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As usual, this is super rushed.
A Movie Worth of Rebellion
I was never a Harry Potter Book reader or even a Harry Potter fan but I was indeed fascinated by how Filipinos and even the world public overwhelmingly responded to the series of books and movies written by J.K. Rowling and produced by Warner Brothers. I could say that I am just following the trend, but who cares? Pop culture is inevitable! Anyway, even though that I never read the first four books in the series, I made sure that I watch the first four. And even though I am not a Harry Potter scholar, I think I know the basic features and characteristics of the plot or the story of the series of books. This, somehow, makes me a credible critic of the fifth movie. This movie review will be for our subject, Humanities 2. For that reason, I will be reviewing the movie in terms of its aesthetic value, musical score, cinematography and special effects. Of course, the movie plot itself will be considered.
SocSci 2 Paper. Super weird.
Almost There
The talk that we attended last Wednesday was made possible by the Department of Social Sciences (DSS) and by The Political Science Society (POLIS). After hearing this information, I already told myself that this would be somehow interesting for me since I like politics. And at the same time, this would be boring too due to the inevitable invisible sleepy cloud that surrounds the audience for any kind of talk—not to mention, this would be about politics. The program started with an excerpt of a movie. I wasn’t able to get its title or get the theme or the story itself. Actually, there wasn’t any cue that the program is already starting. Anyway, I said to myself that the talk/open-forum would be the more important thing and, in one way or another, would be independent of the short clip presented.
This is one of the nicest papers I have made for Comm2.
Renato, Malèna and the Fascist Italy
I was at an excited stage when we talked about the movie Malèna after watching it. Our professor cited different tools that a good writer and director use. These are contradictions, parallelisms, redundancies, symbolisms and subtle ideas. Reviewing a movie is like analyzing a painting—not a what-you-see-is-what-you-get case. My first plan in making this review is to view what, why and how the writer made use of the tools but I am quite intrigued with a single one—parallelisms. I am having fun connecting ideas of different realms; it is like an unimaginable intersection of two lines from different planes. In connection with this, I am mystified why the director (Tornatore) and the writers (Tornatore and Vincenzo) placed the plot in Italy during the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. What I mean is there should be a sensible connection between the plot and the setting otherwise it is nothing but useless. And here I am, trying my best to understand Tornatore and Vincenzo.
This is one of my papers in Comm2. We were asked to write a paper about our greatest belief in life. The geek me, happened to wtite a political belief while some of my blockmates wrote about love, freedom and etc.
The Philippine Political Stardom
In the Philippine Politics, turncoatism seems to be a hobby and a play-time activity of most politicians. Many political scientists agree that turncoatism is a strong blood in the veins of Philippine electoral politics. Throughout the decades, it is quite impossible that there is no shifting of parties within the national electorates and even in the localities. It seems to be natural, as one voter may say. What are the candidates’ motives for changing political parties? According to Annie Ruth C. Sabangan, Senior Reporter of The Manila Times, other than for winning the election, there appears to be none. The angelic and even heavenly peace offerings of these turncoats to someone of another political party tend to be so much amusing for the Filipino audience. The citizens may agree so because they would think it is about time to “reunite” and to “have a peaceful politics”. Their motherhood statements feigning sincerity that they switched parties for “unity” and/or to “bring back the people’s trust in government”—are the common things they do and say to cloak their particularistic motives (Sabangan).
This is our first Comm2 class activity- a debate about homosexual marriage. This paper is rushed!
Homosexual Marriage: A Position Paper
We oppose to the motion that homosexual marriages should be allowed in the Philippines. In this position paper, we will be presenting arguments that will prove that homosexual marriage in the country is both immoral and illegal. We will begin by examining the motion. In the motion, two critical group of words can be found—homosexual marriages and the country Philippines. In other words, the affirmative side wanted to install such policy in our country. What we will be doing is to associate both parts in the arguments so that it would perfectly fit what we are fighting for.
PRE-University-Wide Orientation
Almost all Manila Science High School Students “bound” for UP-Manila met at the MaSci’s facade. Actually, I don’t have any “close friends” that are enrolled in UPm. Almost all of my fourth year friends are in UP Diliman, and only two of us in my senior year section are entering UPm. Sadly, the other one is Ian Jeff. Huhu. The first one I spoke to was Jayson, my first year HS classmate. After slight mingling and friendly talking with the people there, we already went to PhiL-am Life Auditorium (UP-Manila has no adequate venues for such university-wide orientation). There are many freshmen, but MaSci students are things-of-a-sight–We are everywhere! Not to mention, we are one who have the most number of “delegates” from a single school. And our cardinality is just a fraction of those in Diliman.
The Freshmen Block Coordinators (FBCs) are in their busiest mode. My block is already inside the auditorium, and I don’t know what to do. Luckily, Noreen, a classmate of mine in MaSci, is my blockmate and is still outside i.e., with me. After struggling to enter the auditorium, we have successfully entered.
Edsa n. Where n stands for any positive integer.
The anniversary of EDSA People Power 1 was more than the celebration itself (or maybe less), the celebration (if that was) was only bunches of political-stampedes, street-dwellers and the state-of-emergency declaration. After having the nation’s hiatus during the SEA games and Pacquiao-Morales bout, we are back again to our selfish thrones. Filipinos are like that. United if we have the cause and disunite in the other hand if we want to. I will not talk about the two sides here, I’ll talk about the nation as a whole. This kind of scenery is not new, we are only continuing the wicked story that we ourselves start. Leaders of this country make their best effort and so are the citizens. But now, where are the fruits of this labor? Here.. this situation.. is the product. There is something wrong. But we don’t know it. A says it’s B. B says it’s C. C says it’s A. Who’s who? In my own humble opinion, excluding the human-factor for it, the current political system makes the connection short-circuit. I am on the side of those who want the political system be changed. For the past decades, we are walking on the same path, obviously, if we continue to this kind of path, we’ll get the same kind of everything. Maybe, our leaders could have the initiative upgrade the earth we are walking. But they are considering the other side’s business and so is the other side. Luckily, our president had the eagle’s eyes to see up-above the nature of what we are walking. Our past presidents should have seen that but many politicians are covering it. This is the time. If this is not then when?
I lack substantiation here!
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