JIMAYNA AREGLO

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

Deaf since she was born, Ana's hearing disability didn't stop her from
unstoppable yearning to learn. She was awarded class valedictorian at the Philippine
School for the Deaf and her success in the academe went on from there. In 2009, she
graduated magna cum laude from the De La Salle, College of Saint Benilde (CSB) with
a degree in Applied Deaf studies.

Her focus was on the multimedia arts and she went on to become a graphic artist
at her alma mater, CSB. Blazing the trail, she continued on to study abroad to pursue a
Master's Degree. She earned her MA in Deaf Studies from the Gallaudet University,
Washington D.C., one of the world's most prominent universities in the field of deaf
studies.

She is the first Filipino to be sent to Gallaudet University with a World Deaf
Leadership Scholarship. Why all the studying? Ana says she wants to give back. On the
New Internationalist Blog she said: "I hope to not only help them (the deaf) go through
college, but also make them good researchers, and active advocates in their respective
communities. In my advocacy, I'm looking at opportunities to bring the needs of the Deaf
into the consciousness of society, especially the hearing people. I aim to help integrate
the Deaf and the hearing together in unity, bridge the communication gap, increase
awareness of the Deaf culture, and raise the respect for the natural sign language of the
Filipino Deaf - the Filipino Sign Language".

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" has been used in social science to refer to agreement. There is

"intersubjectivity" between people if they agree on a given set of meanings or a
definition of the situation. Similarly, Thomas Scheff defines "intersubjectivity" as "the
sharing of subjective states by two or more individuals."

"Intersubjectivity" also has been used to refer to the common-sense, shared

meanings constructed by people in their interactions with each other and used as an
everyday resource to interpret the meaning of elements of social and cultural life. If
people share common sense, then they share a definition of the situation.

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?

Don't make assumptions about people or their disabilities. Don't assume you
know what someone wants, what he feels, or what is best for him. If you have a
question about what to do, how to do it, what language or terminology to use, or what
assistance to offer, ask him. That person should be your first and best resource.

Remember that people with disabilities have different preferences. Just because
one person with a disability prefers something one way doesn't mean that another
person with the same disability also prefers it that way.

Ask before you help. Before you help someone, ask if she would like help. In
some cases a person with a disability might seem to be struggling, yet she is fine and
would prefer to complete the task on her own. Follow the person's cues and ask if you
are not sure what to do. Don't be offended if someone declines your offer of assistance.

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

Love is a universal feeling or emotion and every human on this earth loves
someone. It is not necessary that love exists only between opposite sexes but love is
there between human kind, between brothers, between sisters, between brothers and
sisters, between parents and children, between husband and wife, between neighbours,
between nations, between all relations and love also exists between humans and other
living beings such as animals. Therefore, nobody can deny the existence of love in this
world. Sometimes you need to describe the love you have for someone in words.

In our world today, money is a central part of our life, but for many people the worries and
pressures of money take over their whole lives. Nowadays, if a young couple decide to get married
and settle down they are forced to stop and think their situation through. One of the most important
issues to consider is how financially secure they are. In many cases the couple have to wait until,
either one of both of them, obtain a steady job with good prospects before they can even think of
marriage.

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?

In life, we come across many challenges. Some of them make us who we are while some tell us
what we should be. Sometimes it is the opposite. There will be struggle, there will be bad days.
Days which would never seem to end. Days which would go on and on, which would keep hurting
us till the end. Many of us actually most would give up but the people who wont will be the ones to
face the brighter side of the day. The night is darkest before dawn but how can we forget the
rainbow after the rain? We understand to love, to give, to endure, to find pleasure, to please but
what we do not understand is ourselves during all of this. Life can lie to us and no one will stop it, it
can play all sorts of games with us without us even knowing because there is no one controlling it.
But whatever happens in life happens for good. Good of all in it. Whatever decisions life takes for
us is already planned by it and we must learn to accept it. We must come in terms with the fact that
no matter how hard we try to fit in this imperfect world, it will never acknowledge us for who we are.
We always feel like becoming everything else around us. But what we do not realize is that
everyone wants to be happy in the end of the day. They just want to find someone who will love
them and who will stand by them throughout. Throughout the stormy nights, throughout the lonely
days, throughout all the cold memories.
2. Is death absence of life? Why or why not?

eath is just transition, you are already eternal, much like water can transform from a liquid to a gas
to a solid, you transition to spirit. What fears transition? The ego.

What you will experience after transition (death) is subject to your beliefs.

In my belief system I am a co creator of my own reality, experiencing and getting in flow with
unseen currents of Source to further my Manifestations in this realm and the next.

For us life is about becoming.

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.