Poverty in the Philippines Essay

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    States of America and the Philippines and how my family has adapted from it’s social stature in the Philippines across the ocean to the United States. Social Classes…

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    Air Pollution is considered as one of the major contributing factors of the degradation of Mother Earth, and for the Philippines every waking day of a person’s life the matter of ‘gas’ is a part of it. According to an article Source of Air pollution "By inhaling a large amount of air pollution in one’s body system, it can cause serious diseases and in worst case scenarios can lead to death" (2013, par. 1). Having a tainted air that every living organisms, including the humans that are breathing.…

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    immediately began to envisage explorers, inventors, and visionaries from all over the world. However, I knew I wanted to keep my topic close to the country I originated from—the Philippines. In my topic, I didn’t want to reference the country literally, so I choose poverty as inspiration because it affects many people in the Philippines. Then, I remembered watching a clip, in America: The Story of Us, about Jacob Riis, a man that encountered and took photos of people who lived in the slums of…

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    Living in the Philippines gave me an insight of how poverty was and how it felt like. I remember times in which my siblings could not take their final exams because their tuitions were unpaid. Times like these forced my parents to put their pride down and go to different neighborhoods asking if they can lend money for the tuition of my siblings. It was hard to see my parents go through the hardest jobs just to provide for my family. As the bills rise high and my siblings going off to college,…

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    the Philippine government for failing to protect children who are forced by poverty to work in small-scale gold mines and refocused international attention to the exploitation of child labor in the Philippines. (2016). they also took statistics and the number of children that are in the child labor is very outrageous. People need to open their eyes because that’s a lot of children working in these poor conditions for inadequate pay. Research by the PSA supports that ‘’In 2011, the Philippine…

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    Country Summary According to the World Health Organization in 2014, the health situation in the Philippines can be summarized in three points: 1. Stagnation, 2. Inequality, and 3. Opportunity. The Philippines is considered a lower middle income country and is faced with a “triple burden” of disease. This includes high incidences of all key communicable diseases and an increasing number of non-communicable diseases. Another issue is that medicine prices remain some of the highest among other…

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    validates the histories behind her experiences in migrating to America as well as the ambitions for social mobility as a nurse of color. The “push and pull” migration forces in her life contribute to the self-made woman she is today, rising from a poverty-stricken…

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    In the Map Closet Project, we learned where goods like clothing come from, different statistics about countries like the GDP, population and poverty lines, infant mortality rate and HIV/AIDS. We also read an article called The Real Cost of Cheap Fashion that talked about workers in factories and their working conditions. Through my learning, I believe that my choice of clothing impacts others around the world. One of the projects within the Map Closet Project, we had to list 15 items that we…

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    target countries. In the year 1902, the United States of America colonized the Philippines. They did it for the classic reasons; money and raw materials. While the…

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