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Black Propaganda Looms on 2010 Philippine Campaign Trail

The Philippine Elections is just around the corner and it gets noisy when campaign wagons are roaming around the city with super mega phones exalting each name of the Candidates and startle you with campaign jingles that will wake anyone up from an afternoon siesta. I went out to get a drink and overheard the gossips debating about celebrities turned public servants and Politicians not being a real public servants, supposedly. They debated over the promises of Politicians; when they are on the campaign trail and once elected will the promises materialize? These ordinary citizens talked about Politicians endearing attitude during elections, some of them are even employed by the candidates--but one thing is sure they know what is going on. The "packaging" that PR companies do in grooming the Candidates, surprised I volunteered to ask "paano niyo po alam iyon?" the lady answered naku "Maam sa tv po, napanood ko po, na malaki po ang binabayad nila sa mga PR...

Amorsolo, 1892-1972 Fernando Amorsolo The shipworms of the Philippine islands, (Smithsonain institution. United States National museum. Bulletin 100) If you have Antiques and paintings that was slightly damaged in storage or by accident, examine the extent of the damage; secure it and put the item in a safe place specially if the Painting or Antique is a part of a significant collection. Minor or Major damages should be brought immediately to the National or State Museum that conducts restoration on damaged Art work, antiques and artifacts, In the Philippines, one can proceed to the National Museum and look for the Arts Department let the National Museum Curator help you regarding a damaged art work. They have a "restoration Department" at the said agency for a minimal amount. If you are a collector and you want to Authenticate a painting, Antique, or Artifact; collectors will be reffered to the Authentication Department of the Museum---more significantly if the paintin...

Narrative Poetry: is a form of story in the fiction and non-fiction genres intended to be told. An Epic is poetry that speaks of adventures and heroes such as "The Hungry Stones" written by Rabindranath Tagore. Ballad is poetry that is to be sung often speaks of sad and deep melancholy an example is a popular contemporary ballad called "The Ballad of the Green Beret" Written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler during the Vietnam war. Tale:a poem riddled with exaggeration and fiction like one written by Charles Dickens "A tale of two Cities". Poetry speaks of the "language of the heart" as prayer is to relating with God but in Philippine Literature other branches were added in different eras; such as the PASYON- a narrative verse of the sufferings of Christ during the "Semana santa" (holy week)in the Philippines. It is considered a significant literary work in a Catholic and Cristian dominated country, that is accentuated by ...

Literature is the expression of one’s excellent thoughts, feelings, emotions filled with truth and beauty, for in truth lies actuality and reality and-- in beauty the delights of the senses that exalts the mind and gives aesthetic pleasure. Main Divisions of Literature: Prose—called the language of the mind it is written in paragraphs and sentences that can be done in two types of genre; fiction and non-fiction Poetry--- called the language of the heart it is written in verses composing stanzas. Branches of Poetry: Lyric poetry—written in song like expression of the poet’s thoughts, feelings, emotions that has direct and primary object---the expression of personal emotion or emotional conceptions of the Author. The kinds of Lyric poetry are: Song—a literary work direct, short and simple adapted to be sung example of this type of work is “Song to Celia” by John Donne. ---Ode--a poem written to be sung often written in exalted style but it is longer than a song usually addressed...

The Newly revealed Gospel of St. Thomas is a non-canonical Gospel known as the Apocryphal book of the gospels. The collections of Gospels has an uncanny similarity if not connections to the four Gospels in the New Testament during Chrit's ministry in Jerusalem that was widely recognized by the Cannon Law of the Cathtolic Church. Discovered in 1945, in Nag Hammadi , Egypt wriiten in Coptic Language and named by modern day Scholars as Codex 2 the Gospel contained sayings of Jesus Christ written in Aramaic a-- hebrew language that is almost extinct. Mostly called the Hidden Words of Jesus becuase it was literally hidden and was not intended for publications along with the four Gospels in the New Testaments by--Cannon Law Priests and High ranking Church Officials in the Early Christian Orthodox Church.

The Song depicts the deterioration of the Environment and the world because of Human inflicted sources--Greed for Power,Money, technology---- that is destroying the balance of the Natural movement of Life in our Planet the way it was created by God. Human Inventions such as Nuclear weapons will be a Major contributor to the distruction of the World and the Human race. A part of of the lyrics that hit me over and over is--- 'in your eyes you're staring at the end of time". Illegal cutting of trees in the different rain forests of the world is second major contributor to the distruction of Natural resources and someday soon the scarcity of food, energy, and clean water. So, Let us not say good bye to Mother earth, It was Lovingly created by God--that WE may be in-charge of His creation, it was A responsibility to and for us---and not to abuse and destroy it.