Arabian Nights The Tale of the Poor Hunchback

To prevent Shahryar realising she's starting a complete new story, Scheherazade begins her next tale by following on from the last, explaining that Faisal (Stanley Lebor) designed Morgiana's wedding attire and his wife, Safil (Jamila Massey), from Constantinople, were at Ali Baba's wedding. Back in Constantinople, the couple have dinner with Bac-Bac (Alexei Sayle), the Sultan's hunchbacked-jester, during which Bac-Bac chokes on a fish bone and dies. Worried about their reputation, Faisal and Safil leave the body on the doorstep of a Jewish physician, Ezra Ben Ezra (Leon Lissek). Before Dr Ezra can take a look at Bac-Bac, he trips over him in the dark and they both fall down his doorway stairs. After the fall, Ezra finds the dead body and assumes that he accidentally killed him. Recognising BacBac, they repeat the actions of Faisal and Safil by dropping the body down the chimney of their Chinese neighbour, Hi-Ching (Junix Inocian). Hi-Ching mistakenly believes that he is about to be robbed and attacks Bac-Bac with Kung Fu. Hi-Ching mistakenly believes that he killed BacBac by hitting him so hard and (like the others) he fears for his welfare. So he carries the body to a dark alcove, where Englishman Jerome Gribben (Roger Hammond) is walking home in a drunken stupor. BacBac's body falls onto Jerome, who believes he is being attacked. He repeatedly hits the body against a wall, and calls the nearby guards. The guards recognise Bac-Bac and arrest Jerome for murder. Jerome is put on trial and sentenced to death. Unable to bear the guilt, Hi-Ching, Ezra, and Faisal all confess that they had killed the poor hunchback. In the middle of all their arguments, the Sultan (Tony Osoba) comes and demands to know who the killed his jester. The Sultan realises Bac-Bac's death was an accident in any event and frees Jerome and the others, explaining that Bac-Bac would have been amused by the manner of his death.
Submitted By: Anika Mae Fierro 2A Submitted To: Ms. Judelyn Amparo

`.`.`.`**The Magic Of Love**`.`.`.`

Love is like magic and it always will be. Sacrifices for the one you love are one of the pieces to complete the puzzle of love. We always hear that making sacrifices is one sign of devotion to another person. When you care for someone, you have to give a little. It all comes with life. In order to receive something, one must sacrifice other things. Based on the story- The Arabian Nights, Sultan Schariars love for his unfaithful wife was the reason for his bitterness and grief. But as what they say, everything happens for a reason and this reason helped him to find his true love, Schehezarade. Schehezarade was the first one to start putting the pieces of sacrifice at the puzzle. She learned to sacrifice even her life just to show her love and care for the sultan even before the sultan realized his love for her. Telling stories to the sultan was one of her ways to avoid things that might cause accident and even death. Her stories with her wide imagination towards things saved not only her but the sultan as well with the moral lessons it contained. These stories of her did not only helped in developing the sultans knowledge and values but also turned into a clue to find the other pieces of the puzzle. Each new story that she tells every day, gives new clues to the sultan of his true love that is destined to him. Until one day at an unexpected time and event, the pieces of the puzzle are slowly being half-filled and he already found himself confessing his feelings to Schehezarade knowing that his destiny has come. He may had experienced the feeling of pain when her wife betrayed him but the happiness he enjoyed when he fell in love to Schehezarade is more than the pain that he felt before. Time heals all wounds and when his time of healing came, love has led him to his eternal way. Falling in love is like a fairy tale. What happens in this magical moment? Is it really a question of chance or is it destiny? We often say that it is a magical feeling that happens between two people. When two hearts become one, two souls combine and two minds react the same way. We all want to meet the one, but finding them can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, searching for a golden treasure underneath a dark cave or even like stopping the rain to fall. Impossible things become possible with love. The magic of love continues forever. The puzzle they are trying to put up is not yet done. It may be halffilled but the problems they will encounter in life continue to arrive to test not only their minds but their trust, loyalty, faithfulness and love to one another. The love, care, support and faith that Schehezarade had for the sultan made Sultan Schariar a better person than ever before. Their story does not yet guarantee them a happy ending for it was only the starting chapter of their story which is to be composed of many chapters. Making a home for him or her in your heart in place of a home of grudges and bitterness is the true meaning of love.. Just as what Sultan Schariar did opening his heart for Schehezarade. Without any fear and pressure, we can admit that love always stays ahead of our heart and stores magic for everyone who understands its path and who is unstoppable giving his or her life for the sake of love. The magic of love does not need any tricks, methods or any formulas in order to work out. It only needs time, patience, space and right decision. Not all magics succeed because it all depends to the decision that we make. As what the movie of Captain Corellis Mandolin says, When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. True Love will always be waiting. Whats meant to be will always find its way.

Indeed, love never stops to spread its magic and theres nothing in life that this magic of love cannot change.

Submitted By: Anika Mae Fierro 2A Submitted To: Ms. Judelyn Amparo

Moving Forward To Cyber Ethics

-Anika Mae Fierro

Citizenship in an E-world may show your character. With the fast movement of technology nowadays, certain crimes and attitudes are in trend."Character is what you do when no one is watching." Almost all of us our members of this so called E-world. We have the capability on how we are going to deal with it including ethics, etiquette, security and responsibility. E-habits are often one of the reasons to what teenagers at present have mostly become.. Online, they can feel invisible and capable of doing things they normally wouldn't do in person or in public - things that they know might be wrong. E-world nowadays did not only become as a tool for helping people but also as a target-attacking computers of others, as a weapon-to commit traditional crime that we see in the physical world and as an accessory-particularly a fancy filing cabinet to store illegal and stolen information. Hackers and Pirates are now wide spread all over the world. Plagiarism had also been one of the major problems associated. Most teenagers even used this as a tool to cyber bullying and cyber stalking. Seriously, Cyber protection is no joke. We must look upon our stuffs and use our common sense. We must depend on human integrity. We know very well its established rules and limits towards acceptable behavior but why are we blind to see those? We know the beliefs or conventions on good and evil, good or bad conduct, and justice and injustice. It has its purpose but what happened to most of us? Would we just let our blind eyes to continue to what we are doing and follow our own decision? Or would we try to open our eyes to the reality that awaits us? Lets try to take this famous advice to highschool students: Dont LOOK at anything in a Physics lab; Dont SMELL anything in a Biology lab; Dont TASTE anything in a Chemistry lab; Dont TOUCH anything in a medical lab; Dont LISTEN to anything in a Philosophy course; and most of all, Dont TRUST anything in a computer lab. Indeed, this reminds us not to trust when it comes to Eworld. We might be chatting to our Internet friend enjoying his or her company, publishing our works online giving soft copies, posting our memorable photos and videos, uploading musics, but who knows? These might be one of the paths leading us to destruction. There are many persons who became famous and rich because of this modern technology but there is no guarantee that this would give us 1oo% assurance of happiness. Some often thinks that the Internet is so big, so powerful and
pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Is this really the complete substitution to life? Lets try to think more about it. Not all things in this world can easily be appointed as a substitute to life. Internet is not a great deal compared to life. In fact, Internet was just created to contribute to our happiness not happiness itself. We must always remember that it is not only the E-world who runs our whole world that there are still things surrounding us. Let us try to leave this questions on our mind, what is really the purpose of this technology? Is it to give an easier

way and serve as a helpful tool to the modern world? Or to give way to people to invade privacy, destroy property, injure other computer users and crash systems to malfunction and not work? -Anika Mae Fierro