Reaction Paper No 1 2017 August 11 Daniel Nacorda Grade 11 A Title The Sob Sister s Story No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman but because love any love reveals us in our nakedness our misery our vulnerability our nothingness Cesare Pavese Every one of us makes love as a foundation of everything that is why we anticipated that love is the solution of all the things we think difficult to surpass And yet who among us weak creatures saw the true meaning of love and for what it is Like the story of a Sob Sister that tell us how love make us a vulnerable and tells us that love is not a sweetest thing you may think or imagine And here s the excerpt of the story Her golden hair falling in profusion about her shoulder all but concealed the cruel welt of red about her throat As the police came in the rose to meet them still carrying his precious burden in his arms The officers had almost to force him to relinquish her all that remained of the girl he loved better than life and mutter A few hours later when I saw him in the sordid surrounding of the 10th precinct station house But when tried to question him At last he managed pitifully to say I killed her so that she would be mine alone for alone for always And who are we to make judgement on him That s is why love is really ironic we may think that love is a destiny but we do not knew that in every destiny there is what you called a misery But always remember Love find ways we do not know what ways if it is a good or bad but the only way we can do is to make cherish in all we do and let us spread the love that is two bounded ways Reaction Paper No 2 2017 August 11 Daniel Nacorda Grade 11 A Title Porphyria s Lover Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul Charlie Choplin Love and lust is a different word and different in meaning but sometimes these two words consider as one because lust nowadays uses as a standard for how you really love a person that is not really right to consider But in this love of Porphyria and her lover it tells us that love does really exist but lust comes next So here s the summary of the poem The speaker lives in a cottage in the countryside His lover a blooming young woman named Porphyria comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring cheer to the cottage She embraces the speaker offering him her bare shoulder He tells us that he does not speak to her Instead he says she begins to tell him how she has momentarily overcome societal strictures to be with him He realizes that she worship s him at this instant Realizing that she will eventually give in to society s pressures and wanting to preserve the moment he wraps her hair around her neck and strangles her He then toys with her corpse opening the eyes and propping the body up against his side He sits with her body this way the entire night the speaker remarking that God has not yet moved to punish him Love and lust are both good and bad Some people would rather not love but others feel that loving someone is the best thing that ever happened to them even if one day they lose that person I think that people who would rather have a lust relationship are either cold hearted or they are scared to let someone close to them I do not know why this is but everyone has his her own reasons Like everyone says it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all Reaction Paper No 3 2017 Daniel Nacorda August 11 Grade 11 A Title Quiapo The Procession of the Black Nazarene If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land Now mine eyes shall be open and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place 2 Chronicles 7 14 15 King James Version Bible Devotion is divine but too much devotion is not a good idea to have that to the extent someone will be hurt and vulnerable Having faith and prayer to God is one way to communicate him So why we need to be wicked if there is a way to be directed to our God But I can t blame them if that is their beliefs but one thing that is sure Believing and faith to God is the way to be in the paradise of heaven Here s a sample of a devotion of the Filipinos The religious ritual Translacion is the nearly 20 hour long procession of the Black Nazarene statue which is believed to grant miracles through the streets of Manila It draws millions of devotees to the capital of the Philippines for the spectacular religious celebration every year The devotees bringing their own statuettes or replica images of the Black Nazarene to be blessed Devotees endure sleep deprivation extreme heat hunger and even injuries during the procession of the statue for a chance to touch kiss or simply feel close to the Black Nazarene These are meaningful symbols of awe reverence and dedication for the cleansing healing joy and sense of bonding being one with other devotees encountered through their devotion to the Black Nazarene The Filipinos devotion to the Black Nazarene is such a rich faith experience but at the end of the day FAITH and FORMATION must go hand in hand lest this popular religiosity becomes mere fanaticism Believing and faith to God is the way to be in the paradise of heaven Reaction Paper No 1 2017 August 11 Daniel Nacorda Grade 11 A Title Art The text was about how art has been created and how does it look like in the eyes of artists The text specified Picasso and Braque s style of painting known as cubism Cubism is based on the idea that the eye observes things from continually change viewpoints as fragments of a whole It aims to represent the essential reality of forms from multiple perspective angles One example stated was Picasso s Guernica which he painted in behalf of the people in the town of Guernica wherein hundreds of people including men women and children were massacred It is not directly stated but as what has been said in the given text some of Picasso s audience didn t quite understand the essence of his work But later on the mural became one of the most critically acclaimed works of art in the 20th century The mural which has been critically thought about considering the position placement and …