social experiences

that are different from the social experiences of other thought communities, creating
differing beliefs among people who subscribe to different thought communities. These
experiences transcend our subjectivity, which explains why they can be shared by the
entire thought community. Proponents of intersubjectivity support the view that
individual beliefs are often the result of thought community beliefs, not just personal
experiences or universal and objective human beliefs. Beliefs are recast in terms of
standards, which are set by thought communities.

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?
 Communicating with a loved one with a disability is much like communicating
with anyone else. Generally, it’s okay to talk about the disability if it comes up, and, just
as in any other case, a relaxed conversation about mutual interests is always
appreciated. Following are some communication tips that you might want to keep in
mind.

· Always address your loved one before addressing the disability. He or she is an
“individual with a disability,” not a “disabled individual.”

· Be patient if your loved one needs extra time to say something.

· Try to speak to your loved one at eye level. This is especially important for
individuals suffering from hearing loss and those in wheel chairs.

· Avoid touching any assistive devices such as a guide dog or mobility device.

· Never insist on helping—only offer.

· Learn about your loved one’s disability.

· Approach the situation with a positive, encouraging frame of mind.

· Accept help from local support groups and community services.

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.

Love is the feeling you get towards someone or something that is almost
unexplainable. It is not an obsession, but it is the constant reminder in the back of your
mind that you have someone or something really special. It can hit you in various parts
of your life but once it does, it leaves a long lasting impact. Love is a crazy thing. It can
be a feeling you get towards a person you truly care about, or it can also be the feeling
you get from playing a sport or doing something you love. To me, love is unconditional
no matter how you perceive it. I think a main component of love is pure happiness, and
just a desire to always be with the people who make you feel on top of the world.
Essentially, when you are in love, around people you love, or doing something you love,
nothing else matters.

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.

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 beautiful and yet life is not a bed of roses. Though it is full of ups and downs it has many
facets of blessings and successes.

To some people, life is hard, cruel and merciless. These set of people see life as punishment
throughout their entire lives. They therefore resigned themselves to fate, believing all is finished. To
them, nothing that they do can ever be good. They take delight in committing crimes and maiming
others to avenge their ill-fortune. They lost every sense of direction and most times, some of them
go as far as committing suicide, just to escape the injustice life has meted out to them.

But there are those who see life as a challenge, a channel of discovery and innovation, a prospect
for success and a gateway to wealth. To them life is sweet, colourful and kind. No matter the
situation these people find themselves, they keep pressing on, believing in a cause, a cause to
succeed and get the most out of life. No wonder an adage says, “Where there is life, there is
hope.”

The will to succeed or fail lies within an individual jurisdiction. You can live life to the fullest with
utmost satisfaction and fulfillment if you determine with all your mind, body and soul to succeed.
On the other hand, life can be miserable to you if you take everything for granted and wait on fate
to play itself out.

Setting of goals and strategic plans that will strive no matter the odds which may move against you
is one of the basic things needed to get the best out of life. These goals which must be result
oriented, should be followed up consistently even if things seem blurred or unyielding at first.

Also, the mind is the centre of everything. It controls your thoughts and beliefs. A focused mind has
never fail. A positive mind helps one to discover his talents and potentials. Great men and women,
both living and dead, had their minds focused on something and nothing deterred them from
achieving their dreams. Each of them had a belief, should I say faith, which they held onto, they
nurture the belief, focused all their attention and live on it. And today, we have benefited in one way
or the other from their inventions and great ideas.

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

Death is not the absence of life, death is just a departure from this life into the next one. This life is
just a test:

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and
fruits, but give good tidings to the patient (2:155)

The results of this life will start displaying at death, first. And then finalized on judgement day.

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.