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Online classroom of Ronald Castillo y Maglaqui, Professor of Political Science at the University of Santo Tomas - Faculty of Arts and Letters. But for the time being, starting 2022, this blog serves as a student's public notebook of thoughts while he undertakes his international PhD in Asia Pacific Studies at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. Reach him through rmcastillo@ust.edu.ph
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Ong, Cindel. Reboot, Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).
ReplyDeleteImprove Description - prove political.
DeleteReboots are hunters/killers for the government (HARC) but the government does not offer them any rights or freedom at all. The story is somehow similar to The Hunger Games.
DeletePoon,Nea Dennice, The Giver (Movie). The story is all about the "perfect community" which is prohibited to read books by their government because they're afraid that they might enter the world of emotions. One boy decided to break their government's rules to feel whatever it is that the books want the people to feel.
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DeleteEudin, Jeremy, 1LIT1 The Hunger Games. Each year, the 12 districts of Panem are forced to offer one young man and woman between the ages of 12 and 18 to fight for their survival.
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DeleteMercado, Carl Anthony M.
ReplyDeleteThe Giver (movie) - the government in the story is very powerful. so powerful that they control everything. the people don't even get the chance to choose what they want or who to elect as their leader. all the memories of the past were erased (which those memories could enlighten the mind of the people to know their rights and protect themselves from the government). the "past" in this story were the books and people are not allowed to read or know about this except for the "receiver" of the memories of the past. which then people were free and the government is democratic. but the receiver broke the rules and open the minds of the people.
OK but only after you revise this description.
DeleteThe Chief Elder (leader) corrupted her people into thinking that love isn't a good thing. She made them numb. She was so focused on having things in order that she forgot that being human means making mistakes, getting hurt and feeling love. She only made the benefits exclusive to her and not to her community.
DeleteAbdullah, Fatima Zahra L.
ReplyDeleteOlympus Has Fallen (movie) - The White House is captured by a North Korean escaped prisoner/ terrorist and the president is under attack.
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DeleteVillanueva, Shania. Law Abiding Citizen. A movie about a man whose fighting for justice because his wife and daughter were murdered.
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DeletePua, Jenie Angel
ReplyDeleteThe Selection - The story is about the kingdom of Illea in which society is divided into castes depending on their ancestor's contributions.
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ReplyDeleteVillamera, Janielle D.
ReplyDeleteLeo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - During this point in time, Russia was also undergoing a crisis of political thought, with a series of authoritarian tsars provoking liberalism and intellectuality who demanded European constitutional rights or even revolution in Russia. Tolstoy’s ambivalent portrayal of the local elections in Anna Karenina demonstrates his uncertainty about the potential for democracy in Russia: the vote evokes much enthusiasm among the noblemen, but it also appears ineffectual and even pointless. The novel explores a diverse range of topics including an evaluation of the feudal system that existed in Russia at the time—politics, not only in the Russian government but also at the level of the individual characters and families, religion, morality, gender and social class.
OK but only after you revise this description.
DeleteLeo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - As Russia underwent a crisis of political thought with a series of authoritarian provoking liberalism and intellectuality, they demanded European constitutional rights or even revolution in Russia in which it demonstrated the uncertainty about the potential for democracy in Russia. With the elections, the vote evokes much enthusiasm among the aristocrats, but it alongside to it, it also appears vague.
DeleteKo, Janine Andrelina
ReplyDeleteArrow (tv series) - after 5 years being stranded in an island, he came back to take back what is his, becomes a vigilante to seek justice and to protect and to save his city
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DeleteBacani, Roland Harold A.
ReplyDeleteShooter(movie) - a sniper ended up being framed after he returns to military service. He then searches for truth and faces powerful and corrupt leaders.
OK
DeleteTiu, Shaynne Alexine, The Program series(Book) suicide is an international epidemic and the government says that the program is the solution to end this epidemic.
ReplyDeleteOK but fix description.
DeleteCastañeda, Anika
ReplyDeleteFahrenheit 451 (Book) By: Ray Bradbury — Guy Montag is a fireman who is tasked to burn books in a society where reading and literature has been banned by the government. He thinks that this is how it’s supposed to be until he meets his neighbor, a teenage girl, whose way of thought has been shaped by literature.
As long as the politics and literature is balanced.
DeleteTan, Mary Jane L.
ReplyDeleteDivergent (book) - a story in which people lived in a futuristic world that was divided into five factions. As one enters adulthood, they must choose a certain faction where they'll commit for life.
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DeleteHi sir! Can I change it from a book to a movie?
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Deletetoo personal than political.
Barrera, Riezzah Angellinne M.
ReplyDeleteLord of the Flies (Novel) by William Golding is about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.
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ReplyDeleteThe Purge(movie) is a once a year event in which all criminal activity is legal for 12 hours with no emergency services available. It was said that crime and unemployment rates plunged after this event resulting into a strong economy but later it was revealed that this was made for diminishing poor sectors of the population
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ReplyDeleteAyala, Angely D.
ReplyDeleteA Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. About the power struggles in Westeros as each great houses tries to win the iron throne. Outside of Westeros, there is also a Targaryen who survived Robert's rebellion and is planning to win back the iron throne through the use of her own family's symbol
OK but fix description. It should be about Constitutional Law.
Delete*Edit* The rise of the white walker outside of the wall have brought the wildlings trying to escape and entering to the north yet they are not welcomed by the night's watch despite the Lord Commander, Jon Snow helping them. In Meereen, there are still traces of slavery hanging over Daenarys as she tries to remove slavery as part of its customs and law as the supporters of the custom oppose her.
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ReplyDeleteTolentino, Arriane Gayle D.
ReplyDeleteThe Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West (novel) by Gregory Maguire
The ruler of Oz, the wizard, is a cold blooded sociopath, who created the Emerald City, a city of "grandeur" that is riddled with both the ubsurdly rich and those crippled by poverty. In the process of creating this city, as well as the Yellow Brick Road (the road leading to this city from all other countries of this land), he has taken a great deal of natural resources, pushed many of his people to poverty, and depriving Animals (animals with high enough intelligence to be considered human) their right to live, disposing of anyone who opposes him.
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DeleteBernardino, Emmanuel L.
ReplyDeleteAssassin's Creed (Video Game)
It is about the beliefs and ideologies of these two organizations the Assassins and the Templars. The Assassins believed that the people should have their own freedom, in any aspect of living and can exist without any form of leader or manager. While to the contrary here comes the Templars that believed that the world should have order in every corner. They also promote statism on their people that lacks on freedom, thinking and creativity while achieving a one, centralized, group.
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DeleteBernabe, Marie Gabrielle T.
ReplyDeleteA Tale of Two Cities (book) by Charles Dickens.
The story shows the parallel perspectives and situations of two men from two different places-France and England. The peasantry of both are oppressed by their aristocracies in the novel's background during the Reign of Terror in France.
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ReplyDeleteTagaylo, Mikaela Y.
ReplyDeleteV for Vendetta (film)
The story revolves around the anarchist and freedom fighter called "V" as he makes it his ethos to unite the people against the current society's fascist regime and demolish it entirely.
OK, but focus description on Constitutional Law.
DeleteIgnacio, Chelsey
ReplyDeleteThe Book Thief (Novel)
Set back in the year 1939 during the World War II in Germany, this novel narrates the story of a communists' daughter who finds herself in an odd condition when the burning of books exist to avoid political oppositions and questions in the exact time when she becomes ardent in reading and learning new words and information.
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DeletePls inform the class President or have it announced No more Book Burning topics for submission after August 19, 2015.
Pontacaña, Jazmin
ReplyDeleteBridal Mask (Korean Drama)
A mysterious figure wearing a traditional Korean bridal mask appears and claims to protect the people from the brutality of the government during the Japanese colonial era. The protagonist, who has turned away from his own fellowmen and is working under this government, is tasked to capture this figure before the people learn to stand against them.
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DeleteAbary, Rizz Ginelle
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games
Every year a televised fight will be held in which two tributes from twelve districts will be randomly chosen to fight each other to death.
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ReplyDeleteIn Time (2011)
A future world where time has become the ultimate currency, people stop aging at 25 but are engineered to live only one more year unless you can buy your way out of death, the rich will have a shot to immortality while the poor are to beg, borrow or steal enough hours to survive. An orwellian society where the main system exercises full control to the citizens and to take anyone out that rebels over the system.
OK
DeleteBugarin, Cristine Joy
ReplyDeleteRed Queen (Book Series / Book 1)
There are two classifications of people in the world, the Red and the Silvers. The Reds are the slaves and the Silvers are the superhumans who rules the city. But in the middle of the plot, the reds learned how to fight the Silvers, will they win for freedom, or stay as slaves for the rest of their lives?
OK only if there are constitutional law issues.
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DeleteGuerrero, Leanne
ReplyDeleteDivergent (Book 1 of the Divergent trilogy)
Set in post-apocalyptic Chicago, wherein as soon as the citizens turn 16, they are required to take a compulsory aptitude test that is meant to describe what faction they should be part of. They can either decide to stay in their original faction or transfer to a new one; if they do not complete their initiation in their chosen faction, they will be forced to live in poverty and become “Factionless”.
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DeleteInsurgent
Every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves and herself while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris, who revolts against civil authority or an established government; especially , a rebel not recognized as a belligerent
OK only if there are constitutional law issues.
DeleteParungao, CJ
ReplyDeleteThe Wolf of Wall Street
In The Wolf of Wall Street DiCaprio plays Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
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DeleteReyes, Shicane
ReplyDeleteMarvel's Civil War
In the wake of a tragedy, the U.S. Government proposed the Superhuman Registration Act, intending to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction and requiring all costumed heroes to unmask themselves before the government and subject themselves to federally mandated standards.
OK
DeleteSantiago, Stephannie
ReplyDeleteManila Noir
Manila is a city burdened with a violent and painful past, with a long heritage of foreign occupation. The specters of WWII (during which the city suffered from U.S. saturation bombing), and the oppressive 20-year reign of dictator Ferdinand Marcos live on in recent memory. The Filipino take on noir includes a liberal dose of the gothic and supernatural, with disappearance and loss being constant
OK
DeleteSantiago, Stephannie
ReplyDeleteThe Mirage
A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East.
Incomplete description.
DeleteRomobio, Celine Noelle H.
ReplyDeleteGhosts of Mississippi (1996)
This movie is based on a true story about the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, who was accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers.
Incomplete description.
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DeleteRomobio, Celine Noelle H.
DeleteGhosts Of Mississippi (1996)
Medgar Evers, a black civil rights activist in Mississippi, was murdered by an assassin on June 12, 1963. It was suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supermacist, was the murderer. He had been tried twice and both trials ended in hung juries. In 1989, the widow wife of Evers, Myrlie, believed that she can bring him to trial again. Although most of the evidence from the old trial had disappeared, an assistant district attorney, Bobby DeLaughter, decided to help her despite of being warned that it might hurt his political aspirations and the strain that it caused in his marriage.
Rallanka, Keith Denisse
ReplyDeleteArgo ( 2012 Film )
The film is about the operation to rescue six Americans who are victims of the Iran hostage crisis. A CIA agent launches a risky operation to rescue the Americans in Tehran during the U.S hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
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DeleteBongoyan, Rosette
ReplyDeleteThe Great Gatsby
The story revolves around the differences of the rich from the poor, it shows the imbalance of our society. It is a story of a man, who was a rags-to-riches kind of person, trying to impress his long-time love, who was a snobby aristocrat. This story highlights the dispute between the rich and the poor.
OK
DeleteBisa, Timothy
ReplyDeleteNineteen-Eighty Four (novel)
A post-apocalyptic novel that evolves around technology governing humanity and everything that the citizens are doing is being broadcasted and watched by a tyrant leader named "Big Brother".
OK
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ReplyDeleteAs for now, NO, unless you show me the constitutional law component.
DeletePeralta, Angeline Mae
ReplyDeleteThe Purge (movie)
This is about an activity where in any crime is allowed by the government that can be done for 12 hours yearly. The aim of this is to maintain low crime and low unemployment rates throughout the year so that they can have a well-established economy, but it was revealed that their main goal was to get rid of the poor people in their country.
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DeleteNaranjilla, Lara Isabelle
ReplyDeleteBelle (film) - A story set in the 18th century, about an illegitimate mixed race child of a Royal Navy Captain and a slave. When her mother died, her father took her and entrusted her to his uncle, the 1st Earl of Mansfield, and his wife. As the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield hears about a case where the issue is whether slaves or humans can be considered as cargo and as such be covered by insurance.
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DeleteSANTIAGO, ALFACHINO
ReplyDeleteThe Shawshank Redemption - A story of an innocent man who is accused of murdering his wife and her lover. The story centers his life in Shawshank as he deals with police harassment and a corrupt warden.
Cotaoco, CK
ReplyDeleteMinority Report (film)
In the year 2054, the Washington D.C. police department created a special police force called PreCrime that apprehends murderers, with the help of psychic mutants called Precogs, before they commit the crime. PreCrime successfully shot down the city's murder rate to zero. Despite some complaints from the public, the federal government is about to adopt it.
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DeleteOrfano, Therese
ReplyDeleteThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (Movie)
Quasimodo is a deformed bell ringer of the Notre Dame cathedral. He lives within the cathedral’s walls and serves Judge Claude Frollo, a corrupted government official who is set on eliminating the gypsies. For twenty years, Quasimodo has been unaware of Frollo’s tyranny and oppression over Paris and its people until he met Esmeralda, a gypsy.
Benedico, Miguel
ReplyDeleteThe Dispossessed (novel)
Centuries ago, anarcho-syndicalists left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, settling its moon, Annares. Two hundred years later, Shevek, an Annaresti physicist, leaves his homeworld for Urras to complete his research. In the process of assimilating into Urrasti life, society, and culture, Shevek learns to question the nature of his own world, and if it truly is a better one. The novel explores themes of freedom, ethics and morality, and socio-political structures.
Benedicto*
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DeleteNorada, Mikaela
ReplyDeleteBattle Royale (movie)
The Japanese government forces 42 9th graders to take part in a "Battle Royale" act where they are sent to a deserted island to kill each other within 3 days until only one survivor is left, if not, everyone dies.
NO
DeleteEnder's Game (movie)
DeleteIn the future, humanity has been attacked by an alien race called the Formics and the government has been training young bright minds to become their soldiers in an International Fleet to eliminate the aliens.
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DeleteAbarca, John Michael
ReplyDeleteDivergent (novel)
People are divided into five factions based on their aptitude and choice. Government is composed of Abnegation leaders but Jeanine Matthews, leader of Erudite, wants to take over instead.
Pls. Read posts, already two Divergent.
DeleteAbarca, John Michael
DeleteDescendants (film)
Set in an alternate universe where all Disney characters live in the kingdom of Auradon. Belle and Beast, as king an queen, banished all the villains in the isle of the lost, an island with a magical barrier that seals all evil magic.
Bartolome, Mark Ryan
ReplyDelete1984 (book) - This is a story which is set in Airstrip One where the people are being surveyed and manipulated by a tyrannical government.
OK, But complete the description.
DeleteSindayen, Ana Rosario
ReplyDeleteElla Enchanted (movie) - It is a story about Ella and her journey to undo her curse "the gift of obedience." She manages to learn that no one should be told what to do like how the acting ruler of their kingdom does. In which the acting ruler, oppresses the creatures of the kingdom.