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#DistractinglySexy Trends in Response to Nobel Scientist’s Sexist Remarks
Well, I really find him sexist. I thought he knew better.
Book Review – The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
I was recommended The Truth About Forever by a friend who absolutely loves it (she also let me borrow her copy) and I’m so glad I took the time to read it. It was the perfect antidote to the heavy literature I’ve been reading for university lately.
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen revolves around 16-year-old Macy Queen. Macy is ‘fine’. Everything about her life is just ‘fine’. Macy’s boyfriend is perfect and he expects her to be the same. However, when he goes off to ‘Brain Camp’ for the summer Macy’s life takes on a new meaning as she finally starts to realise that she isn’t ‘fine’ at all.
I really liked Macy’s character. She isn’t one-dimensional, like I expected her to be, and Dessen obviously worked hard to give Macy layers beneath her ‘just fine’ exterior. Macy has typical teenage issues, like her boyfriend and her appearance, and…
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Author Explains How Slavery Powered American Capitalism In “The Half Has Never Been Told”
When we talk about the United States becoming a global economic power, many discount the role slavery and free labor played in bolstering American capitalism.
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soyinka’s supporters for oxford
He is one of the poets that is mentioned for the chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). Many people who have studied now take the opportunity to canvas for votes in the election that is forthcoming. There are five candidates. All graduates and present students at Oxford can register to vote. The result will be announced on the 19th of this month.
How to be Awesome…
Yep. What books should I read now?
Beginnings.
Love it.
The crumbling walls
The broken shields
The new beginnings
The turning wheels.
The emerging hope
The shining rays
The guiding light
The sweet ways.
Toodles!
~A♥~
What It’s Like To Be In Love When You Have Depression
Yes.
That thing called Potpot
Filipinos were dubbed as “family-oriented, hospitable and always smiling even in times of problems.” Perhaps, it was the reason why Filipinos develop close family ties for ages. With this closeness and intimacy within the family, Filipinos have developed their own languages, that only family members could understand. Read More
The Trade of Journosynthesis
Most Filipinos, especially students, are accustomed to watch the primetime news broadcasts to be updated about current events. It is a necessity, mainly for being socially conscious about the occurring events, and to raise social awareness to issues concerning the citizens. We anticipate news stories everyday but still do not really know how the news that was served to us was made. Read More
Coup d’ oeil in Cellular Respiration
Mentioning adenosine triphospate (ADP), mitochondrion, glycolysis, pyruvate and what not, one cannot simply understand the relevance of these words if he does not have biological schemata, or simply put, context about these words.
When I typed the words ‘Cellular Respiration’ in the search engine, there are more than a million articles about this. I have always understood this term in a conceptual way (in such a way I just meant to pass the subject) and have never divulge myself into reading this. Until now, I do not understand how it really works because I cannot comprehend much of the terms due to my limited schemata Read More
Round and Round
Have you seen a “long-eared animal with a penchant for carrots?”
Have you guessed what that animal is?
Maybe you have guessed that it is a rabbit, and you are correct. It may seem quizzical and you will ask, “If all you want to ask is if I have seen a rabbit, why did you use all those words?” It is because there was circumlocution applied. Read More
Justice in ‘Pinocchio’
The Korean drama “Pinochhio” boldly questioned what a true reporter is and showed the behind-the-scenes of the world of the news industry. Read More
‘Impulsive’: The University of Santo Tomas (UST) professors commented on calls amidst President Aquino’s resignation.
Amidst the impeachment and resignation calls for President Aquino, University of Santo Tomas (UST) professors find youth involvement good, however “impulsively reacting” concerning the issue. Read More
Women Dominated PDI: Nikko Dizon Got Most Headlines
Women have dominated the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) front page stories with an average of 56.41% of the front page stories in five consecutives days, dated March 19-23. Read More
‘SPEAK UP’ Event left Artlets Disappointed
Artlets were dismayed on the “Speak Up: Face to face with the student Council and Administration.” last Feb. 10 held by the Faculty of Arts and Letters Student Council and Administration.
The primary issue raised in the forum was the loss of funds amounting more than P50,000 last October 23, 2014 where several ABSC officers and two students were being questioned. Read More
Artlets Dismayed on the ‘missing’ 50k Proceedings
The Faculty of Arts and Letters Administration still failed to file a scheduled date for the fact-finding session of the Student’s Welfare and Development Board (SWDB) regarding the “missing” P50,000 funds. Read More
Routinization on Objectivity
Gaye Tuchman (1972) elucidated journalists’ notion on objectivity in reporting news by acknowledging newsmen unable to attain “objectivity”. Read More
News values over time
News outlets have different protocols for choosing which stories to run, but some conventional values still determine an event’s newsworthiness. These are called Galtung and Ruge’s news values (1965), requisites a story must satisfy in order to be considered news which have been the foundation of journalists’ news judgment. Read More
Journalism Genres
Pop, rock, r&b, reggae, jazz, country –these are genres of music. Journalism, just like music, has its own genres –traditional, civic, interactive, participatory, and citizen journalism. Read More
On News Framing
Journalists should be decisive on fact inclusions and emphasis, sourcing and identification of the real issue (Gamson & Mordigliani, 1989) in writing a news story.
Chosen facts merge to create a frame that supports the news story structurally and determine what belongs inside it, thus articulates the focal point of the news story.
This is called news framing. Read More
CSI: Crime coverage versus Sensationalism In perspective
News stories about crime have been omnipresent throughout the media industry for the past centuries. It comes with the mediocre flow of facts and details, thus the foundations of the structure of a summary lead-straight news story encoded in an inverted pyramid format. Police beat also serves as the usual training ground for blossoming journalists in the industry. Read More
Crossroads: A father-daughter Reconciliation
“Baliktarin mo man ang mundo, siya pa rin ang magulang mo.”
This saying came in mind of Pamela Andrea S. Ramirez, a bonafide student of the University of Santo Tomas, when she reunited with her father last summer 2013. Read More
Utopian Journalism
Our ancestors devised a way of communicating through writing by inventing Baybayin, our ancient alphabet. Later on, when the Spaniards arrived in our country, they had introduced the printing press. The means of communication and news gathering had revolutionized, and we have our internet and social media today. Read More
Featuring the Peripheral Lives of our Paramount Officials
Let us face it. Whether people like it or not, politicians will always be featured in the news, coinciding, like the two faces of a coin –one will not be complete without the other. Read More
Hard news versus Soft news
Think of an ice cream. There are different flavors and types of ice cream like soft ice cream and ice cream on-stick. Compare the two ice creams.
One is softer, one is more solid; one has a definite form, one has a flexible form; one is easier to eat, on is longer to consume. Read More
Let’s take a look: News Values foundation by Galtung and Ruge
The “Structure of Foreign News” of Galtung and Ruge in 1965 has been the foundation of Journalism throughout the world for decades and the 12 news values–frequency, threshold, unambiguity, meaningfulness, consonance, unexpectedness, continuity, composition, reference to the elite nations, to the elite people, to persons, and to something negative –the core of every news story featured by media.
However, its validity and efficacy may now be in question –culturally determined ‘event’, its approach on its topic, the transition or paradigm shift, and the internet as medium of communication. Read More
Officials On-Air: Like or Unlike?
As public figures, politicians tend to be attending several occasions all over the country and around the world.
They are inherently popular because of their social standing, being the leaders running this country. They also appear in some commercials, heard on radio interviews and watched on TV coverage.
They are also often invited by TV shows on a talk, or interviews. Nevertheless, do we get significant input or important information about them? Read More
News reporting vs. News writing: An overview
On this day of age, people have the widest access to news in all sorts –early morning newspapers, morning and evening news, radio broadcasts, online news websites, even sometimes, in social media. However, people just know the news itself and not how it is processed. If one would go around and ask a simple Juan dela Cruz the difference between news reporting and news writing, probably, one would get a quizzical look. Read More
Events as News
On the busy streets of Metro Manila, people hardly had enough time to look for news. Instead, media gives them news –whether from the radios on their car stereos, from the television of their own homes, or from the headlines on the newspaper stand on their way to work.
However, a simple Juan de la Cruz does not know the difference between events and news. Question is, what makes the event ‘news’? Read More
Realizations
I never chose journalism as a course because I am good in speaking nor writing English. I chose this course because I wanted to be a diplomat. I thought that I must start from the bottom by being a journalist that is why I wanted to take up journalism. Besides, I love writing even if I am not good. After taking up three courses for journalism, I had learned many things, especially in the news writing course. Read More
The Other Side: A second look on Civic Journalism
Nowadays, civic journalism has been a mainstream phenomenon in journalism in the Philippines. Many citizens contribute quickly by uploading events witnessed through social media or through YouScoop (GMA News) and Bayan Mo I-patrol Mo (Abs-Cbn), direct to the biggest media corporations in the country. However, despite the advantages of Civic Journalism, one must take into consideration certain discrepancies people must look into. Read More
What makes news ‘news’?
People watch television shows and news programs, tune in to radio podcasts and coverage, even check out online news websites to know the latest happenings around them. However, one does not really know what is in those stories that made them news. So how is news, “news?” Read More
‘Nasaan ang Hustisya?’
Ang mga katagang ito ay kadalasang nang ginagawang hugot ng kabataan ng kasalukuyang panahon. Ito ay kadalasang ginagamit kapag may mga bagay na tingin nila ay hindi makatarungan.
Kunyari, umamin ka sa crush mo na crush mo siya.
Tapos fri-nend zone ka niya.
Sasabihin mo, “Asan ang hustisya?” Read More
Paano Kaya?
Marami-rami ang mga bagay na naiuugnay sa Diyos.
Nandyan ang krus, ang bibliya, mga santo, ang rosary, ang agua bendita, mga poon, panyo at kung anu-ano pang memorabilia. Tuwing Biyernes at Miyerkules, punung-puno ng mga deboto ang Quiapo at Baclaran. Nandyan din ang baha ng mga tao sa Pista ng Poong Nazareno. Papahuli ba namana ang pagbisita ng Santo Papa? Eh halos sampung milyong tao ang dumayo sa Luneta para lang makita siya.
Noong nagkaroon kami ng diskusyon tungkol sa Diyos noong mga nakaraang araw, naihain sa amin ng aming propesor ang parehong pananaw –ang naniniwala na meron at mga hindi naniniwala. Read More
Si Descartes at Platon sa Aking Pananaw
Kung tatanungin ako kung sinong pilosopo ang aking naibigan sa “Ang Aking Katawan” malamang ang iyong isasagot ay si Gabriel Marcel. Nagustuhan ko rin kung paano siya gumawa ng sistema sa pagtatanong ukol sa “Ang Aking Katawan.” Ngunit, hindi ko maitatangging lubos akong natalaban ng isinulat ni Rene Descartes ukol sa pagninilay-nilay at sa isinulat ni Platon na “Alegorya ng Kweba.”
Sa mundong ibabaw, ang kinamulatan natin ang nagsisilbing realidad sa ating paningin. Ang mundo ay bilog, ang ulap ay puti, ang kalangitan ay asul. Tinatanggap natin kaagad ang lahat ng mga bagay na nakikita natin, hindi ba? May pinapanood sa aming palabas ang propesor namin sa Biology ukol sa pagdevelop ng mata natin, at napagtanto kong ang mata natin ay maari pang mas maging malinaw at maaring magbago. Read More
Some Stress on ‘Stress’
“I eat stress for breakfast.”
This is a common answer of people who frequently experience stress, either pressure from work or from school, the normality of stress is still present. Even if people acknowledge the habitual occurrence of stress in their lives, many others are still not well aware of this condition and have misconceptions about it. Read More
Ang Pagkagapos sa Cellphone
Kahit saan, dapat dala-dala ko ang aking cellphone. Hindi ko makita ang aking sarili na wala ang aking cellphone. Bukod sa ginagamit ko ito bilang pantawag o pantext, higit na ginagamit ko ito bilang orasan, sa mga klase at pangiskedyul sa aking planner. Ginagamit ko rin ito bilang camera pangkuha ng litrato ko at ng ibang mga bagay. Minsan nga, ginagamit ko pa itong salamin upang tingnan kung maayos ba ang aking hitsura o hindi. Madalas pa ngang ginagamit ko ito bilang mobile computer dahil dito rin ako nagiinternet at Facebook.
Hindi ko maitatangging ako ay hiyang na hiyang sa paggamit ng aking cellphone at ayokong (hangga’t maari) mawalay dito. Sa ganitong kaganapan, napagtanto ko na ako ay adik na sa cellphone at napagtanto kong hindi dapat ganoon. Read More
Meiotic Analysis of Facts
People of today’s generation have fast-paced lives. Innovation of technology led people to devote their time moving toward innovation, discovery and things to make their lives easier. People demand information stronger than before, seeking all facts and news available. That is why media platforms use the easiest way to access the public in just a click away, using their online media platforms such as social media. Since information access has been a commodity, there arises the question of accountability of information from the internet. Read More
Cl-NO-ning: Questions of Human Cloning
I have never thought about having another me, with the same body, with the exact same face; like what happened in Aeonflux, Resident Evil and many more science fiction movies. What if it happens? What if scientists still pursue genetic engineering of humans?
I think genetic engineering of humans is not terrible but dangerous. Just like the invention of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robots, someday in the future, clones might endanger the welfare of the natural existent humans.
Cloning is a process of reproduction of genetic fragments, cells and organism. Since cloning is genetically modifying and copying someone’s genetic codes artificially, there is a high possibility that something will go wrong in the process, if not the product itself.
Most of the questions of the society towards human cloning are if they are ethical or not. I think the question must be, “Is it really necessary?”
We are discontented, which serves as our driving force toward innovation and development. We have invented things in order to make our lives easier, from the making of stone tools, to writing systems, to simple machines until complex machinery that we have today. It is good to have a direction in life, to strive for changes, to strive for development. But cloning, to the point that we, humans wanted to clone ourselves, is a point of insanity.
I do not see the point of reproducing another version of us. I could still accept the concept of stem cell treatment, and cloning of extinct organisms and cloning of some tissues of our body. But I cannot accept the concept of cloning a whole human, unless all of us are not capable of reproducing sexually anymore or all of us produce “malfunctioned” offsprings.
We must consider the following issues. If we produce human clones, we now objectify our own existence.
We think that we, humans, are special since time immemorial, and if we produce clone of ourselves would we not take away our existence being “special”?
If clones are already produced, what is the possibility that they will think they are equal footing to us? What is the possibility that they will not annihilate us, real humans? Would they develop the same consciousness like ours?
If we push this matter, I can bravely ask, “What is the purpose of sex, or of natural conception is we keep on altering it?”
I can still ask, what is the purpose of reality itself, if we keep on modifying it? What is the limit of science when it comes to humanitarian matters? If we keep on doing this, we shall not call ourselves humans anymore.
Rationality of man was developed almost 10,000 years ago. In a sense, humans are the main contributors of what we have today. We make the world, and now we are slowly breaking its natural order with our personal desire and discontentment.
We are not the highest form of animals, because we wanted to treat ourselves lower than them.
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