LAST DAY OF THE FIRST SEMESTER

LAST DAY OF THE FIRST SEMESTER

Had lots of fun ^_^

thanks kay milcah and jowayna for posting haha

Climate Change: Causes and Effects

People have been hearing the words “climate change” like clichés from old movies, but no one is really aware how deadly those two words can be. Those two words may take lives of millions of people and starve a whole nation. Take for example typhoon Ondoy’s devastation in our country, people drowned, and an entire nation went under state of calamity. Indeed the effects of climate change chooses no one, be it rich or poor, educated or not, sickly or healthy, no one.
Climate change is caused by many factors such as plate tectonics, solar outputs, orbital variations, volcanism, ocean variability and of course, us, human beings. The plate tectonics affect climate change because whenever the plates move the ocean circulation changes. These ocean circulations are important in controlling heat transfer and moisture across the globe and in determining global climate. If the location of the oceans changes then, elements such as heat and moisture also change, resulting to climate change.

Another cause of climate change is the solar output. The sun provides us heat and the sun’s heat is very important in cloud formations and different weather conditions. As the ozone layer thins out, the sun’s radiation and heat increases affecting different elemental cycles we have today such as cloud formations and rains. The hotter the sun, the more evaporation, the more rain we get. As the sun changes its output, the more imbalanced our cycles are. These solar outputs also affect ocean variability.

The next one has great relation with the solar output which is the orbital variation of the earth. Whenever the earth changes its orbit even in the slightest manner, the amount of sun we get also changes, leading to problems regarding the sun’s output. On the other hand, volcanic processes like volcanic eruptions, hot springs and geysers also cause climate change. Whenever volcanoes erupt the temperature cools due to the blocking of the solar radiation of the sun.
Lastly, us, humans greatly contribute in causing climate change. We do irrigation and other activities such as inventing gadgets and formulas thinning the ozone layer. Climate change may be cause by natural calamities and happenings but, the only thing we can do now is to prevent it from happening and not contribute to the hasting of climate change.



>>>>> oh well, another one of my *disgusting* paper ^_^.... sensationally senseless hahaha

The Implications of the Bilibid Exposure Trip to the course: Communication Arts.

The trip to Bilibid negated how the media defined the term inmate. Usually, the media would describe inmates/prisoners as big hairy tattooed people with nasty attitudes. However, this trip proved those stereotyping all wrong. In fact, how the media portrayed Bilibid prisoners as beastly was contrasted with what I saw. They, compared to the people I see everyday are more human. Unlike what I’ve seen in movies, these prisoners are as good as the people who work at churches, they value their religion, their families, their friends and their education. As a Communication Arts major, I now see how the media has deceived people, and how it was able to ruin names who in fact has sins lesser than ours, how they branded these criminals as criminals forever. The media has associated the word sinner to these criminals, but in reality all of us are sinners and some have probably sinned greater than them. Some are even innocent but have sacrificed their freedom for the ones they loved and valued. The media has used them in some ways to cover up what we, people on the outside has done. It’s like saying “until you’re not convicted, you’re good” which is not true. Seeing reality inside a prison has changed my view of what the world should be. Through my eyes and through the lens, the script, the pen and the paper I’m holding I will do my obligation to make people see what actually is happening and what and who these prisoners really are.


* Another paper for our sociology class :)