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- From: anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)
- Subject: Ideas for awareness (was hangmans' noose)
- Message-ID: <nwgrb4n@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:53:47 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <KIRAVUO.92Dec21181237@lesti.hut.fi> <BzMIyF.HxH@news.iastate.edu> <BzoMxp.MM4@umassd.edu>
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- In article <BzoMxp.MM4@umassd.edu> pnsf01dw@UMASSD.EDU writes:
- >In article <BzMIyF.HxH@news.iastate.edu>, wjturner@iastate.edu (William J Turner) writes:
- (lots about knots deleted.)
- >
- >Related to all this talk of knots, how many of you out there can tie both right-
- >and left-handed??? Just a curiousity... I've found it helps if you have to teach
- >a lefty knots, particularly things like the bowline and sheet bend.
-
- I can, but that's mainly because I'm fairly ambedextrious anyway (try sign
- language to increase facility with both hands. While you still tend towards
- one hand, you will definately increase your use of the other non-dominant
- hand--just an aside).
-
- If you want to learn how to strenghten your non-dominant hand, try some
- simple exercises that aren't all that simple for most people:
- try switching eating hands, ie. knife and fork are reversed.
- try typing one-handed, using the non-dominant hand.
- loosely bind your dominant hand and try utilizing the non-dominant
- one in every-day tasks. (DOn't be foolish, if you're doing something
- potentially dangerous, ie. using an axe, don't do this!)
- as you experiment more and more with the non-dominant hand, you'll
- actually find that things become easier, at least in my experience.
-
- If anyone tries this, please let me know ideas. For a class once we had to
- do the last (part of a culture-barrier destruction lessonm) and it was
- interesting to watch my classmates trying to write. That is fairly
- difficult to do, and while I can write with my left hand, it is very
- sloppy because I don't do it often enough.
-
- scouting relevance? This can be something fun to do at a meeting to
- teach scouts about trying to learn different methods of doing things
- if their usual method is not available. it helps in thinking up
- alternative methodology. Another exercise to do this and to help
- in teaching how people in wheelchairs are at a distinct disadvatnage in
- public buildings is to borrow wheelchairs from a local agency (red cross,
- a hospital, united way even, often have a few wheelchairs they'll loan
- you for a few days) and have the scouts "confined" to them for a few
- hours or days. This is a powerful lesson. try it yourself first.
- What would happen if you had an accident and were confined even
- temporarily? How would you handle what now seems so simple.
- Also, you can do fun things like wheelchair races and balancing
- contests to throw in some fun! :->)
-
- Boy, I sure got off-thread...
- merry, merry!
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