Author: Anonymous
•11:34 PM
Author: Anonymous
•11:28 PM
In a similar vein frozen areas know as Tundra are also experiencing a subtle warming. Tundra describes the soil above permafrost that is frozen for most of the calendar year but thaws for allowance of small amounts of vegetation growth. Areas of Tundra throughout the world serve as sinks for absorption of massive amounts of Carbon. As these areas begin to exist for more months of the year above freezing they both release their stores of Carbon and cease to function as greenhouse gas depositories.

The extremist view is that within another half century global warming will simultaneously melt the arctic tundra releasing billions of tons of harmful greenhouse gases and ignite the world’s rainforests destroying our planet’s ability to create oxygen. Such a viewpoint is falsely alarming and without basis. The real danger of global warming is sufficient without need to exaggerate.

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Author: Anonymous
•11:27 PM

While that one-degree of heat made you take off a sweater, segments of the Earth known as permafrost began a meltdown. Permafrost is a condition whereby sections of the Earth’s surface have remained at a temperature below freezing (0 degrees Celsius) for at least two years. Literally, it means permanently frozen soil. In actuality, most permafrost regions have been frozen for thousands of years. A large portion of the Arctic is permafrost. During summer months these areas seem to be thawed as they permit a two to twelve foot layer of soil to grow vegetation. But beneath that summer season lays a still frozen core. These frozen strata of the Earth lock away huge amounts of gaseous content with the highest concentrations of gases held in check by permafrost being Carbon dioxide and Methane gas. That one-degree increase in overall temperature is allowing millions of underground acres of permafrost to defrost and release even more greenhouse gas.


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Author: Anonymous
•11:25 PM
Once again remember we are attempting to define global warming as a chain of events. The first several of these links is an over abundance of solar radiation absorbing gases and other particles floating about in our atmosphere.

The next grouping of events concerns what happens when the small percentage of increased heat on our planet’s surface and in our air begins to effect long standing conditions.

Currently the measured effect of global warming as caused by the greenhouse effect on the planet overall is approximately a 1 degree Celsius increase over the last 50 years. This would seem to mean nothing. One asks, “How could one degree more or less effect anyone or anything.” In terms of that “anyone”, the effect of a one-degree difference in ambient temperature will probably go unnoticed. Our bodies are designed to adjust to a huge range of climatic conditions. No one of us will notice that today it is 71 degrees outside and fifty years ago it would have been 70. The human body will adjust and adapt even if the average temperature globally were to increase by ten degrees. Chances are we would set off a huge oblivious migration to more temperate areas. But that little one-degree change manages to set out of kilter an incredible array of environmental forces.

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Author: Anonymous
•11:24 PM
Now, the most obvious thought anyone who did not believe in global warming would think is that all of these factors have existed for millions of years and the fluctuations in them, such as amounts of greenhouse gases and changes in the surface of the Earth are too small to drastically effect climate. In the long term, that is, say a length of 100,000 years that is probably true. The Earth as a master clockwork will probably naturally adjust to all of man’s device. But mankind may not be around to appreciate the changes as those same changes may exclude mankind from existence.

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Author: Anonymous
•11:21 PM

Anyone who has either spent time in a greenhouse for plants or simply gotten into a car on a hot summer day has personally experienced the greenhouse effect. Heat enters an enclosed area and then reflects back and forth building upon itself. While the ambient temperature outside might be 85 degrees Fahrenheit, inside an automobile the temperature easily zooms upward to 130F. Simply put, the greenhouse effect is what happens when heat is trapped in one way or another and then increases as more heat radiation is added.

Author: Anonymous
•11:17 PM

Which now mentioned allows us to follow our chain of event’s leading to global warming into the next most defined cause… Methane gas. Methane is released into the atmosphere from a dozen major sources. These include natural and man made emissions. Natural release of Methane is primarily from wetlands, (including agriculture) termites, the ocean, and hydrates. Non-organic releases are based from, landfills, livestock, waste treatment, and biomass burning. (More energy production). Almost all of this is offset by the Earth’s ability to absorb around 97% of the methane released into the air. But that remaining 3% is a serious problem. The molecular structure of Methane makes it 20 times as powerful a Greenhouse gas than CO2. So while there is a great deal less Methane to contend with than CO2, it is still the second largest link in the global warming events chain.
Author: Anonymous
•10:45 PM
2% of all CO2 released into the atmosphere is related to buildings. This figure varies from one source to the next. Some place the percentage of emissions from buildings as high as 33%. What most of these figures do not address is the actual cause of the CO2 emissions. In newly constructed buildings, production of materials used in building and energy used during construction are sited as the cause of carbon dioxide emissions. In existing buildings the CO2 created by the energy upkeep of the building is the root of the emissions quotient. The general comparison is that buildings consume energy in the way that cars burn fuel. But the pollutants created in providing power for heating, air-conditioning, lights and other usage in buildings has already been factored. Honestly this double billing accounting is more the product of auto manufacturers looking to point the blame for global warming away from gas guzzling cars.

The point to remember is that 98% of all CO2 emissions are related to energy production and 80% of these emissions become greenhouse gases.

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Author: Anonymous
•10:43 PM

The primary cause of global warming is Carbon Dioxide emissions. CO2 is being pumped into our atmosphere at an insane pace; 8 billion tons of CO2 entered the air last year. Of course some of this is due to natural activity such as volcanic eruptions and people breathing. But the Earth is equipped to easily absorb those into the normal regenerative process. No, the beginning of global warming was caused by fossil fuels being burned and emitting plenty of CO2.

Author: Anonymous
•10:39 PM
Let us start our examination of Global warming with a study of its causes. Global warming is an overall state of existence that is the cumulative effect of hundreds of environmental factors. All of these join together in both a linear and random model to show global warming as a chain of events.
Author: Anonymous
•10:34 PM

While some would call global warming a theory, others would call it a proven set of facts. Opinions differ vehemently. Let us consider global warming to be both a premise that the environment of the world as we know it is slowly, but very surely increasing in overall air and water temperature, and a promise that if whatever is causing this trend is not interrupted or challenged life on earth will dynamically be affected.

The prevailing counter opinion is that all that is presently perceived to be global warming is simply the result of a normal climactic swing in the direction of increased temperature. Most proponents of this global warming ideology have definitive social and financial interests in these claims.
Author: Anonymous
•10:26 PM
It is through crime prevention where we can lessen crimes in our society. You your self should not be the victim! Take note of the following preventive measures which you can apply in your neighborhood were you residing:

  1. A conscious collective effort to maintain peace
Author: Anonymous
•9:48 PM
It is an act to be done in order that a crime could happen. Crime prevention is everybody's concern. We have to join hands in order to lessen crime in our community.
Author: Anonymous
•9:02 PM
What is a Crime?

A CRIME is the commission or omission by a person having capacity, of any act, which either prohibited or compelled by the law and the commission or omission of which is punishable by a proceeding brought in the name of the government whose law has been violated. (Wharton's Criminal law, 1957, Vol. 1, p. 11)
Author: Anonymous
•8:36 PM
The following are the Dimensions and its Related Values:

1. Physical
    a. Health
  • physical fitness
  • cleanliness
  • harmony with material universe
  • art and beauty
2. Intellectual
    a. Truth
  • knowledge
  • creative and critical thinking
3. Moral
    a. Love
  • integrity
  • nonesty
  • self-worth
  • self-esteem
  • personal discipline
4. Spiritual
    a. Spirituality
  • faith in God
5. Social, Family, and Society
    a. Social Responsibility
  • mutual love
  • respect
  • fidelity
  • responsible parenthood
  • concern for others / common good
  • freedom / equality
  • social justice / respect for human rights
  • peace / active non-violence
  • popular participation
6. Economic
    a. Economic Efficiency
    b. Thrift Conservation of Resources
  • work ethics
  • self-reliance
  • productivity
  • scientific and technological knowledge
  • vocational efficiency
  • entrepreneurship
7. Political
    a. Nationalism
  • common identity
  • national unity
  • esteem
  • commitment
  • civic consciousness / prode
  • bayanihan / solidarity
  • loyalty to country
Author: Anonymous
•8:13 PM
Our personal values are formed in early childhood and are affected strongly by both the values of our parents, the environment, the school, the church and the government. The place and time of the first few years of our lives have a great effect on the formation of our values.

Reference: NSTP-Sonia Gasilla-dela Cruz
Author: Anonymous
•8:09 PM
Self is broadly defined as the essential qualities that make a person distinct from all others. The task in philosophy is defining what these qualities are, and there have been a number of different approaches. The "self" is the idea of a unified being which is the source of consciousness.Moreover, this self is the agent responsible for the thoughts and actions of an individual to which they are ascribed. It is a substance, which therefore endures through time; thus, the thoughts and actions at different moments of time may pertain to the same self. As the notion of subject, the "self" has been harshly criticized by Nietzsche at the end of the 19th century, on behalf of what Gilles Deleuze would call a "becoming-other".

Everybody has an obligation to himself, but there are times that we are facing difficulties in understanding these obligations. One of the reasons is how we understand exactly what `self' is.

One way to understand this selfhood is to conceive it as a personal role that one plays in the general drama of live. It is a role that includes responsibilities that are to be faced, decisions that are to be made, relationships and involvements that are to be lived and work that is to be performed.

In understanding our selfhood there are certain moral obligations that arise. If a person has a particular life to live then he has a basic responsibility toward that life. He has the obligation to see that life is `lived' to its fullest. He should play his role as well as he can and not neglect it.

In spirituality, and especially nondual, mystical and eastern meditative traditions, the human being is often conceived as being in the illusion of individual existence, and separateness from other aspects of creation. This "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence is that part which believes it is the human being, and believes it must fight for itself in the world, is ultimately unaware and unconscious of its own true nature. The ego is often associated with mind and the sense of time, which compulsively thinks in order to be assured of its future existence, rather than simply knowing its own self and the present.

The spiritual goal of many traditions involves the dissolving of the ego, allowing self-knowledge of one's own true nature to become experienced and enacted in the world. This is variously known as enlightenment, nirvana, presence, and the "here and now".
Author: Anonymous
•7:52 PM
Personalism can be defined as the attempt to place persons and personal relationships at the center of theory and practice, and to explore the significance of personal catgeories across a variety of disciplines and traditions, including philosophical, theological, political, humanistic, and scientific.
Author: Anonymous
•7:46 PM
The term "person" cannot be exclusively attached to human being since not all persons are considered human being and vice-versa.

A business entity is a person, which it is not a human being. On the other hand slave is a human being, but it is not considered as a person by virtue of his being vested of his rights as a human being, which being considered as a mere object not an existing person.

To speak of man as a being-with-others is to speak of man as a person. Man as a person means that man is unique, a who, a subject, and a self; man is never alone in his existence in the world; man has that indelible trademark of his "being-with" existence in the world.

Man's personhood should not be contrasted to man's humanity and individuality. The Personhood and man's individuality manifest man's individual unique personhood.

Personhood means pagkatawo or pagkatao.
Author: Anonymous
•7:14 PM
Values Formation Through Community Service

All Filipino parents hope to pass on to their children the values and words of wisdom that have been passed to them. They can do a, lot of things for their value formation.

But, no matter how much the parents would like to inculcate to them the positive or right values, their environment could influence their children since VALUES ARE CAUGHT AND NOT TAUGHT. Whatever we have :learned at home, in school and in the environment are internalized. (Within ourselves)

What if some of us have learned negative ones? Values Transformation comes in. So, what is now the role of the NSTP and environment in the value transformation of our youths.

Values are said to be worth the importance we attach to different factors in our lives. The word values -comes from a the Latin word "valere" which means to measure the worth of something. These are ideas and norms man considers relevant and good. Max Scheler (1874-1928) is the foremost exponent of axiology. Axiology is defined as the philosophical science and values.

A VALUE HAS BEEN DEFINED AS ANY OBJECT ACTIVITY OR FRAME OF MIND THAT A PERSON CONSIDERS TO BE VERY IMPORTANT TO HIS OR HER LIFE. Unlike attitudes, values come in, as an unconscious list of priorities. All of our values taken together are called a VALUE SYSTEM which exist not only on an individual level, but on an organization-wide level as well. Hence, the community where your NSTP Students will be assigned could greatly contribute to their values transformation. A CORPORATE CULTURE is a system of values shared throughout any given place or organization.

Values are especially important to understanding human behavior. Conflicts between them are often based on differences in values. When you seem to be at odds with another person, take a look at how your basic values differ. And when you seem in conflict with the members of the group, examine the group's value system against your own.

Values education is founded on a sound philosophy of the human person with all its philosophical ramifications and implications. The supreme and. overarching value that characterizes education is HUMAN DIGNITY


Reference: NSTP, Sonia Gasilla-dela Cruz
Author: Anonymous
•1:49 AM
As decided, CWTS-Love has made a motto for our section. “LOVE at Work; LOVE at Service”
Author: Anonymous
•12:42 AM
"We the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution."
Author: Anonymous
•12:35 AM
We can become good citizens by living in accordance with good citizenship values which we can derive from the preamble of the Constitution suc as:

  • Faith in God
  • Unity
  • Patriotism
  • Work
  • Respect for Life
  • Respect for Law and Government
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Freedom
  • Love
  • Equality
  • Peace
  • Promotion of the Common Good
  • Concern for the Family and Future Generations
  • Concern for the Environment
  • Order
Author: Anonymous
•11:27 PM
What is Constitution?

Constitution refers to "that body of rules and maxims in accordance with which the powers of sovereignty are habitually exercised."


What is the Constitution of the Philippines?

The Constitution of the Philippines may be defined as that written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined and by which these powers are distributed among the several departments or branches for their safe and useful exercise for the benefit of the people.



Who are Citizens of the Philippines?

Section 1 of the Philippine Constitution provides that the following are citizens of the Philippines:


  1. Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of the adoption of this Constitution;
  2. Those whose father or mothers are citizens of the Philippines;
  3. those born before January 17, 1973, of filipino mothers, who elect Philippine Citizenship upon reaching the age of majority; and
  4. Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.

What are the duties and obligation of Citizens?

We have to realize that for every right we are enjoying as enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the Philippine Constitution, there is a corresponding obligation. There will be no chaos in our society if only everybody will perform his or her duties and obligations.

  • To be loyal to the Republic. This means that we have faith and confidense in the Republic and love for and devotion to the country. We have to be proud being Filipinos, respect our customs, traditions, language and institutions.

Our country is considered our home, the home of our forefathers who fought for our country against the invaders, the home of our children and grandchildren, the set of our affections, and the source of our happiness and well-being.

  • To contribute to the development and welfare of the State. We are a part of the State and we directly recieve the benefits from the government in the form of infrastructure, peace and order, etc. In return, how can we contribute to the development and welfare of the State? We can do this in the form of paying our taxes willingly and promptly, by helping maintain peace and order, conserving natural resources, the promotion of social justice by suggesting supportive measures beneficial to the people as a whole, by patronizing local products and trade and engaging in productive work.

  • To uphold the Constitution and obey the laws. It is our prime obligation to uphold the Constitution and obey the laws. If the people would disregard them, our country would collapse and we will not have peace and order.

  • To cooperate with duly constituted authorities. In every organization, there is always a leader to manage the affairs of all the constituents. If the members will not cooperate, we can never expect to become successful in all the undertakings that our government would like to do for the good of its citizens.

  • To exercise rights responsibly and with due regard for the rights of others. No man is an island and we have to live with others. In the exercise of our rights, we have to see to it that we also respect the rights of other people. If we do this, we can expect harmonious relationship among members of the society.

  • To engage in gainful work. It is stated in the Bible that if we want to eat, we have to work. It is our obligation as citizenst of our country to become productive, by engaging in gainful work so that we can provide the basic needs of our family and ourselves as well. As cited by de Leon (1989), "The essence of life is work. Every citizens should bear in mind that only by hand and sustained work can men and nations live and survive. National greatness never springs from the cult of ease or self-complacency, but from the crucible of grim struggle and patient industry."

  • To register and vote. It is our prime duty as citizens of the Philippines to register and vote. Suffrage is both a privilege and a duty, which every qualified citizen must perform.

It is not sufficient to just register and vote, but it is coupled with intellectual judgement during election. We have to consider the different poilitica issues by different candidates, so that, at least, we can choose the right person to manage government affairs.

Author: Anonymous
•11:02 PM
In recognition of the vital role of the youth in nation-building, the state shall promote civic consciousness among them and shall develop their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being. It shall inculcate the ideals of patriotism, and nationalism, and advance their involvement in public and civic affairs.
Author: Anonymous
•10:23 PM
"It is the prime duty of the government to serve and protect its citizens. In turn, it shall be the responsibility of all citizens to defend the security of the State; thus the government may require each citizens to render personal, military or civil service."

With this law, all male and female college students are required to complete two (2) semesters of any one of the following NSTP components as a requisite for graduation.
  • ROTC - Reserve Officers' Training Corps - Provides military training to college level students in order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them for national defense preparedness.

  • CWTS - Civic Welfare Training Service - Activities that contribute to the improvement of life and general welfare of members of a community thru the enhancement of facilities, especially those devoted to improving health, education, environment, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and morals of the citizenry.

  • LTS - Literacy Training Service - Designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out-of-school youth, and other sectors of society in need of their service.
Author: Anonymous
•10:07 PM
Pursuant to Section 12 of Republic Act. No. 9163, otherwise known as the National Service Training Program (NSTP) Act of 2001, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Department of National Defense (DND), in cosultation with the concerned government agencies, the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), the coordinating Council of Private Educational Association of the Philippines (COCOPEA), Non-Government Organizations and recognized student organizations, hereby jointly issue, adopt and promulgate the following implementing rules and regulations to implement the provisions of the Act.
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