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yulnabi · 6 years

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Day 97, pt 2 [IC] The Tsar Bomba

Monday: The Tsar Bomba

So I had a great time with Migos. We did not go to Caprice, and instead he came over. I confess I was terrified that he would lecture me, but he was actually very nice and understanding.

We downed a couple of bottles of vodka, before he informed me he had to take off. Apparently he had some sort of mission in the evening, though he did not look in any condition to go ahead and take on baddies.

Anyhoo, afterwards I headed to Caprice. Before going in, I recorded a video message for James.

Once in, I spotted a guy wearing a toga standing next to me at the bar, so I started conversation. I had assumed he was foreign, as it is an unusual attire to wear in public. . .even in Millenium City. Turns out he is a local, or at least that’s what he said at first.

He then asked where I was from. When I told him Russia, he scoffed and bragged about how he had left several craters in the country and taken out scores of our servicemen. This is something I will have to tell Vladya about, since it’s sure to sting her.

Well, turns out he is not precisely local. He is the offspring of two different alien species. He said he was the last survivor of a long war that saw both people’s destroy each other. When I inquired about what could possibly have led both groups to fight until extinction, he revealed it was pride. They wanted to see which species was the stronger of the two and fought each other to the end.

It is in my nature to ask question after question, so he said his mission in life was to acquire some sort of super form. That he believed there were other survivors of his peoples looking for Earth. I may have been drunk, but I immediately remember him saying they had fought each other to extinction. It’s something I would have brought up, but I just don’t like making things awkward. It bothers me to no end when things get awkward, and usually, it’s my doing.

Well, he was a young man, about my age, so I thought it was a little amusing that he was openly bragging about his power. I mean, I was annoyed about him bragging about murdering Russians, but I dismissed it at first as simple bravado. Now he was upping the ante. He could achieve several super forms, each stronger than the rest. Each form would emit a stronger aura that looked like an electrical current, but was made of heat and wind.

Before achieving a new form, he’d do some sort of ritual screaming and hand maneuvers that would lead to the next one. Though I could feel the energy, the thing that had me worried was the idea that the concepts would mistake it for the start of a fight. I looked at them to signal that there was nothing wrong, and they gave me an understanding look. . . like telling me they knew it was just a young man trying to impress the girl.

When I left Caprice, I was drunk from the vodka I had in my loft, but I stupidly thought it would be a good idea to go bother Vladya.

She was up, listening to some patriotic music like the creep that she is, when she saw spotted me.

“Your Highness, Sultana of Mergen and its 12 colonies, to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?” She said, as if knowing I was looking for a fight and throwing the first punch.

“I went shopping earlier and bought myself these Louboutins” I said as I showed her my heels. “They were cheap, only like a year’s worth of your salary.”

“I’ll get a pair when I start spreading my legs for some noble sugar daddy. I hear the Prince of Mergen is looking for a new plaything. Do you think he’ll accept my application?”

“I met an extra-terrestrial today.” I said, trying to hold my contempt.

“Did he want to go home?” She said, taking a sit and raising the volume to the music.

“Oh no, he was talking about how he turned Bashkortostan into a crater-filled wasteland.”

“Did he now? Did he also go back in time and take out the entirety of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan? While standing shirtless in an open field?” She responded sarcastically.

“He sounded pretty sure of it.” I said, looking for her reaction.

“So he was talking about his campaign in Hearts of Iron and you were ready to drop your panties?”

“I don’t think I ever mentioned any of that.”

“What did this Russia-destroying hero look like?”

I proceeded to describe him to her, telling her about his transformations.

“So you mean to tell me some Dragon Ball cosplayer went to Bashkiria and destroyed our forces there? Forces I just had a conversation with and who have been stationed there for years?” She sounded a little exasperated.

“Careful there, anger tends to leave wrinkles on your skin.” I told her mockingly.

“Sorry Barbie, but that’s something that doesn’t concern me.”

We continued like this for about an hour. She then said she had some results for me. When I asked what results. She told me she had decided to have some of my blood analyzed, and that the results had just gotten back.

This had the effect of almost immediately sobering me up. “Did they reveal anything new?”

She looked at me straight in the eye, “Yes, they did.”

“And?” I asked, wanting to know why she had suddenly gotten so serious.

“If it was up to me, I would have you tied up and shipped as far away from our planet as possible.” I was worried.

“What are you talking about?” I was beginning to get exasperated by her evasive answers.

“Settle down there Fat Man Little Boy Tsarbomba” She barked at me. “Those things you’re made up of, they are a danger to our planet.”

“Fat Man? Tsarbomba? I, I don’t understand.”

“Of course you don’t! How long did it take you to understand that lover of yours was a scumbag?”

“Could you drop that and get to the point.”

“Those things, each and every one of those bots is some sort of supercomputer and an energy source. They are somehow contained, but we estimate each one can produce around 10 to the 26th power Watts per second. Do you know what that is?”

I looked at her dumbfounded for a few seconds, before mouthing “The sun.”

She nodded, “Yes Tsarbomba, each of those things produces as much energy as the sun.”

“But I can’t. . .”

“Of course you can’t! But that is why Mergenese Edward Cullen wanted to steal you away. He wants to harness that power for himself!”

“And Vova doesn’t?” I asked, the information leaving me weak in my stomach.

“He would if he knew. General Gerasimov is keeping that bit from him for now.”

I simply nodded. It was hours before I could get myself to shower and go to sleep. Suddenly, the sleeping pod felt really small.

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Teen Pregnancy in the Philippines: Rising and Alarming

Name: Cyrill John D. Derilo (BARBIE) 11-Marx

Academic text: Article

Author/s of the article: Jordan Tovera Salvador, PhD, RN Ben Ryan Jucay Sauce, MN, RN, RM Marc Oneel Castillo Alvarez, MAN, RN, RM Ahrjaynes Balanag Rosario, MAN, RN

Title of the article: The Phenomenon of Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines

URL or Web address: https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/viewFile/8390/8055

Main Idea: The over-all proposition of the study evolves with the essence of ‘health education’. This serves as an ‘eye opener’ to individuals to get involve in the public awareness, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the programs that would build sustainable development. Active involvement is a pre-requisite to success. As early as possible, sex education should be incorporated in the curriculum of the intermediate and secondary school to properly educate them on the effects and disadvantages of early pregnancy.

Evidence that supports the main idea:

*Methodology

-The primary objective of this qualitative phenomenological research is to explore and understand the lived experiences of mothers in their teenage European Scientific Journal November 2016 edition vol.12, No.32 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 175 years. Phenomenology is the study of phenomena (Salvador, 2016). Thus, it states that each situation or experience can only be experienced by a single person who has gained new perceptions and insights (Crotty, 1997). The insights from this study may be beneficial to others and is considered as the primary goal of research (Bryman, 2012). Moreover, phenomenological inquiry is grounded on exploring and understanding the lived experiences of human beings. This can be achieved by figuring-out the meaning of the experiences and human being’s lived experiences’ essences (Creswell, 2012). This phenomenological study was anchored on Sister Callista Roy’s (1980) – Adaptation Theory. This theory ‘defines adaptation as the process by which an individual or group makes conscious choices to cope with his or her situation. Adaptive responses increase people's ability to cope and to achieve their goals including survival, growth, mastery of their lives, and personal and environmental transformation’. However, Roy's adaptation theory stated that there are four distinctive modes: physiologic (basic needs including food, sleep, air, water, and the necessities of protecting the body); self-concept (beliefs and feelings about self); role identity/function (personal perspective to the social world); and interdependence (personal relationship towards the whole organization). Therefore, a person is an open adaptive system who uses coping skills to deal with stressors. In line with the study, the ‘person’ represents the teenage mothers. Roy sees the environment as "all conditions, circumstances, and influences that surround and affect the development and behavior of the person" (Andrews & Roy, 1991). Environment then may sum up the challenges of the participants in facing life with pregnancy and motherhood. However, Roy's goal for nursing is "the promotion of adaptation in each of the four modes, thereby contributing to the person's health, quality of life, and dying with dignity" (Roy, 1980). The participants of the study were sixteen (16) teenage mothers aged 13-19 years old who are currently residing in the capital of the Philippines. Selection of participants was obtained through purposive sampling. The inclusion criteria for this study include: informed consent signed by both participants and at least one of the biological/legal foster parents; age bracket of 13-18 years old; willingness to share their lived experiences; and their commitment to attend follow-up dialogues. Consequently, semi-stuctured in-depth interviews were facilitated as the main research instrumentation in gathering the data. However, participants were given the option if they wish to be withdrawn anytime to preserve the principle of automony and confidentiality. Observations, use of field notes (personal, transcript and analytical), audio-visual recordings, and European Scientific Journal November 2016 edition vol.12, No.32 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 176 qualitative documents were also used to supplement the data collection process. Interviews were transcribed verbatim in preparation for the data analysis. Coding techniques and pseudonames were utilized to maintain confidentiality. In keeping with the intended methodology, qualitative content analysis inspired by Collaizi (1978) was utilized to explicate the essence of the phenomenon (see figure 1).

-Teenage Pregnancy had been a worldwide issue, and has raised large numbers of campaigns and awareness to lessen its occurrence. The total number of this phenomenon is increasing each year. Philippines is one of the Asian countries which shares similar situation. In a study conducted by the National Demographic and Health Survey in 2013, one out of every young Filipino women age 15 to 19 is already a mother or pregnant with a first child. Therefore, the government in partnership with the different nongovernment agencies should exert efforts in resolving this issue. Teenage Pregnancies are often associated with social development issues such as lack of sufficient education and poverty. This often results to single parenthood which catalyzes conditions that renders the mothers to become irresponsible. Hence, it conveys a social stigma in various countries and cultures. This study would like to focus on exploring the lived experiences of Filipino teenage mothers in their pre and post-natal stage on how they prepare and accept their new roles as mothers. The gathered data from the methods were analyzed and interpreted according to qualitative content analysis. As a result, this generated emergent themes which depicted the experiences of the participants.

- Teenage pregnancy has been a worldwide issue that needs to be confronted to mitigate the problems of maternal adolescent childbearing, especially in the third world countries. In fact, it has emerged to be one of the major public health problems in South Asia (Raj et al., 2010) and in European Scientific Journal November 2016 edition vol.12, No.32 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 174 Western Europe (Seamarck, 2001). It is reported in India that adolescent pregnancy is one of the serious health threat for women aged 15-19 years old (Patra, 2016). In Nigeria, the ratio of teenage mothers to women in their 20s who actually die during pregancy and childbirth is 5:1. In addition, they likely have more higher mortality rates for infants (Amoran, 2012). Consequently, social analysts and researchers enumerated some of the reason why pregnacies among adolescents have been increasing in spite of interventions from government health agencies and NGOs. Thus, the reasons varies from socio-economic status (Dulita, Nalika, Upul, Crishantha & De Alwis, 2013), lack of education (Eloundou-Enyegue, 2004), teenagers’ initiation to sexual activity (Grace, Ihuoma & Temitope, 2013), family history of teenage births (Wall-Wieler, Ross & Nickel, 2016), etc. The incidence of mortality in teenage pregnacies and adverse birth outcomes is increasing every year due to immature pre-natal care, socio-economical challenges, and inadequte weight gained during pregnancy (Xi-Kuan, Shi Wu, Flemming Demissie & Rhoads, 2007). However, the Philippines have the same predicament regarding teenage pregnancy. Due to the official ranking of the United Nation Population Fund Agency in 2012, the number of teenage pregnancies, aged 10-19 years old, have increased to 70% over the last ten years. As a result, this has imposed a huge problem towards the achievement of Millenium Development Goals that puts the country in red alert (Philippine News Agency, 2012). Moreover, 14% of the teenage girls in the age bracket of 15- 19 were reported for the first time to be already mothers or have had several children in the 2014 survey of Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality as compared to the 8% of the 2002 survey (Au-Yeung, 2014). Among the reasons identified, the major causes of teenage pregnancies are limited access to sexual education and sexual health services. This is contrary to the church teachings’ alternative methods of family planning. New technology is also considered as one of the major culprits to the increased number of teenage pregnancy cases. Occassionally, teenagers get hooked to different social networking sites such as Facebook, Online Dating, Instagram, etc. using their smartphones, notebooks and tablets. Due to easy access to new technology and the curiousity of teenagers to engage in sexual activities without appropriate knowledge about family planning and contraceptions, it often ends up with unplanned pregnancy. The big question is: Are they prepared for the role of a mother despite their young ages? How far can teenagers go to get rid of the unwanted pregnancy? Is abortion an option?

- "We are okay now. I have already adjusted and I am ready now to be a mother to my baby and my soon to be babies. Thanks to all the people who supported and loved me. Now, I know the ABC's of Motherhood.“

- All of the emergent themes reflected the lived experiences of the participants in their teenage pregnancy and motherhood journeys. The first theme, awakening: the period of adolescence’, depicted the growth and development of a girl to a lady. It also showed how teenagers struggled about their bodily changes and how they can fit into the society. Peer pressure is one of the major challenges at this point. Proper guidance from the parents and family members should be offered to teenagers not to feel being left behind. Sex education in the school should already have been initiated to keep away teenagers from discovering it by themselves. By knowing the effects and disadvantages of teenage pregnancy and early parenthood, this would teach them to become a responsible person. Therefore, educating teenagers is still the best way to prevent teenage pregnancy. The second theme, ‘pregnancy bearing a child’, showed the challenges and struggles of conceiving a child. It illustrated how a teenager behaves and responds to her present condition. Early pre-natal check-ups should be initiated at this stage to ensure that the baby will be delivered healthy and safely. The role of parents, especially the mothers, are crucial at this point. Pregnant teenagers have little knowledge about child-bearing. Technically, she will be depending on her mother for all the information she European Scientific Journal November 2016 edition vol.12, No.32 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 187 needs to know in taking care of her baby. Other support groups are highlyencouraged to motivate the teenager to accept her situation wholeheartedly. Motherhood: The Mother and the Child is the third theme that emerged from the lived experiences of the participants. This theme depicted the teenager’s new role – as a mother. Motherhood is said to be the hardest thing that a woman could experience in her life. Teenagers have no enough experience to take care of a child and, at the same time, provide the needs of her child. Parents will be the provider of the entire mother and child’s need. Nowadays ‘forced marriage’ is not an option anymore. Parents of both parties may either have settlement regarding the visitations, financial arrangements, and other conditions both agreed upon considering that both parties are still on minor age (less than 18 years old). At this point, teenagers may choose whether to continue or end their relationships. Some teenage couples end up together until the time they can establish a family of their own. However, majority of them decided to continue life without the company of each other. The last emergent theme is ‘futurity: building new dreams’. This theme described the faith, hope, and love of the teenage mothers to continue their lives in spite of the challenges they have experienced. Here, the teenage mothers began to build new dreams for themselves and their families. They are now stronger, more empowered, and wiser this time. All of them are convinced that everything happens for a reason. Through all the ups and down in their lives, they still managed to adjust, adapt, and cope. Therefore, all of them are ready to face the next chapters of their lives.

#barbie

#marx

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