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or thing. It is conviction of the truth of some statement. Every person has its own beliefs
sight, fate, marriage, etc. For many, these beliefs make up large part of their lives and
their beings.
Beliefs play a major role on today’s society. Our life seems almost entirely on institution
and beliefs. Our beliefs may come from our own family, our friends and our community.
The views that we see may change as different circumstances occur each day. The
Family is the basis of everything. Who I am, the person I have become, the paths that
I followed, and the paths that I avoided. My core values were built throughout my life,
I grew up from a Catholic family. I personally believe in Jesus Christ and that He died
on the cross to save us and give us the forgiveness of our sins. I belong to the Catholic
Church because I was baptized by Catholics and did my first communion in a Catholic
I attended mass from different religion. One thing I love for being a Catholic and I think
it’s one of my core values is that we don’t judge. Catholics don’t judge people’s sins
too harsh as other religions from Christians like the Adventists do. A Baptist told me
that it’s so wrong to believe in saints. A Muslim told me that I will not be saved because
I believe in Jesus Christ. Both of them were implying that I am committing a sin. I
respect them for thinking that way because that’s how people from their religion taught
them. But, I would never tell a person or judge a person that he is a sinner just because
beliefs on some supernatural powers. These beliefs have come from the different
sayings and superstitions of our ancestors that aim to prevent danger from happening.
These are part of our cultures. My family believed on these beliefs. They told me that
there’s nothing wrong in following some of these beliefs. My parents believed those
but I don’t exactly believe on superstitious beliefs. In fact, I don’t believe on betting
your future to chances or any superstitious beliefs. I have this mind-set that if you want
to succeed in life, you should work hard for that. It’s true that through working hard
I have always believed in discipline and hard work like ingredients in the recipe to
achieve my goals and aspirations. Having a positive attitude and drive undisputedly
because many people deem it only capable of achieving success through shortcuts
that should be present to our lives. It’s hard to be fair especially when there are forces
Integrity is the core value that I consider essential for anyone. In my opinion, integrity
is very important to every workplace. If a person lacks integrity, this person is not
reliable. This value come from home and from church. I learned to give importance to
Good manners is everything. It will bring you everywhere. Having good manners in
front of adults, or respecting others have been implanted into me through my family. I
believe that as a young person, I should always be respectful. Respecting others is
A political ideology is a coherent set of ideas of on how people should live together.
Out of the all political ideologies, I believed I am a liberalist. Liberalism desires for a
free, open, and tolerant society. In view of this ideology, humans are rational being
Liberalism respects the individual and his/her rights. It believes in the innate potential
of every individuals. It gives people the freedom to follow their dreams and live their
life to the fullest. If there was no liberalism, there would be no space for people to start
natural striving and people would embrace it without any need for coercion.
I believe liberalism is the best ideology because it is filled with democratic ideas.
Freedom is not compromised. Life requires freedom and if man is to survive, he must
keep the product of his labour, his right of property The government must protect this
right.
an increase in the gross national product or in per capital. For me, development has
something to do with freedom. According to 1998 Nobel prize winner, Amartya Sen,
freedom is both the primary objective of development, and the principal means of
development. The human being is an engine of change. I agree to the idea of Sen.
I personally think that human is the key for innovation and for knowledge. There are
many developed countries that are lacking from natural resources but then they are
rich in manpower.
In Japan, there are fewer natural resources compared to us however, they are richer.
Their populations are way too smaller compared to us. But why is Japan is a better
place? Freedom is the reason why. The government supports its people to do their
thing. Japan encourages innovation while in the Philippines supports only few. The
problem with our government is that it lacks trust to our own people. In the Build Build
Build Program of Duterte, they made a contract with other nations. Yes, we need help
from other nations because we lack technology. But, what I think we need right now is
their talents, knowledge and skills, then surely development will start. If the
government supports people from showing their capabilities and considers their
opinions, I think our economic condition will improve since human resource is the key
for success.
It’s also important that people should continuously be educated. But people find it hard
seminar or training for a day is expensive. There are many requirements that needed
for renewals of licenses but their salaries are just enough for their daily cost of livings.
Freedom is not only granting a right. This freedom includes any kind of support from
I have mentioned in my last paper that Philippines is still in transitional stage. Many
people believed that the main source of underdevelopment of our country is due to
corruption. According to the Andre Franke, the reason behind the underdevelopment
The people who are sitting in the power lack knowledge. They don’t know the real
problems. Most of our countrymen will tell that Philippines is poor mainly because of
corrupt officials. It’s not completely right though. For me, it’s because most of the
government officials lack competency. Most of them will probably don’t know the law
itself. They caught a corrupt but they can’t bring back what they stole.
The failure to properly implement a policy is one thing you will notice that most officials
are incompetent. Every delay costs you a loss. There are things that need to be passed
as laws but they are not being passed. What would be the reason?
It’s because senates and representatives don’t know the problems to be solved.
Development has something to do with freedom. If only government would pass a law
that supports our human capital, then our economic status will improve.
undergo learnings. They must be required to be educated about laws, economy and
management before they run for elections. For the government, they must pass a
policy that supports human capital and not a policy that kills professionals and other
non-professionals.