Author Archives: toetio

Reflective Toetio

Core Value 1. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development. Research is something that I initially had trouble with this semester.  The topic I … Continue reading

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Causal Rewrite – Toetio

Gestures in The Hands of Interpreters While the use of hand gestures as a substitute for verbal language in the case of a language barrier is indisputable and well documented one might assume that hand gestures are only necessary in … Continue reading

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Causal Argument – Toetio

While the use of hand gestures in first contact as a means of communication is fascinating, one might assume that after prolonged contact between two groups of people, hand gestures would be replaced by interpreters, or people simply learning the … Continue reading

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Bibliography – Toetio

Moving towards culturally competent health systems for migrants? Applying systems thinking in a qualitative study in Malaysia and Thailand (Nicola Suyin Pocock, Zhie Chan, Tharani Loganathan, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Pascale Allotey, Wei-Kay Chan, David Tan https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231154 This article describes … Continue reading

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Research—Toetio

Hands, Movement and Trade How trade over a language barrier influences the use of hand-gestures The use of hand gestures is increased by the need to trade over a language barrier.  Effective and clear communication is a requirement for successful … Continue reading

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Rebuttal rewrite – Toetio

The Complicated Origins of Hand Gestures Some people may argue against the idea that hand gestures are used to communicate over a language barrier, on the basis that hand gestures are culture specific. as a result of this, people from … Continue reading

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Rebuttal argument – Toetio

The Complicated Origins of Hand Gestures One could make a reasonable assumption that hand gestures in cultures are the result of commerce over a language barrier.  After all there are many examples both historical and contemporary of hand gestures being … Continue reading

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Robust verbs – Toetio

Original There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large … Continue reading

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Visual Rewrite – Toetio

Marcus :30 | Rural Mental Health Marcus :30 | Rural Mental Health (youtube.com) 0:00 The video starts with an african american man wearing a yellow shirt and dark blue jeans standing in front of a fence, behind the fence is … Continue reading

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Definition rewrite – Toetio

Hand Gestures are a means by which people can communicate with each other without the use of words.  Hand gestures are used in nearly all human cultures for a variety of reasons.  One reason why hand gestures may be used … Continue reading

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