Being gay, Is it a choice?

Advisory SO 101

You are advised to click on the tag: Hans Rosling. View on how Hans Rosling present statistics without tears.

Rules for Being Human from the Sanskrit

Rules for Being Human Handed down from Ancient Sanskrit* (as paraphrased,2012) 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or not, but it will be yours for your entire life- journey. 2. You will learn lessons. Life is the school you are enrolled in. You will learn lots of lessons including stupid ones. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. 4. Learning a lesson is simply repeating it until it is learned. 5. Learning lessons is a continuous and endless process. If you are alive you learn lesson. But if you are alive and do not learn lessons, perhaps you are a zombie. 6. Learning occurs “Here”. 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make out of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is all up to you. The choice is yours. 9. The answers lie inside you. All you need to do is to look, listen and trust. # *It is an Indo-Aryan language which traces back 1,500 BCE.

Lessons from the Sanskrit

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A beautiful and wonderful world.

Watch the video found in this blogspot, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD BY BBC AND DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, and write a group paper (with 5 members) and express 1. Why is it a beautiful and a wonderful world we have? 2. How as a group of people and preserve and sustain a wonderful world. Limit to only 3 pages double spaced. Submit in word processed format. Discuss this topic with your group and submit a unified paper NOT an individual paper attached to a bunch of papers. Deadline TTh July 24, WF July 25.

Did you know?

History of the world in 7-minutes

SO 101 Reports

All SO 101 group reports from chapter 1 should be sent to leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with the subject: powerpointso101, your full name, chapter title, date of reporting and submission. Thanks.

Rebel! Sr. Joan Chittister

Speaking to the Class of 2012, Sister Joan Chittister drew inspiration from the Buddhist monk Tetsugen, who spent years begging for money to translate the Buddhist scriptures into Japanese, but gave the money away twice – first to build houses for the homeless after a flood, then to feed the starving after a famine.

What a wonderful world BBC and David Attenborough

Abiogenesis, non-life to life

New Curriculum for the billion

Having spent much of the last three years visiting a wide variety of education projects in cities across the developing world, it strikes me that the first thing that people want is facility with a global language, usually English, but also in some places Spanish and, in others, Mandarin. They want a language that will give them access to people and jobs linked to global networks and trade – a business hotel, a job in retail, manning a phone in a call centre – rather than confining them to ply their trade in purely local markets.

Video Festival - SO 101, all sections

In this video festival, you are going make a group with four members. You are going to search for for a video from You tube about clips that you think is related to a chapter in our 16 chapters. You are going to identify what chapter this video clip is related. You are going to search for two video clips. The report schedule will be scheduled at the middle of July.

European Economic Crisis

Countries with too much sovereign debt have increasingly found it difficult to raise the money they need at affordable rates in the financial markets. At the same time, banks in many of these countries have come under pressure a......

Potatoes growing at the desert

They said it couldn't be done, but a group of Israeli agricultural experts have succeeded in helping local Colombian farmers grow potatoes in a harsh desert environment. "From this desert you might receive stones, but not potatoes," that's what local farmers in Colombia's northern La Guajira desert said when presented with an Israeli proposal to grow potatoes in the region. A year later, Israeli know-how and technology has won the day, and produced nothing short of a miracle as local farmers have harvested 11 tons of potatoes from the desert.

Failed States including Philippines

On failed states, Philippines included.

Chapter Reports

In your chapter report, you can also include one video that is related to your topic. Another video that is a trivia (un-related to the topic) another video is a song video that you want to share to the class. Thus, there can be three video presentation on your report. Report carries 100 points. Hint: If there are volunteer work that is issued, do volunteer because they carry plus points.

Culture: Video assignment

Greetings! Group yourselves with four members. Your task is to look for video materials of different cultural practices. A model of this is the Surma of Ethiopia. You can look this tag at You Tube. Or you can search for exotic foods of other countries. Ask for you scheduled presentation. We will have this on July and August.

New Assignment

Greetings! You are to view videos on the Big Bang theory. This is the theory of the origin of the universe and our solar system. Second, understand the theory of evolution. See the works of Carl Sagan. Write your own 2-pages reflection paper on the theory of evolution. TTh classes to be submitted 17 July, WF - 18 July. Please follow the recommended format for your paper work. This is paper 2 which is 100 points.

New SO 101 Assignment

Greetings! Below are your assignment to take. Read the instructions carefully. Should you or your group have any question/s write it at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com Or, you can ask it at our classroom. 1. View any video about how to present a power point. 2. Copy the video site at your notebook. Reserve it for future reference. 3. Chapter reporting for power point presentation:70% visuals and 30% concepts. Limit your report to 25 minutes. I will supplement your report or follow it up. 4. On paper submission: The format: a. Submitted paper should be written on a short white paper preferably using a word processor. It should be double-spaced at 12 points New Times Roman or Arial fonts. b. You name/s should appear at the left side top-most part of the paper. c. You article should start with a title which begins at the center of the paper (ask for a model of this paper at our classroom). Do not miss the date of submission for all these papers will have time schedule. No late papers. 5. Paper #1: Do a research on 1. WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? 2. WHAT IS SCIENCE? 3. WHAT IS MODERNITY? and 4. THE USES OF SOCIOLOGY. This will be a group paper comprising of 4 members. Do not forget to quote you reference at the end of the paper. For TTH class, papers shall be submitted 3 July, for WF it is 4 July. Good luck.

Schedule of Reporting by Classes SO 101 First Semester

Schedule of Reporting by Classes SO 101 First Semester Wednesday & Friday (WF) 7:30 am Chapter/s 1 - The Role and Scope of Sociology 2 - The Nature and Role of Group behavior 3 - Culture and behavior 4 - Socialization, Conformity and Deviance 5 - Social Processes 6 - Philippine Values 7 - Communication, Social Movements, and Collective Behavior 8 - Social Class 9 - Age, Sex, and Ethnicity 10- Institutions 11- The family 12- Religion and Society 13- The Rural community 14- The urban community 15- Populations, growth and distribution 16- Social Change Wednesday & Friday (WF) 7:30 am Chapter 1 - 27 June, De Leon, Katrina & Faustino, Caitlin Chapter 2 - 29 June, Alviar, Czarina & Delavega, Leana Chapter 3 - 04 July, Militar, Quennie & Santiago, Jiselle Chapter 4 - 11 July, Arpilleda, Ericka & Costa, Marithe Chapter 5 - 13 July, Sta. Maria, Camille & San Juan, Ann Chapter 6 - 25 July, Manga, Rhodora & Silvestre Jjam Chapter 7 - 27 July, Fajardo, Loriedel & Santillan, Kaleena Chapter 8 - 08 Aug, Samson, Joyce & Marty, Christine Chapter 9 - 10 Aug, Canlas, Blance & Hizon, Katrina Chapter10 - 22 Aug, Ramos, Angelene & Conopio, Andrea Chapter11 - 24 Aug, Gayod, Faith & Gabriel, Sarah Chapter12 - 12 Sept, Castigador, Monique & Guanzon, Colleen Chapter13 - 12 Sept, Go, francheska & Fesalbon C5 Chapter14 - 14 Sept, AL Leonidas Chapter15 - 19 Sept, Abejuela Lyza & Faelgo, Patricia Chapter16 - 21 Sept, Tablada, Catherine * Sevilla, Carmella End of entry ***

Read Dr. Mahathir Mohammad and Philippine Democracy

All freshmen year please read the material published here entitled, Dr. Mahatir Mohamad. We will be discussing this article in one of our session.

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Philippine democracy

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was right when he posited that the Philippines could not emulate the Western model of democracy, because having freedom without limits creates gridlock and imperils economic development. Indeed, Filipinos do not seem to possess the political maturity needed to make a free society work well – generally speaking. But with all due respect to the former Malaysian prime minister, the Asian model of leadership by a “benevolent dictator” is likewise the wrong model for this country. Instead, we Filipinos should fashion our own style of democracy, one that suits our history and culture. Please click on the link.

Welcome Freshmen, SY 2012-2013

Dear Freshmen students, Welcome to SY 2012-2013,First semester. This blogspot is a platform to communicate with you. You are advised to visit this site for the duration of the semester. Assignments, notices, instructions will be posted here. You will be informed as to the tasks at hand in our course. Thank you and see you again.