12. Plagiarism

Plagiarism is act of copying the other's work and it 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 original work. Plagiarism is using other's work , ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of information. So if you will copy the other's work you need to acknowledge them as your source don't copy the whole thing just use it as your guidelines.

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE CONSIDERED PLAGIARISM:

• turning in someone else's work as your own.
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a
  quoation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure
  of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it
  make up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.

ABOUT IMAGES, VIDEOS AND MUSIC:

In using an image, video or music in a work you have produced without receiving proper permission or acknowledging the cite is also a plagiarism.

How can Students avoid the plagiarism?

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use:

• another person's idea , opinion, theory and words.
• any facts, statistics , graphs, drawings-any pieces of information- that are not common knowledge.
• quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words.
• paraphase of another person's spoken and written words
• copying media (especially images) 

6 WAYS TO AVOID PLAGIARISM:

• Paraphrase- Make sure that you don't copy the whole thing from the text you found. Read it and put it into your own words. If you do use more than words , you will have to use quotation marks.
• Cite- Citing is one of the most effective ways in preventing plagiarism. Follow the document formatting guidelines (APA format, MLA format etc.) used by your educational institution or the institution that issued the research request. Not citing properly can cause plagiarism
• Quoting- This process takes time but your efforts will pay off. When quoting a source, use the quote exactly the way it appears. Quoting must be used properly to avoid plagiarism.
• Citing Quotes- Citing a quote is different from citing paraphrase material. This practice usually involves the addition of page number or a paragraph number in the case of web content etc.
• Citing your own material- If some material you are using for your research paper was used by you in your current class, a previous one or anywhere else you must cite yourself.
• Referencing- One the most important ways to prevent the plagiarism is including a reference page of works cited at the end of your research paper.This information must be very specific and includes the author(s), date of publication, title and source. Follow the directions of the age properly.

We can avoid the plagiarism by simply acknowledging that certain thing that you borrowed and providing your audience with the correct information necessary and easily to find that source is usually enough to prevent the plagiarism.

11. Media Literacy

Media Literacy is seen to consist of a series of communication competencies, including the ability to 

ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.

Media refers to all technologies or digital means and artistic visuals used to transmit messages.

Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize, analyze messages.

Media Literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produced messages. 

Media Literacy represents a necessary, inevitable and realistic response to the complex, ever-changing environment and communication that surround us.

Nowadays most of the people are lack of education means lack of awareness and that lack of awareness is often perpetuated by the media.

Media Literacy and Media Education are used synonymously in most English-Speaking nations.

Media Education is the process of teaching and learning about media. It's about developing the public's critical and creative abilities when it comes to media. Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry based model that encourages people to ask questions about what they hear,watch and read. In our new generation Media Education or Media Literacy is very important for us to know about this thing. 

Last Wednesday, November 28, 2015 in Auditorium, we attended a seminar about Media Literacy the Title was Mobilizing the Millenials as Socially Responsible Prosumers. The seminar was good because it gives us information about media, technology, social media and etc.

There are 3 speakers who is from GMA network
These three speakers are very young but they already working in one of the public affairs in the Philippines which is the State of the Nation of Jessica Soho.

This three lovely ladies taught us different things that we can apply or we can use in our daily lives. The first speaker taught us how to make a good report and what are the things you should know that you should do in doing a report so that you can make a good report. One of the most important thing that I've learned from her is the So what ? question in making a report. Only few people know about the so what question so that other people don't care to their  report. Everyone can make a new report but the question of everyone is SO WHAT ? why do we need care ? why do we need to pay attention to your report ? and How it is important this is the things that we also must considered to make a report so that we can make a great report to get the attention of everybody.

However, the second speaker taught us different things or information about social media. We all know that most of the people are now addicted to social media but some of us don't use the social media properly so that they get in trouble.
She taught us that in social media you can also get some information or news it's not only about the trending topics in showbiz like ALDUB but it also about the trending news in our country. Social media helps everyone to know what's going on in our country so she said that sometimes they used social media to tell their report or to tell some news that we need to pay attention.

10. Batanes

 

         BATANES is one of the most beautiful place in the Philippines. It is an island province in the region of Cagayan Valley, Philippines.It is the northernmost province in the Philippines and it is also the smallest province both in terms of population and land area. The capital of Batanes is Basco on Batan Island. This island province was created by series of volcanic activities and other geologic forces millions of years ago. It is composed of three major islands, namely: Batan which contains the capital town of Basco, Sabtang, and Itbayat. Thus Batanes has been identified as the country's potential gateway to East China. The island group is located about 162 kilometers north of Luzon and about 190 kilometers south of Taiwan, separated from the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan Province, Luzon, Balintang Channel and from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel.

     

The people of Batanes are called "Ivatan" and share pre-historic cultural and linguisti commonalities with the Babuyan on Babuyan Island and Tao people of Orchid Island. The southern Half of the Ivatan homeland, the islands of Batanes, was reinforced and fortified by Spanish refugees from Formosa before being formally joined in the 18th century wit the Spanish government in Manila.

The northern half of the Ivatan homeland, Formosa and Orchid Island which are formally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

   The main Languages spoken in Batanes are Ivatan , which is spoken on the islands of Batan and Sabtang. Itbayaten, which is spoken primarily on the island of Itbayat and Ilocano.

The Ivatan which is dominant in the province is considered to be one of the Austronesian Languages. From college level down to elementary level, the language is widely spoken.

The Interesting Facts you might not know about Batanes

 ( Source : FilipiKnow )

1. Islands 

A stunning view from the Alapad Hill 

(photo courtesy of Luisito Batongbangkal Jr.)

The Batanes is surrounded by different beautiful islands. It is actually group of 10 volcanic islands, three of which are inhabited, namely Batan (where the provincial capital of Basco is located), Itbayat and Sabtang. Batanes consist of 10 tiny islands and islets namely : Batan, Sabtang, Itbayat, Mavudis, Siayan, Diogo, North Island and Y'ami.

2. Aman Dangat

Aman Dangat's monument in front of Provincial Capitol in Basco, 

(Photo coutesy of Luisito Batongbakal Jr.)

Aman Dangat was a staunch Ivatan leader who continued to govern his people in in accordance to indigenous custom laws even after the Spanish rule was established in Batanes on June 26, 1783.

Also known as "Kenan", Aman Dangat was a datu of Malakdang in Sabtang Island who led a revolt against Spaniards in 1791.

Eventually Aman Dangat and his men were were outnumbered by the stronger Spanish forces. They were convicted and their valuables confiscated,

Aman Dangat was later executed by hanging in late September 1731. The people in Sabtang , on the other hand , were exiled in the districts of San Felix and San Vicente in Ivana for the next fifty years (1791-1841)

3.Pacita Abad

Pacita Abad born in Basco in 1946, She earned a BA degree in political science in University of the Philippines, but she was later forced to leave for America in 1970 due to her political activism against the Marcos dictatorship.

Pacita Abad is a world renowned painter and certified pride of Batanes

She studied law in San Francisco but she soon switched and started a prolific thirty-year career as a painter. Her works characterized by "vibrant color, constant change, experimentation and development". She was able to create over 5,000 artworks, travel to more than 50 countries, worked in 6 continents and even paint a 55 meter long bridge in Singapore before she died of cancer in 2004.

4. Provincial Songs & Symbols 

Ivatan Fishermen
(Photo Courtesy of Luisito Batongbangkal Jr.)

"Kalusan" is officially the provincial song of Batanes. By definition, "Kalusan" is a working song sung by Ivatans as they work in the fields, row, or cut timber.

This is the approved provincial symbols of Batanes:
Provincial Tree: Aryus
Provincial Flower: Rahakut (native white orchid)
Provincial Bird: Aradiwangan, Voyit (Ivatan dove)
Provincial Fish: Mayasang
Provincial Air Plant Humahum (fern)

9. Ophelia A. Dimalanta

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta was born June 16, 1932 in San Juan City. She was an editor, poet, author and teacher. She published several books of poetry, criticism, drama, and prose, and edited various literary anthologies.

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta is one of the country's most respected writers. She took up her bachelor's degree, Master's degree and Doctor of Philosophy at the Univeristy of Sto. Tomas (UST).

Ophelia Dimalanta was a full professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Sto. Tomas. She held in various administrative posts, including the position of Dean of the University of Sto. Tomas (UST) Faculty of Arts and Letters and she was also a Director of the Center of Creative Writing and Studies.

She was a honorary fellow of the Philippine Literary Arts Council while in 1999 she founded the UST Center for Creative Writing and she was founding member of the Manila Critics Circle.

Ophelia Dimalanta has been a panelist for several writing workshops at UST, UP, Siliman University in Dumaguete, and Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan. In addition, she served as a judge in prominent literary award-giving bodies such as the National Book Awards by the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Free Press Literary Awards and Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.

Ophelia Dimalanta has published various books in her lifetime: Seven books in poetry, one on drama, one on collected prose and one in criticisms. Her first collection of poems, Montage won Iowa State University Best Poetry Award (1969) and also it won first prize in the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1974).

Ophelia Dimalanta notable work was the Montage and her
notable award was the S.E.A Award. In addition she also wrote critical reviews in international journals and local periodicals and she taught at Colegio de San Juan de Letran and De Lasalle University. Another is the Ateneo de Manila Unversity honored Dimalanta with the 13th Paz Marquez-Benitez Memorial Lecture and Exhibit which organized by the Ateneo Library of Women's Writings (Aliww). However, Cirilo F. Bautista hailed her as "not ony our foremost woman poet but also one of the best poet's writings now, regardless of gender." Her poems show the evident influence of T.S Eliot and Wallace Stevens.

Ophelia Dimalanta also wrote books and critical reviews, she handled literature and creative writing classes in University of Sto. Tomas. In 2002, UST published Dimalanta's verse drama, "Lorenzo Ruiz, Escribano: A Play in Two Acts." with a Filipino translation by Florentino H. Hornedo and Michael M. Coroza. It was premiered on 22-24 of February 1994 at University of Sto. Tomas production directed by Isagani R. Cruz

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta believes that "The older you become and the more mature you art becomes, the more you realize that you have your own identity."

This is her notable work.

Montage
 by: Ophelia Dimalanta

Monday jolts and she bogs down, a ragbag
Splayed of at tangents, Windows
To the outside and fleck of faces
Spring the morning clear at her
To set her into her own dimensions.
Piece by piece she puts on eight o' clock;
Pillow and bed covers in a tumble pat
Her in place. The clearest cut glass
Of grapefruit juice teetering on a silver
Tray for breakfast-in-bed exigencies
(Both for effect and effectivity)
Is for a fact but fictive in the mind
Which holds the fleeing amount longer.
Stalls the stupor of the previous spree,
Images of her beautiful in blank spaces
Wandering truant like in private regions
Of the night, wisps of clouds jammed
In one wicked corner of sleep. She hoards
Them like a child at play, triumphantly
Pieces them into a single total perspective:
Splayed off tatters of Sunday, a dark
Undiscipline of clouds settled right
Into the teeth of every day people
And cluttering sounds of slap dish.

She exudes it now becomingly
As she glides and putters about
By turns, spreads it as a scent
Ambiguously enwombing her, her from
Dissolved in semi-tones, nameless jewel
Durably ensphered in mist, constantly reborn
Solid, whole in ever renewing shades.

8. SOM week

SOM week 

School of Business and Accountancy (SOAB) transforms to School of Management (SOM) but in my opinion SOAB is sounds good or better than SOM.Last week of October is the SOM week were all the Accountancy, Tourism, Business Management, Marketing and Advertising students are included in this SOM week because this celebration is for them to make them happy and to give them a break before the upcoming midterms.

The first day of SOM week was quite fun were the some students parade around the Magallanes Village and back to APC. Then School of Accountancy and Business (SOAB) was officially transform and introduced to the students as a School of Management (SOM) but for me SOAB is better than SOM , I don't know why they change the name. After that APC Dance Company and the champion of Cheer and Chants competition which is the Marketing and Advertising students give a production number. There are lot of activities like Men's basketball, TM-ystery, SOM Frosh night, and the Mr. and Ms. SOM 2015. In addition there are also a lot of seminars that held in Multipurpose Hall 1 of Asia Pacific College.

Among those activites, the event that I like most is the Mr. and Ms. SOM 2015 maybe because two of those candidates are my block mates. Our block was there and full force to support our block mates that represents our block and also the accountancy. I and my block mates do some gimmicks just to show our support to them. We want to show them we are here to support them, win or lose we are still proud of them. All we did was worth it because one of one of my block mates, Latrell Georelle G. Sombilon garnered three awards. Best in Casual Wear, People's Choice Award and he won 2nd Runner-up. Not bad for a first timer, the most important is they give their best. However, Steven Severo which is also one of the candidate and my block mate didn't won we are still proud of him because he give his best in that competition.

7. " Be Smart, Don't Start "

     

           Smoking refers to the inhalation and exhalation of furnes from burning tobacco in cigarettes and pipes.Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive.Some people start smoking for a different reasons. Some of them think that this is cool while others start smoking because of the influence of their family members and friends. Once you start smoking, it's hard to stop. The facts about smoking are that this is very dangerous and harmful for our health. There are many effects of smoking especially to our health.

One of the big problems in our society is smoking and this is also one of the big social issue of our world. Wherever you go, you can always see people who smoke and some of them are teenagers. Nowadays most of the smokers are teenagers; I think these teenagers are lack of discipline and guidance from their parents. Teenagers nowadays are go with the flow,they do what they want to do even though it's wrong, and they don't care what will be the result in the end so that in the end they

regret many things.

We know that once you start smoking, it's hard to stop it but to those smokers especially to the teenagers as soon as possible you need to stop smoking before there something will happen to your health.Smoking is not the way for us to be cool or to be popular to the others because there's other way to be cool. In addition, some people smoke because of depression or problems but that's not a valid reason because there's some good solution for this. Smoking don't make us happy but make our life miserable. 

Let's support the different anti-smoking campaign of our government, let's help our government to spread the anti-smoking campaign.

"Be Smart, Don't Start"

6. Parasyte

Parasyte is a science fiction manga series written by Hitoshi Iwaaki, This manga was published in North America by first Tokyopop and then this has been adapted into action film.This manga become Japanese Science fiction horror film (2014)  directed by Takashi Yamazaki.
It is all about were the parasyte enter into human brains via ear canal and taking control their bodies.One of the parasyte tries to crawl into 17 year old Shinichi Izumi ear but he fails because shinichi wearing headphones. Instead, it invades his right hand and Shinichi calls it Migi,which has an eye and a mouth and that moment shinichi feel so scared and shocked that there's someone or something lives inside his body  and talking to him. Shinichi Izumi has no choice but accepting the fact that one would die if another dies, so that they join force against other parasites.
Because shinichi has no choice so that Migi retain to the right hand of shinichi and shares the nutrients of the food that shinichi eats. Then Shinichi become strong he had a powers because of Migi the Parasite and as the duo encounter other parasites, they gradually form a strong bond and work together to survive. They killed bad parasites that eat humans but there's an incident were they killed one parasite and this parasite had to transfer to another body. Unfortunately that parasite saw the mom of Shinichi and this parasite transfer to the body of Shinichi's mom. It was the most heart-breaking moment for Shinichi because that time he and his mom have a misunderstanding. He regrets the chance to tell his mother how much he loved it. This movie thought us that cherish every moment with your family because you never know what might happen tomorrow and to have no regrets in the end. It's a great film for me because this film is not to entertain us but it gives us lesson that we can use in our daily life.

5. Turn Left , Turn Right

Turn Left Turn Right is a (2003) Hong kong-Singaporean romance film, filmed in Taipei,Taiwan. It was produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai.  Takeshi Kaneshiro and Gigi Leung are the Film stars in this movie. This movie is based on the illustrated book.

A Chance of Sunshine by the Taiwanese author Jimmy Liao, wo makes a cameo appearance with his wife and daughter in the movie.

A Chance of Sunshine is the original English title of the book, on the newer published editions the English shown as "Turn Left, Turn Right".

   The story tells of two people who live on buildings right next each other, separated only by a wall and they are always near each other but can't seem to find one another. The story is about two people who already met thirteen years ago, and this two people meet again by accident at the park fountain were the boy who is John Liu portrayed by (Takeshi Kaneshiro) helps Eve Choi portrayed by (Gigi Leung) to pick up Eve Choi papers that have fallen into the fountain. After that they talk to each other and they find out that they had met each other when they were younger at an amusement park. Then, the two laugh about the past and they exchange phone numbers without asking their names because of a upcoming rainstorm. Then that night both of them are happy and excited to call and to meet each other but the number that they wrote in the paper are unreadable due to the paper getting wet during the rainstorm but they didn't give up they still try to find out and random hoping to get through to one another. There so many things that happened to this two people and there's a moment that they give up that they think that they will not see each other again. John and Eve frustrated about not being able to see each other again and they decide to take jobs abroad but on the day they are to leave Taiwan, an earthquake strikes destroying the wall that separates their apartment and both finally see each other and that's destiny. "What is meant to be will always find it's way" and this story tells us that we must not rush things especially if it is about love, we must wait for the right time.

I believe in destiny because I believe that there's a right person for us, just don't rush things and wait for the right time and for the right person that is destined to you. I also believe that when two people are meant for each other, no time is too long, no distance is too far, and nobody can keep them apart. Lastly Destiny decides who you meet in life but it's only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in you life.

4. "Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo"

October 11, 2015 at Asia Pacific College, MPH1,1:00 pm. Our professor required us to watch a play entitled "Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo" performed by Teatrè Phileo.

       This play is written by Isagani R. Cruz.Teatrè Phileo performed the “Ang Tatay Mong Kalbo” at Multipurpose Hall of Asia Pacific College. This is written by Isagani Cruz. Before the play start, one of the writers of this play said that this is a nonsense play but she hope that we can get some lessons or information from this play. The play might be confusing but it was fun.

The first was kinda catchy it's just like you must pay attention to the play for you to understand. As the show goes on from serious it becomes funny and I enjoyed it. The stars in this play portrayed their characters well. Their performed well they make audience laugh.

3. Heneral Luna

Antonio Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta also known as "Heneral Artikulo Uno" or "The Fiery General" was born on 29th of October 1866, he is an Ilocano born in Manila. He was the youngest of seven children of Joaquin Luna de San Pedro, from Badoc, Ilocos Norte and Spanish Mestiza Laureana Novicio Ancheta , from Luna, La Union (formerly Namacpacan). He was the founder of the Philppine's First Military Academy, which existed during the First Philippine Republic. He was regarded as the most brilliant of the Filipino Military officer during the war.

I already have an idea about Heneral Luna because when I was in elementary and high school, my teacher told me some details about him like he was a Filipino General who fought in the Philippine-American War but when I watched the movie Heneral Luna, I learned so more facts and information about him and during that time I was impressed with his bravery and intelligence. I can say that he is a truly brilliant general.

Heneral Luna is directed by Jerold Tarog and starring John Arcilla who performed well as a Heneral Luna. I can say that he is a good actor and I was impressed with his performance in the movie. This Historical Movie is one of my favorite Historical Film because it gives us more facts and information about Heneral Luna and about his experiences during the Philippine-American War. It also showed how Heneral Luna fought for our country and what sacrifices he did for our country.This movie is not all about Heneral Luna but it also talks about what happen in that war. Another, it is also showed Luna's battles not only on the field but also against the Filipinos who betrayed him. In addition the sad thing to know is that the person who destroys you is your fellow Filipinos. Right now there are still people who really want to pull down their fellow Filipinos just to be a successful. This movie is a big help for us to understand and to realize that we must help each other, don't just only think of yourself but think about your fellow Filipinos.

Henereal Luna is a 2015 Filipino historical biopic film depicting General Antonio Luna's leadership of the Philppine Revolutionary Army during the Philppine American War. It opens with the beginning the hostilities with the American Colonizers, and ends with the assassination of  Luna on June 5,1899- a period in which Luna served as Supreme Chief of the Army under the First Phippine Republic. This is directed by Jerold Tarog and starring John Arcilla. The film has been selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at 88th Academy Awards.