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TNCT: REFLECTION PAPER

Narag, Kristine Jamella Maris B. 12 HUMSS 13 TNCT Reflection Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century is the course that provides opportunities for students to discover patterns and extract meanings from emerging trends. According to Department of Education, TNCT is aids in developing learners to have critical and creative thinking skills which is a essential tools for decision making and understanding ethics of care. Having this kind of course on our second semester with our beloved teacher Mr. Roel Robles was not easy because of the contradicting schedules. Being pioneer on this kind of course was quite challenging, to be honest I groped on every terms used and activities that we made but now I can say I succeed. I learned so much in this course that   became an eyeopener for me on global issues and trend we are facing today and faced before. From all the content of this course, there’s two of it that I was pleasured to learn more about. Fi...
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Pan’s Labyrinth: Movie Review

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Pan's Labyrinth Plot Summary It starts like any good fairy tale with a story about a girl. And not just any girl: the princess of the Underground Realm.  We realize that this might sound like kind of scary, ominous, up-to-no-good girl, but she's really just young and curious. So curious, in fact, that she escapes to the mortal world where she's blinded by the sun, forgets who she is, and lives a life of pain and fear before dying. We're first introduced to eleven-year-old Ofelia and her mother Carmen as they travel to Captain Vidal's estate. Carmen is pregnant and Ofelia's mind is lost in the realm of fairies. She even thinks a bug is a fairy and not like a beautiful, gossamer-looking butterfly. She thinks a nasty stick insect is from the land of pixies. When they arrive we meet Captain Vidal, who's Carmen's hubby and his men. They're busy fighting the rebels living in the surrounding woods. Ofelia, led by the creepy stick insect, does ...
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Pistang Tomasino 2018

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Every month there’s a bazaar being held around University of Santo Tomas. As it  is always held there, students often see things that were trend like clothes, accessories and some were westernise foods. On February 12 to 15, 2018 Pistang Tomasino was celebrated where administrators took a new and unfamiliar kind of bazaar at Quadricentennial Square on which they allowed the indigenous people from Bataan to sell foods, accessories and home crafts from their own made and crops. University of Santo Tomas aims to help these people to have profits with their own, the university also aims to restore the humanity that been took away from them. Let me share you some of the things their products  which showed or represent their culture. The first thing I got interested with were these archery. According to Junior Soria, a 23-year old Aeta man, the skill in the use of the bow and arrow is something that is part and parcel of an Aeta child’s education. Hailing from the mountains of Zam...
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