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2107 is the International Year of Sustainable tourism for development and in line with this, there have been numerous seminars that discussed about the importance of this year's theme. This year, tourism all over the world focuses on sustainability. But first, what is sustainable tourism ? Sustainable tourism as defined by UNWTO is "tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities." Sustainable tourism promotes preserve, sustain and respect. Sustainable tourism should make optimal use of environmental resources in the destination, respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities and ensure viable, long term economic operations. Promoting sustainable tourism in a destination will not be possible without the cooperation between the NGO, LGU, locals and tourists. Sustainability must be known to all, especially to the tour...

   Depression ( major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. - American Psychiatric Association Depression is not a joke . This is a problem that should be treated seriously and carefully. Feeling depressed is not new to everybody, many people have depression and this disorder makes everyday living very difficult. There are different types of depression that have different types of outcomes, the worst with this is suicide . Depression can lead to suicide if nobody cared enough for that certain person.  Many people today suffer from depression and fortunately, it can be treated. I would like to tell everyone to at least listen or reach out to them - they maybe your friend, family member, or a stranger - because people who suffer from depression need somebody to listen to them and help them. This is one of the basic treatments to depression.  I would like t...

By: R. W. Connell  Hegemonic masculinity was understood by Connell as external hegemony  that is connected to the institutionalization of men's dominance over women. Connell derives that understanding from the essential feminist insight that the relations between genders involve oppression and domination. However, Connell also generated hegemonic masculinity an internal hegemony  that refers to hegemony over other masculines.  It can be analyzed from the critique paper that hegemonic masculinity is rather a cultural idea  that is constantly promoted by the society through its production of masculinity practices, especially today with the use of media. And when the conditions for the production of masculinities happen, reproduction of patriarchy will occur. From the previous blog, it is true that hegemonic masculinity can indeed change over time  and will adapt accordingly if the strategies were effective. This function can be seen the society motiv...

By: R. W. Connell  Hegemonic masculinity has obviously influenced the way people and the society think of men, gender, and the social hierarchy. The hegemonic masculinity was first used as a framework to understand and study men and masculinity, until it became a subject on debates and applied to anti-violence works and revolts. Hegemonic masculinity also attracted serious criticism from sociology, psychology, etc. Even now with the use of internet, there has already been a public postings and discussions on masculinity.  From Connell's perspective, the concept of masculinity is said to rest logically on a dichotomization of sex vs gender. (Refer from the blog post earlier, difference between sex and gender is discussed). It can be analyzed from the statement of Connell that masculinity  represents not a certain type of man but, rather, a way that man position himself through different practices. Connell also said that there is a dualistic representation of mascu...

Recognizing someone, as male or female, is fundamental to our ability to interact with them. The difference between sex and gender has already been tackled in this blog, as well as the third-world genders. A problem to these genders is that becoming an androgyny is hard, it is hard to socialize with others without them judging you first. We must have in our knowledge that distinction of two sex and two gender is a socially created only, not a natural. Gender codes become the medium on communicating and on distinguishing genders. Today, advertisements and media have impacts on gender, as it becomes the way of communication to everyone. It shows how a woman portray softness and delicateness, and on how men portray power and control all through advertisements on magazines and etc, it also shows how men and women in there seem 'normal'. With the advertisements, it sparked the social idea that femininity, naturally a female sexuality, represents the codes of submissive, ...

I will dedicate this particular blog to my opinion/review on the movie entitled Bar boys . This is a Filipino movie and I'm very proud of it, and I am grateful that I had the chance to watch it. This movie gives the viewers the life of being a law student, what spices it up are the life lessons you receive after watching the movie.  Bar boys  is a movie that shows everyone how everything is done inside a law school, how pressuring it is to study law, and how your tropa  will help you get through everything. Of course the first scenes of this movie shows the best buddies trying to check if they passed entrance examinations to their law school, as time goes by 3/4 friends passed and then those three friends got into a lot of laughter, trouble, pain, and took especially a lot of risks just to pass their law school. They've been broken from their significant others, family, and most of the time they fought with each other. But at the end of the day, all they got are them...

Media have a very important role in the world today. Media is everywhere, and most people rely on media alone. In the early centuries, audience like us are called reader . Wherein we, as the audience, are known for being passive in a way that there are no opinion from an audience that matters. Nonetheless, in our century today, audience are now called users  which means that audience are no more passive, and is now active. Wherein we, as audience, are able to reach out to others by stating our own opinions on certain matters. Also, by being known now as users, we are able to contribute contents to platforms created by media. From there, Mass Media  was produced. Defining mass media, it refers to channels of communication that involve transmitting information in some way. shape, or form to large number of people. There are two ways of communication, the one-to-many communication : where information is gathered only from one source and transmitted to everybody; and the ...