MICHAEL J. FOX-- is an Emmy award-winning Canadian American actor, author and voice over artist. with a film and television career spanning from 1970s to the present. fox was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in1998. fox semi-retired from acting in 200 as the symptoms of his disease worsened. he has since become an advocate for research towards finding a cure. this led him to create the michael j. foundation. in recent years he had guest starred on various television shows and appeared as himself in Emmy nominated prime time special Michael J Fox: Adventures Of An Incurable Optimism( a personal journey of hope) in may 2009. parkinsons disease os a chronic neurological disorder which can be characterized by four cardinal symptom: rigidity, resting tremor, postural instability, and bradykinesia( slow movement). at present there is no cure but medications provide some relief from the symptoms. in his lucky memoir, lucky man fox wrote that he did not take his medication prior to his testimony " i had made a deliberate choice to appear before the sub committee without medication. it seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard

louis braille was the inventor -- was the inventor of a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. braille is reads by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. it has been adapted to almost every known language.

brailles young life

he became blind at the age of 3, when he accidentally poked himself in the eye with a stitching awl, one of his fathers workshop tools. the injury wasn't thought to be serious until it got infected. braille's other eye went blind because of symphathetic ophthalmia.
at the young age of 10, braille earned a scholarship to the national institute for the blind in paris.
one of the first of it's kind in the world. braille a bright and creative students, become a talented cellist and organist in his time at the school, playing the organ for churches all over france. at the school the children were taught basic craftsman skill and simple trades. they were also taught how to read by feeling raised letters

development of the braille

in 1821 charles barbier a former captain in the french army, visited the school. barbier shared his invention called " night writing " a code of 12 raised dots and a number of dashes that let soldiers share top secret information on the battlefield without having to speak. the code was too difficult for louis to understand and he later changed the numbers of raised dots to 6 to form what we today call braille. the same year louis braille began inventing his raised dot system with his father stitching awl, the same implement that with which he had blinded himself, finishing at the age of 15. braille later extended his system to include the notation for mathematics and music. the first book in braille was published in 1829 under the title Method of Writing Words, and plain Songs by MEans of dots for the use by the blind and arranged for them.
braille became a well respected teacher at the institute. although he was admired and respeced by his pupils, his writing was not taught at the institute during his lifetime. the air at the institute was foul and he died in paris of tuberculosis in 1851 at the age of 43: his body was disinterred in 1952 and honored with re-interment on the pantheon in paris. his system was finally recognized in france 2 years after his death.

day 5________friday

Helen Adams Keller

(june 27’ 1880) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how keller’s teacher, Anne sulivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, he has become known worldwide through the dramatic depiction’s of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

Early childhood and illness

Helen Adams Keller was born on the plantation called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on june 27, 1880. The family originates from Switzerland, Helen keller was not born blind and deaf, it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness describe by doctors as “ an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain “ which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. Anne sulivan arrived at keller’s house in march 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought keller as present. Starting in may 1888, keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1892 helen keller and anne sulivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-humason School for the Deaf and Horace mann School for the Deaf. In 1896 they returned to Massachusetts and keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other causes. Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles. Keller suffered a series of strikes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home. Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home. Kellers life has been interpreted many times, she appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style. She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Comell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

Day 4 (Tom Cruise - Dyslexia)

TOM CRUISE

It may be hard to believe that one of the world's most famous actors was once just as average as everyone else, but such was the case with Tom Cruise. Tom was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York. He was the third of four children, and the only son of Mary Lee and Thomas Mapother IV. He's father, an electrical engineer, was constantly looking for work during Tom's childhood. As a result, Tom and the rest of his family never had the opportunity to settle down in one place. Their constantly moving around was hard on the family, and especially hard to Tom. Tom never spent a lot of time any one school because the family moved around a lot. Not long after settling into Glen Ridge, NJ, Tom's parents divorced. Tom's mother was given custody of the children and the tight economic situation became even tighter for the family. With no older brothers, Tom was now the oldest man in the house, although still only a 12 year old boy.

In addition to problems at home, Tom like his mother, suffered from dyslexia. Tom is right handed when writing, but does most things left handed. Being dyslexic was yet another obstacle standing in the way of Tom's education. He was into the remedial classes at school. Not excelling in school, Tom entered a seminary for the priesthood at the age of 14. Tom left not long afterwards, and enrolled in Glen Ridge High School. Tom continued to struggle academically during his high school years. Tom joined the wristling team however, after suffering a serious injury he decided to do something else. That something else was acting.

He was diagnosed as dyslexic at seven, and tired to hide his learning disability from the other children at school. He has described his younger self as "a functional illiterate", through high school and his first several films. Explaining how such a functionally illiterate man can possibly make a good impression at auditions, he said, "I'd get the director and producer to talk about the characters and the film. I'd glean information from them and I'd use that... I got preety good at ad-libbing".

According to Spanish magazine XL Semanal, Cruise was frustrated and bored as a youth and coudn't concentrate in class. He was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980.

Honesty! Advisory to Everyone!!!

Hello Majors, i see that you have submitted some of your requirements... but what i have noticed or the way i look at it, some of you are just copying (copy and paste) or some other person are doing your write ups.... where's the honesty now? Soon you are going to be teachers, and being so, you have to practice honesty in everything you do. It makes me sad by the way i see it. It defeats the purpose of why we doing this. So please be original. Be yourself. And don't make me repeat what i have said because I wont. You know where it will reflect. Thank You!

day 2

1. Describe a time in your life when you worked specially hard to accomplish a goal.
-When I decided to run as the SK Chairman for 2007 Barangay elecitons, my goal was to win for the position and serve my fellow youth so I worked so hard and campaigned before the election.

2. Why was it important for you to keep working towards this goal?
-It is very important for me to keep working towards my goal because I really want it. If I won't work for it, I will never be able to have it.

3. Describe the times when you felt like giving up.
-I almost gave up because of some personal and family problems especially the financial aspects. I almost lose hope to continue with my goal.

4. What motivated you to keep going?
-The thought that the youth in our barangay trusted and needed me served as my motivation to keep going.

5. Which people or event helped you?
-As what I have mentioned above, the youth in our barangay helped me to never lose hope to continue reaching my goal.

6. What made it really hard for you to keep going?
-It was hard to manage my time since I am studying in Dumaguete and my hometown is Jimalalud which is 98 kms away from the city.

7. How did it feel to continue your work when it was difficult to do so?
-It was really not easy but I just think of it as a challenge that I should face before I could reach my goal.

8. How did you feel when you had accomplished your task?
-I was very happy that the youth in our barangay trusted me and voted me to be their Sk chairman. My task is not yet done until now, I still have to serve them and give them my time and effort.

9. Do you think that courage and perseverance go hand in hand?
-Yes, because these two values help us become determined in pursuing our goals in life.

day1

1. What is moral courage to you?
All of us have this inner strengths and courage is one of these. Courage for me is the strength we have in ourselves which makes us able to fight for something. I could also relate having courage to being brave since it also talks about how a person fights for something he/she wants.

2. What is moral courage?
Moral, as what I have understood, has something to do with our faith in God. It talks about how an individual lives his or her life accordingly. It should be in accordance to how God wants us to live. Therefor, moral courage for me is about how a person have this courage to fight evil and choose what is right from wrong.

scenes which strucked me most

1. The scene which strucked me most was when he applied for about 24 schools but then none of them accepted him but when he applied for the 25th, he was accepted.- I was touched by this scene because he showed his determination to be a teacher. Though there were a lot of people who discriminated him, he never gave up because he really wants to reach his dream.

2. The scene when he was in a concert and he was asked by the teacher to go up the stage and let him explain why he is acting such behavior and after that he was accepted by the students as a normal person.- In this scene, he showed courage in facing the rest of the students and explained his condition and it is not easy to do this. We should not judge and make fun of people the same with his condition because it is not easy to be living like them.

movie review

The story is about a boy named Brad who have a Tourette Syndrome. The parents of Brad were separated and Brad with his brother stayed mostly to their mom. One time the father of Brad cannot understand the condition of his son. The father told his son to always remember to have self control in order to live a normal life. During his elementary years he was a softball player. In his class he made noise then his classmate always laughs at him. One teacher allowed him to go at the musical concert, then the teacher called Brad to go to the stage and explain his condition, why he makes some noise during musical concert. Finally the students of their school accepted him as a normal person. Brad grew up with his tourette syndrome but he continue applying into different schools. Sometimes he likes to give up at the last interview it was a good interview they've talked for almost two hours talking about his teaching philosophies. When he was teaching the students someone called him weirdo and laughed during his class. His students have so many questions and he answered it well and his students loved him so much. He was awarded as teacher of the year and he was married to her girlfriend named Nancy.

day 2 by: wilfred duran

1.) Describe a time in your life when you work especially hard to accomplish a goal.
- it was the time when i applied as a working student in spud.

2.) Why was it important for you to keep working towards this goal?-
- it was very important for me to do such thing so that i could still study and would not waste time that could end up loosing interests in not studying anymore.

3.) Describe the times when you felt like giving up.-

- i was trying to end it all up, my studies and my future just because of an unreasonable personal problem. I always cried quietly, moan all the time and sometimes loose myself at times of confusing thoughts.

4.) What motivated you to keep going?-
- i just tried to control myself and think wisely, some would say that i'm an unusual person to pray but one thing that keeps me going is where i could find comfort in asking blessings from God.

5.) Which people or events helped you?
- actually its hard understanding how would you live without someone or nobody accepts what are you trying to let them understand. But maybe it was just pride. People who would comfort me at all time are my friends but yes you could never really trust them but instead as what your family would let you realize how important it is to become united.

6.) What make it really hard for you to keep going?- my pride, weaknesses, clumsyness, and a negative thinker all the time.

7.) How did it feel to continue your work when it is difficult to do so?
- feeling so alone, it will always be true that you will be having difficulty when you feel numb and always being immature all the time. It felt like that i'm not part of this world.

8.) How did you feel when you had accomplish your task?
- what i've accomplish was to become mature and responsible but i'm still trying to be one. Succeeding in any accomplishment will always keep you happy.

9.) Do you think that courage and perseverance go hand in hand? Why?
- having self confidence and courage will keep you advocated to become more responsible to avoid failures. Seeing the turn of events of failure we try to accomodate the realities and we also try to think wisely and yet putting lessons to the failures we have made.