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  [Essay] Entertain and Educate. by JHON REIN RAÑA| 1st Place in Essay Writing Contest (Language and Literary Month 2024) Nowadays, literature is slowly losing its way in today’s modern world, as literary works are being forgotten and are being underappreciated, as our society is more focused on “gadgets” such as phones, which only give as much as entertainment, which leads to why literary pieces are being forgotten as to various people, they consider reading “boring,” and they actually lack time to focus on reading these pieces and appreciating how much emotion and how much depth it contains. As to the question, why is literature important, and how would we manage to promote and revive literature alongside keeping up with technology and constant change? Technology has helped us build up a structure in our economy and our society, giving us information ready on the go and, of course entertainment. In reviving the fondness for literature, a course of action could be en...

  [Essay] What’s an Accessible Art to a Restrained Heart? by MICHAELLA S. LEANO | 2nd Place in Essay Writing Contest (Language and Literary Month 2024) For inconceivable years, words have been uttered, words have been written on any medium using any inks, only imprinted… yet they flow straight to one’s heart. For as long as one can remember, literature has been present in our lives, influencing several aspects that we may not have even heard of. Literature has been considered timeless, but how come, in this age where accessibility is at its easiest, the long-lasted love for this silently written art is dying? Perhaps it is the progress humanity has achieved. With our technology nowadays, where every piece of information can be found with one simple click of a button, a book’s appearance and importance have become obsolete. But would one really call this progress, if the concept of reading and understanding is turning out to be irrelevant in our everyday lives, where we just lo...