Critique on Why is the sea salty

Everyone who has been to the beach knows that seawater is salty. Everyone also knows that fresh water in rain, rivers, and even ice is not salty. Why are some of Earth's waters salty and others are not? There are two clues that give us the answer. First, "fresh" water is not entirely free of dissolved salt. Even rainwater has traces of substances dissolved in it that were picked up during passage through the atmosphere. Much of this material that "washes out" of the atmosphere today is pollution, but there are also natural substances present.

As rainwater passes through soil and percolates through rocks, it dissolves some of the minerals, a process called weathering. This is the water we drink, and of course, we cannot taste the salt because its concentration is too low. Eventually, this water with its small load of dissolved minerals or salts reaches a stream and flows into lakes and the ocean.The annual addition of dissolved salts by rivers is only a tiny fraction of the total salt in the ocean. The dissolved salts carried by all the world's rivers would equal the salt int he ocean in about 200 to 300 million years.

A second clue to how the sea became salty is the presence salt lakes such as the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea. Both are about 10 times saltier than seawater. Why are these lakes salty while most of the world's lakes are not? Lakes are temporary storage areas for water. Rivers and streams bring water to the lakes, and other rivers carry water out of lakes. Thus, lakes are really only wide depressions in a river channel that have filled water. Water flows in one end and out the other.

Critique by: Julian Lariosa

Critique on Bernardo Carpio

my impresion on the legend is streght

Noong unang panahon, may mag-asawang mahirap na naninirahan sa isa sa maraming bundok ng San Mateo, Rizal. Nguni't sa

pagdarahop nila sa buhay at sa madlang dalita na kanilang tinitiis ay may dumating na kaligayahan. Ang babae ay nanganak, isang araw, ng isang malaki't malusog na sanggol na lalaki. Bernardo Carpio ang kanilang ipinangalan sa bagong silang na sanggol. Sinasabing nang siya'y bago pa lamang gumagapang at nagsisimula pa lamang sa pag-usad-usad, ang mga pako ng sahig na

makawit ng kanyang kuko ay nangabubunot ng lahat. Sa kanyang pangangabay, ang mga kahoy na kanyang matangnan ay nangababali at nagkakadurug-durog. Gayon din naman angmga laruang ipinanlilibang sa kanya ng mga magulang ay

lagi niyang kalaru-laro at matatalik na kaibigan ay ang mga hayop sa kagubatan. Sa gubat na madalas niyang patunguhan ay may nakatirang isang enkantado. Ang enkantadong ito'y isang malaki't malakas na

nangawawasak at nagkakalasug-lasog sa kanyang mga palad. . Lumaganap ang kanyang katangian hindi lamang sa pagiging isang malakas na binata kundi sa pagiging isang makisig a magandang lalaki pa. Natagpuan niya ang lubusang kasiyahan sa kagubatan. Kung saan makakapal ang punong kahoy ay doon siya naglalagi. At ang

engkantado ay siyang natalo. Pinatuloy ng engkantado ang binata sa pook na iyon. Nang itong huli ay nasa pagitan na ng dalawang bato, ang engkantado ay

lalaki. Nguni't siya'y may ugaling mainggitin at mapanghamak. Sa madalas na pagtungo ni Bernardo sa kagubatan ay napagmalas siya ng engkantado. Natitiyak ng engkantado na ang binata ay hindi mananalo sa kanya kung sila ay magsusukatan ng lakas. Isang araw, si Bernardo ay inabangan ng engkantado. At sila ay naglaban. Ito ay sinundan pa ng iba't ibang paligsahan na pawang ginagamitan ng lakas. Sa lahat nang ito ang

nawalang tila kinain ng laho. At biglang-biglang ang mga bato ay umikom. Sa tulong ng kanyang matitipunong bisig, pinilit na pigilin ni Bernardo ang pag-ikom ng mga bato upang siya ay hindi maipit. Bernardo Carpio at patuloy na pinipigil

According to one version of the tale, Bernardo Carpio was a son of Infante Jimena and Don Sancho Diaz of Cerdenia. Infante was cloistered by her brother King Alfonso, who at that time was very powerful, because of her forbidden love with Don Sancho Diaz. Don Sanchio Diaz then was incarcerated, his eyes are to be plucked out. Then Bernardo was then cared by Don Rubio, by whosedesigns the affair of the hapless love is discovered by the King.

The Spanish hired a local engkantado (shaman) and conspired to trap him through supernatural means. Calling for a parley, they lured him towards a cave in the mountains of Montalban. The lad fell for the trap. The engkantado used his agimat (talisman) and Bernardo Carpio was caught between two boulders which the shaman had caused to grind each other. The legend says he was not killed, but was trapped between these two boulders, unable to escape because the talisman’s power was as great as his own strength.

When Carpio’s co-conspirators arrived at the cave to rescue him, they were blocked from the cave by a series of cave ins that killed several of the men.

People soon surmised that whenever an earthquake happens, it is caused by Bernardo Carpio trying to free himself from the mountain.

Legends (Alamat in Filipino) is very important in preserving the history and culture of one’s land. It has a vital role in transferring the knowledge and important in the development of a community. It also has the capacity to transform person’s paradigm; and mold their values, attitude, and behavior that greatly affects human’s life as well as the community.

Critique by: Kurt  Jasper Jaucian

Critique on The Cycle of the Sun and the Moon

The legend The Cycle of the Sun and the Moon shows the importance of obedience. The Sun touched and burned his children, disobeying his wife's clear order. When the Moon came back from getting water from the river and found out what had happened, she and her spouse got into a fight. The Sun yelled and threw stuff at the Moon; the Moon fled the house as her husband unleashed his anger at the forest; the Sun came back to an empty house and deeply regretted yelling at his wife. The Sun then ended up chasing his fleeing wife, looking for a way to get back her affection. And that is how the cycle of the sun and the moon began. The root of all of this was, letting the love for his children overwhelm him, the Sun's lack of obedience. If he just followed his wife's orders then his childrens would not have been burned and the fight with the Moon would never have happened.

The positive point of this legend is its lesson. We must not fall into temptation and we must do what is right, even if we have to sacrifice something that is very important to us.

Critique by; Danelle Santos

Critique on Maria Makiling

The Legend of Maria Makiling is a story of a myth or a goddess that is Maria. Maria is the diwata associated with the Mount Makiling in Laguna. She is the guardian spirit that is responsible for taking care of the mountain. The mountain was told where people went there gets lost. 

In the mountain of Laguna there was a girl named Maria Makiling. She is kind and beautiful. She once gave a man a bilao of ginger which turns into a bilao of gold. She has a lot of suitors. Captain Lara, a spanish soldier; Joselito, a spanish mestizo studying in Manila and Juan, a common farmer. All of her suitors want to konw if they were the one that was chosen by Maria. Until the moon comes out and Maria told them that it was Jaun she chose. Her suitors gets mad and jealous that made them took revenge to Juan. They burn the house and told that Juan was responsible for burning the house. Juan gets in prison and got tortured. Maria gets mad and she cursed the place which is the Mount Makiling. The mountain was told where people went there gets lost. 

The Mount Makilingis located at Laguna. It is often said that Mount Makiling resembles the profile of a woman, said to be Maria herself. This phenomenon is described as true from several different perspectives, so there is no single location associated with this claim. The mountain’s various peaks are said to be Maria’s face and two breasts, respectively, and her hair cascades downwards a gentle slope away from her body.         

Maria is kind and beautiful. There is a man that has its child that is ill. Maria gave the man a bilao of ginger which became a bilao of gold. The curse she gave in the village to the people who is the responsible for the thing they accused Juan shows her great love for Juan. Conclusion.          The Legend of Maria Makiling is about a curse happened in the mountain of Laguna. The mountain was named Mount Makiling because of the legend about Maria Makiling. The contour of the mountain is said to be that of her in a reclining position. The disappearance of the people are attributed to the diwata or to spirits who follow her. The mountain was told where people went there gets lost.

Critique by: Franchesca Serrano 

Critique on the Legend of Mangga

I feel concerned about the story because our parents are hard working for us. A long time ago there was a couple named Mang Pangga and Aling Manggita. They have children who are stubborn and lazy. Their father and mother don't know what to do because when they die who is gonna take care of them. So the children woke up and there was no food at the table so they keep on finding their parents but no matter how hard they try they can't find their parents then they saw a mysterious fruit so when taste the fruit it was sweet and delicious so then on they worked hard to reproduce the fruit and then on they decided to name the fruit and the fruit was named after their parent called mangga. The legend was took place in Zambales The positive point of the story is: To have something great you need to work hard for it.

Critique by: Jaide Sari