11 - Media Literacy

Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms - from print to video to the internet. 

according to: http://www.medialit.org/media-literacy-definition-and-more

Last, November 25, 2015, people from the GMA Network and the people behind the SUBSELFIE.com and they tackled about how appropriate your words should be whenever you are going to post it specially, on your social media because we all know, that at one glance, that might be the start of your rise or prolly, it might be your downfall. 

Netizens are often aggressive and harsh on their choice of words whenever they do not like what you said, what you post and to the extent that your opinion must me align with what is their opinion. Well, of course, you have your rights to stand for what you believe. But hey, in reality? Netizens would often bash you, so, you must be careful on your choice of words.  

In the seminar that they had conducted, they told us what are the advantages and disadvantages in having a social media. And social media is not a threat or harm on you, it's just that it must be used in its utmost altruistic use. 

Perhaps, this might be a medium to start a propaganda, to start a campaign, to light up the mind of the dull, to inform, to entertain or to educate. In everything that you do, you must know what are your purpose and what could it be its effects to the people who could've seen your post. 

In everything that you post, think first before you click. 

9 - Middle Child Syndrome

Middle Child's Day is August 12 according to what I have read in the internet. I know I can't support this idea, but.. hey! At least, we, middle children have our national day to celebrate. 

To begin with, I have sited sources about this "Middle Child Syndrome" According to Elizabeth Danish on Middle Child Syndrome, Retrieved from: http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/15912/1/Middle-Child-Syndrome.html

     Whether you have a middle child, are a middle child, or know a middle child, everyone seems to understand that when it comes to placement in a family that's the worst place to be. People have so many reasons for believing this, some think that the middle child simple gets forgotten for no reason, other believe that the eldest is the leader and the youngest is the baby, but the middle child has no real place. Other still believe that parents love the eldest child because he was the first, and the youngest because he is the last, but that the middle child has no real place.  

     How much of this is true? Possibly none of it and possibly all of it, it could just be an idea that has continued to spread over time, and whenever a middle child happens to feel left out, they determine that it must be because of their birth placement. It could also be very real which would mean that something needs to be done to solve the problem. The question of whether this middle child syndrome is real or not is very debatable

I, as the middle child, for me, I never felt being neglected or forgotten. I believe I have a real place, and that is why there are rules in our home and it is because of me. Our eldest brother was the one who always makes the rules, I, as the middle child, I am the reason why there are rules and for our youngest sibling, he was the one who breaks the rules.

Life is unfair? Nah.. life is fair because it is unfair to everybody. I don't look at the negative side, I always look at the positive side. In fact, I have read some articles that states that, us, middle children tend to be more successful than our eldest or younger siblings. 

We, middle children, are a skillful negotiators and peacemakers, we more likely want to take risks and be creative, we are less likely to buckle under pressure, some say, that we are a proven entrepreneurs, we make great relationship partners, and of course we are as smart as our siblings, but sometimes, no, most of the times, we are better off their way. And for that, I am sure and it is proven and tested. 

  

10 - Plagiarism

PLAGIARISM is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. The idea remains problematic with unclear definitions and unclear rules. 

retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

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Plagiarism is really a big problem nowadays. For students, when asked to do such thing as assignment, project or research that needs the help of internet is that they don't bother anymore to read what they have sited. They tend to copy it all, without knowing what are its content. The major problem here is that they copy and pretend that it was their own words. Here goes the "plagiarism." If you are about to do such research, and this site is really helpful and has already spoken the thought that you have, chances are you're just going to copy it anyway, but, you might as well want to put your sources to prevent difficulties. 

Some prominent people have done this. Some copy other's speech without giving credits to whoever originally did that speech. We all know the saying...

"Give credit where credit is due."

In as much as you wouldn't want someone, or somebody using your own work and he/she had all these awards or honors because of claiming your ideas and thoughts, then don't do it. As what Confucius said...

"Don't do unto other what you don't want other to do unto you." 

8 - Life and Works of Alejandro R. Roces

Alejandro "Anding" Reyes Roces (13 July, 1924 - 23 May 2011)

Mr. Roces was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1961 to 1965, during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.

The Manila-born Roces was married to Irene Yorston Viola (granddaughter of Maximo Viola) with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Roces-Pedrosa. He attended elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), before moving to the University of Arizona and then Arizona State University for his tertiary education. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts and, not long after, attained his M.A. from Far Eastern University (FEU) back in the Philippines. He has since received honorary doctorates from Tokyo University, Baguio's St. Louis University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU). He was also a captain in the Marking's Guerilla during World War II and a columnist in Philippine dailies such as the Manila Chronicle and the Manila Times. He was also previously the President of the Manila Bulletin and of the CAP College Foundation.

In 2001, Anding was appointed as Chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). He also became a member of the Board of Trustees of Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and maintained a column in the Philippine Star called Roces and Thorns.

Roces became a writer by accident. While an undergraduate at Arizona he kept telling stories to his American roommate, who happened to be a writer, in the hope that the latter might use them as material for his stories, but the American told him one day to write them up himself. Roces did. His first attempt, We Filipinos Are Mild Drinkers, won a literary award from the University of Arizona. SInce then he has won five other awards from his alma mater. His stories have been published in several American magazines: The Arizona Quarterly, Southwest Review, New Mexico Quarterly and the Pacific Spectator, being the first Filipino writer to break into the pages of the last mentioned magazine.

So much about his life, I will now go on with his literary works.

We Filipinos Are Mild Drinkers won as Best Short Story during his freshman year in the University of Arizona. My Brother's Peculiar Chicken was listed as Martha Foley's Best American Stories among the most distinctive for years 1948 and 1951. Published books, Of Cocks and Kites (1959), Fiesta (1980), and Something To Crow (2005).




Through the years, Roces has won numerous awards, inluding the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, the Diwa ng Lahi Award, the Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, and the Rizal Pro Patia Award. He was finally bestowed the honor as National Artist of Literature on the 25th of June 2003.

When once asked for a piece of advice on becoming a famous literary figure, Roces said,

"You cannot be a great writer, first, you have to be a good person."

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