HumSS Students’ ‘husay’, passion for pursuing truth featured on Strand Day

With the intent to showcase what it means to be in the ASHS Humanities and Social Science (HumSS) strand, students’ skills, and their devotion to finding the truth, learners from 12-Grodecky, 12-Holland, 12-Kibe, 12-Miki, along with the ASHS faculty, held the third part of the series of strand days, Friday, April 1.

General Prophecies

Like a mythical being with no tale of truth, you take on more names and forms than any other yet nothing could ever be deemed absolute. The strand with the stowaways, the strand with characters, the ones who can’t bring their minds to be made, and the fantastic jack of all trades.

EDSA: A legacy beyond freedom

As a child, hearing stories about the EDSA Revolution made it out to be the epic and climactic final battle of the Filipino people against tyranny, corruption and all other oppressive forces that existed then. The Filipino people were able to act as one and use their collective power to vanquish all that was evil and wicked from our country, and this was how I perceived the EDSA Revolution.

Welcome, ASHS: Onsite STEM A Strand Day Commenced

“Let’s Go, STEM!”

After waiting two years to finally step foot on the Ateneo de Manila Senior High School (ASHS) as official students, the STEM A ASHS students, who hail from Grade 12 sections Navarro, Ogilvie, Walpole, and Xavier looked forward to their strand day, Friday, March 18.

Forced and Oppressive: Mandatory Military Service

On March 18, 2001, University of Santo Tomas student Mark Welson Chua’s body was found decaying in the Pasig River. To present day, his death is widely attributed to his bold exposés of the malpractices that occurred in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program of his university.

Protest Art: A Form of Necessary Disobedience or of Vandalism?

Last January 23, a Twitter user known as PinoyAkoBlog posted an image of a graffitied ‘Team BBM-Sara’ tarpaulin. In the picture, it is seen that the word ‘duwag’ was spray-painted across presidential aspirant’s Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s likeness.