10. The Phantom of the Opera

This opera touched my heart. It made me realize that if you really love someone, you should let them go if they're already in love with someone else.

This story is revolving in three characters... they're Christine, The Angel of Music and Raoul.

The opera singer Christine Daae triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumors of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. Some time after the gala, the Paris Opera performs Faust, with the prima donna Carlotta playing the lead, against the Phantom's wishes. During the performance, Carlotta loses her voice and the grand chandelier plummets into the audience. Christine is kidnapped by the phantom and is taken to his home in the cellars of the Opera where he identifies himself as Erik. He plans to keep her there for a few days, hoping she will come to love him. But she causes Erik to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his sunken-eyed face. Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to keep her with him forever, but when Christine requests release after a week. On the roof of the opera house, Christine tells Raoul that Erik abducted her. Raoul promises to take Christine away to a place where Erik can never find her. Raoul tells Christine he shall act on his promise the next day, to which Christine agrees. She, however, has pity for Erik and will not go until she has sung a song for him one last time. Neither is aware that Erik has been listening to their conversation and that he has become extremely jealous.  When Erik is alone with Christine, he lifts his mask to kiss her on her forehead, and is given a kiss back. Erik reveals that he has never received a kiss (not even from his own mother) nor has been allowed to give one and is overcome with emotion. Erik allows them to escape, and Christine came back to kiss the Phantom.

9. Stealing Other's property is a CRIME

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium. Whenever you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation is plagiarism.

Although plagiarism in some contexts is considered theft or stealing, the concept does not exist in a legal sense. "Plagiarism" is not mentioned in any current statute, either criminal or civil. Some cases may be treated as unfair competition or a violation of the doctrine of moral rights. The increased availability of intellectual property due to a rise in technology has furthered the debate as to whether copyright offences are criminal. In short, people are asked to use the guideline, "...if you did not write it yourself, you must give credit." Plagiarism is not the same as copyright infringement. While both terms may apply to a particular act, they are different concepts, and false claims of authorship may constitute plagiarism regardless of whether the material is protected by copyright. Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of a copyright holder, when material whose use is restricted by copyright is used without consent. Plagiarism, in contrast, is concerned with the unearned increment to the plagiarizing author's reputation that is achieved through false claims of authorship. Thus, plagiarism is considered a moral offense against the plagiarist's audience (for example, a reader, listener, or teacher). Plagiarism is also considered a moral offense against anyone who has provided the plagiarist with a benefit in exchange for what is specifically supposed to be original content (for example, the plagiarist's publisher, employer, or teacher). In such cases, acts of plagiarism may sometimes also form part of a claim for breach of the plagiarist's contract, or, if done knowingly, for a civil wrong.

Stealing other's idea or work is considered plagiarism because basically, you only took it from the owner without their permission. In our generation, we, teenagers are using this so-called "Internet" to do our homework, projects and other research works. In line with this, we can't avoid to do the ninja moves called "Copy-Paste" and that’s the time where we copy some work of other person without their permission or we didn’t take credits to them.

Reference:

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

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8. Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín

Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín  was born on May 4, 1917 and his death was April 29, 2004. He was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila. Joaquín was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines for Literature.

He is considered one of the most important Filipino writers in English, and the third most important overall, after José Rizaland Claro M. Recto. Joaquín was born in Paco, Manila, one of ten children of Leocadio Joaquín, a colonel under General Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1896 Revolution, and Salome Márquez, a teacher of English and Spanish. As a boy, after being read poems and stories by his mother, Joaquín read widely in his father's library and at the National Library of the Philippines. By then, his father had become a successful lawyer after the revolution. From reading, Joaquín became interested in writing.

At age 17, Joaquín had his first piece published, in the literary section of the pre-World War II Tribune, where he worked as a proofreader. It was accepted by the writer and editor Serafín Lanot. After Joaquín won a nationwide essay competition to honor La Naval de Manila, sponsored by the Dominican Order, the University of Santo Tomas awarded him an honorary Associate in Arts (A.A.) and a scholarship to St. Albert's Convent, the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong.

 After returning to the Philippines, Joaquín joined the Philippines Free Press, starting as a proofreader. He soon attracted notice for his poems, stories and plays, as well as his journalism under the pen name Quijano de Manila. His journalism was both intellectual and provocative, an unknown genre in the Philippines at that time, and raised the country's level of reportage.

Nick Joaquin is interred at the  

Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Joaquín deeply admired José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, paying him tribute in such books as The Storyteller's New Medium - Rizal in Saga, The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal, and A Question of Heroes: Essays in Criticism on Ten Key Figures of Philippine History. He translated the hero's valedictory poem, in the original Spanish Mi Ultimo Adios, as "Land That I Love, Farewell!"

Joaquín represented the Philippines at the International PEN Congress in Tokyo in 1957, and was appointed as a member of the Motion Pictures commission under presidents Diosdado Macapagal and Ferdinand E. Marcos.

After being honored as National Artist, Joaquin used his position to work for intellectual freedom in society. He secured the release of imprisoned writer José F. Lacaba. At a ceremony on Mount Makiling attended by First Lady Imelda Marcos, Joaquín delivered an invocation to Mariang Makiling, the mountain's mythical maiden. Joaquín touched on the importance of freedom and the artist. After that, Joaquín was excluded by the Marcos regime as a speaker at important cultural events.

Joaquín died of cardiac arrest in the early morning of April 29, 2004, at his home in San Juan, Metro Manila. He was then editor of Philippine Graphic magazine, where he worked with Juan P. Dayang, the magazine's first publisher. Joaquín was also publisher of its sister publication, Mirror Weekly, a women’s magazine, and wrote the column “Small Beer” for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Isyu, an opinion tabloid.

His works are:

·         May Day Eve (1947)

·         Prose and Poems (1952)

·         The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961)

·         La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964)

·         A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966)

·         Tropical Gothic (1972)

·         A Question of Heroes (1977)

·         Joseph Estrada and Other Sketches (1977)

·         Nora Aunor & Other Profiles (1977)

·         Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes (1977)

·         Reportage on Lovers (1977)

·         Reportage on Crime (1977)

·         Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings (1977)

·         Gloria Diaz & Other Delineations (1977)

·         Doveglion & Other Cameos (1977)

·         Language of the Streets and Other Essays (1977)

·         Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1977)

·         Pop Stories for Groovy Kids (1979)

·         Reportage on the Marcoses (1979)

·         Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980)

·         The Ballad of the Five Battles (1981)

·         Reportage on Politics (1981)

·         Tropical Baroque (1982)

·         The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983)

·         Almanac for Manileños

·         Cave and Shadows (1983)

·         The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse (1986)

·         Collected Verse (1987)

·         Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming(1988)

·         Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young (1990),

·         The D.M. Guevara Story (1993),

·         Mr. F.E.U., the Culture Hero That Was Nicanor Reyes (1995).

·         Rizal in Saga (1996)

·         ABE: A Frank Sketch of E. Aguilar Cruz (2004)

His awards are:

·         José García Villa's Honor Roll (1940)

·         Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949)

·         Ten Most Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM), Awardee for Literature (1955)

·         Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards (1957–1958; 1965; 1976)

·         Harper Publishing Company (New York, U.S.A.) writing fellowship

·         Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960)

·         Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961)

·         Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the City of Manila (1964)

·         National Artist Award (1976).

·         S.E.A. Write Award (1980)

·         Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature (1996)

·         Tanglaw ng Lahi Award from the Ateneo de Manila University (1997)

·         Several ESSO Journalism awards, including the highly covetedJournalist of the Year Award.

·         Several National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle for The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay in History as Three Generations; The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse; Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming; The World of Damian Domingo: 19th Century Manila (co-authored with Luciano P.R. Santiago); and Jaime Ongpin: The Enigma: The Profile of a Filipino as Manager.

7. Benefit of Social Media

The internet and social media provide young people with a range of benefits, and opportunities to empower themselves in a variety of ways. Young people can maintain social connections and support networks that otherwise wouldn't be possible, and can access more information than ever before. The communities and social interactions young people form online can be invaluable for bolstering and developing young people's self-confidence and social skills. The use of social media and networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have become an integral part of Filipinos’ daily lives.

While many associate social media with a degradation of young people’s social networks and communication skills, a recent literature review published by the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre found that social networking services actually play a vital role for in young people’s lives - delivering educational outcomes; facilitating supportive relationships; identity formation; and, promoting a sense of belonging and self-esteem. Social networking services can provide an accessible and powerful toolkit for highlighting and acting on issues and causes that affect and interest young people. Social networking services can be used for organizing activities, events, or groups to showcase issues and opinions and make a wider audience aware of them. Social networking services can be used to hone debating and discussion skills in a local, national or international context. This helps users develop public ways of presenting themselves. 

Personal skills are very important in this context: to make, develop and keep friendships, and to be regarded as a trusted connection within a network. Social networking services can provide young people with opportunities to learn how to function successfully in a community, navigating a public social space and developing social norms and skills as participants in peer groups. Young people who use social networking services to showcase content - music, film, photography or writing - need to know what permissions they are giving the host service, so that they can make informed decisions about how and what they place on the site.

Users might also want to explore additional licensing options that may be available to them within services - for example Creative Commons licensing - to allow them to share their work with other people in a range of ways.

Managing an online presence and being able to interact effectively online is becoming an increasingly important skill in the workplace. Being able to quickly adapt to new technologies, services and environments is already regarded as a highly valuable skill by employers, and can facilitate both formal and informal learning. Most services are text based, which encourages literacy skills, including 

interpretation, evaluation and contextualization.

6. A week of Enjoyment

The Asia Pacific College School of Management held their SoM week last 26^th to 30^th of October at the School’s parking lot with the theme of ”ALDUB: Aligning Direction towards Unified Business”. This said event was made possible by the organizations under the SoM which are the Business Management Group (BMAG), Asia Pacific Junior Marketing Association (APJMA), Tourism Management Society (TMSOC), Junior People Management of the Philippines (JPMAP) and of course, with the help of Students Activities Office (SAO).

In this event, I joined the sport fest specifically the Women’s Basketball and Volleyball team. At first, I’m nervous because it’s my first time to join a sport fest as a college student. I’m also nervous because of the fact that our opponents are much older and stronger than us. Nonetheless, I still give my best to the games I’ve played. In this event, the basketball and volleyball event, I witnessed the cooperation built by the members of each team. I also witnessed some flagrant violations. I saw how the teams eager to win the Trophy. I remembered the day I play against the Business Management team, it was a rough game because the other team keeps on hurting us during the game but it was a nice game, I admit.

  After all the game events, the Business Management won as the overall champion, Accountancy as the 1^st placer, Tourism Management as the 2^nd placer and the Marketing and Advertising as the 3^rd placer.

Moving on to the SoM Pageant, the theme of said event was the “Constellations” where the candidates introduced as the stars. During the pageant night, I shouted for the Tourism candidates which are Ate Debbie and Kuya Lloyd. I also cheered for the Business Management candidates which are Ate Casey, Kuya Clark, and Marc (who is my new friend). The pageant finished with the two new Mr. and Ms. SoM 2015 and I, myself had to admit that they really deserve the title.

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ORGANIZERS THAT ORGANIZED THIS WONDERFUL EVENT. God bless you always!