FEATURE WRITING CONTEST

The Blue Palm invites everyone to participate in the Feature Writing Contest entitled Express Your Thought in Writing which will be held at LPENHS Library on July 8, 2009 at 10:00 – 12:00 am for 2nd year and 3rd year participants and 1:30 pm– 3:00pm for 1st year to 4th year participants. This contest is open for all students of Las Pinas East National High School. Winning pieces (1st – 3rd Places) will be published in school’s website, the blue palm’s blog, and school paper publication. 1st – 3rd place winners will be announced through the school’s website.

Steps on how to join the contest:

1. Email your name, year and section, and your intention to join the contest address to thebluepalm@yahoo.com not later than July 5, 2009.
2. Read and study the guidelines of the contest that The Blue Palm will be sending through your email.
3. Attend the orientation on the scheduled date, time, and place. Failure to attend the said orientation will mean cancellation of your entry.
4. Come and enjoy the contest on July 8, 2009 at the School’s Library. Participants are scheduled in two sessions (morning and afternoon)

Schedule of training in Campus Journalism

The training of newly – registered writers will start on June 22, 2009. Photo journalism is scheduled on June 22 – 25 at 1:00 pm – 4:00pm. Participants are required to bring digital camera for photo shooting; News writing and headline writing follow on June 23, 25, 26, and 29 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm; Editorial writing is scheduled on June 24, 28, 29 from 1:30pm – 3:30pm. Feature writing is also scheduled on July 1 – 3, 6, 8, 10. Schedules for training on other categories will be posted on first week of August.

Participants must report at the office of the editor 5 minutes before training starts.

Posted by: The Blue Palm Adviser

Science Lab launched

Las Pinas East National High School has opened its renovated science laboratory to public students last Friday.

 

Little scientists performing an experiment on mutation at the newly-renovated science laboratory

LPENHS, Rotary Club LP team up

Part of two-week preparation of school stakeholders, administrators, parents, students, and private organizations under Brigada Eskwela, Las Pinas East National High School and the Rotary Club of Las Pinas teamed up to officially open Water Filtration System tagged as Fountain of Youth yesterday to serve more than 5,000 students.

The newly installed water filtration system sponsored by Rotary Club of Las Pinas  will supply students of the said school of safe drinking water by twelve – spout faucets.

Students, teachers, school administrators, and Rotary Club Las Pinas officers withnessed the turn over cerememonies which commenced with the ribbon cutting led by Rotary Club Las Pinas President Jun Alcantara; and followed by the project turn over.

Mrs. Eugenia V. Guerra, Las Pinas National High School (Main) Principal and Ms. Doris Capistrano, Las Pinas East National High School  Principal accepted the responsibility to maintain the water system.

In recognition to the efforts of the  RCLP, Mrs Eugenia V. Guerra awarded the Certificate of Recognition to RCLP President Jun Alcantara.

Annoucement

The Blue Palm is inviting everyone who has passion in writing (news, essay, scientific, and creative writing) to be part of a growing school paper and online publication.

Interested applicants (current students from Las Pinas East National High School) may  accomplish application form from the Blue Palm Office of the Editor in chief at the 2nd floor Villar Building, Las Pinas East National High School, Verdant Subd., Pamplona III, Las Pinas City; and get ready to take examination scheduled on June 3, 2009 at 9:00 am.

For more information visit http://202.91.162.20/laspinas/

Also visit school blog http://lpenhs.wordpress.com

Thank you

LPENHS website launched

Martha Jan

Participants Jinky Isada, Nestor L. Traballo, Rossan C. Ignacio, and Martha Jan

Las Piñas East National High School has finally launched its official website from the joined ICT program under Smart School in partnership of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Smart, and DepEd.

This Website conceived to provide a dynamic online platform for the creation and distribution of user-generated local content, to provide users with venue to reach local contents, and to enhance among education practitioners’ skills in the execution of the program.

Local contents that describe, promote, and expose untold stories; unpublished works; etc can be featured in the website.

LPENHS guidance office announces SY 2009-2010 enrolment

Rossan Ignacio

             The enrolment period at the Las Pinas East National High School (LPENHS) for all year levels is scheduled on May 25-27, 2009.

             Enrolment for incoming first and fourth year students which classes are held in the morning is scheduled at 8:00am to 12:00nn and second and third year which classes are held in the afternoon is also scheduled at 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

             For old students, the requirements for Enrollees are determined by the School Rules and Regulations or known as Student Manual; for incoming first year students, requirements are the following: Form 137, NSO birth certificate, and certificate of good moral character.

             In preparation for the opening of classes this SY 2009 – 2010, the Department of Education (DepEd) reminds public elementary and high school students that all school contributions are on voluntary basis as DepEd Order 33 series of 2007 mandated.

JOURNEY TO CENTER OF SUCCESS

By John Robert Son

A PROGRESSIVE, PEACEFUL, AND POWERFUL NATION owes its ideal identity from a well-founded society; a well-established society owes its vigour from its community bounded by strong ties of love, unity, and cooperation. A unified society and peaceful community, in a greater sense, settle in a state exhausting all means to achieve the ends for the public good and for the greatest joy of the greatest number of people from an honest and par-excellent leadership. Indeed, if a mass of population can boost up a particular nation, the same population –as an agent of its success can cause its downfall.

There may be a sudden turn of events induced by the masses that may prove to be unfavourable to the nation, and further, may be motivated by the disheartening actions manoeuvred for self interest of people who lead the state. Such kind of mess can be traced from the pages of our history. Saddening as it may seem, but the Philippines as revealed by regional polls, is insistently settling at the bottom-low-spot when it comes to dishonest governance.

Moreover saddling is the fact that our country was once “tiger-strong” economy now lags far behind our neighbouring and progressing Asian economies. What have gone wrong in our country?—the dominion of corruption and indifference, the unfettered propagation on culture of selfishness and self-interest towards rampancy!

As a democratic nation, in these times, that a mean veil enshrouds our national identity, there is an abnormally elevated necessity to offer much of ourselves for our glorious national re-emergence. The restoration of good governance, the revivification of our active participation and vigilance in and for social concern and issues confronting our existence will be a great leap for us all. But to arrive at such realization, we should start first with humble ways.

As we reside in each of our communities, there arise significant problems which need to be properly addressed—inadequate basic services are at the uppermost. What if there is a poor system of provision of services in our community? What if you had the chance to tour that hapless community of yours? As you travelled within your community, you can hardly concentrate because of the obnoxious, hideously blackish emission from the nearby factories.

Turning to your left, the feeling of disgust crawled into your body upon seeing the unheeded immensity of garbage and solid wastes abounding within the corner with flies rodents and even cockroaches feasting in it. After walking a few steps away, shame enveloped your entirety after seeing your feet covered with mud due to the unpaved shoddy road that was recently drenched by the rain. Suddenly, you felt sorry for your brother who together with your undernourished classmates, is listening to their teacher inside a shanty pent—up from plastered cartons and pieces of plywood. What can be done to a community like this? What alterations can be made to alleviate those said distressing sight?

From here transpires the idea of community service. It is as if the most effective cure for the social cancers posing infections to the inhabitants of various communities. And this cure, so simple to offer and administer, traces its roots from within us. It is like a seed deeply unplanted within our hearts, just waiting to be watered by willingness and nurtured by the feeling of compassion and empathy for our indigent countrymen.

Still Want to Live? Help Stop Global Warming!!

Have your thoughts stirred up as your eyes glanced and passed upon the preceding statement above?
A little?-no way!, not at all?!-Mercy  on you!

Well, by the way who would just care about “Global Warming”? It is  just only the foremost, the worst and the gravest problem our dear planet is facing nowadays as we are continuously getting fascinated by the vain and mundane things the modern age endows upon us.

With global warming comes the unstoppable onslaught of myriad catastrophes, evident in the presence of super typhoons, droughts, tornadoes, snow storms, floods, wildfires, and other  weather disturbances which are just a few.

Truly, the above climate catastrophes are attributable to global warming; but how? In what way?

Since earth’s history, present were already some gases in the atmosphere which are called “greenhouse gases.” They had been named as such for they have the ability to absorb infrared radiation (heat). Its two major components Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and water vapor, with regards to their average annual temperature, have rarely varied by more than one Celsius degree over the past 10,000 years. Probably, this is because most of carbon dioxide released into the air is readily dissolved by  oceans or used by forest in food making; but with the blossoming of life on earth more and more greenhouse gases surfaced-  contributing incessantly to the rapid increase of carbon dioxide built up in the atmosphere. Thereby, an enhanced tendency for greenhouse gases to trap more heat.

Historically, the above-cited incident can be proven true way back to the industrial revolution where the need for energy to run machines as to boost mainly the fields of agriculture and  industry, has started to increase. To compensate the said large demand for energy, humans started burning fossil fuels not knowing that burning these fuels releases enormous amounts of greenhouse gases.

And now, our generation is somewhat like continuing the destructive, uneducated ways of our forebears, of our predecessors. We tend to exacerbate greenhouse gas emission  on our little but innumerable acts, which are then worsened by the advent of technological advancement. Evidently, the emission of CFCs (chlorofluoro-carbons) from the production of refrigerators, air conditioners, and even propelling agents of ladies hair spray and paints. CFCs, which are 15,000 times more efficient than carbon dioxide in warming the atmosphere, add up to the overburdened global emission of carbon dioxide that has reached  28 billion metric tons. Notwithstanding the fact that there are other greenhouse gases which submerge the east in warmer temperatures;viz, methane and nitrous oxide. Methane (CH4) or marsh gas, having a higher warmer impact than CO2, accounts for 20 percent of the green house gases in the atmosphere and is emitted by garbage decomposition, agricultural wastes, coal mining leaks, and natural gas production. The other, nitrous oxide, is emitted from nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides, bio mass burning, combustion process in cars, and  producing nitric acid.

Inarguably, from the above citings come the inference that we – humans – are the chief cause for the thriving of global warming in the earth’s existence. From the majority of activities, we send immense amount of invisible green house gases that envelopes and pollutes the upper atmosphere, locks heat inside and radiates it back to earth. As this heat warms the earth, there occur disruptions in the world’s climate system enabling the upsurge of catastrophic phenomena.

It is hard to imagine, but we cannot bring back our original beauty of our planet in just one day in just a simple wink of the eye. Now that global warming starts to swell to severity, we have to find ways with the help of our existing knowledge and available technologies to counteract its negative consequences immediately. Do we have to wait and embrace the wanton possibility of ending up in extinction?

No! – this is the big answer. Who, in the world, would like to be extinct? Indeed, it is urgent for us to awaken our deep sense of love on nature and look and explore for numerous, affordable, simple ways to deal with global warming because, through such, we can save the only  sanctuary – planet earth – where we live in.

We can help stop global warming if we will just take the Mass Rail Transit (MRT), ride a bike, or walk whenever and wherever is possible.

We can help stop global warming, if we will just plant in our backyards, or grow trees that absorb carbon dioxide.
We can help stop global warming if we will reduce, reuse, recycle recyclables. Whenever we do these actions, we send less trash and help save precious resources like trees and oil. Further, it will take less energy to make recycled products than to make new ones lesser energy usage, the better.

Now is the time to act; for no country, no city, and no town will be exemption to the threat posed by the global warming. Philippines, like all other countries, is endangered to considering that it consists many low-lying islands and areas vulnerable to the gradual rise of sea levels as glaciers and polar ice are being thawed by global warming. We are now attuned to the loaming menace of drastic inundation, water scarcity, hunger and disease problems, and health risks which includes heat stress entailed by heat waves, water – born, food – born, and vector – born diseases and respiratory diseases due to air pollution.

Rightful, therefore it is to affirm that we consider energy efficiency as we buy appliances. We also have to urge our policy makers to cut pollution from fuels by shifting to cleaner, renewable energy and alternatives – solar, wind, geothermal, are just a few. We have to mitigate the abnormal rising of world temperature by summoning from within ourselves that strong will to exert more effort in reducing volumes of green house gases until reach normal levels.

Our fight against global warming should not be left to governments and scientists alone for we have in our midst the wide – array of four billion people who can do each of their shares to help intensify the total effort. To perpetuate and brighten our existence and the existence of earth itself is our primary goal, as what God desires for us. Such can be fulfilled if only we will just stop global warming.