Alcohol addiction, also known as alcoholism, is a disease that affects people of all walks of life. Alcohol drinking is common to us adults. In the Philippines, alcohol is part of adulthood. it is a way of socializing among people and friends. Alcohol is common in celebration like birthdays, anniversaries, special holidays and etc. but sometimes people abuse alcohol, they drink too much or many times and its affects their lives. sometimes people who drank alcohol didn’t know what their doing in their drunk stage and sometimes commit crimes. people need to control their habits and start a healthy living.

posted by: Jun Mar Albarando

Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects person’s brain and behavior and leads to inability to control the use of illegal drugs or medication. substances such as marijuana, nicotine, and so called shabu in the Philippines. Drug addiction has become a worldwide problem, especially in teenagers. Many young people become dependent on different types substances and stimulating medicines that comes hand-in-hand with narcotic effect. The life of addicts becomes spoiled in all aspects, as they lose contact with their family and live in a different world. They spend lots of money on drugs, and then look for ways to earn money illegally. If we compare the health problems, there are many dangerous effects of drugs. drugs can destroy our life, we must stop it

posted by: Kirby Allen Yonting

Poverty is the state of being extremely poor, not having enough material possessions or income for a person’s needs to live at a comfortable life. In the Philippines there are many Filipinos who are living in difficulties, poverty is the main reason for it. poverty is a serious problem to deal with, if you’re poor, your future is not secured. we can see there are many homeless and beggars in our country, which is very heartbreaking. if only I could be rich, I would help them. Even poverty is a problem for us many, we must have hope, if we work hard we could achieve the life we wanted. Do not let our problem to knock us down instead we must pray to God always and be strong.

posted by: Jun Nino Abatayo

Bullying is an issue that has been affecting many in the world today. It takes place in many forms some of which are direct and include physical harm on the victim. Verbal bullying involves name calling and insults or threats being directed at the victim and may also involve emotional bullying where the victim’s emotions are targeted by the bully. Other forms of bullying may be indirect where the harm is not caused by the person directly but it still ends up affecting the person.

Bullying in schools has been ongoing for a long time now and is experienced in very many areas of the school. It occurs in some specific areas in the school compound and environment which include the School Bus Park, hallways and bathrooms and even during recess (Banks, 1997). It normally consists of a group of bullies who like isolating a student and bullying them by teasing and taunting the student. Some of them pressure the student to perform various tasks that humiliate the student. Teachers and school administrators have also been known to perpetrate bullying in the schools. They target a particular student and humiliate or abuse the student aggressively.

The causes of bullying arise from the social setting of the bullies. The bullies usually get the trait from the family setting or from experiences from home. Studies have shown that most bullies emerge from families that experience physical forms of punishment and where the families are undergoing some form of abuse. School bullies tend to lack warmth from their parents and they then strike back through bullying other children in order to handle their problems. They may also acquire the behavior by learning it from friends and peers (Banks, 1997).

Posted By: Richard Canape

There is a tendency to classify all victims of racism under the label “people of color” or “black, Asian and minority ethnic” people (shortened to BAME). However, this generalist approach fails to account for the varied ways that racism affects different races. There is anti-black racism, anti-Asian racism (which affects east Asians and south Asians differently), anti-Arab racism, even sometimes anti-white racism. To be clear, all these strands of racism are significant, and we need to work to eradicate them all. Yet, historically, it’s black people who have most often found themselves at the bottom of the pile.

In the US, black people are more likely to be arrested for drugs offences even though they are not more likely to use or sell drugs, and as a result make up a disproportionate amount of the prison population. They also have a higher chance of getting shot by the police than white or Hispanic people. In today’s Brazil, black people are still treated as second-class citizens; while in India, students of African origin are persecuted. In South Africa, a majority black country, 72% of the country’s private farmland is owned by white people, who make up 9% of the population. During the apartheid era there was a clear racial hierarchy: whites at the top, Indians and “COLORED” in the middle, and black people at the bottom.

Posted By: Stracy C. Watin II

It started when Novel Corona virus or nCoV outbreak in Wuhan China. A deadly virus that affects the respiratory, symptoms like fever, cough, cold, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. The cause of this disastrous disease is from eating exotic foods like bats. China is known for eating exotic foods but unfortunately they started a great jeopardy to people, affecting many lives and people’s perception about them, that’s why other race started to discriminate Chinese people. As the deadly virus spreads, the discrimination is also spreading affecting other Chinese who are not part of the infectious disease. We must not judge and passing the wrong information, instead we must help them in preventing further loss of lives and educate other people about the virus.

Posted by: Vance Tyron Sagolili

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