__(37)__. As predicted by the doctor, I experienced exasperating language delays and problems in decoding speech sounds during the first year of my life. Unlike other babies, language did not come naturally to me； my language learning experience involved serious effort. I nonetheless attained native-like proficiency in my first language, Mandarin, became a highly proficient speaker of my second language, English, and am currently a speech pathologist. __(38).__ Some might say that this incredible feat was made possible thanks to the brain’s ability to reorganize and restructure itself. The fortune of encountering several inspiring mentors, however, is the main reason in how I overcame the biological and mental barriers in my own personal growth over the years. These inspiring mentors have taught me a number of teaching philosophies, which are quite instrumental in shaping my own teaching. Among these important philosophies, I have come to realize that instruction needs to be continuously developed, nurtured and evaluated by teachers and students, experts and novices, and by peers. __(39).__ In spite of this comprehension issue, I was fortunate enough to come across several teachers whose patience, creativity, and, most importantly, adaptation of their teaching structures allowed me to access each concept in a supporting environment. __(40).__ Instead, I saw alternatives that enabled me to accomplish the particular goal of learning. Thus, in my own personal growth as a teacher over the years, I have worked very hard to understand my students’ individual learning styles, accommodate their instructional/learning needs, deliver my courses at their levels, and teach by illustration and analogy.

       The idea of post-posthumanism (post-cyborgism) has recently been introduced. This body of work outlines the after-effects of long-term adaptation to cyborg technologies and their subsequent removal. For instance, what happens after years of constantly wearing computer-mediating eyeglass technologies and subsequently removing them； what happens after decades of long-term adaptation to virtual worlds followed by a return to “reality.”                Posthuman political and natural rights have been framed on a spectrum with animal rights and human rights. Posthumanism broadens the scope of what it means to be a valued life form and to be treated as such (in contrast to certain life forms being seen as less-than and being taken advantage of or killed off)； it “calls for a more inclusive definition of life, and a greater moral-ethical response, and responsibility, to non-human life forms in the age of species blurring and species mixing….[I]t interrogates the hierarchic ordering — and subsequently exploitation and even eradication — of life forms.”