There’s this young man in his late twenties. His name is Rick. He has been working for the government for several years now. It’s not a job that he likes (he even hates it sometimes) but it gets his bills paid and makes him afford a few luxuries from time to time, one of which is surfing.
Through the years that he has been dealing with politics, bureaucracy and red tape, he was able to afford to purchase his own car (under a loan) and invest on his own surfboard. He would frequent the beaches of La Union and Zambales on weekends that he was not required by his boss to come to work. One time, feeling very depressed and frustrated by his dead-end job, he drove all the way to La Union with some of his friends. It was December, the weather was cold and the waves were erratic. But till, they all went thinking how much fun they will have.
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Are you one of those people who are thinking about that job you let go while at the same time contemplating on getting it back? Do you feel like there seems to be no other option for you and are on the verge of accepting that you are probably meant to be miserable for the rest of your life? Don’t give up just yet. Life is one big classroom and the things you experience at different points in your life are your lessons. The moment you learn from a particular experience, mature form it and become a better person because of it, you move on to the next chapter. Otherwise, you will never graduate to the next level and it will always haunt you in one form or another. Life never runs out of lessons! Life is always full of them.
Government Support
Although the project is spearheaded by various members of the private sector, support from both the local and national government is absolutely necessary for it to succeed. Cooperation by the government can come in the form of additional funding, providing additional manpower, integrating ongoing local projects with the anti-piracy campaign and even through assistance in securing needed permits such as for concert venues, etc.
Funds from Sponsorships
One of the major strengths of this campaign is that it utilizes different media in getting its message across. Many of the projects are bound to attract attention and generate buzz. This allows us to ask for help from companies who might not have any stake in the issue. Companies not connected to the music industry can show their support through various sponsorships of the different projects and activities to be carried out.
Base of Operations and Communication Network
An established base of operations will smoothen out the logistics of the undertaking. Regional bases will also be needed. A physical office is not a requirement. A “base” may be composed of a phone, a fax, and a computer with a decent connection to the internet. Most communication can be coursed through the participants’ existing mobile phones. The project can also have a website where information is readily available and by which the organizers can also communicate. (i.e. via private message board)
Manpower
The most important part of any project would be the people who will make it happen. We envision a good mix of people from the project organizers themselves, to volunteers to support groups provided by the government and perhaps even NGOs and various youth organizations. There will also be the people from the major stakeholders, liaison officers from the media partners and record labels and most importantly perhaps, the music artists themselves who really should take a more active stance in changing how people view piracy in this country.
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“It’s been said that one of the most admirable quality of Filipinos is that even in times of deepest adversity we can still sing and smile. Let’s all work together and keep the music industry alive. Let’s end piracy today”. - Jennifer A. Juan
Conceptual Framework
What?
This project is all about using original Filipino music (and its various partners/stakeholders) to promote itself to the public making them purchase original Filipino music and hopefully altogether stop music piracy in the Philippines.
Where?
As mentioned, the target of this project is to promote anti-piracy in the Philippines, specifically in key cities and towns as follow: Metro Manila, Pasig City, Antipolo City, Baguio City, Cebu City, Davao City, Boracay, Tagaytay, White Beach, Puerto Galera, Cagayan De Oro City
When?
This project will start on September 2006 until February 2009. The first four months will be devoted to gathering of baseline information/data and funds from the various stakeholders and concerned groups. The last two months will be spent on the gathering of results and comparing them to the baseline data to see whether the objectives were met or not. Further evaluation will be done to effect and maintain the project’s sustainability.
Why?
Music Piracy, when closely looked at, has a lot of repercussions to our country – economically, politically and entertainment-wise.
Economically, we lose millions of pesos in taxes alone; we also lose numerous markets for job opportunities and the scenario looks bleak in front of our Western counterparts, causing them to not trust us with their music products for fear of it being illegally copied and pirated for global supply.
Politically, it reflects how badly our government is facing the piracy situation. It means that anti-piracy laws are being ineffective and inefficient and that the government is not really doing its best in combating the situation.
Entertainment-wise, it could mean the slow death of the entertainment industry. The producers are not earning properly from developing music talents and slowly, they might just totally give up on it. Pretty soon, nobody would want to make music anymore because it will just cost them too much to produce good music, without getting any returns from their investments.
How?
Promoting music anti-piracy is nothing new. Yet, it is also not very easy. Everyone has to do their part. For this project alone, we need the concerted effort of the entire music industry’s stakeholders. The main theme would be “music against piracy”. Various social marketing and social mobilization activities are discussed below on how to go about this project and hopefully at the end of the campaign period, more people would buy original music recordings and more people would fully support music anti-piracy.
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The Philippines is a music-loving country. We have composers and singers who have brought honors to our country by winning in international competitions. It has contributed financially (and still does so) to our presently struggling music industry if properly encouraged and supported by the government with appropriate legislation against anti-piracy.
The music industry in our country used to be a P2 billion thriving industry before music piracy sabotaged it to near collapse beginning in the year 2000. Aside from bringing pride to our country through our numerous talented singers and composers, this industry also has contributed economically by providing thousands of jobs within the record companies (such as promo girls, sales girls, delivery boys, and drivers as well as in allied industries like record bars, radio and TV stations, recording studios, concert venues, production staffs, costume providers, printing companies, disco and video bars, etc.), given financial support to government by way of paying millions of pesos in various taxes., brought joy to the buying public and masses, provided various and numerous opportunities in the field of music through the discovery of our many talented singers, musicians, and composers.
The article “A Comet” is quite short. Two readability tests are applied to the first one hundred words: Fry Readability Graph Test and SMOG Grading System (See Annex A). Both results showed that the article is approximated to be well-suited for Grade 6 and Grade 5 readers respectively, which is a very close approximation.
To justify, take a look once again at Chall’s Stages of Reading Development. On pages 153-154 of the textbook, Stage 3 refers to ‘reading for learning the new’ whose age range falls between 9-13 years old or Grades 4-8. The major qualitative characteristics and masteries by the end of this stage are:
1) “Reading is used to learn new ideas, gain new knowledge, to experience new feelings, to learn new attitudes”;
2) “Reading generally from one viewpoint”
This stage is termed by Erikson as the middle school age. And true enough, most, if not all of my memorable experiences here have something to do with school. In general, I remember that I was a very diligent and intelligent student. Yearly, from prep to grade six, I received recognition for my academic excellence and active extra-curricular service and participation. I went up the stage to talk, sing, dance, recite poems & speeches, host, declaim, etc. I was also one of the best kickball players and runners. St. Scholastica has helped developed all aspects of my personhood. I was always an active student and officer in my class and in various clubs. To wit: In Grade 2, I was the Class President and I received an academic award with honors; In Grade 3, I was the Art Club President, I received a “Best Club Member” certificate and I received an academic award with high honors; In Grade 4, I was the Sewing Club President, I received a “Best Club Member” certificate and I received an academic award with high honors; In Grade 5, I was the Class Vice-President and I received an academic award with honors; In Grade 6, I was a Barangayette Grade Level Representative and I graduated with high honors. So to speak, my academic life was really good during my elementary years. I developed industry more than inferiority. I developed certain skills in writing, reading, speaking, drawing, craft-making, sewing, playing kickball and relays, etc. I am very glad about these things because I know that they have laid my foundation for having good study habits, proper time management and motivation for excellence.
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At this point in my life, I was already starting my early school years. I had my nursery and kindergarten at St. Matthew’s Academy, which is a private, co-ed school and my preparatory year at St. Scholastica which is a private exclusive school for girls. I remember during my kindergarten year, my classmates and I already had a sense of malice in us. We often teased our boy and girl classmates and pretend like we are conducting a wedding for them. I knew I had a crush on the “groom” but I went ahead with the flow thinking that I don’t want to mess things up between the “couple” in our class. I think this behavior of mine falls under Erikson’s developmental task of early moral development and group play. And it feels quite rewarding on my part that even at that young age, I already had some sense of values. I do believe that I carried this with me until my teen years and beyond, because if not, I would have been impregnated long before or at least lost my virginity to my ex-boyfriend back in high school. And even now that I have my long standing boyfriend, had I not developed my morality during those formative years, I would have been in a much different place right now.
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At about two to four years old, I was already engaging in different developmental tasks described by Erikson as the following: a.) elaboration of locomotion – as evidenced by the fact that I can already walk, run and play; b.) fantasy play – as evidenced by my being able to play with my toys be it a doll, a stuffed toy or a mini bike; c.) language development – I remember my parents telling me that I can’t seem to pronounce one of my Aunt’s name “Aunt Mary Jane” which led to my calling her Jeh instead, which eventually became her nickname. Until now, all of us, including my brother and sister, call her Jeh; d.) self control – little by little, I learned to defecate using the toilet rather than some place else. But I vividly remember that it was hard for me. There were times when I would just remove my bowels in my room or on the kitchen floor. I was such a messy kid. But I don’t recall any violent reaction from my parents. Either they were too lax or I have repressed the possibility that there were some violent reactions from them. I believe that repression is the stronger possibility in this instance. This is because I have an anal retentive attitude that can explain my OC tendencies / obsessive-compulsive nature. As such, I can’t study when I see a single dirt in my room, I can’t leave for school unless my room is thoroughly clean and made up; I always give in to my urge of cleaning which eats up a lot of my study time; I always wash my hands when I have touched something which I perceive to be dirty even when it’s really not; I keep on checking my wallet and keys all the time; I keep on checking my skin for blemishes, whiteheads and pimples; etc.
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On February 14, 1988, I was born into this world. I am the first born in our family. Consequently, I am the first granddaughter, first niece, first in everything. Naturally, I became everyone’s favorite and center of attention. I was always on the limelight, but not for long. I had a baby brother when I was two. And according to my parents’ accounts (since I can’t remember everything that has happened when I was still very young as a proof to Freud’s theory of childhood amnesia), I was so jealous of the new baby that the moment they went home from the hospital with my newborn brother, I threw a tantrum telling them to bring back the baby to the hospital or else I won’t let them in. I was two years and seven months old then and a selfish little brat at that. Now that I think about it, could this experience brought about my craving for always being the center of attention? I have this theory in mind that since I did not linger long enough in the limelight of my parents and relatives, this could be why I have always craved for attention and affection (being the leader in numerous school organizations, lead actor in lays, winning contests and quiz bees, falling for the next guy who is in close proximity and gives me the attention that I need, etc.). I think this theory of mine explains a little part of who I am today which means that Freud was really conveying some substance to his readers and followers when he said that our present problems and complexities can be traced back to our childhood traumatic experiences.
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