College of Arts and Sciences

Re-Accredited Level IV by the PACUCOA

DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES AND HUMANITIES
ENG100

Name: Sanchez, Fedelyn Mae B.

Section code: B182

Outlining
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Asia at risk
1. Unless action is taken, Asia is in grave danger due to global warming.
1.1 Asia has the biggest population share.
1.2 Asia is at risk for floods and lesser access to fresh water and food supply.
1.3 Poor communities will suffer the highest risk.
2. Fighting greenhouse gases requires not only adopting new technologies but
also changing lifestyles.
2.1 Asia has no capacity to adapt to climate change.
2.2 Vital agricultural production would be in danger.
3. The danger of conflict is ever-present.
3.1 In several areas of the world, there is intense competition for water resources.
3.2 Lack of rain and drought will cause intense friction over access to the land.

Instruction: Using yellow highlight, identify the main ideas of the text. Then, write a sentence
outline of the text.

Back to basics: Grow our own food

In times of crisis, companies typically find their solution by going back to the basics. It is no
different for a country in crisis.
There’s a need to galvanize the whole nation to return to its roots as an agrarian economy and
grow its own food instead of relying on imports and allowing 25 percent of the children to go
malnourished and 60 percent to live on less than P100 per day.
We have neglected our agriculture for so long, but no nation with a large population base can
aspire to achieve the status of a Newly-Industrialized Country (NIC) without achieving a measure of
self-sufficiency in food production.
Growing our own food will help address many of our problems:
• Unemployment will be reduced as we encourage reverse migration to redirect the millions of
rural poor who have moved to urban centers to become squatters.
• Gainful employment in agriculture will curtail the problem of informal settlers in congested
and depressed urban areas, thus reducing crime and improving peace and order and providing a better
living environment for families of workers.
• Food adequacy will directly address the problems of widespread malnutrition as healthier
fresh foods are made more affordable to all.
• Well-nourished children are the backbone for higher quality of our workforce, because poor
children on hungry stomachs cannot learn in school. If they cannot learn in school, they cannot pass
achievement tests for higher levels of education. Thus, they cannot qualify for employment in a world
that requires raising the bar of performance each time due to stiffer competition and demanding
consumers.
• Ample food will reduce a major component of the cost-of-living of laborers.
• A lower cost-of-living can help freeze if not reduce wages, thus improving our cost structure
to make our industries more competitive in today’s global economy.
• A lower cost structure for Philippine industry makes the country a more attractive haven for
foreign investors, generating new employment, higher personal savings for reinvestment and total-
value creation through the entire ecosystem.
• Agriculture can also be the answer to reducing our dependency on imported oil and in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions if we can successfully find a way to economically produce biofuel
from coconut and ethanol from sugar, and use other feedstock that don’t compromise on food
production like sorghum and jathropa.
• Eliminating hunger by producing an abundant supply of food should help put an end to the
country’s 40-year communist secessionist movement.
• Finally, achieving self-sufficiency in food production will emancipate 60 million Filipinos
from the bondage of poverty and oppression of hunger, thus paving the way to unlock the potential of
the Filipino people as they regain their sense of dignity and self-esteem, and achieve fulfillment as
productive members of society.
We are in a crisis so we must return to the basics. Let us strive to grow an abundant supply of
staple crops, vegetables and fruits, raise livestock and breed/catch fish to feed our people. This will
usher a new life and a new nation.

Arcilla, W. E. (Oct. 19, 2007). Back to basics: Grow our own food. Philippine Daily Inquirer, B2-3.
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Back to basics: Grow our own food