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Located in the vibrant capital city of Buenos Aires, this program examines Argentina's prolific and highly dynamic social movements. The program's office is in one of the most renowned research institutions in Buenos Aires, the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES). Students meet with social activists, local scholars, indigenous leaders, rural organizers, environmental advocates, female activists, and community muralists.
This program provides firsthand experience with different types of grassroots organizations fighting for human rights and social welfare in Argentina. Students are exposed to the ongoing struggles of social movements working for justice and equality, including workers taking on factory bosses, peasants fighting to maintain their livelihood, and indigenous peoples organizing to retain their land and identity.
In addition to the in-country orientation and evaluation period, the program consists of the following components:
In addition to program coursework, students engage in hands-on community service work. While in Buenos Aires, they can choose among a variety of volunteer opportunities including working at a shelter for women who are victims of violence, a cultural center for kids and muralists, a school, or a community health center.
Students also participate as a group in one-day projects in diverse environments, such as helping in a soup kitchen in Salta, working with Mapuche women to build an indigenous community center in Patagonia, and painting a mural with underprivileged children at a daycare in a Buenos Aires shantytown. With an emphasis on giving back, community service components are integrated into the program's educational excursions to northwestern Argentina and to Patagonia, and as an optional activity during the time in Buenos Aires.
Students engage with activists from a broad array of backgrounds including:
*Note: The list of organizations the program visits may change depending on each semester's calendar.
Students receive intensive instruction in Spanish through the program's three-credit language course. Based on in-country evaluation, students are placed in intensive classes and obtain additional language practice during the homestays, lectures, and field visits. Language courses are delivered in interactive, small-group formats; there are typically no more than seven students to a class. Additionally, students are encouraged to take advantage of the myriad daily opportunities presented by a Spanish-speaking environment which provides a source of constant learning. Students are encouraged to go to the theater and enjoy other cultural offerings in Buenos Aires.
Students spend the last four weeks of the program focused on an Independent Study Project (ISP), pursuing original research on a selected topic of interest to them. The ISP is conducted in Buenos Aires or another approved location appropriate to the project.
Sample topic areas for the ISP include:
During the ISP, students integrate different components of the program as they conduct an in-depth investigation of a social movement or organization in Argentina. Students utilize their Spanish and cultural skills and apply the academic knowledge they have acquired while interacting with host communities.
The ISP is a unique opportunity to build a solid foundation for further research for a senior thesis, Fulbright fellowship, or graduate school.
Conducted in Spanish, the thematic courses typically include lectures and discussions on the following topics: political and social history of Argentina; human rights and the struggle for justice, from theoretical and applied perspectives; and theory and practice of social movements, including discussions of the future of social movements and their challenges in the international context. The Research Methods and Ethics course addresses culturally appropriate, ethical field methodology, in preparation for the Independent Study Project (ISP). Spanish language study bolsters students' ability to communicate, conduct field research, and delve deeply into the culture and theme of the program.
Links to syllabi below are from current and forthcoming courses offered on this program. Because courses develop and change over time to take advantage of dynamic learning opportunities, actual course content will vary from term to term.
The syllabi can be useful for students, faculty, and study abroad offices in assessing credit transfer. Read more about credit transfer.
Social Movements and Human Rights in Argentina – syllabus
(LACB 3000 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
In this seminar, students focus on social movements that have emerged as Argentines demand human rights and protest a range of sociopolitical inequities and injustices. Students analyze social movements from the 1990s to the present, focusing on both political and social contexts, and asking who has been included or excluded from these efforts. They consider the challenges faced by these movements at the local, national, and international levels. The course includes both a theoretical component and case studies that allow students to apply the concepts to actual issues. By the end of the seminar, students are able to identify and analyze the ways in which Argentine scholars address and frame questions of human rights and social justice and to assess new models of community-based social, political, and economic organization. All coursework is conducted in Spanish.
History and Human Rights in Argentina – syllabus
(LACB 3005 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
This course introduces students to Argentina's long struggle to guarantee its diverse populations' human rights, defined broadly to include cultural, civil, political, and other rights. Students examine the history of Argentina's dictatorship, state terrorism, and the Dirty War, focusing on the rampant abuses of human rights and the case of Argentina's desaparecidos (the disappeared). They then examine the present International System of Human Rights Protection and the use of legislation as a tool for social transformation as human rights issues are continually redefined in Argentina. Students also analyze the themes of memory and memorialization. All coursework is conducted in Spanish.
Research Methods and Ethics – syllabus
(ANTH 3500 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
In this research methods course designed to prepare students for the Independent Study Project, students learn how to organize and conduct a research project. Through lectures, readings, and field activities, students study and practice basic social science methods. They examine the ethical issues surrounding field research related to human rights and other program themes and are guided through the World Learning/SIT Human Subjects Review process, which forms a core component of the course. By the end of the course, students will have chosen a research topic, selected appropriate methods, and written a solid proposal for an Independent Study Project related to the program themes. All coursework is conducted in Spanish.
Spanish for Social Sciences I – syllabus
(SPAN 2000 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
Spanish for Social Sciences II – syllabus
(SPAN 2500 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
Spanish for Social Sciences III – syllabus
(SPAN 3000 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
Spanish for Social Sciences IV – syllabus
(SPAN 3500 / 3 credits / 45 class hours)
In this course, students hone their speaking, reading, and writing skills through classroom and field instruction. They practice reading professional social science literature as they learn the terms and expressions needed to discuss human rights and social movement issues, to conduct field research, and to interact in settings related to the program themes. Students are placed in small classes based on an in-country evaluation that tests both written and oral proficiency.
Independent Study Project – syllabus
(ISPR 3000 / 4 credits / 120 class hours)
Conducted in Buenos Aires or in another approved location appropriate to the project, the Independent Study Project offers students the opportunity to conduct field research on a topic of their choice within the program's thematic parameters. The project integrates learning from the various components of the program and culminates in a final presentation and formal research paper. Sample topic areas: labor rights; rights of migrants; issues of identity; women's rights; LGBTQ and human rights rights in Argentina; indigenous rights and community; memory and memorialization; art as a tool for social transformation; children's rights; indigenous participation in social movements.
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Please note that in order to take advantage of dynamic learning opportunities, program excursions may occasionally vary.
The Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights program includes exceptional, field-based learning opportunities for a broader and deeper understanding of course content. Students have the opportunity to visit and live in two different settings of Argentina: the northwest and Patagonia. In each location, intensive seminar sessions are organized by university faculty, development practitioners, government officials, and local community and labor groups.
The northwestern region of Argentina is the poorest area in the country. Largely deprived of economic development resources, the region's communities are struggling both to survive and to maintain their distinct cultural traditions. During this excursion, students examine peasant and gender movements and social economy amidst one of the most beautiful, and least developed, regions of Argentina. They also analyze opposition to mining projects due to the projects' environmental impacts.
The focus of the Patagonia excursion is on the use of human rights and legal resources to support different social movements. Over the years, the region's abundance of natural resources has invited extensive human intervention: mining, tourism, and other human involvement pose challenges for the health of the region's natural environment. Students examine these challenges and the movements working to address them as well as the struggles over land that continue for impoverished and indigenous communities in both urban and rural settings. The excursion also focuses on the conflicts surrounding land access and occupations from a human rights perspective.
In Bariloche, students focus on the social and environmental impacts of tourism and experience the efforts that impoverished communities are making for land. While Bariloche is a beautiful city boasting abundant natural resources and stunning landscapes, students focus on the "other Bariloche" and the reality of discrimination and poverty endured by many of the city's poor. Students also consider the role of environmental movements in preventing the deprivation of natural resources, and visit a recycling cooperative created to provide more opportunities within the community.
In Mapuche communities, students observe the battle indigenous groups are waging for increased rights and recognition by the Argentine government as well as their attempts to define their fight for land and territory within the definition of community land rights. Students learn about traditional ways of working and living through visits to the local community center where Mapuche women create and sell artisanal crafts, such as woven and hand-crafted wood pieces. This allows students to understand more about this community and its role in preserving Mapuche culture while also providing a source of income.
With a visit to the picturesque national park Nahuel Huapi, students reflect upon a broader definition of sustainable management and development as a cultural as well as environmental issue.
By training, Ana Laura Lobo is a sociologist. She has a master's degree in social investigation from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Through scholarships from UBA and CONICET, she has also completed doctoral work in social sciences at UBA and the National University of San Martin (UNSAM) and will defend her thesis in the coming months. Her postgraduate research was completed at the Gino Germani Research Institute, which is part of UBA's Social Sciences Faculty. Ana Laura's research interests include sociology, social justice and human rights, and identifying resources related to the process of social transformation using art and culture, especially dance, theater, and photography. In addition to her role as academic director, she is an adjunct professor for UNICEF and the judicial power of the province of Buenos Aires. She has been lecturing at UBA in the fields of sociology and political science and has taught a variety of courses, from Methodology to Social Construction of Collective Memory.
Much of her past professional experiences have centered on teaching, lecturing, and advising; she was a postgraduate lecturer at the Walter Benjamin Foundation in the fields of communication and sociology, and she has also taught online thesis seminars at FLACSO. Additionally, Ana Laura had the opportunity to work as an external advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Industry and Production in the area of small and medium enterprise and regional development. In her role as advisor, Ana Laura worked on the design and assessment of projects related to social and local economic development. She also serves as a technical consultant for Programa de Inclusión Social Envión, an educational and social inclusion program administered by the municipality of Avellaneda.
Ana Laura began her tenure with SIT in 2010 when she became the academic coordinator of SIT's Regional Integration, Development, and Social Change program, also based in Buenos Aires. Shortly thereafter, in January of 2011, she joined the Social Movement and Human Rights Program as the associate director. In spring 2014, Ana Laura served as interim academic director of the program.
Eliana is a history teacher and received her degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She specializes in Argentine history and human rights, focusing on Argentina's last dictatorship. Eliana has done volunteer work in a shantytown, and has been collaborating for several years with Fundación La Alameda, an organization focused on human trafficking. Her background also includes working with and studying the phenomenon of migration in Argentina, and she has taken several courses and seminars related to gender and human rights. She has worked for SIT since 2011, broadening her knowledge on social movements and human rights.
Dr. Vommaro is a historian whose main area of teaching and research is the recent history of social movements in Argentina. He holds a PhD in social sciences and a BA in history from Universidad de Buenos Aires. His dissertation was entitled "Politics, territory and community: urban social organizations in the southern area of Buenos Aires (1970–2000)." Dr. Vommaro is also a researcher at the Oral History Program at Universidad de Buenos Aires, a member of the Foundation for Political and Social Research, and part of the Study Group on Social Protest and Collective Action, Instituto Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires. He coordinates the CLACSO work group "Youth and new political practices in Latin America" and is involved with the Latin American Program of Distance Learning in Social Sciences. He is the author of several articles published in collections, as well as national and international journals. His areas of research are the history of urban social organizations with a territorial base, the political participation and practices of youth, oral history, and recent Argentine history.
Dr. Wahren is a sociologist whose main area of teaching and research is theory and struggles of social movements. He holds a PhD in social sciences, a master's degree in social science research and a BA in sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His thesis was entitled "Social Movements and Struggles for Territory and Natural Resources in Latin American. The Union of Unemployed Workers of Gral. Mosconi (Argentina) and the Pueblo Guaraní Assembly (Bolivia): 1995–2010." Dr. Wahren is also a researcher at the rural studies and the Latin American social movements groups at Instituto Gino Germani and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a member of the work group entitled Rural Development: Territorial Struggles, Peasants, and Decolonialidad at Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), and directs investigations within the group of Social Movements and Popular Education. Additionally, he has authored several articles published in collections as well as national and international journals. His areas of research include social movements, natural resources struggles, alternative development, territorial struggles, Latin American movements, and popular education.
Dr. Triguboff is a researcher who has focused his work on the formation of neighborhood assemblies and the process of decentralization of the local government of the city of Buenos Aires. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from Universidad de Buenos Aires and a postdoctoral scholarship from CONICET at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires. His current research project is entitled "Communes in the city of Buenos Aires: An analysis of a complex relationship between state and civil society." He is a lecturer at the School of Political Science, Department of Anthropological Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires. His research areas include political anthropology, the state, collective action, social movements, and citizen participation.
Mr. Ruggeri is an anthropologist who has been involved with the recuperated factories movement and coordinates programs at Universidad de Buenos Aires that provide different resources to these social movements. He is the director of the Continuing Studies Program, Universidad Abierta, at Universidad de Buenos Aires, which is related to the Documentation Center of Recuperated Factories. Mr. Ruggeri coordinates the research team Recuperated Factories and Self-Management Processes and directs the training team for workers of the Argentina Federation of Energy Workers (FETERA-CTA). He also participates in a research program on scientific-technological transference to recuperated factories. He is the author of several articles on recuperated factories and self-management and the co-author of the book Recuperated Factories in Argentina.
Mr. Cussianovich holds an MA in economic history from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in history from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a history lecturer at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Universidad Palermo and has also been a history lecturer at Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is currently a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme. Mr. Cussianovich has worked and studied in France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. His teaching and research areas include Argentine and Latin American history, state theory, and public policy.
Ms. Barbuto has worked for ten years at the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), one of the most important Argentine human rights organizations. As part of CELS, she is a human rights researcher for the Program of Memory and the Fight Against Impunity of State Terrorism. Her research is focused on justice processes, reparation, and the memory politics of serious human rights violations. Ms. Barbuto is a member of the political and legal anthropology research team at the School of Anthropology, Universidad de Buenos Aires. This group includes researchers and professors focused on institutional violence, human rights, and democracy.
Ms. Capurro holds a law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She worked for many years at Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, one of Argentina's most prominent human rights organizations. She currently works for the human rights organization Memoria Abierta, coordinating a group of human rights researchers. Ms. Capurro is also a member of a research group at the Human Rights Center, Universidad Nacional de Lanús. Additionally, she is part of a project on the advancement of child rights, supported by UNICEF Argentina.
My homestay experience was incredible and one of the best parts of [my] semester abroad. I had a great family that engaged me in the culture, and this is where I could see my language skills grow.
Program alum
The Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights program includes both an urban and rural homestay, giving students the opportunity to experience two very different Argentine communities. Homestays provide students with exceptional access to the culture and daily life of their host families and offer further context for language and thematic coursework.
Students live with a family in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital and largest city, for six weeks. Buenos Aires offers an outstanding array of cultural assets and offerings, which many students enjoy together with their families. Most host families are middle-class and live in apartments or small houses in the city. All students live in the Capital Federal District.
During the excursion to Patagonia, students immerse themselves in rural indigenous life by staying two days with a Mapuche community in the beautiful Patagonian mountains where they participate in community life and daily activities. The rural homestay gives students the opportunity to experience another kind of lifestyle, completely opposite to the one in Buenos Aires, and to better understand the challenges faced by rural communities in Argentina.
Other accommodations during the program include small hotels and hostels.
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Wheaton College senior Kelly Maby has been intrigued with trash since she was a child growing up in New York, when she and her brother collected cans and bottles to support their low-income family. That childhood fascination with the value of discarded objects and an intellectual curiosity about the waste scavengers she encountered during her study abroad has earned her a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
Program Start Date: Aug 25, 2015
Program End Date: Dec 7, 2015
The dates listed above are subject to change. Please note that travel to and from the program site may span a period of more than one day.
Student applications to this program will be reviewed on a rolling basis between the opening date and the deadline.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2015
SIT Pell Grant Match Award. SIT Study Abroad provides matching grants to all students receiving Federal Pell Grant funding; this award can be applied to any SIT semester program. View all SIT Study Abroad scholarships.
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International airline pricing can vary greatly due to the volatility of airline industry pricing, flight availability, and specific flexibility/restrictions on the type of ticket purchased. Students may choose to take advantage of frequent flyer or other airline awards available to them, which could significantly lower their travel costs.
Visa Expenses: $160
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Books & Supplies: $50
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Personal expenses during the program vary based on individual spending habits and budgets. While all meals and accommodations are covered in the room and board fee, incidentals and personal transportation costs differ depending on the non-program-related interests and pursuits of each student. To learn more about personal budgeting, we recommend speaking with alumni who participated in a program in your region. See a full list of our alumni contacts. Please note that free time to pursue non-program-related activities is limited.
Please Note: Fees and additional expenses are based on all known circumstances at the time of calculation. Due to the unique nature of our programs and the economics of host countries, SIT reserves the right to change its fees or additional expenses without notice.


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With a career, boyfriend, and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Sentenced to fifteen months, she is sent to the federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut - one of the millions of people who disapper "down the rabbit hole" of the the American penal system. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at time enraging, Kerman's story offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison - why we lock so many away and what happens to them when they're there - Amazon
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In one of his last public appearances before his upcoming resignation, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing Feb. 17 from his private studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. / Franco Origlia, Getty Images
Massive crowds jammed St. Peter's Square on Sunday morning for one of the last public appearances of Pope Benedict XVI.
The 85-year-old pontiff blessed tens of thousands of pilgrims and Romans. They cheered as he asked for their prayers and thanked them for their "affection and spiritual closeness."
Sunday night he'll begin a Lenten retreat, leaving behind a world of speculation, rumors and conspiracy theories of why he has really resigned and who will replace him next month.
The Vatican's vague announcements feed the fire. The latest was spokesman Rev. Frederico Lombardi's comments Friday that they were examining whether they can legally speed up the election for Benedict's successor.
Current church law is clear that a conclave is to be held no earlier than 15 days after the papacy is vacated. So a change would require finding a loophole in the densely woven canon laws on conclaves - or getting a dispensation. Then it would be a frantic push to racewalk a new pontiff up the nave of St. Peter's for his installation so he'd be in place for Palm Sunday, March 24.
Bad idea, says political scientist and Vatican expert Rev. Thomas Reese. Among his reasons rushing "would be a mistake," Reese says:
â?¢ "Church law should not be changed on a whim. Only the pope can change the rules; once he resigns, no one can change the rules."
â?¢ "If the pope does change the rules before he resigns, which he can, the media will immediately be filled with conspiracy theories opining how this favors one candidate over another. The church does not need this."
â?¢ Since the cardinals are scattered around the world, a short time period to the election tilts the deck in favor of those who are based in Rome, in the curia, the massive medieval bureaucracy of the church, who are "operating on their home turf. They are the ones who know all of the other cardinals because they all visit Rome."
Already, one of the papabile (Italian for people considered potential successors), Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, has a showcase for speaking to his brethren. He will give the homily and set the itinerary for prayers during the weeklong retreat for the pope and the curia, and the Vatican-affiliated paper, L'Osservatore Romano, will publish his comments.
The paper also says, Ravasi "is expected to speak about Joseph Ratzinger's possible future role" as in the life of prayer that Benedict has said he will lead after he steps down from the throne of St. Peter.
When Pope John Paul II died in 2005, it was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then dean of the College of Cardinals and head of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who delivered key addresses during the funeral and the days leading to the conclave. When it was over, he was Pope Benedict XVI, vicar of Christ and bishop of Rome.
After 8 p.m. on Feb. 28, he will most likely be known as Joseph Ratzinger, bishop emeritus of Rome. After a respite at Castel Gondolfo, the pope's summer home, he will live as he has chosen, hidden away in a monastery in the Vatican gardens.
On Sunday at St. Peter's Square, a tourist from Wales, Amy Champion, told the Associated Press, "We wanted to wish him well. It takes a lot of guts to take the job and even more guts ... to quit."
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Comments: | Additional data and information available for this sample: description; sample photograph (online); grain size analysis (online); digitized core profile (online); USGS publication (online): Dreher, C.A., Flocks, J.G., Kulp, M.A. and Ferina, N.F., 2010, Archive of Sediment Data Collected around the Chandeleur Islands and Breton Island in 2007 and 1987 (Vibracore Surveys: 07SCC04, 07SCC05, and 87039): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 542. |


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When you are chatting with several people at once via IM (instant messenger).
"No, I haven't been able to look at that website you just told me about. I'm multichatting."
von Aaron Martell
12. Dezember 2007
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Simultaneously having an online IM chat with several people while also sitting within conversation distance of said people in real life, especially on Facebook.
Random guy: Hey, what are you guys all laughing about?
Chatting guy: We're all multichatting on Facebook.
(gets a message)
Chatting guy: LOL, he totally does!
Chatting guy: We're all multichatting on Facebook.
(gets a message)
Chatting guy: LOL, he totally does!
von The Green Pirate
18. März 2011
chatting online with multiple chattees at the same time
I was multichatting this morning with 12 people at the same time, a personal best, but hard to control.
von Jimmy Cinders
1. Oktober 2010
Talking with someone in more than 1 way at a time. Like AIM, facebook, texting one person all at the same time.
Me and Kim were multi chatting last night, I have no idea why we didnt just call each other...
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30. November 2008


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More than 90% of the world is right-handed. But if you're a lefty, don't feel alone in a right-handed world. Billions of people live on the globe. So there are hundreds of millions of lefties out there!
Today, everyone knows that being a lefty is perfectly OK and totally natural. Most left-handed people have healthy and normal brains, just like righties.
Scientists aren't sure why some people turn out to be left-handed. But they have noticed that being left-handed runs in families. So they're pretty sure your genes (DNA) influence whether or not you turn out a lefty.
Getting hurt can also make a person a lefty. Sometimes righties badly injure their right hand and can't use it anymore. Those kids and adults usually learn to use their left hand and become lefties. Lefties also can become right-handed if they hurt their left hand. So it works both ways.
No. It's not true that lefties are always artsy. Right-handers Rembrandt and Van Gogh are two good examples. But here's how that theory began. For both righties and lefties, the brain is divided right down the middle into two sides called hemispheres. One hemisphere is on the right side of your head, and the other is on the left.
The right hemisphere controls movements on the left half of the body, which includes the left hand. The left hemisphere controls movements on the right side.
Creative thought (writing a song, drawing a picture) happens mostly on the right side of the brain. So if you're left-handed, the theory goes that you're more likely to have a lot of creative thought going on.
But thought processes in your brain are way too complex to be limited to just one hemisphere. The two sides of your brain work together when you think. And just because you like using your left hand doesn't mean you only think with only one side of your brain.
Some products, like scissors, are made to fit snug in your hand. Since most people are right-handed, these products are designed to be used on someone's right hand. Lefties can learn how to use right-handed scissors and other tools. Many companies now produce left-handed products, including scissors, workshop tools, sports equipment, and even musical instruments.
School is one place a lefty might need some special stuff. For instance, many desks are designed for righties, leaving a lefty no place to rest his or her elbow. Be sure to tell a teacher if you need a different desk or left-handed scissors for that art project.
Handwriting can present problems since a left-handed person often will hook his or her hand around, thereby smearing the ink on the page or the chalk on the chalkboard. Here are some tips to make writing easier:
Avoid 3-ring notebooks and spiral-bound notebooks. The rings are in the wrong spot for a lefty, making it uncomfortable to write. Use loose-leaf paper or choose a notebook that's bound at the top instead of the left side.
Do your own testing to find the pen that's least likely to smear. Then, when your hand inevitably rubs across, you won't create such a mess. Better yet, use a pencil when you can.
It's true. While left-handers face some obstacles, they enjoy a real advantage on the playing field. In baseball or softball, a left-handed hitter starts out a few steps closer to first base than one who's right-handed. That gives lefties a better chance at making it to first before the throw. Batting lefty also forces the pitcher to throw the ball differently than he or she usually does since most hitters are right-handed.
In basketball and other sports, a left-handed player can more easily surprise an opponent, forcing a change in strategy. For instance, a left-handed basketball player will dribble with his or her left hand and come in for a basket from the left side. When you're dribbling a soccer ball, left-handed soccer players often outsmart their opponents because they're also left-footed!
With that kind of advantage, it's no surprise that some super athletes have been lefties. They include baseball great Ted Williams and tennis star Rafael Nadal. But lefties have more than physical ability. Scientist Albert Einstein, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and cartoon character Bart Simpson are all left-handed. In other words, if you're a lefty, you're in good company!
Reviewed by: Charles B. Brill, MD Date reviewed: September 2012