One Step Closer

" reflection is one way of achieving peace for oneself, harmony with the society and union with God"

By:

Molen C. Lopecillo

If you asked me about that thing, I can say very proudly that I am proud with my school. Because that school help me to become a better person  because they are the one who brought me in where I am standing right now. They are also the one who guide me, When I still in High School age. They help me on how to become more responsible with my job, and on how to become a good citizen of our nation. In fact they are the one who give me idea what the world is. And also I am proud with my school because, in this school our "barkada" the friendship is founded, and also because of these school I meet my friends who is willing to help me in all my problems.

One of my frightening experienced is when Im still in High school a 4th year high school. It was early morning of February 14,2006 when we have our program in valentines day. In the morning of that day, the sky was so clear. When afternoon came it was exactly 3:00 o’clock when a strong wind appear. All our decoration are had been destroyed by the strong wind. After thhe wind a strong rain appear all of us worried because of the heavy rain. but one of my fellow classmate said that on that very morning a priest conduct a mass in our campus and he notice that there is a bad spirit that is moving in our campus. And then one of my classmate again suggested to have a short prayer, then after the prayer suddenly thet strong wind and the heavy rain disappear, and we finally findout that it is because of the bad spirit. And on that day also a 1st year student of our school died. So our faculty suggested that we have to conduct a 9 day prayer. But until now when I go to our school in High School I can feel again the very clod when as what I’ve experienced in my High School life.

 Love is natural to all human being that are living in this world, it is an instrument of God to make his people to be one and be united. Love is a thing in this world that you cannot be replaced or you cannot buy. I can define love as sacrifice because, if she/he has a problem and they need a friends that could lean on there problem you are on there sides wiping there tears, and saying. "don’t worry i’ll be here to you help you". It means that you have to help him/her no matter how hard or difficult it is because you cannot only show that you are a friends in giving a gift but also you can show your love to them by your action or by your words on how you have helped them. Love is not only self seeking, jealous. Just like what Jesus Christ done for us, he decided to die on the cross to save us from all our sin, because he show and he sacrifice for us he did not think what will happen on him. Because of his great love he save us and he sacrifice for us.

The symbols on the white triangle of the Philippine flag are an eight rayed sun and three stars in gold. The sun represents the dawning of a new era of self determination that was desired in 1897 (when the flag was first designed) after the Spanish-American war and the US promise of independence, which was granted in 1946. The 8 rays on the sun stand for the 8 provinces that rose in revolt against Spanish rule in the late 19th century. The 3 stars stand for the 3 principal geographic areas of the country, Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. To complete the symbolism of the flag, the red stripe represents courage and bravery and the blue stripe is for noble ideals. The white triangle stands for the Katipunan, a revolutionary organization that led the revolt against Spain and the color white represents peace and purity. This flag is unique in that in peacetime, the blue stripe is uppermost but during wartime, the red stripe is on top.
Dave Martucci, 7 January 1998

The flag was first designed by General Aguinaldo in 1897 during his exile in Hong Kong. It was adopted on 19 May 1898 (Kindersley, 1997). Aguinaldo’s army defeated the Spaniards at the Battle of Alapan on 28 May 1898. The flag saw it’s first action that day. 28 May is recognized as Flag Day in the Philippines. On 12 June 1898 the Philippines declared independence from Spain and so began the First Philippine Republic. Based on Melchor (1998) and Kindersley (1997). On 14 Oct 1943 the flag was re-established Smith (1975). This was the date the Second Philippine Republic began (a puppet government under the Japanese). Just like the U.S., the Japanese had outlawed the flag during the earlier period of their occupation. 

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(Fortune Magazine) — I remember there was a time when the value of his enterprises was very low," recalls Patrick, the youngest son of Carlos Slim Helú. It was the early 1980s, and Mexico was in the depths of a massive financial crisis. Periodically the elder Slim would round up his three teenage sons for an economics lesson. Sitting them down in the living room of the family home, Slim would produce a single handwritten list. One line would show, for instance, how a Mexican insurance company was selling for far less than a similar American insurer. Another would show that compared with European candy or cigarette makers, Mexican manufacturers were drastically undervalued. "It was a very, very long time ago," says Patrick, "but I absolutely remember him teaching us at an early age."

For Slim, a onetime math instructor, this was no mere academic exercise. Yes, he wanted to instill in his sons the same lesson his father - a Lebanese immigrant who started acquiring real estate in Mexico City during the Revolution of 1910 - taught him: Though Mexico will have its ups and downs, don’t ever count the country out. But Slim wasn’t just teaching, he was buying. He spent $55 million on an insurance company. He took a stake in retailer Sanborns. He invested in a hotel chain.

Now those early investments are paying off big time. His three heirs - Carlos Jr., 40; Marco Antonio, 39; and Patrick, 38, run day-to-day operations at various Slim businesses and are increasingly making strategic decisions, while their father, who had heart surgery in 1997, pulls back. And Slim’s investments in downtrodden Mexico? They laid the foundations of a sprawling, $150 billion business empire whose growth in recent months has turned Carlos Slim Helú into the world’s richest man.

By our calculations, the 67-year-old Slim has amassed a $59 billion fortune, based on the value of his public holdings at the end of July. This number puts him just ahead of perennial No. 1, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose net worth is estimated to be at least $58 billion. But Gates is selling off his single greatest source of wealth, Microsoft stock, to fund his foundation, while Slim’s fortune is growing at a stunning clip. His net worth jumped $12 billion this year alone. His family’s holdings represent more than 5% of Mexico’s 2006 gross domestic product, and Slim-controlled companies make up one-third of the $422 billion Mexican Bolsa, or stock exchange.

Portly and often puffing a cigar, Slim could pass for a latter-day Latin American J.P. Morgan. But with his dominant stakes in everything from phones to finance, his business profile more closely resembles that of John D. Rockefeller, who likewise thrived in a loosely regulated environment. (For the record, though, even in current dollars Rockefeller’s wealth pales in comparison to Slim’s: At his death in 1937, Rockefeller was worth $20.3 billion, representing one fifty-second of 1937 U.S. GDP.) The average Mexican encounters a Slim-owned business when she visits an ATM, drives a car, stops for coffee, and especially when she picks up the phone - Slim’s Teléfonos de México controls 92% of the country’s phone lines, and his América Móvil wireless service has a 70% market share. George W. Grayson, a professor of government at the College of William & Mary, coined the term "Slimlandia" to describe how entrenched the Slim family’s companies are in the daily life of Mexicans.

It’s not a reverential term. Many Mexicans hoped privatization, which began in the early 1990s, would create competition and drive prices down drastically. That hasn’t happened. "Slim is one of a dozen fat cats in Mexico who impede that country’s growth because they run monopolies or oligopolies," says Grayson. "The Mexican economy is highly inefficient, and it is losing its competitive standing vis-à-vis other countries because of people like Slim."

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