College Admission Essays
[ No Comments ] Posted on 02.29.08 under Resources
When you are in your senior year in high school, you are always full of hopes and dreams as you make plans to go to college. Somehow at this stage, you are more certain on the things that you want to achieve when you pursue your studies. Some would want to be lawyers, doctors, engineers, I.T. Specialists, nurses, policeman, teacher, soldier, etc. I could say that you know what you want and you will do everything to get it. You are excited to graduate and start making your dreams come true. You plan to study at the best colleges and earn your degree and get your dream job. But before you can enter college, there are some requirements that you need to comply with. Otherwise, you will not be admitted. Read the rest of this entry…
College Application Essays
[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.20.08 under Resources
How would you feel if the college or university of your choice welcomes you as one of their freshmen students and you are given the once in a lifetime opportunity to even pick the course that you have always wanted? Of course, you will absolutely rejoice because you feel that your dreams are slowly being realized. Your family will also be proud of you and thus, you will also feel proud of yourself that you made your family happy. But what if you didn’t make it after all the hardwork that you exerted to be included in the magic list of freshmen students in the college or university that you want? I know that you will feel exactly the opposite. Failure to enter the school of your choice should not even cross your mind if you knew that you did everything that you can to fulfill your goal. In your lower years in school, you maintained good GPA and SAT scores because you knew that these are important but there may be other applicants whose scores are better than yours. So how on earth will you deal with that? Read the rest of this entry…
Twelve (12) Days of Christmas Song
[ No Comments ] Posted on 12.18.07 under Resources
Today I received a forwarded message in my inbox. I do not usually pay attention to forwarded emails but this one stimulated my interest. It is about the history of a well-known Christmas song entitled “12 Days of Christmas”. When I was young, I was bewildered by this song on what do all the creatures and stuff in the song have to do with Christmas. I liked it though because it is sung joyfully in a fast manner.
With the message I received earlier tonight, I learned about its origin. It fascinated me that this song actually have a significant meaning and not just presenting random gifts from a loved one.
Based on the email I got, I discovered that from the middle of 1500s to the early 1800s, Roman Catholics in England were not given the freedom to express their faith openly. Someone during this time wrote this song as a way to catechize young Catholics.
This song is said to have a double meaning: surface and hidden. Its hidden meaning was only limited to their church members. It was stated that each element in the carol lies a code word symbolizing a religious reality that children could remember. Read the rest of this entry…