Republic of the Philippines

PHILIPPINE STATE COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICS

Piccio Garden, Villamor Air Base, Pasay City
INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT – SOCIAL SCIENCES AREA

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

PEER TEACHING ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITY

Maramot, Christian Noe

Reyes, Adrian Cayle
BSAeE 1-1

Video Presentation Reflection/Reaction Suggested Action

City of the Future: In this video, we can see how Singapore
Singapore by National is improving, developing, creating,
Geographic innovating, and inventing solutions for
https://www.youtube.co the problems that their country will
m/watch?v=xi6r3hZe5Tg encounter in the future. Their problems
are mostly because of their small land
mass. Therefore, engineers and
architects always consider these
problems before making a move or
action to prevent more conflicts. Their
mindset is not what to build or invent
in the future but when is the right time
to do it. That is why before they put
something into action, they make a
couple of years advancements on the
plans and strategies they will do. For
example in the agricultural industry,
indoor farms constructed by Sustenir
Agriculture enable Singapore to
continue to produce its own food even
when all the land masses are used up
by other infrastructures/buildings and
It may be too late, but I
suggest that the Philippines
should focus on what their
forte is. The government
should create more plans
and actions pertaining to
agriculture since the
country is known for vast
production of crops,
instead of putting much
attention on
industrialization which is
not the country's comfort
zone. The government
should also invest in
education to enable us to
produce skilled
professionals in the future.
 this innovation might, in the near
future, make Singapore a self-
sustaining country. Moreover, delivery
services became easier and faster
because of Skyway and Airbuses.

Laban, DH: A The video showed how domestic I suggest that Overseas
Documentary by Howie helpers from the Philippines suffered to Workers Welfare
Severino their employers in Kuwait. These Administration (OWWA)
https://www.youtube.com/ employers abused, molested, tortured should provide or
watch? and even killed domestic helpers. Last strengthen the laws or
v=IWg6I9N3MPM&t=172s February 16, 2018, the corpse of a agreement between other
filipina worker named Joanna countries that would
Demafelis was taken home in the protect the safety and
Philippines after missing for almost one dignity of our Overseas
year. Her body was found in the freezer Filipino Workers (OFW's).
of her employer in Kuwait. Due to the
increasing cases of crime pertaining to
the Filipino domestic helpers in Kuwait,
President Duterte declared employment
banned of Overseas Filipino Workers
(OFW's) in Kuwait. This video shared
the experiences of domestic helpers in
the hands of their employers through
the interviews that Howie Severino
conducted. I commend the president for
doing the right move since we've heard
the stories of other domestic helpers. If
he didn't declare the deployment
banned, there would be more Filipinos
who would suffer and die in Kuwait.
This is saddening to see, but we can't
blame Filipinos for sacrificing their lives
in abroads due to lack of jobs and low
salary they would receive here in the
Philippines.

Overpopulated by British As for the video, the population of the Same in the video, I suggest
Broadcasting Company world increased not because people are
https://www.youtube.com/ having more children in a family, that a
watch?v=- mother gives birth every other year, but
UbmG8gtBPM&t=197s because the quality of life improved.
Vaccines are created, food is more
accessible, medicine is improved. This
is the reason why there are more people
in the world. In fact, the world is
projected to stay at 11 billion from 2100
onwards. Personally, I think that there
is no overpopulation in the world, that
resources can’t keep up with the
population. It is just that the rich don't
want to share their wealth and
distribute the resources evenly among
the population of the world. People live
in extreme poverty but the rich, having
most of the wealth in the world, can;
even bat an eye to help these people.We
can live in this world with more than 7
billion people, we are just too greedy to
help others.
The Race is On: Secrets The video showed the steps the UK is
and Solutions of Climate taking in order to stop or alleviate the
by Global Documentary negative effects of climate change. The
https://www.youtube.com/ video showed that the UK is aiming for
watch? a zero carbon emission by using
v=_jA8k4YDzlo&t=229s sustainable emerging technologies like
solar energy,wind energy, and
hydroelectric. The video also discussed
the factors and barriers that hinders the
development and deployment of these
technologies. Main hindrance is
economics, it is so integrated into our
society that most companies and policy
makers value the market or profit more
for the Philippines to
strengthen their family
planning program in order
for families to see through
how big they really want
their families and up to
how many children they
can support. I want families
to know to only have
children if they are sure
they can support them
rather than see children
dying of poverty and even
live without proper
education and shelter.
I suggest the Philippines
commit to a greener future.
We can create laws that
will limit carbon emissions
and a campaign for a less
meat consumption for a
more sustainable diet. We
can also fund research in
emerging technologies like
solar power, nuclear power
and the likes so we
wouldn’t be left behind.
 than the effects of these markets to our
world. They would like to see more
money than see a livable earth for
future generations. And I agree with
the video, that it is the willingness to
abide by the Paris Accord that will
solve our current problem with climate
change. We have the means, the
technology, the manpower to start a
new green revolution but the world and
leaders lack the will to do so. I also
agree that actions need to start from us,
the citizens, because everything that we
do, like the wings of a butterfly, will
have a huge collective effect on our
society.

Religion by Crash Course The video discussed the integration and
Sociology the effect of religion in a society. It
https://www.youtube.com/ showed the positive and negative
watch?v=pIgb-3e8CWA influences of religion in society. It
showed that religion could be a place
for social interaction and a kind of
social control that sets rules for people
that belong to a certain religion of what
is morally right or wrong, and how to
act inside and outside of this group. It
also showed the negative influence of
religion like how it empowers
patriarchy and formally recognizes
dizcrimination against women marking
them as immoral beings (e.g. Eve
committed the original sin by tempting
Adam to eat the forbidden fruit) and
controlling how women act, believing
that a woman must be under their man.
Religion also empowered racial
I suggest for the
Philippines, the
government to be exact, to
separate from their religion
and beliefs in order to
create laws and rule the
country with utmost
impartiality apart from
their own beliefs cultivated
from their religions.
Religion would only hinder
us to see the effects of laws
if we see it as immoral, like
the Abortion law, Divorce,
and also Same Sex
Marriage/Union. We can’t
function as a just and
impartial society if we
don’t separate religion
from our state.
 inequality, most people citing in the
bible that dark skinned people are
sinful and justifies slavery. As for me, I
don’t believe in religion because I think
that religion only hinders us to see and
empathize with others. I see religion as
a way of people to justify their hate
toward others, especially with the
LGBT community for today marking
them as immoral and sinful, but can’t
even see that they are the one who's
been sinful by judging and directing
hate to someone who just wants to live.

What is ASEAN and why The video tackled about what Based on what I've
it is important for Association of Southeast Asian Nation watched, we should make
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is and its purpose to or create more
by Now This World Southeast Asian Nation. It is stated that organizations and
https://www.youtube.com/ ASEAN is a political and economic associations that would
watch?v=5FIl3bxwLdw alliance of ten countries. Actually, strengthen the bonds of
ASEAN was formed by the five each country not only in
countries , Indonesia, Singapore, Southeast Asia but all over
Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand, the world. With this, it
last August 8, 1967. Furthermore, this would be easier for
secures the region against the threat of everyone to relay the
communism and to give Southeast Asia information and ideas
a cohesive voice on certain issues. As needed in order to avoid
time passed by, ASEAN shifted focus misunderstanding.
on international trades, order security,
and collaboration of neighboring
countries like China and Korea.
Moreover, the importance of ASEAN
was also discussed. It is stated that this
association attracted interest from all
over the world including the United
States. I firmly believe that ASEAN
unites and strengthens the relationships
of each country. It helps solve problems
or conflicts of a country to another
country and provides goods and
services in times of calamities.