REFLECTION

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Memories that will never be forgotten. I tried things I never did before. I learned different things. I considered learning as my new favorite thing to do.

During my third quarter in our subject ICT, I learned how to make my own website. I learned the different parts of the Microsoft Front Page. Working in Microsoft Front Page is much easier than working on Notepad. It was very tiring and disgusting when it comes to editing web pages. But somehow, I realized that learning how to edit add hyperlinks and interactive buttons in my web pages is more fun than just adding html tags. I found the magic of microsoft frontpage by the use of interactive buttons and hyperlinks.I am very happy everytime I linked my web pages to one another. But of course, making blogs is not forgotten. We continue making our blogs. Those lessons helped me a lot in improving myself.

Studying is not all about encountering interesting things. I also encountered a lot of struggles or challenges that made me a stronger one. Too many school work is very stressing.

I address this challenges by the help of my parents, teachers, some classmates, some friends, enemies, and specially by the help of God. Without them, I don't know how weak I am right now. Without them, I don’t know if I were able to passed this challenges.

Moving on, I will do my best in order to overcome those challenges. I will consider those challenges as part of growing and improving myself to be the best and to be lifted up despite the people who's trying to put me down. I consider those people as my inspiration to fight everyday and face the world boldly.

A SAVIOUR WAS BORN

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Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. A time for us to understand the lessons from Jesus & reflect on them. In today’s day and time, it is easy to lose sight of the true meaning of Christmas. Amidst the delicious meals, sweet drinks, lovely songs & dances, beautiful friends & family members we would come across this season, let’s try not to forget about the child, who was born on a night cold winter, whose bed was made only of hay & animal food; our lord Jesus Christ, who taught us all what real, genuine & unconditional love is. As we celebrate the birth of our saviour, let’s be kind enough to remember & show some love to those motherless babies, helpless orphans, hospital patients, prisoners, beggars & all those who are not fortunate enough to be actively involved in the celebration of the birth of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

And if we are to celebrate Christmas, we have to celebrate it with our loving presence instead of feasting. What great joy it would be if we come together as family and share that loving presence with each other even without the partying. What great joy there is if we also celebrate Christmas that same loving presence together with a sick or a hungry neighbor. Or what about spending Christmas with those who are abandoned by their loved ones? In the words of Mother Teresa, “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

God does not expect us to do great things this Christmas. We only need to do things with great love. Finally, this Christmas, may we contemplate God’s humility in Jesus, his divinity hidden beneath the poverty of a the Holy Infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger; the Master and Creator of the universe reduced to the helplessness of a child. Once we accept this paradox, may we discover the truth behind it and that truth is His Love. The First Noel, the Savior becomes one of us, our companion along the trying times. May we all take his hand which he stretches out to us: a hand which seeks to take nothing from us, but only to give.

EQUALITY IS NOT A PRIVILAGE, BUT A HUMAN RIGHT

        

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 Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities. A strictly economic approach to development views a country's development in quantitative terms such as job creation, inflation control, and high employment – all of which aim to improve the ‘economic wellbeing’ of a country and the subsequent quality of life for its people. In terms of economic development, quality of life is defined as access to necessary rights and resources including but not limited to quality education, medical facilities, affordable housing, clean environments, and low crime rate.

 Gender and development considers many of these same factors; however, gender and development emphasizes efforts towards understanding how multifaceted these issues are in the entangled context of culture, government, and globalization. Accounting for this need, gender and development implements ethnographic research, research that studies a specific culture or group of people by physically immersing the researcher into the environment and daily routine of those being studied, in order to comprehensively understand how development policy and practices affect the everyday life of targeted groups or areas.

Women in Development, Gender and Development, Women and Development, The Human Rights and Gender, Environment and Development paradigms have shaped the course of development literature by taking into account both women 's and men’s involvement with and in development. These five central perspectives have attempted to deconstruct gender bias in the economic, the social and the political sphere in order to show how development affects women and men in the global south. In the 1970s, WID came into use after Ester Boserup recognized that women had been excluded from economic development, resulting in them being more disadvantaged than men.

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