Post 4 - Some papers to submit.

Group yourselves with 3-members. Please submit the following: Paper 1. What is science? What are the methods of science? What is Philosophy of science? Paper 2, What is sociology? What are some of the theories of sociology. This should be printed and generated via Word computer program. Maximum of 2-3 pages per topic . 01 Feb. submission date. Names of group members shall appear on top left side with the date of submission. It shall be completed with your references or a bibliographic exhibit at the end of your paper.

Cultural Video Fest (CVF)

The cultural video fest (CVF) is a graded activity under SO 101. Students are ask to group themselves with 3-members. From drawn lots you are to report a certain topic and a date you are going to report. The video shall be harvested from You Tube, thus, you need not make one. Each group shall be given two different topics of a video that last only 3-8 minutes. Example of this video is tatoo making from North of Luzon, dance of Cebu in-mates to the tune of Michael Jackson's music, or the Surma lip-plating practices. The regime of culture is really a wide expanse. Another topic is, Japanese etiquette's do's and dont's. A list will be provided for this. Feedback, welcome.

Welcome students SY 2017-18 Second Semester

Dear Students, This blogspot will be the social media platform that I am going to use to communicate to you regarding this introductory course for Sociology. For starters it will be getting to know each other. For the next two sessions, please bring a your family picture around 3 pieces, any picture on your last graduation or any picture you want to share when you were a baby. You are going to share this to the class in our getting to know each other. I hope to run this activity up to two sessions. In the meantime we shall make do what we have at the moment inside the classroom. Second, we are going to view as an introduction about our planet earth and the evolution of human and making them as social beings. Why were they social beings in the first place? Is it possible that a human being to live by him/herself, alone? We will be viewing two video about our planet and about ourselves. Then, it will be your turn. You will be reporting a topic based on our textbook, Sociology, A Modular approach. It will be 16 chapters. Please look for a partner that you can work with for the said assigned date reporting. Please take note of your report date. Should there be changes in our academic calendar we will discuss the change. I will be discussing how you will be graded. Communication can be addressed via email: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com Should there be clarification or dispute, we should communicate on the issue with transparency. Please be on time because I will be closing the door once I have arrived, this means be early on class before the teacher enters the classroom. Freely communicate your thought because we will be discussing on the idea. We will discuss opinions, habits, behaviors and most of all we will discuss the method of science and evidence. Till the next communication.

Video on Culture. Inspiring messages.

As to the video on culture, you are to group yourselves in to 3-member team. You task is to look at YouTube for video clips on varying culture of people around the world, only one country (2-3 minutes only). This shall be presented to the class after the class-chapter report. You should ask for a date to show this project, Please approach your teacher. Included into this project is entitled: Inspiring messages. A videoclip of 2 -3 minutes running time. We want to be inspired by people of great stature, eg. The Dalai Lama's messages. Michele Obama on women. Etc. This is 100 points as part of the subject requirement. Get in touch for inquiry. Start of presentation is 12 October up to 23 November.

On the regime of Ferdinand Marcos

Required reading on looking at the past, shaping the future. Life of Trajano. Read this article and ask them if your grandparents are familiar with this story. Interview you grandparents about martial law and what do they think about it. Individual paper, 2 pages only. Deadline 23 September.

Four Ages of Man, First part

This is an excellent commentary of Mr. Larry Henares. I suggest you visit his site. He is one of our giant intellectual.

The Four ages of Man

Interesting read. Please follow Larry Henares. Good for you heart and your brain.

04 Post: Solita "Mareng Winnie" Monsod's on Marcos burial

Follow this link on Marcos and LNB issue. Added input on David's article.

03 Post. Burying a wax.

It has been said that the so called body of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos is merely a wax now at Ilocos Norte. And yes, Duterte promised to his friend Bongbong Marcos that his father is going to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNB). This is a very divisive issue. By clicking on the link, read Inquirer columnist Randy David how he dissected the issue. Go to your original group of 5 August and submit a group discussion report and answer the following questions: 1. Who is Ferdinand Marcos (FM)? 2. Who should be buried at the LNB? 3. How do you weight-in the the points raised by Mr. David? 4. In your group opinion, Should FM be buried at LNB based on the assumptions of Duterte? If yes, why? If no, why not. Your group paper shall be submitted on 24 August. Same format. Answer on suggested format with Questions as heading.

Post 02: Understanding Human rights

An article written by regular columnist Randy David on Human rights is worth reading given the atmosphere of instant death pervading the territory called the Philippines. http://opinion.inquirer.net/96308/human-rights-and-the-poor Just clink on the LINK. You are to do a research on "The Origins of Human Rights". You can Google the subject and print them. This is group work (The same grouping that met last 05 August, Friday. Give at least 5-group shared insights. Just one page only. Format: Word generated report. To be submitted written on a short bond paper. Deadline is: 19 August, Friday. Classroom as venue. Query? Do write at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com

Welcome Sociology Students SY2016-2017 First Semester

Dear Students, From now on we will interact and communicate from this media platform, my own blogspot. This has been used by my former students of the past and my former grade 5 and 6 gradeschool students from Ateneo. You will understand why as we meet these coming days. Thus, this is our communication platform wherein assignments shall be posted. Feedback/querrie can be sent via leonidas.jose@yahoo.com Assignment #01. In the groupings that ware created today, you are to submit a research work on "Why is 12 July significant to the people and to the world, but sadly to the Communist Party of China who claims the whole South China Sea." You are to submit at least 3-pages of the arguments why the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. You can also Google Justice Carpio on Philippines and the South China Sea Claim, the Exclusive Economic zones. Do understand these papers so that you will be able to discuss them with strangers expressing your opinion. Assignment 02: Bring you family picture, digital or printed. They are picture when your are a baby, picture of your family and your high school graduation.

Alohomora Post 18 Final

This is Alohomora Post 18 Final. You will be redirected to Facebook account: Alohomora Private. This is a continuation from this blogspot which was a temporary residence for Alohomora post. Go there now for latest assignments. Thank you.

Alohomora post 16, Skills and habits

One of the fundamental key in successful living lies in the bedrock of knowledge and understanding. We come to the point that knowing and understanding liberates or gives us that exhilarating feeling. But we can not rest on the feeling, the knowledge of the skill should be practiced and becomes a habit. Thus, you can "perfect" your presentation skill by practicing over and over. When you do this, the skill becomes trained to your neural brain connections. If you add more practice then these connections become entrenched, thus they will now become habitual on your part. Thus we have this term, "force-of-habit". When you keep on performing the force-of-habit becomes a part of you. Fundamentally, we start with knowledge, then we get to know that knowledge or skill. Once we practice and repeat a magic act, the act becomes trained into our body that becomes a part of us. If you fail to practice or repeat it, they they get lost, perhaps forever.

Alohomora Post 17 Magician's code

Remember the magician's code: 1. Don't reveal the secret, even to your best friend! 2. Don't perform the same trick twice before the same audience, 3. Don't do any trick until you have practiced and perfected it thoroughly, 4. Don't knock other magicians. Do unto them as you would have them do unto you. Contributed by Allan Lambie, Reference: Practical Magic Edited by David Robbins (c) 1953.

Alohomora Post 16

You will be having a long vacation. I am encouraging you to practice your routine over and over again until you perfect your moves. At the beginning it will be difficult. One of my former summer student will be performing at Aura this coming Sunday. His interest led him to do magic performance. Note that YouTube can teach you a lot of moves in magic. Keep on performing.

Alohomora Post 15

Should you lost a given magic props please ask your parents to order the item by emailing me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com. The subject is Lost Item. I will respond to that email and will give your parents the details of the order. Should you want to order a magic props which is not in your kit which you saw at school, you can order it with subject: Additional magic items. I will respond to your parents for the order. Your order may take a three weeks to arrive. I will be indicating the date as to when I will hand over the items. Thank you very much

Alohomora Quiz 01

This will be for classes of Monday and Tuesday. Part 1. Instruction: 1. Answer the following or identify: 1. What do you call a soft round red ball that we use in our COCA? 2,3,4,5, What are the four suits in a deck of card? 6. What suit has a red color? 7. What suit has a black color? 8. When you perform the three hanging one peso coin, where do you place the one peso coin? 9. When you produce a coin, there is a technique to produce the coin, it is placed on your hand, what do you call that technique? 10. Where do you place your magic stuff? Part 2. Name all the magic stuff that were given to you from the start to the last day of class this December. Subject: Quiz 01. Kindly submit your answers via email: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with the subject: Quiz Alohomora. The deadline is 30 December 2015. Please ask assistance from your parents. NB: I am encouraging our parents to review the Alohomora posts that they might have missed. Salamat po.

Alohomora Post 14

In case you are wondering as to the Leonidas chocolate store as a background picture of this blogspot, it was taken at MOA last 2006. I do not own the said store. The Leonidas owners came from Belgium. Indeed they produce superb chocolates. My Leonidas roots come from, Calauag, Quezon.

Alohomora Post 12, Lost magic props

Dear Students, Part of your magic performance is your props. Thus, you should have a bag for this. Preferably a bag you can sling onto your shoulder for security. The bag also organizes your magic materials. If you have lost your magic materials, ask your Mom or Dad to email me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with subject: Magic order. I will respond to you just the same. It may take weeks to replace what you have lost. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 10

After the last day of our classes, I will be posting a short quiz for you to answer. This is to measure how much you have learned on our COCA. Of course we will continue the performance session that you are going to do inside our class. Thus, you have to practice, practice, practice your magic routine. And do not reveal the secret of the magic. It is for you to keep. Thank you.