Every boys and girls awaits the Christmas season. As the Christmas breeze felt by people, they decor their houses with Christmas decor like Christmas tree, Christmas light lanterns and many more that makes their houses bright and shining.

My Christmas vacation is different from the last Christmas because I celebrated it with my relatives from Laoag. The first thing that we do is to attend the Dawn masses or known as Misa de Gallo to thanked God for all the blessing He bestowed on my family and also to myself. I completed the nine mornings. Another thing that I remember that we do during vacation is that we went caroling with

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A VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE IN MY LIFE

“A good teacher is like a candle which consumes itself to light the way for others.”

Teachers are so important in life of a human being like me. They serves as the second parent in school and also in our life. Our teachers play a very important role on us. They teach us, tolerate us, teach us in the best day could. They spent most of their time to us students. They teach us to become a professional someday and to fulfill our ambitions in our lives.For me, it’s a great pleasure to have a teacher who are so patient, he/she is there when I have problems, protects me and many more. Even if I am naughty, I love also my teachers, even if they scolded me sometimes, I treasure them as one of my inspiration, second parent, a hero, and as a model for better future.

Thank so much to all teachers who are there to guide us, tolerate us and loved us. Thank you so much for the time, effort, patience you shared to us. I hope that you will be like that until the end of the year. I treasure you in my heart and it will stay forever until my life ended.

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WORLD WIDE WEB

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.^[1] He was later joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed using “HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”,^[2] and released that web in December.^[3]

“The World-Wide Web (W3) was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project.” ^[4]

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DOGS

The dog (Canis lupus familiaris^[1]) is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog has been one of the most widely kept working, hunting and companion animals in human history.

The word “dog” may also mean the male of a canine species,^[2] as opposed to the word “bitch” for the female of the species.^[3]

The dog quickly became ubiquitous across world cultures, and was extremely valuable to early human settlements. For instance, it is believed that the successful emigration across the Bering Strait might not have been possible without sled dogs.^[4] Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals. This versatility, more than almost any other known animal, has given them the nickname “Man’s best friend” in the western world. Currently, there are estimated to be 400 million dogs in the world.^[5]

Over the 15,000 year span that the dog had been domesticated, it diverged into only a handful of landraces, groups of similar animals whose morphology and behavior have been shaped by environmental factors and functional roles. As the modern understanding of genetics developed, humans began to intentionally breed dogs for a wide range of specific traits. Through this process, the dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds, and shows more behavioral and morphological variation than any other land mammal.^[6] For example, height measured to the withers ranges from a few inches in the Chihuahua to a few feet in the Irish Wolfhound; color varies from white through grays (usually called “blue’”) to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark (“red” or “chocolate”) in a wide variation of patterns; coats can be short or long, coarse-haired to wool-like, straight, curly, or smooth.^[7] It is common for most breeds to shed this coat.

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THE GIFT

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LOVE POEM

This poem is dedicated to the one I love, to my friends, parents and many more:

Everything

I hope you don’t know,
I hope you don’t see,

All of the feelings
Bursting inside of me.

I wish I could tell you
I wish I could let you know

All of these feelings
I would like to show.

I lay in bed
Hope and pray

You will wake up
And realize some day.

Maybe one day you will know
Maybe you will see

Although I meant nothing to you,
You meant everything to me.

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ISNHS

The Ilocos Sur National High School continues to realize the vision of enhancing quality education for the good of the studentry and our country.  This firm determination vivified with its awareness that ISNHS is a Regional Leader School and Divisional Leader School, being the training center during the Secondary Education Development Program (SEDP) for Filipino and English teachers in Region I and other trainings in Science and Mathematics in previous school years.

This institution, which was adjudged as the Most Effective Public Secondary School in Region I in 1993 is living up to its rightful place in history as a citadel of education by serving as venue for seminar-workshops, conferences, civil service examinations like the Career Service Examination (Professional/Sub-Professional levels) as well as for the athletic and academic competitions.  It is also one of the few secondary schools, which implements three curricula the Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC), the Engineering and Science Education Program (ESEP) where there are two Special Science Classes in every year level and the Balik-Paaralan Para Sa Out-Of-School Adult (BP-OSA) Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program. It is worth mentioning that the Ilocos Sur National High School is one of the 4 other secondary schools in Region I chosen to implement the program.  It is now its 9^th year of implementation and has produced successful graduates who have put up their livelihood projects to improve their quality of life.  Others have gone abroad and some have found employment in public and private establishments.

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HISTORY OF VIGAN

Vigan is an island which is separated from the mainland by three bodies of water:^{[citation needed]} the Abra River, the Mestizo River, and the Govantes River. The city is unique in the Philippines because it is one of many extensive surviving Philippine historic cities, dating back to the 16th century.

Vigan was a coastal trading post long before the Spaniards arrived; Chinese traders sailing from the South China Sea came to Isla de Vigan (Island of Vigan) via the Mestizo River that surrounded the island. On board their ships were sea-faring merchants that came to trade goods from other Asian kingdoms in exchange for gold, beeswax, and other mountain products brought by the indigenous peoples from the Cordilleras region.

In the book The Philippine Island (Vol. III, p. 276, Blair and Robertson) two letters from Governor General Guido de Lavezaris to King Philip II of Spain mention: “It seemed best to send Captain Juan de Salcedo with 70 or 80 soldiers to explore the coast of Los Ilocano on the shores of the river called Bigan.” The Spaniards marched north from Manila on May 20, 1572 and arrived in Vigan on June 12, 1572.

Thus, after the successful expedition and the exploration of the North, Juan de Salcedo founded “Villa Fernandina de Vigan” in honor of King Philip II’s son, Prince Ferdinand, who died at the tender age of four. From Vigan, Salcedo rounded the tip of Luzon and proceeded to pacify Camarines, Albay, and Catanduanes.

As a reward for his services to the King of Spain, Salcedo was awarded the old province of Ilocos which consisted of the modern provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Abra, La Union and a part of Mountain Province as his hacienda (estate), and was accorded the title of “Justicia Mayor de esta Provincia de Ylocos” (Province Mayor of Ilocos).

In 1576, Salcedo returned to the capital of his encomienda (trusteeship), Vigan, bringing with him his soldiers, and some Augustinian missionaries to pioneer the evangelization of the Ilocos region. He established a Spanish city for the purpose of controlling the neighboring country.

Governor General Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, in his Account of encomienda dated in Manila on May 31, 1591 states: “The town of Vigan called Villa Fernandina consisted of Spanish settlers; a priest; a Justice Alcalde Mayor (Governor); and a Deputy. The King collects 800 tributes (equivalent to 3,200 subjects).” During this period, Vigan was composed of 19 barrios (districts).

Between 1645 to 1660, Vigan was divided into 21 Cavezas de Barrios (Town Mayors) as mentioned in the Libro de Casamiento (Book of Marriage); from the records of the parish house of Vigan found in its Archives. Separated from the indigenous population; the Chinese migrants were residents in a neighbourhood called pariancillo, Los Sangleyes del parian (The Sangleyes of Parian); and the Spanish settlers were residents in a town called Los Españoles de la Villa (The Town of the Spaniards).

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URL(Uniform Resource Locator)

In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI,^[1]. The best-known example of a URL is the “address” of a web page on the World Wide Web, e.g. http://www.example.com.

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COMPUTER

A computer is a programmable machine that receives input, stores and manipulates data//information, and provides output in a useful format.

While a computer can, in theory, be made out of almost anything (see misconceptions section), and mechanical examples of computers have existed through much of recorded human history, the first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940–1945). Originally, they were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).^[1] Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space.^[2] Simple computers are small enough to fit into mobile devices, and can be powered by a small battery. Personal computers in their various forms are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as “computers”. However, the embedded computers found in many devices from MP3 players to fighter aircraft and from toys to industrial robots are the most numerous.

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