REACTION PAPER

Outline

- Intro
- Body 3 paragraph per vid
- Conclu/ realization, lesson, and recommendation
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Are we steadily improving? Do we, Filipinos deserve the life that we have? or are we stuck in a rut with
no means to progress? Those are some of the questions that run into my mind after I watched those
three different documentaries about the real-life struggles of Filipinos. I often wonder what the missing
component is for us to develop and grow in order to live our lives in the way that we deserve. As we
know, the Philippines has been tied up with different circumstances that brought economic factors and
social issues which also led to economic downfall. One of them is Poverty that is remained to be one of
the country's major socioeconomic challenges for a long generation. This is the situation where the
Philippines is still falling behind other countries because as of now, we do not have a proper plan and
solution for how to solve this chronic poverty. As a result of that, many individuals are suffering and
sacrificing their skill and strength, even if it is not full enough for us to live a better life and I witnessed
that while I was watching those documentaries.

In the first documentary, entitled PAAralan. This is all about children living in an area that is far from
civilization who walk for almost three hours and cross some of the bridges just to attend their classes in
school. These students are facing the risk of accidents daily because of their situation, where some of
them are having a hard time walking because of the mud and sloppy roadway when they go to school.
Seeing those children helped me to realize how we should be dedicated and motivated to finish our
studies. We should be grateful for what we have right now because some of us don’t have the will to go
to school, because based on what I saw to them, they are not getting tired to walk, even if they stumble
and fall, they will stand again like nothing is happen because for them being educated can help them to
get out in poverty and have a better life. Aside from that if those kids are doing their part, the
government should also do its part and role to help them. According to one teacher who teaches in that
school, the condition in their neighborhood has remained like that for a long time, and their officers
didn’t know about it. They were clueless that there are some people in their town experiencing things
like that and that is unreasonable. Each of us knew that we had funds for those circumstances, and that
is why we have no one else to blame but the government and other sectors when we experience that
situation.

Next on the line is the “Ambulansya De Paa”, this documentary is focused on one of the causes of
poverty which are malnutrition and lack of medical checkups of the families who live in the mountains
or what they called “Little Baguio”. In Here Kara David, the reporter, has seen how poor life was there
and what people looked like. Their town lacks medical equipment, and they have no doctors that will
check on their health, which is why most of the people there are sick and malnourished, especially
children. According to the community, they use “Duyan” as their ambulance or service to carry out the
sick person to the center and that will take a long walk because they need to cross first more than five
rivers to reach the medical center and that is so sad and heartbreaking because the situation in here is
between the life and death, where they have no choice but to face the reality of their lives. However,
witnessing this made me feel bad for them because even if we cry out for help from those people who
are in higher positions, they will remain unbothered and forget about our concerns. What a sad reality,
right? That is why remember, as long as there are crooked people, there is no prospect for a better
society.

Moreover, the last documentary entitled “Krisis ng Sikmura”, is about the lack of sufficient income to
sustain their basic and essential needs that include proper food and a healthy lifestyle. This crisis is kind
of sensitive, it feels like you can't bear it when you watch it, especially the first scene about “Pagpag”,
where they collect leftovers of food from the dumpsters, they will wash it, and cook it again for them to
eat it or sell it at a lower prize. Witnessing this kind of situation helped me to realize that these people
that includes fishermen and farmers are having a hard time finding a way to live, they do not have
proper and stable jobs that help them to survive, wherein sometimes they will lower their pride and
dignity first before they could eat. In that part, when they do not have anything to eat on their plates, I
realized that we people who can eat three times a day or more should be grateful because we do not
experience those situations in life. But if I was in that position, I would definitely be dead for the reason
that I could not bear the situation of hunger.

However, watching these kinds of documentaries will open our eyes and minds widely to the real
meaning of “POVERTY”, which is usually seen in undeveloped areas where there are a lot of cases of
malnutrition and deaths due to hunger and lack of proper care. CONTINUE TOMRO AND WRITE
2. what is economic development for you?

Outline

- Intro
- What is econ deve
- Realization of importance
- Advatanges for economy

In our economy, many changes are expected to happen. It can be a good change for everyone to have a
fresh start but at the same time, it could still have some negative impact on others and our society.
Economic Development is a kind of system or program that aims to enhance and improve the well-being
and livelihood of the people in the community. It has a bigger scope that deals with economics, which
involves different types of scarcity, social, and infrastructure, and the most commonly involve are
political, it is an institution and system on building government role which creates and implements
policies to regulate the political situation, which would improve the security and welfare of the people
that will bridge the gap to have economic growth. However, as we tackled this topic, economic
development is not similar to economic growth. There are distinctions between them. Economic growth
can be happened in a short period of time, while Economic development takes time. It should have an
outline plan on how to start and achieve sustainable action for the development, because as the lesson
teach me, one action is not enough for a change, it takes time to grow and have better living standards,
but having a sustainable action can maintain what we are achieving for.

Moreover, having a brief understanding of economic development I realized that this is the stage where
we should increase our action on sustainability and resilience in order to maintain a high standard of
living that creates means of development, growth, and opportunities in various sectors in the economy
such as in Education, where they have this program called “ESC” that simply means cash assistant and
free tuition fee on state universities from our taxes that is implemented by the government that could
easily change the life of one family that is inefficient to support their children’s education. Environment,
if we pay our taxes and the government handles it well enough. They can easily change the life of the
poor and they could reduce the rates of unemployed citizens, by giving them an opportunity jobs for
them to sustain their basic needs. Through that our environment will grow because people have
sufficient income to buy commodities that will result to produce many resources of goods and services
for them. Also, it will attract business owners to develop their businesses, establish and keep
employment, and improve the quality of life in our communities. But on the other hand, when we talk
about economics in our environment “SCARCITY” is always there and that is the huge negative impact of
economic development on the life of the people because scarcity is not easy to avoid. It is everywhere.
That is why, Economic development processes should not just provide more or better means of
production, but they should also allow for more equitable distribution to avoid those circumstances.

To sum it up, Economic development is life-changing for an economy because it is frequently related to
improving the lives of everyone, where it decreases poverty rates due to the support of one another.
Also, it builds on better living standards and a healthier community because everyone is aware and
knowledgeable of what has to be done to enhance our economy and ensure a brighter future.
3. Write the list of Millennium Development Goals (2015 - MDG)

MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education.

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.

MDG 4: Reduce child mortality.

MDG 5: Promote maternal health.

MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other major diseases

MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.

MDG 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development.

4. Does Philippines achieved the MDG

According to MDG Monitor, the Millennium Development Goals consist of eight action plans for each
state on our planet that will enable us to build a better society. This was implemented in the year 2001
and is expected to be achieved by 2015. Now, in the Philippines, it is hard to determine if we achieved
those MDGs because based on my research our country is not growing when it comes to growth
development. In another word, we are lagging behind other countries. So, in my perspective, our
country did implement those aims and goals, but we did not achieve them due to the different
circumstances and problems in our country.

Government is one of the primary causes of why we don’t have sustainable growth. This is because
some of the funds that are intended for us are corrupted by them for their own benefit. They did not
even achieve to maintain the first MDG which talks about reducing the poverty and hunger, because if
you will think about it based on what we see in our surroundings, there are still many individuals or
families felt hunger that will cause them not to have a healthy body due to insufficient income. That will
also cause a domino effect on the other MDGs, where some of the children do not have the will to go to
school to have a better education background and because of that many people will judge them based
on who they are, that will have an effect on the MDG’s no. three, where it talks about gender equality
and women empowerment. They could easily criticize them, and some other women will land in a
situation that they did not intend to be in, which is teenage pregnancy that will cause the community
not to achieve the remaining goals, because of judgment and poverty.

In conclusion, the Philippines did not achieve those MDGs because of some people who run the country.
They don’t have a proper and well-structured plan for where to begin to accomplish those goals, and
that is why we are still here today, no progress and improvement that other countries may be proud of.