ACTIVITY 3 AND 4

 Activity 3 and 4

1. Menacing

- Due to poverty there are some individuals who are not educated they tend to do this kind of job just to surpass hunger. To give their family a food to eat. They choose this kind of job not because they want or like it but because they don’t have a choice due to poverty.

2. Homeless

- There are certain people who just leave in the streets because they don’t have a house.

Some of them are just relying to those people who across on the street to ask for a money so they can buy foods. Poverty is really a serious problem to our country.

3. Consciousness

- Both state leadership and religious beliefs hang on to certainty. In life, everyone has a different perception, as well as interpretations. Religious values are closely tied to political problems, although there are certain cases in which political legislation and religious beliefs are not consistent each other at the same period.

4. Opportunity

- Job openings are a great opportunity to those person who are jobless for a long time, less fortunate and also it would lessen a individuals who are jobless. Slowly the poverty we’re facing in this time would be  a lessen.

5. Less fortunate

As I see the picture there are so many children who are starving due to lack of support from their parents, jobless parents, uneducated parents etc. 

6. Peace

- It very understandable that this picture implies their concern about stopping the war, no to martial law and etc. They are fighting for peace nor a war. 

7. Unsafe

- Safety is a must but in this picture its an opposite one.

You can really see that its overcrowded. This not a safety especially to the new born babies because they are not already have a strong immune system because they are just a baby.

8. Overflow 

- We already have a problem in transport & flow. There has been a boom in the growing number of automobiles, but the road network has barely expanded. They can first learn how to read them before drivers can heed traffic signals. Where to cross the street or get on & off public transport, in particular.

9. Vanquish

- Bullying happens when an individual or group threatens to injure someone who is smaller or more vulnerable repeatedly. Bad behavior aimed at you hurts no matter what shape it takes. The consequences can last a long time and, in many ways, affect a human. I assume that individuals have an inner need to intimidate people. The internet is bad because you can say & do something and don't need to control yourself, and there is no cap.

10. Reminiscence

- A tradition where, in remembrance of their loved ones, several people assemble in the cemetery. For those people now living about the past lives of their ancestors or influential ones, a daily and annual reminder. Saturday of Souls is a similar practice most found in Eastern Christianity, although not exclusively celebrated in Western Christianity. Practitioners of the rituals of

 the Day of All Souls also recall dead loved ones on the day in different ways.

11. Tragic

- Floods cause enormous damage, which is one of the most destructive natural disasters. In most places where there is heavy flooding and inadequate drainage infrastructure, residents lose their homes in floods.

12. Informal settlers

About 4.5 million people are homeless or living in informal settlements in the Philippines, with its population of about 106 million, according to the statistics office. About 3 million of them are in Metro Manila, possibly the most in any urban area in the world, charities estimate.

ACTIVITY 2

 Activity 2 

“Not all Poems Sing”

By: Merlie Alunan

In the poem “Not all Poems Sing” author mentioned and compared many things just to express or tells what she wants us to gets and understand. In the poem she mentioned about the flowers, stone,sand,birds etc. In my own understanding all she wanted for us to understand the value of our life and love that being an introvert person would brings us at peace. The title of the poem “ Not all Poems Sing” implies that sometimes we can’t sing but we can express it in other way.

Structure

Form: figure of speech

Tercet

Narrative poetry simile 

Cinquain

Metaphor

Seplet

Symbolism

Sestet

Side question:

How do the author look at love and life?

Ans: 

As I’ve read the poem, in life we all have many thoughts and doubts that we can’t express but we van express it in other way. In love, just like the poem that doesn’t sing same as the feeling.

What symbol can you find in the poem, identify and explain?

Ans:

For me SING, it symbolizes as the voices that cannot be heard and thoughts that you can’t tell but be able to recognize and understand like the poem that can’t sing but there are voices that cant be heard even if you would voice it out.

The Snowman

 There was a woman who is loaded with a lot of responsibilities because her husband is suffering an illness known as Gastroesophagael Reflux Disease (GERD). When all the local doctors in their place could do nothing about it she doesn’t have a choice but to bring her husband in the United States and because her husband is sick she doesn’t have enough time for her 2 years old son. After a short stay in America they decided to go home. Two weeks after she found out that her son has a rare and serious blood disease called Idiophatic Thrombocytopenic Pupura that causes some bruises she noticed in her sons body recently and she suspected it as a leukemia. She felt relief that after some test and findings it is not. While she was still in the hospital for her son she receive a call that her mother was not feeling well and it is suffering a mild stroke. Grief ran through her as a bizarre illness gripped on her family. When the doctor declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder, they decided to travel to United States. In arriving there she struggled because they have no place to stay bet there was a kind hearted couple offered their home for them. When her husbands surgery was set on early October another kind heartedness occurred. Past lunchtime she was told that the surgery went well and have nothing to worry although during the operation. They detected a scarring on the liver that may happened during the previous surgery. She hold her husbands hand and pray that she knows she will be losing him. Now during winter she builds snowman then embrace the three of her life.

CHARACTERS:

Dr. Salky- A doctor who had taken the wrap down perfectly

Dr. Solano- a friend Uncle Winnie- Who live in San Francisco

Dr. Sally- Gastro Specialist President Abraham Lincoln

Dr. J. Queteves- declared that her son was free from the bleeding and bruising disorder. M. And Dr. Catacutan- a kind-hearted couple who offered their home to us until the time we flew back to San Francisco.

Tita Perla- who picked up the three of us at the airport terminal. S

SETTINGS: 

Palm plaza in manila America 

San Francisco Nursing school 

San Francisco General Hospital

 New York Keanu La Guardia Cebu.