17 - Speech Choir and Ignite Competion

Last December 22, 2015 second day of English culminating activity for the School of Management students held in the Asia Pacific College Auditorium. This day the competitions are the Ignite speech and speech choir competition.

Speech choirs are performance groups that recite speeches in unison, often with elements of choreography and costuming to help bring the speech to life. It is also called choral speaking. The piece for this year’s speech choir competition is “At Christmas” by Edgar Albert Guest. The winner really did a good job. Congratulations to the winner.

Ignite speech is a series of events where speakers have five minutes to talk on a subject accompanied by 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, automatically advanced. The participants in this competition is really good. Their speeches are interesting and surely you will get some lessons. I really admire those contestants because they have enough confidence to talk in front of oh-so-many audience.

We enjoy this day because there is no classes but we have to perform because our block is one of the participants on the said competition. We did everything but we didn’t win the said completion but it’s okay maybe next time we will win. English term had just ended for SOM freshmen students, we will surely miss this term.

REFERENCE

http://www.slideshare.net/AnabelleSantillan/speech-choir

15 - Edge of Tomorrow

It’s been a long time since we started watching movie foe our EEP class. And the last movie that we watched is Edge of Tomorrow. And that is my favorite movie that we’ve watched in our class.

Edge of Tomorrow (also marketed with the tagline Live. Die. Repeat.) is a 2014 American science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Doug Liman directed the film based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film takes place in a future where Earth is invaded by an alien race. Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens. Though Cage is killed in combat, he finds himself in a time loop that sends him back to the day preceding the battle every time he dies. Cage teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to improve his fighting skills through the repeated days, seeking a way to defeat the extra-terrestrial invaders.

The movie is really good. It may not happen in real life but it’s so entertaining, that you can learned many things. I really admire Major William Cage because he didn’t lose hope immediately. It is so hard for him but he did everything just to kill the invaders, of course with the help of Rita Vrataski. Edge of tomorrow is really a good movie no wonder it got so many awards.

14 - The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall is a 2011 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, which in turn was based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.

To mark the extraordinary milestone of 25 years, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh planned a special 3-day production to take place at London's Royal Albert Hall in October 2011. Designer Matt Kinley initially planned to hold a concert-style production not unlike the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary concert at the O2 Arena, but Mackintosh made it clear the show would be fully staged, as both he and Lloyd Webber felt it would not work unless it was the whole show. As a result, the event was planned as a full show.

I enjoy watching The Phantom of the Opera. Actually I don’t like theatre acts but this one is just so amazing.  Their singing skills are so amazing and it came to the point that whenever they’re singing I felt goosebumps. Sierra Boggess really did a great job portraying Christine Daaé. She is so beautiful and when she sings you’ll feel like you’re in heaven because of her beautiful voice.

Almost all of the songs are so good, but my favorite are the “Think of Me”, “Angel of Music”, “Music of the Night”, and “The Phantom of the Opera.” And my favorite part is when Brightman sang "The Phantom of the Opera" with five Phantoms.

I like the story of The Phantom of the Opera. It shows how love should end with. To me I want Christine Daaé to be with the phantom. I think the phantom is so kind but desperation rules him. Desperate to have Christine. But all in all, it’s so amazing and the whole casts and crews really did great to produce this kind of theatre act.

13 - Speak Sense 2

Public speaking is the process or act of performing a presentation focused around an individual directly speaking to alive audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them.

We have a public speaking classes this term and that is Pubspe1 and Pubspe2. We are trained to become a good public speaker. We’ve learned about how to be a good speaker. We also learned on how to make a good content.

Last November 27, 2015 we watch the Inter-high school public speaking competition in Asia Pacific College Auditorium. We really enjoy watching this competition. We have a background about public speaking and by that we recognize some of the flaws of the students. I know they’re really nervous at that time. There are some students who did a great job but also there are some who lacks confidence. Being a public speaker you should know what is your purpose why you were speaking in front. Students really did their best. They would become a good speaker someday.

I know it’s not that easy to deliver a speech in front of many people. I know what they feel when they were in the stage. We have different fears but I bet one of your fears is stage freight. We should learn on how to face this fear and that is enjoy what you were doing.

12 - Plagiarism

Many students nowadays are fond of using internet to search for their assignments or projects. What they did is search for it then copy and paste then pass it.  And this result to some plagiarism. Many people are aware of plagiarism but some didn’t know what it is. Here is the definition of plagiarism and how can we avoid plagiarizing someone’s work.

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. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

Remember to site your sources. We can also use paraphrasing, but it’s better to understand first what is paraphrasing.  Paraphrasing means taking another person’s ideas and putting those ideas in your own words. Paraphrasing does NOT mean changing a word or two in someone else’s sentence, changing the sentence structure while maintaining the original words, or changing a few words to synonyms. If you are tempted to rearrange a sentence in any of these ways, you are writing too close to the original. That’s plagiarizing, not paraphrasing.

Now that you understand what plagiarism is, you’re ready to employ the following three simple steps to avoid plagiarizing in your written work.

• Step 1: Accentuate the positive. Change your attitude about using citations.
• Step 2: How can I keep track of all this information? Improve your note-taking skills.
• Step 3: So many details, so little time! Locate the appropriate style manual.

Remember don’t you ever plagiarize someone’s work cause it’s an act of fraud that can harm your reputation as a students or a professional worker. Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. -George A. Moore

REFERENCEShttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgeamo205190.html?src=t_plagiarismhttp://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/plagiarism/

11 - Media Literacy

A social networking site is a platform to build social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. For ages social media became popular. Everyone uses social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many more to interact with someone but some people use it in wrong ways.

Last November 25, we attend a seminar that was held in Asia Pacific College Auditorium about Media Literacy. The seminar taught us the right on how to use media. It also inform us about the effect of media in our daily lives. Many of us uses social media in our daily activities. We post what we want anytime and anywhere. I learned a lot about on how to use media in right ways because of the seminar. You should act on your age when you’re posting something in any social media sites. Social media is often at the bottom of many bullying. So if you’re only intention is to hurt someone through social media cut it out cause that is not good. Just do your stuff and don’t mind other things. So if you know your mistake face the music. In social media you can bare your soul, you’re free to do anything. There are a lot of busybody on medias so be aware of what you post. Many people uses social media to have a place in the sun, and I don’t know why they did this.

Pull yourself together when you post something on any social networking sites. You should put your best foot forward in using social media sites. Know your limits as a user. Before long a lot of people will be aware of the effect of social media if they will attend in this kind of seminar. This seminar taught us on how to use social media sites in right way. 

10 - N.V.M Gonzalez

N.V.M. Gonzalez was born Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez on September 8, 1915, on Romblon, Philippines.  He studied at the Kenyon School of English and at Stanford and Columbia universities.  He began working for English-language publications in Manila, serving as a writer for Graphic Weekly for many years and as editor of the Manila Evening News Magazine from 1946 to 1948. 

Although he never obtained a college degree, he taught widely, first at the University of Santo Tomas and Philippine Women's University, both in Manila; and for two decades at the University of the Philippines, Quezon City.  He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and in the United States at Cal State Hayward, the University of Washington, and UCLA.

He was the 1997 National Artist for Literature of the Republic of the Philippines.  Among his books are: A Grammar of Dreams, Bread of Salt and Other Stories, The Winds of April, Look Stranger, on This Island Now, Mindoro and Beyond, The Novel of Justice, A Season of Grace, and the Bamboo Dancers. 

He died November 28, 1999, in Manila, after suffering a stroke on November 25.  He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Narita, four children, and five grandchildren.

Novels

The Winds of April (1941)

A Season of Grace (1956)

The Bamboo Dancers (1988)

The Land and The Rain

The Happiest Boy in the World

Short fiction

"The Tomato Game".1993

A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997

The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993

Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989

Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964

Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963

Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classic, 1992

Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947

Essays

A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996

Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid, Essays on Filipino Life and Letters and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World), University of the Philippines Press, 1996

REFERENCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._V._M._Gonzalez

http://www.palhbooks.com/Gonzalez.html