9 - Be an Informed Citizen
25th of
November 2015, my block mates and I attended a seminar in the APC Auditorium
which was kind of about a public speaking event; it’s actually for The RamPage,
APC’s newsletter. So, there were three speakers, all of which are GMA’s
writers, The TV show Jessica Soho. Before the event started, the mentor of The
RamPage showed us a documentary video of President Ferdinand Marcos’
achievements and that former President Cory Aquino, and his husband, had some
kind of secret.What I understood was Marcos and Aquino were really great
friends, Marcos paid for Aquino’s medication in the United States, he let
Aquino live long enough just to kill him in the end, the point of the video
that there are hidden secrets in our Philippine History that is meant to stay a
secret, but what he was trying to voice out was President Marcos is not a bad
person and president and he was definitely not responsible for the death of
Ninoy Aquino, that everyone thinks is a hero.
So many questions are raised in this
that is why we are given a chance to choose between what we think is right and
what is wrong. After the video, the first speaker from GMA started discussing
how to write effectively. She taught us how to transition our sentences and how
to come up with good ideas to make our story better, she also said that “there
are no such thing as bad stories, just bad story tellers.” She encourages us
that everyone has their own story and its always going to be up to us on how we
tell it. The second speaker discusses about the political issues that we face
in social media. Like for example Essena O’neill, Essena is a very famous
fashion and lifestyle blogger from Australia who is now on a campaign about banning
social media. All of her photos on instagram are only "fake" smiles, or rather, she was paid to advertise products and she didn't feel happy about that anymore. She said that social media kind of ruined her life because it
makes people revolve their life around number; number of likes and followers to
be exact. She said that life is too beautiful to be wasting it on technology in
social media, the second speaker also emphasizes about the explosion that
happened in paris, Syria, basically around the world which taught us to be more
aware of what is happening in our society right now. The third speaker told us about how important
it is to be aware of what is happening, which is social media. Social Media
keeps us informed with what is happening. In our generation today, social media has become something that need, this is our source of communication, we just have to learn how to control and know what is reality from not.
So many questions are raised in this
that is why we are given a chance to choose between what we think is right and
what is wrong. After the video, the first speaker from GMA started discussing
how to write effectively. She taught us how to transition our sentences and how
to come up with good ideas to make our story better, she also said that “there
are no such thing as bad stories, just bad story tellers.” She encourages us
that everyone has their own story and its always going to be up to us on how we
tell it. The second speaker discusses about the political issues that we face
in social media. Like for example Essena O’neill, Essena is a very famous
fashion and lifestyle blogger from Australia who is now on a campaign about banning
social media. All of her photos on instagram are only "fake" smiles, or rather, she was paid to advertise products and she didn't feel happy about that anymore. She said that social media kind of ruined her life because it
makes people revolve their life around number; number of likes and followers to
be exact. She said that life is too beautiful to be wasting it on technology in
social media, the second speaker also emphasizes about the explosion that
happened in paris, Syria, basically around the world which taught us to be more
aware of what is happening in our society right now. The third speaker told us about how important
it is to be aware of what is happening, which is social media. Social Media
keeps us informed with what is happening. In our generation today, social media has become something that need, this is our source of communication, we just have to learn how to control and know what is reality from not.
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