IVETTE JANE ECOT

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 la 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.

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

Another milestone has come her way, her journey to married life. Gilda met her
Japanese husband at one of her deaf tours and excitement arises as she passes
through this newchapter in her life.

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

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

Intersubjectivity emphasizes that shared cognition and consensus is essential in the shaping
of our ideas and relations. Language is viewed as communal rather than private. Hence it is
problematic to view the individual as partaking in a private world, which is once and for all defined.
 Intersubjectivity is today an important concept in modern schools of psychotherapy, where it
has found application to the theory of the interrelations between analyst and analysand.

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)

Contentment means embracing a sense of satisfaction and sufficiency. Contentment sees

the cup half full, the beauty and bounty that are available to us. It allows us to take pleasure in
what we have and what we are, even life's simplest offerings. It frees us from envy and longing and
so makes us generous. Although contentment is influenced by external circumstances, it is an
internal attitude and can be cultivated no matter what our situation. Contentment looks for the
riches that can be found amidst poverty and the small marvels that can be found in the most dire
conditions. It is the close kin of gratitude and wonder.

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."-Karen Sunde. Love is one of the most difficult
concepts and ideas to understand and accept. When one opens up to the conceptt of love is when
they allow themselves to open their hearts and their mind, when they allow themselves to become
vulnerable. Why would the body allow this “change” to happen, this vulnerability to be established?
Because we need love. Love although difficult to define holds one imperative ideal and that is,
happiness. When one is in a romantic love they don’t necessarily have to obsess and continuously
think about an individual but instead, whenever they do think about the person their mood
brightens, the sole thought of them brings them happiness. It also brings desire, the desire for that
special someone to be by their side at that exact moment, the desire to see their smile, the desire
for the chance to tell them how much you love them and the desire to hear it said back. When one
is in love they look past the other’s flaws, many times twisting them in their head into reasons in
which they make the person better, perfect, when one is in love they always put their love as their
top priority, willing to catch a grenade for them. Love isn’t only established in a category of a
special someone. Love is apparent in every connection one holds dear. Love can be connected to
hobbies, sports and, nearly every action one enjoys doing, but why? This is mainly because they
bring happiness.

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.

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?

Like everyone, I also have a set of short term, long term, and final goals that make up my meaning
of life. Because I am currently a student, most of my short term goals include graduating from high
school with good grades and getting into a good college. While these goals do not represent what I
believe to be the meaning of life, they are goals that will help me accomplish what I believe to be a
meaningful life. My long term goal is what I would say if someone was to ask me what I believe the
meaning of life to be. My long term goal is to make an impact on large groups of people in the
world and to change/save their lives. This isn’t done for recognition but instead for the self
satisfaction that I would gain from knowing that I have made a difference in the world. I would not
consider a small family or a small group (fewer than 1000 people) to give a life meaning. I would
consider my long term goal is to affect much larger groups of people (5000 plus).

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.