Grace

  Earth is supposed to be the safest place to live with for us humans but not anymore now. Pollution, floods, erosion, global warming, climate change and many to mention are just some of the biggest problems our world is facing today. We are aware of these issues but people couldn’t stop doing the things that causes the issues. Every day we produce tons of Garbage waste and throw it anywhere recklessly. Doing illegal things like deforestation suffocates nature. Saving our earth and its environment becomes highly important as it provides us food and water to sustain life. Our well-being solely depends on this planet it gives food and water to all living things to it is our responsibility to take care of it. We have the responsibility to take care of it and not the opposite because we are the stewards of God’s creation. There’s no excuse for doing illegal things that could make the ecosystem suffer. Instead of doing that, why not do things that’ll restore the ecosystem? There are m...

  Philippines Independence Day is one of the most important events celebrated in the country because, after more than 300 years of being under the Spanish rule, the Philippines has been freed. It’s one of the most significant dates in the Philippines ’ history. Independence Day Philippines is commemorated every June 12. After hundreds of years under the Spanish rule, Emilio Aguinaldo has waved the Philippine flag for the very first time and declared independence in Kawit, Cavite. Independence Day is a day when people, including government officials, employees, and students, participate in nationwide parades.  However, the main highlight is the police and military parade in Manila headed by the country’s incumbent president, followed by a speech and a 21-gun salute. The Philippine’s Independence Day is a national holiday so government offices are closed.  There are no classes in all schools.  Many business establishments are closed except shopping centers. Public tran...

                 Mother’s Day is a day to show and honor your mom, grandmother, wife, and any mother figure. It is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. It is their special day that we show our love, gratefulness, and appreciation towards them. It is celebrated in many ways, the usual is to buy and give them flowers and cake. A little celebration and greeting them “Happy Mother’s Day” will do and means a lot to them.                Mothers taught us a lot of things, they sacrifice and love us unconditionally. There will be nothing that will top a mother’s love. A mother's love bears strength, comfort, healing, and warmth. They do everything they can to protect and give their children a better life. Mother knows best, they say, they may scold us, and there’s something that we couldn’t understand but, for sure they know better and everything ...

    In society, women tended to be known as weaker than men. Men are labeled as the stronger ones, they be looking up to for they were known for being hardworking, which is assigned on doing the harder works, and believed that women can’t. Women then were so limited in their actions, they depend on men, they are conservative, so-called Maria Clara. In this vision of society, discrimination against women is created. We are all influenced by gender, gender norms tell us what is appropriate for boys and girls, women and men to do in society. Because of this, girls and women are often less valued and have lower social status. Women suffer the most of the negative impact of the gender norms and roles, they are more likely to experience restrictions of their freedom and mobility, have fewer opportunities to choose how to live their lives. As time goes by, the stereotype of women was slowly breaking. Living in 20th century, where women as a leader, women as the ones who are wor...

  The Viva Vigan Festival of Arts is celebrated during the first week of the month of May. Binatbatan Festival traces its roots from the abel weaving industry of Vigan which has been in existence even before the Spaniards came to colonize the Philippines. It comes from the word “batbat”, a pair of bamboo stick used to separate cotton pods that come from a tall tree called kapas sanglay. The word "kapas" from kapas sanglay means "cotton" in Ilocano.                 Binatbatan dancing is connected to Vigan’s abel Iloco craft. The dance depicts how cotton pods are beaten with bamboo sticks to release the cotton fluff called batbat from its seed. This festival was started in 2002 to showcase this traditional weaving craft that is said to predate the arrival of the Spaniards. Wearing clothes made from abel Iloko, a woven fabric endemic in the Ilocos Region, Binatbatan Festival is not merely just a festival. It ...

  Here I write again my reflection for the third quarter, It was fast and the next month we will be welcoming the 4th quarter already. This quarter’s lesson made me appreciate my community more for this quarter's tackles and asked us to make community-based research. At first, I don’t know why the need for us to do a list and more list regarding our community, I don’t know what to put to fill the blanks but later on, I made some research and knew more about my community.                Later on, I found out that we will be needing what we made for the 4th quarter for web design. All makes sense now, but no matter the reason we did that, I’m fine and thankful for it for I knew more and appreciate more my community. I rarely go out in our house and this lesson really makes me appreciate my community. As I was doing some research, I was surprised by some things that I don’t know that my community has.   Posti...