tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188217626557265092024-03-08T06:41:19.440-08:00reaction paperyuyaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664487947894932700noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618821762655726509.post-78159388813972011442011-02-26T07:21:00.001-08:002011-02-26T07:21:39.522-08:00reaction paper no. 4 (for the month of February)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ayu P. Masuyoshi<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>February 26, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">II-AB-Psychology (Manresa)<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Econ111/7:40-8:40am/MWF<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reaction Paper no. 4<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Economic issue<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 13.2pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Economy hit by P11-B storm loss<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">By Cai U. Ordinario, Business Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Posted at 02/02/2011 8:07 AM | Updated as of 02/02/2011 2:03 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Israel, a senior research fellow at the PIDS, said this only accounts for the direct economic effect. “It should, however, be pointed out again that the above-cited value of damages includes only direct damages of weather- and climate-related disasters and would rise if the indirect damages are considered. Still, even with just the current results, the economic damages are clearly substantial and should be a cause of concern.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Based on his study, Israel said that from 1990 to 2009, the total value of loss due to weather- and climate-related disasters amounted to $4.813 billion, or an average of $240.7 million per year. In the 2000s the total amounted to $2.121 billion, lower than the total of $2.602 billion in the 1990s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Israel said that considering the direct damage alone, while the occurrence of weather- and climate-related disasters in the Philippines increased from the 1990s to the 2000s, it did not bring about a corresponding rise in the value of the losses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">However, Israel said if the government does not take the necessary steps to arrest the situation, the economic impairment caused by typhoons in the future may be even more staggering.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">This, Israel said, is a cause for concern and should prompt policymakers and legislators to prioritize not only disaster-reduction management projects and programs but move for the passage of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Modernization Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">“The Pagasa Modernization Act seeks to appropriate enough funds for the purchase of new equipment and staff training and education, among others. It is most welcome and should be given priority by legislators as inaction will just ensure the occurrence of another significant disaster anytime soon,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Israel said other measures should include the improvement of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) by boosting personnel needed to produce quality data. The local government units, nongovernment organizations and the</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">private sector, as stakeholders, should also be actively involved in the creation of a multisectoral NMHS.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Israel also recommended the inclusion of all possible forms of damage in the computation—direct and indirect economic, social, environmental and others—of losses to the economy. He added there is also a need to include in the mainstream national and</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">local economic development planning</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">and implementation of all weather- and climate-related issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Reaction Paper<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We all know that disaster on the economy due of typhoon is unpredictable and uncontrollable. What will happen in the next future is unanswerable. We cannot ask for any payment for the damages because no one wishes those things to happen. If I were to reflect about the damages which the cost is around </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">P11.193 billion, I am badly sad because this amount is can already a big help for our country to pay for our debt to other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wish to react about the illustration above about the statement of Danilo C. Israel which is “that from 1990 to 2009, the total value of loss due to weather- and climate-related disasters amounted to $4.813 billion, or an average of $240.7 million per year. In the 2000s the total amounted to $2.121 billion, lower than the total of $2.602 billion in the 1990s.” I know that this is further explain but I think it is more understandable if only if the amount are presented in a peso and not by a dollar currency since it is a news from Philippines and it is presented to the Filipinos. For me, how can people of the Philippines understand such value or amount if that is not use in our country? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The other statement of Israel that catches my attention was “if the government does not take the necessary steps to arrest the situation, the economic impairment caused by typhoons in the future may be even more staggering.” Since our government are the one who should take care for its residents they should plan some solution for this. The citizen must be aware, prepared ahead of time and not to panic. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>About the issue about Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Modernization Act, our government should have more and more communication to them and have a connection at all the time. I also agree that “The Pagasa Modernization Act” seek for the enough funds so that this administration will able to buy new equipment like other countries has, so that the news that we get is correct. Unlike the present gadget that we have today which we only bought in other countries because this gadget was already their junk and since technology improve over time the gadget that we have today is not guaranteed than other countries had. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I hope that someday, we can able to buy or maybe invent a gadget or equipment that can really help our people to know what climate we will have. In order to prevent disaster that would damage our property. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span>yuyaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664487947894932700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618821762655726509.post-55440858475573107592011-01-30T19:49:00.000-08:002011-01-30T19:49:07.435-08:00January reaction paper (soft copy)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Ayu P. Masuyoshi<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Econ111/MWF/7:40-8:40 am</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">II – AB – Psychology (Manresa)<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>January 31, 2011</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Economic Issue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PH receives P21-B loan from Japan</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">MANILA, Philippines—Japan is pleased with the economic fruits of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa) and wants to further the cooperation between the two countries toward full implementation, the Japanese ambassador to Manila said Friday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“We’re very happy to see very good, positive results since the entry into force of the Jpepa,” said Ambassador Makoto Katsura in a briefing at the Department of Foreign Affairs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">He cited the growth of Philippine exports to Japan, particularly commodities, as well as a rise in Japanese foreign direct investments in the Philippines.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“For example, your agricultural products such as bananas or coconuts enter Japan more easily because in Japan (we impose) lower tax (on) your agricultural products,” he said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">In the meantime, Japan has extended to the Philippines a P21.4-billion loan for the repair and maintenance of roads in various parts of the country, its first such development project under the Aquino administration.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Katsura signed and exchanged notes on Friday with Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo formally granting the official development assistance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The 40.8-billion-yen loan for the “Road Upgrading and Preservation Project” was coursed through the Japan International Cooperation Agency.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Under ODA terms, an annual interest rate of 1.4 percent would be charged over a 25-year repayment period, with a seven-year grace period and “very concessional terms and interest among various funding sources.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Katsura said his country’s banana imports increased by 34 percent and coconut by 36 percent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“This is a tangible result of the entry into force of Jpepa,” he added.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The Jpepa was ratified by the Philippine Senate in 2008.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The envoy also noted that the Japanese direct investments in the Philippines “represented 58 percent of all FDIs (Foreign direct investments) you received from the world in 2010.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“Maybe Japanese investors were waiting for the entry into force of Jpepa, so we’re very happy to see these very strong, powerful, positive developments after the entry in force of the Jpepa,” Katsura said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">He said further cooperation between the two countries was important.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“I think your government will start or has started research or study, and of course, in Japanese, we have somebody here. And sometime this year, we can start talking to each other on these Jpepa issues,” he said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The road repair project was first pledged at a meeting between President Aquino and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at a regional leaders’ summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Oct. 29 last year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Japan has been the top ODA donor to the Philippines for years.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“This project reaffirms the government of Japan’s continued commitment extending cooperation in achieving sustainable growth in the Philippines and improving the living environment of the Filipino people, which will further foster a strategic partnership between the two countries toward the future,” the Japan Embassy said in a statement.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Some of Japan’s contributions to the Philippines’ road network are the 2,100-km Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway from Aparri to Davao and the 94-km Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.</span></div><div align="center" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Reaction Paper</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">We all know that the economy of Japan is better than the economy of the Philippines but I believe that Philippines doesn’t really need to ask loan from Japan or from any other country because Philippines is rich in natural resources that could help the country earn more income.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“For example, your agricultural products such as bananas or coconuts enter Japan more easily because in Japan (we impose) lower tax (on) your agricultural products,” said Makoto Katsura.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">That’s how Japan helps Philippines. And vice versa Philippines help Japan by exporting agricultural products going to Japan. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“This project reaffirms the government of Japan’s continued commitment extending cooperation in achieving sustainable growth in the Philippines and improving the living environment of the Filipino people, which will further foster a strategic partnership between the two countries toward the future,” the Japan Embassy said in a statement.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It’s good to know that Japan and Philippines are helping each other for the betterment of each economy. And sad to say that Japan Government sees the need of the Filipino people while some of our own Politicians are busy with their personal gains. Like for example the fight of Manny Paquiao in other country, some of our politicians go there just to watch one single fight where they need to out a big money, where this money can really help a lot if they invest it to the Philippines for the improvement of our country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It is also sad to imagine that we are not yet pay our credit to the other country but here again now that we are accepting or accepted the help of Japan that in 25 years time we need to pay. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Just imagine where our money goes? Well, in fact we are paying a big tax in everything that we bought. Where this money go? Do we really need the help of other country? Can we really accept the sympathy of other country where we in ourselves don’t have any sympathy for our own country? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">But in the other hand it is good to know that we are increasing our export such banana and coconuts with the help of Jpepa. I am hoping that this will really help for the improving of our country and also the Philippines will take this as a challenge to improve more not only in Japan but also in other rich country.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I am also hoping that our government will use the money in a good, reasonable and explainable way. I wish that this money will not be wasted and it will not go to the pocket of corrupt senators. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I am expecting for the updates of this money and the help and cooperation of our country because this is for the sake of all the Filipinos not only those Filipinos who lived in Philippines but also Filipinos who stay in other countries. Those people who really help for the improvement of our economy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>yuyaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664487947894932700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2618821762655726509.post-68297463102707815902010-12-30T04:40:00.001-08:002010-12-30T04:40:39.254-08:00reaction paper<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Ayu P. Masuyoshi<span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"> </span>December 30, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">II- AB- Psychology(Manresa)<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span>Econ111/7:40-8:40/MWF<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid #777777 1.5pt; border: none; margin-left: -6.0pt; margin-right: 0in; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #777777 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #777777 1.5pt; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 2.0pt 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #840f11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.1pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Heavy Advertising Targeted At Children<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 20.15pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">Marketers see children as a future — as well as current — market and hence brand loyalty at a young age helps in the quest of continued sales later.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 20.15pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 20.15pt; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">The Journal of the American Medical Association has said that children between the ages of two and seventeen watch an annual average of 15,000 to 18,000 hours of television, compared with 12,000 hours spent per year in school. Children are also major targets for TV advertising, whose impact is greater than usual because there is an apparent lessening of influence by parents and others in the older generation.… According to the [Committee on Communications of the American Academy of Pediatrics], children under the age of two should not watch television at all because at that age, brain development depends heavily on real human interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: #EEEEEE; border-top: solid gainsboro 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-top-alt: solid gainsboro .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #EEEEEE; border: none; line-height: 200%; mso-border-top-alt: solid gainsboro .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in; padding: 0in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">— <i>Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press, 2000), p. xxxvi</i><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;">In the European Union, revenues to television networks and producers have reached between <a href="http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_09/uk/medias.htm" title="External Link: Pascaline Dumont, 'Temptation-free television for children?', The Courier, UNESCO, September 2001"><span style="color: #b40f11;">$620 and $930 million</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Source:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.globalissues.org/article/237/children-as-consumers">http://www.globalissues.org/article/237/children-as-consumers</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Reaction Paper<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Today, we can see that the market uses children to commercialized things to be able to attract people so that it will level up the economy and help everything about economics. As we all know that children of today are the one who chooses what they want and what they like. And because children are the one who commercialized products and also children are the one who always watched television and the one who know what is the latest they are the one who encourages their parents to buy what they had saw. In the article we can see that below the year of two the children are not allowed to watch television but since today the one who take care of the children are the primary watchers so that even children don’t like to watch they have nothing to do but watch because they don’t have any choice. And because older people can’t longer attract people, the market now chooses children to attract people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>yuyaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02664487947894932700noreply@blogger.com0