History of the Philippines Essay

has a huge influence on why he commits the attack on April 9, 1995, (Borgeson, 2012). The contrariety of his beliefs against United States government is written in history when he killed innocent lives and caused a destruction of government property. Fueled by his disbeliefs he engaged in a violent attack that will be etched in U.S. history forever. FARC political views are far more different than the home grown terrorist in the United States, they actually want to have a place in the government…

Philippines is a country composed of different regions; which are inhabited by different people with different cultures. There are the Tagalogs, Pangasinenses, Cebuanos, Kapampangans, Bicolanos, Warays, Hiligaynons, Zambuangeños, Ilocanos, Surigaonons and the Moros (Wikipedia). It is a common knowledge to everyone that these groups of people live together as Filipinos in peace and harmony, but there is one ethnic group that wishes to have its own government. The Moros or Bangsamoro people are…

Filipinos. It talks about how Filipinos think small in any aspects. According to him, we can see this heritage of smallness in these three points: Commerce and Industry, Politics and Government, and History and Culture. In his essay, he mentioned the state of commerce and industry of the Philippines. Nowadays, there are many Filipinos that worked full-time in order to have something to eat for the day. They will do everything even though even if their life is at risk. Sadly, the work that they…

1. History vs. Prehistory a) What is prehistory and how is this concept or term defined?  The term prehistory is referred to the time period before the era of recorded history. There are no written accounts in the prehistory period. The era of beginning of the universe and when there was the beginning of life on earth is described as prehistoric period by historians and geologists. In short, it is used to express the era from when human existence began.[ 1] b) What is the history of the term…

Civil War, white supremacy was a guiding principle which gained much popularity through former slave-owners, the Klu Klux Klan, and the government's regulation of Blacks, Chinese immigrants, Native American Indians, and the Philippines. White supremacy is imbedded in American history as a historical phenomenon because of the repetition of whites craving power. White people of the past have thought that they are the only race that is capable of running the world and they have gone to great…

Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War have often been categorized as either where the United States went wrong and became an imperialist power or where it went right and exerted its right to protect and promote democratic values. Historically the literature about United States involvement in the Spanish-American War has been to commemorate 1898 as the moment in which the nation first projected itself as a world power. The year 1898 was a watershed moment in history, it has been…

Caribbean, as well as the Philippines off the southeastern coast of Asia. Following this brief war, there will be debate on how the Philippines should be divided and who should lead the nation. Emiliano Aguinaldo, the rebel leader of the Filipino people, attempted to lead a revolt against the Americans who had declared that they would rule the island, but miserably failed. With the success overseas, many people questioned the reasoning for fully annexing the Philippines. Anti-imperialists argued…

Despite stressing the importance of freedom throughout its history, America has had a record of discriminatory action in terms of granting freedom and in what volume it has been willing to grant that freedom. Since the annexation of the Philippines America has displayed a zeal for democratic justice and inalienable rights only when it has been beneficial to either a domestic or foreign agenda. The issues of allowing the Philippines to self-govern and granting citizenship to non-Caucasian…

Becky Hussing Julio R. Firpo, M.A. AMH2020-US History, 1877 to Present 2 February 2016 Reflection Paper 1- Manifest Destiny Within the following are my analysis of both McKinley’s Philippines speech and Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden”. I have provided my interpretations of both sources as well as my opinions of their meanings and effect on us as a nation and society. Both sources provided for this assignment provided an insight to the social and political agenda’s to capitalize…

was raging over what the United States should do with the Philippines, Congressman George Hoar made the argument that the constitution does not give the United States the right to rule people in order to “civilize them,” and doing this against that people’s own interests went against the text and the spirit of the document, and the founding principles of the United States. Hoar also argued against the claim that holding on to the Philippines was for the Filipinos’ benefit: The people there have…