CEO 1.

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

In every business, we know that communications is crucial to make it in today’s

cutting edge competition. Maria Gilda Quintua-Nakahara who was born deaf was able
to break in and create a niche uniquely her own, in the field of tourism.

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.

Going up the ladder of success was definitely not a cinch for a deaf person like
her. She had also her share of ups and downs communicating her messages and ideas.
As Managing Director of the travel agency, Gilda equipped herself with education,
experience, determination to hone her skills, her love to travel, sharing experiences and
promoting the country were the solid foundation for the success of her business.Salle –
College ofSt. 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.”

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

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

"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?

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)

 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.

For years, people all over the world have been going to great lengths to achieve
those fifteen minutes of fame. We all see it every day; people shamelessly putting
themselves all over YouTube for a few hundred measly comments, people creating
ridiculous stories to get in the spotlight, and even exploiting their children to be laughed
at throughout cyberspace. You may notice that the internet has become the fastest way
to get famous for a brief time. You may see Myspace.com’s girls with 10,000+ friends
they don’t know and probably never will, trying to make a name for themselves. So
many teens in America are craving fame; but not only teens have this thirst for the spot-
light, many adults worldwide are going great lengths to get famous. We all want the
attention and fame that many have done so many shameful acts to get, even if we won’t
admit it. It starts as early as grade school, when you want to get enough attention to be
a part of the in-crowd; and it continues. It leads to girls wanting to go on shows like “My
Super Sweet 16” or “American Idol.” Even as many people go into adulthood, their
crave for fame does not end. In a world ruled by the media, how could we not want it?

Oftentimes, power is more narrowly defined, even when both its actual and
potential forms are considered. While change is central in these definitions, the authors
tend to focus only on changing the other. Thus, power is often defined as the capacity to
influence others' behavior, to get others to do what challengers want, rather than what
the initial parties themselves want. It is, however, important to recognize that change
can be within rather than without, or that it may be a combination of the two. This
recognition is important in concerns about empowerment; beyond this, it opens up
additional strategies to consider in combating injustice and seeking social change.

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 a challenge. And for anyone to succeed in life, he must be ready to show the stuff he is
made of. He must be ready to sacrifice his time and build up his mind frame toward success. What
is happening in our environment should not influence or affect us in our daily quest for success in
life. Instead, we should control the happenings around us.

Life is so easy, yet many people rush and miss what they want to achieve in life. Don’t rush in life.
Take one step at a time. Each step should be properly planned before being launched. Steady,
balance, mark and shoot. And before you know it, the sky will become the beginning of your
success.

All the great men of today, has one way or the other tasted the other side of life but they did not
cower. Instead, they were renewed to redefine their goals; they ride on with faith, believing in their
potentials, focusing their mind on something, knowing fully well that in every black cloud there is
always a silver lining.

I take life to be very simple and do you know what? Life is to be enjoyed.

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.