"The Essence of Christmas" (A Day to Show LOVE)

          When we talk about Christmas, we always think about the happiness of everybody, but for me, aside from that happiness what Christmas could bring to us, it is also about  love. It is caring about another over ourselves, spending the time to do the little things to make holiday special not only for family but also for our special someone. Christmas is not only about the presents we buy or meals we eat, it is not only about standing in line ups at stores or handing over a gift we feel obliged to give, but the real thing is that it is about love and living the best ways we can.
          Everyone of us wants Christmas to be meaningful, because our savior Jesus Christ was born and He is the reason why we are celebrating Christmas every year. It is generally believed that he was born on that fateful day, December 25. This Christmas we share food, gifts or other things that can bring joy and happiness to others, especially to those we love. God loves us so much and He showed it by presenting to us His beloved son, and for that, we have a great responsibility to show also love to others especially this Christmas. If personal faith plays a major role in family's life, our observances of Jesus's birthday will reflect our own beliefs in life, but all too often, we see people drifting away from celebrating Christmas for some of them do not exactly and definitely know what Christmas really means. There is also frequently more interest in exchanging gifts than in sharing the good news and the true essence of this very special day, Christmas.
          Christmas is the liveliest time of the year, especially when we are having parties, give and exchange gifts and have a family or group reunion. It's also the most expensive season of each year because of the money we spend on different decorations that we decorate in our homes and buying gifts an foods and share them to others. We celebrate this season, Christmas to express our gratitude to God for fulfilling His promise that He made through. The love of mankind is God's reason for sending His only begotten son to us. So, to show that we really have respect to Him, we should also respect other people not only for our own good, but for the good of everyone, and we should love them like we do love ourselves because love is the best way to show our kindness to others.

"Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities"

          Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain different respect. There are also several and different forms of equality , depending on the persons' and social situations in some questions. Being one of the examples of these is that the equal opportunity which refers to the idea that all people should start out in life from the same platform, all should have equal opportunities in life, regardless of where they were born.
          For me, because there are so many crimes which are now happening not only in our country, but all over the world, everyone of us should have the equality, the equal right and the equal opportunity which will lead to us to better life, but some of the common law countries, many of those rights or equalities have been shaped through case laws. All of us should have the equal right and we should end discrimination for us to do what we want, to reach our goals and others, which we want to achieve in life that may bring happiness not only for our own good, but also for others. Equal opportunities are important especially to students to be aware that this equal opportunity means giving all the people,especially to children the best possible opportunities to achieve potential skills.Every individual is absolute, that his or her reality must be recognized unconditionally and necessarily lies at the basis of human rights.
          The equal right and the equal opportunity are concerned with social and political equality. One of the examples of the rights is that, knowing how to ensure the equal rights and equal opportunities for men and women that they shall aim in ensuring gender equality, banning sexual discrimination, applying positive actions, protecting the society from information which is aimed at sexual discrimination, ensuring the equal participation of men and women in making socially important decisions.
          And for the over all importance of these equal rights and equal opportunities, we should always fight for our right because we have the ability and responsibility to do that so, and for that always remember that the craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level, or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else.

"Responding to Climate Change"

          In the past decades, it has been called everything from the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind to the greatest challenge to face man. They have been conventions and conferences. Thousands of scientists have released studies, statements and reports documenting its harmful and possibly even apocalyptic consequences for all the world's biodiversity. This issue at hand is called the Climate Change, and it has literally and figuratively taken every corner of our world by storms.
          Climate Change is a problem that is affecting people and likewise the environment. Greater energy efficiency and new technologies may hold promise for reducing greenhouse gases and solving this global challenge. These greenhouse gases are gases in the atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. Climate change affects more than just a change in the weather, but it also refers to seasonal changes over a long period of time. Climate includes patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and seasons. These climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems and the human economies and cultures that depend on them. A change in climate can affect many related aspects of where and how people, plants and animals live, such as food production, availability and use of water, and health risks.
          Responding to Climate Change is no longer being observed by most scientist and people of all backgrounds are now taking steps to mitigate their own impacts on the environment. Because of this climate change, Earth is in an ongoing phase of global warming caused by an enhanced greenhouse effect due to the anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.Climate change, therefore happens because of our own faults, activities and attitudes, and for that, we should avoid doing things which are not good for the sake of our beloved Mother Earth.

"My Reflection" (For the Second Quarter)

          Technology and Livelihood Education or T.L.E. has been conceptualized by authors to equip us students with the basic knowledge and skills, positive values and different attitudes toward works. This provides us, high school students with practical experiences, technical knowledge and expertise in home economics, entrepreneurship and some other values aspects of technology.
          There are many things that I have learned, gained and discovered, but aside from those learnings and discoveries about this Technology and Livelihood Education during the second grading period, I have also faced and encountered such problems, challenges and difficulties about this, like taking quizzes which was not so hard but a little bit hard for me, because some of the times, I couldn't review or take a little bit flashback on my notes about we have learned. Though, I was slightly confused about the different lessons that we had, especially about the activities that we made, I am still happy because I was be able to finished all those activities given to us by our subject teacher.
          At the back of the challenges and difficulties that I have encountered, I still did much better to face those kinds of challenges during second grading period than in the previous first grading period. And for the over all during the second quarter, there was so much benefits and advantages that this subject have brought and have done to us, students, especially to me.
          And for that, in this coming third grading period, I will study much harder and strive better as I do my responsibilities to the best that I can and I would also be more serious on my studies so that I will not be regretting at the end, and to be surely, I will do my very best not only at the end of the school year but to continue, to be able to reach my dreams and ambitions in life.

"Promoting Digital Literacy Through English Proficiency"

          Digital literacy is the ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate and analyze information using digital technologies. It involves a working knowledge of current high technology and understanding if how it can be used. Digitally literate people can communicate and work more efficiently especially with those who posses the same knowledge and skill.
          We all know that in this generation, there are many gadgets, high technologies that are being invented by the inventors. These technologies are used to communicate to other people. Promoting digital literacy through a well advanced in art, occupation or branch of knowledge and skill is very important to humans. Everyone wants to promote any high technologies through this English proficiency. Through this English proficiency, many people do love inventing such a great things, because we have the skill and the knowledge to promote kinds of digital technologies. We have also the ability to make such devices so that we can use them in our daily lives. We can mostly identify new discovered things through this promoting and we will be able to influence other people especially young who are not yet familiarize with these such great things.
          Promoting digital literacy through English proficiency is very much important and very much appreciated because we can use it in different ways, like in using in the school for education, in our society and even in any works or jobs, because some of the government officials around the world have already emphasized the importance of this digital literacy for our economy.

"CHEMERGY: Chemistry and Science Club in Synergy"

          Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of test able explanations and predictions about the universe. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system. Less formally, the word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it.
          There are many branches of science and ones of those is the Chemistry. We all know that chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the composition, structure and properties of substances and of the changes they undergo. Chemistry and Science Club in Synergy or the CHEMERGY is the power of cooperation of chemistry and science in working together to produce a result not obtainable by chemistry alone or even science alone.
          Like in our true or real lives, we cannot live without any companions. Our lives may not be perfect if there's no one we can lean on whenever we have problems. Each of us needs one's help, so that we would be able to achieve our dreams. Chemistry and the science club are being joined together to be able to have a positive result. They have to cooperate with one another in order to produce a knowledgeable result. Through the help of Synergy, we can also express some of the problems that we are facing and encountering in our lives.
          CHEMERGY or the Chemistry and Science Club in Synergy is very important in our lives and very effective because it has many uses, and I am considering it is a big help for all the human beings because it is one way of reducing some of the problems that we are encountering, right now or even in the future.

"My Teacher, My Hero"

          "Education is the key to success". In this quotation, we are always thinking of what will be our future. It can always be seen inside a school campus, especially in elementary, because every student have their own ambitions in life. As our lives pass by, we are encountering, searching and observing such a duty and responsibility everyday, for what is happening around us.
          As we go through, sometimes, we can not be against our parent's decisions for what they want us to become in the future because they are the one who send us in going to school and our guardian when we are out of the campus. Aside from God whom I consider as my first and greatest hero, and my parents as second which inspire me to study well, we can not deny that our teachers can also be a hero because they lead us the way to a better human in their own opinions. Teachers are our second parents inside the school, and for that, they are also my heroes. Teachers are heroes. Yes, they are. It is because, even though they are not perfect and they don't have magical powers in order for us to be saved from any disasters, they are still heroes for what they are, for what they have and for what they know what is right for their students to guide and to lead them in the right way in the future. Our teachers are our heroes because they support us whatever we do. They are always there to make our bad doings be right , and even though sometimes we have bad attitudes because we are only humans and we are not perfect, they are also making their best to advise us to become a better person. Teachers are not only professionals according to their work or job,but they are also professionals for what they are because they know what is right from wrong. They are also one of our inspirations and they they are one of the reasons why we are discovering many things about the past, the present or even the future.
          In our real lives our true heroes don't have any magical powers, but what they have is that a magical precious hearts. Teachers are heroes because they always teach, for us to have knowledge and in order to have a bright and a successful future, someday and somehow.

"My Modern Day Hero"

          Hero? All we know about heroes are those who have powers, but that power is just a fantasy, because only God has that mighty power. As we all know, there are many heroes who have powers, but they are only seen in movies, like superman, batman, spider man and others. Those kind of heroes are heroes only in television movies, because they are not real, they only entertain people. If there are heroes in movies, in our real life, everyone of us can also have our true own hero. These heroes may be our family, special friend, teacher and others that are near to us, or even people that we don't know, especially if those people inspire us in doing something good.

          Like other people, I have also my own hero. Aside from God, which I consider as the greatest hero of all, I am also considering my parents as my hero, even though they don't have powers, because when the day that I was born, the first thing that I've seen was a bright and sunshine day. Even though I was still young and innocent child, I was very thankful that I was given life by my parents, especially to my mother because she did everything at her best and all her efforts in order for me to come out from her lap. From that day on, I knew that they care for me and they do love me. They are also proud of me because I came to their lives. They are my heroes because whatever mistake I made from the day I began to read, speak and write, until now, they are doing nothing but to make that mistake be right. My parents are my guide in doing good things. Aside from my special friend, they are also my inspiration in giving more efforts in my studies, so that I can be whatever I may be in the future, so that whatever ambition I have today, it will be granted with the help of my inspirations in life.

          As we all know, our family, especially our parents are our first priority because they give life to us, they give meaning to our lives. They are the one who support us whatever we do, because they care for us. They are doing all their best in order for us to study in a school, but when the day comes that they become old and they feel weak, we don't have to pay for the good that they have given to us by giving them back money, but to show to them that how much we also care for them. For that time, we should be also a hero for them, even though we don't have also any magical powers, to make them them strong in an instant, but to make them happy with our own simple dedication for them.

"State of the Nation Address (SONA) of P-Noy"

            SONA or the State of the Nation Address of a President is always been doing every year. It will always be delivered by the ruler of one country which is the President. In this State of the Nation Address, the President, itself, delivers his or her speech to make promises in front of his or her countrymen, in order to make country improved and developed by his or her works.
          State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Simeon Cojuanco Aquino III was held at four o'clock on the 25th day of July. His State of the Nation Address was full of speeches containing all of his works and promises for the sake of his people or his countrymen which is ruling right now. When he talked about his SONA, he did not need to look at what he want to say, or in other words, his speech was not scripted. As we all know, there are many problems that our country is facing or encountering, at this moment, but we can lessen those problems with the help of our President. There are many people who are facing poverty, and who are hungry. Because of this poverty, there are people dying, and some children becoming beggars on the streets. These examples of problems are part of the trials of our lives, especially for our President, as the ruler or the model of our country.
         The purpose why all Presidents deliver their State of the Nation Address , is that, so that we will not be regretting for voting them as our President, So that we know what will he or she be doing and so that if those promises of these presidents will be granted. The problems that our president facing or encountering right now, are the biggest trials that they may face as the highest position of their country. If they deserve as the president, as the ruler, model of a country, they should try their very best to make country be improved and developed by their own works. They should also make their duties and responsibilities for their beloved country, for the sake of their countrymen.

"Isulong ang Breastfeeding: Tama, Sapat at Eksklusibo"

           There is always be an advancement for breastfeeding. This advancement is to make babies healthy. Some of the mothers who have babies are having problems for the milk that they are giving to their babies, but some of them doesn't know how breastfeeding gives importance to those babies.
          Breastfeeding is one of the ways to make babies become healthy. For me, it is the best way in making babies be the healthiest as they can be. So, in order to make these babies more developed and always have security while growing, they need milk coming from their mother because breastfeeding is better than those milk put in a bottle. As they say, breastfeeding is the best nutritious food for children, especially for babies. While growing, according to the vitamins that these babies are taking, they always need milk and for that, this breastfeeding is surely the best. Breastfeeding is the right food or the right milk for new born babies. It is always be enough and sufficient for these babies, because they don't need to eat rice, they don't have yet still enough strength and they don't even have teeth, so they have no choice but to drink milk while growing up because it is always be needen.
          Breastfeeding is considered as the most important and most nutritious food for babies, because it is coming from mothers. It is the best in order  for these babies become healthy, so that they will not become weak. This milk makes them strong, gives them strength, so, breastfeeding is very much important and we should consider it as the best milk for new born babies.

"Give Us Peace and Love"

Ilocos Sur National High School
Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

                                                                                                                 

President Benigno Simeon Cojuanco Aquino III

His excellency, the  President of the Republic of the Philppines Malacañang Palace

Dear Mr. President,

        Your countrymen are needing peace for their lives, needing to love and also need to be loved. For this simple but meaningful letter that I wrote for you, our dear President, I hope that this will not disturb and make you bother, and I hope that you will always have a great, wonderful and a nice day for all the time. I know that what I will be telling or asking, is just a trial or a problem that you may encounter as our President inside this country that you are holding or ruling right now.

        As we all know, our country now is suffering from poverty, crimes and others. Because of these problems that we are encountering in everyday of our lives, there are people which are dying and dying because they want to get a peaceful lives for the sake of every Filipino especially one's families. Some of the children are not studying because they can not afford for their fees and other obligations that they will pay, once they entered in any kind of school. Aside from those children, there are also adults which haven't finished their studies and they want to learn and study for their future , but they have no enough money. There are still crimes that are happening inside our country, it is sometimes, because of poverty.

        Mr. President, based from those examples which people have having right now, I am hoping that you will help us, especially these children, so that they can learn and they can study for their own future. We are always needing your help, so, we are hoping and hoping until our country reaches not totally to the highest level, but whatever you can do for us, to improve and have development, for our lives.

Very respectfully yours,
Janine Grace  Adora