NEW YEAR, NEW HOPE...

        New Year’s Day, first day of the year, January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. In the Middle Ages most European countries used the Julian calendar and observed New Year's Day on March 25, called Annunciation Day and celebrated as the occasion on which it was revealed to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God. With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, Roman Catholic countries began to celebrate New Year's Day on January 1. Scotland accepted the Gregorian calendar in 1600; Germany, Denmark, and Sweden about 1700; and England in 1752. Traditionally the day has been observed as a religious feast, but in modern times the arrival of the New Year has also become an occasion for spirited celebration and the making of personal resolutions. The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets, and is prescribed by the Old Testament as a holy Sabbath. It is celebrated (generally in September) on the first and second days of Tishri. The Chinese celebrate New Year’s Day sometime between January 21 and February 19 of the Gregorian calendar. It is their most important holiday.

        New Year, new hope. Who did not know the “doomsday” controversy on January 21 last year? That really moved the whole world in making the people believe that it is true, all the tragedies that happened last year. Let us leave those bad past and foresee a beautiful future for the better. We must have new hope instead of expecting bad lucks. Remember, all NEW!!! 

christmas...

        Christmas, annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Most members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism celebrate Christmas on December 25, and many celebrate on the evening of December 24 as well. Members of most Orthodox Churches around the world also celebrate the holiday on December 25. Some Orthodox Christians in Russia, Ukraine, the Holy Land (the historic region of Palestine), and elsewhere celebrate Christmas on January 7 because they follow the Julian calendar. Members of the Armenian Church observe Christmas on January 6, following the unique custom of celebrating both the birth and baptism of Christ on the same day.

        Spanish priests introduced Roman Catholicism to the Philippines in the 16th century, and today most Filipinos observe Catholic holidays, including Christmas. The Christmas season starts December 16 with a Mass called the Misa de Gallo. Each Christmas Eve, Filipinos hold the Panunuluyan pageant, in which a couple reenacts Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter. Filipinos do not decorate the inside of their homes, but they carefully cover the outside with flags, colorful flowers, and star-shaped paper lanterns called parols. 

EQUAL RIGHTS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: be REAL!

        “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” -Honoré de Balzac. This quote caught me when I was searching some facts about equal rights and equal opportunity. 

           Equal-Opportunity Policy, plan of action that spells out what constitutes unfair discrimination in order to guide employment practices. Such a policy ensures that the organization is working within the legislation on equal pay and sex and race discrimination.- these facts are some, but what really is the meaning of the word equal in our real world?

        In 1916 Alice Paul, a leader in the suffragist movement (see Woman Suffrage), founded the National Woman's Party (NWP), a political party dedicated to establishing equal rights for women. Paul viewed equality under the law as the foundation essential to full equality for women. Along with her colleagues, Paul began to work on constitutional amendments recognizing equal rights for women at both state and federal levels. In 1921 various groups, which two years before had been close allies of the NWP, fiercely opposed the NWP's proposed language banning “political, civil or legal disabilities or inequalities on account of sex, or on account of marriage unless applying alike to both sexes.” Labor organizers and others fighting for women's economic welfare believed this push for legal equality threatened legislation that had been passed to protect exploited women working in factories. While Paul was not opposed to improving oppressive conditions in industry, she and other like-minded women argued that the laws designed to protect women could be used to restrict their employment opportunities.

        Equal rights for me are supposed to be a NO DISCRIMINATION policy. A real one. No injustice acts. No unsolved crime because of the social standing of the suspects. You know a real one. 

CHANGE the WORLD...

Change, is the only thing which is permanent in this world. And it is widely affecting the climate of the world.

Climate change is already having dramatic effects on forests, natural resources and people's livelihoods. During the past century, the Earth has warmed by approximately 0.7°C. Unless we take measures to address climate change, temperatures could rise even more rapidly, by between 1.4°C and 5.8°C, during the next 100 years. Poor people in developing countries are particularly exposed to the effects of climate change, not least because they often live and work in the very areas where natural disasters most often occur: flood plains, mountainsides and deltas.

Global warming and the resulting higher temperatures will likely account for extreme rainfall in the tropics. According to a latest MIT study every 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature in the tropics will result in 10 percent heavier rainfall extremes. This rainfall increase could have major impact on flooding in many populous regions in the tropics.

 These phenomena really panic people and making us really believe the "2012" movie which is about the end of the world. for me, it's just a prediction and no one really know what's gonna happen for the future. It's not too late,lets just have faith in God and change ourselves as we also CHANGE the WORLD.

Strictly. Surely.

 

This second grading, we learned things about parts of a web browser and page address, also the basic and complicated HTML TAGS. Some parts of a web browser are address bar, toolbar, webpage and page address. Page address has also its parts namely protocol, domain name, directory path, and object name.  While the HTML TAGS were these: <br>, <hr>, <i>-</i>, <p>-</p>, <html>, <head>...we knew all of these because of the help of our practice teacher, Ms. Melany Queyquep. She has been very patient on teaching us because we get silly and noisy sometimes.

 We had some problems about our internet connection because it was very slow and we can’t work on our blog that fast. The result, we can’t do our blogs on time especially me because we don’t have internet connection. Problems also in time were considered. We sometimes lack on time because of some activities we’re attending. By these, we didn’t do some of our activities in time.

At lunch time, some of us go to E-LIBRARY or on some computer shops only to finish our assignments. Also we asked permission to have our missed activities be finished.

Moving on, I will assure to strictly budget my time wisely because time really is important. I won’t waste it anymore with nonsense things. Also, I will past all my projects and assignments and blogs in time whatever happens.  I will be better...

Upholding English Proficiency for Communicative Competence

English has been a part of our everyday school life. It has been our implement in having some outputs, assignments and projects which we do especially on school. English is our universal language and it is literally spoken in more parts of the world than any other language and by more people than any other language.

Communicating is the process of sharing ideas, information, and messages with others in a particular time and place. Communication includes writing and talking which we intend to misunderstand one another if we didn’t know what and how a word really means. Through English proficiency, we can make our communicative skills better. We can communicate to anyone who understands English through it. International languages include both existing languages that have become international means of communication and languages artificially constructed to serve this purpose. Today, English is used in more countries as an official language or as the main means of international communication than any other language. And this is why schools promote English to be the communicative language.

                I can still remember our own piece when we joined a jazz chant contest in our school. Fortunately, we won first place. These are some of the lines:

English, English proficiency

English, English proficiency

Proper communication can be done through...

Done through what??

English, English proficiency…

CONSERVE TO PRESERVE

Science and technology has been our partner in living every day. Science, as we all know is a systematic study of anything that can be examined, tested, and verified while technology means general term for the processes by which human beings fashion tools and machines to increase their control and understanding of the material environment. When these two coalesce, it means being modern and capable in doing something that we can’t do with our bare hands. And using these said technologies produces energies which we tend to obliterate.

                Nowadays, energies are leaned to be conserved because of climate change. Energy is used for transportation, heating, cooling, cooking, lighting, and industrial production. The world energy supply depends on many different resources including traditional fuels such as firewood and animal waste, which are significant energy sources in many developing countries. But some Energies are non renewable and we have to conserve them.  Or else when we’ll only be realizing all of these, it’s too late. 

Gasoline Shortage-During the energy crisis of the 1970s, people frequently had to wait in long lines to purchase gasoline. The gasoline shortage was caused largely by an embargo imposed by oil-producing countries.