The Philippines Essay

1. Introduction My cultural background comes from two countries: The Phillippines and the United Kingdom. During my practical education, I received a different supervisor in every outlet. What I had noticed was that there were differences in the behavior of the leaders, depending on whether they were Dutch or not. Most of my supervisors were Dutch and I was able to see a difference in how they approached their role as managers in comparison to the international students. I found that sometimes…

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and allowing the United States to purchase the Philippines from Spain for twenty million dollars, was established(“Treaty of Paris Ends Spanish-American War”). While this was a great thing for America, two-hundred fifty million dollars and thousands of live were taken because of the war(“The World of 1898: The Spanish American War”). While this is bad, the Americans were not the only to lose lives and money. During the fight against the Philippines, the Spanish lost four hundred lives and six to…

Ferdinand Magellan was a well-known figure in the Philippine History. He was a Portuguese explorer who gives Spain their fame because of his expedition looking for westward route to Moluccas that result to the first circumnavigation of the Earth. With the consent of the King of Spain, Magellan then with five ships and more than 300 men began their voyage. As Magellan’s trip landed in the Philippines, he met Rajah Humabon of Cebu and became friend with him. Humabon then embraced Christianity as…

civilize and christianize them” (Document A 1899 Methodist delegation).There was no need to take control of the Philippines because they already had a government set in place. It would have been more appropriate to keep in close contact and monitor the Philippines until it was determined that they were capable of protecting themselves from foreign invaders. The U.S. forced the Philippines to fight back just as Great Britain had forced the U.S. to fight for their…

imperialized countries economies, such as Cuba, Philippines, and Hawaii have had a dramatic increases in income, profits, and trade; but, it was also beneficial for the U.S. because of the increase in profits, land, and military superiority. As shown in Document E, it is a picture of congressman T. Reed which past the spending bill, which the native is not happy of. Even though the native is not happy this bill was necessary to turn the Philippines into a thriving country with great economy.…

George Bush believes that America only went overseas in the past to promote and protect democracy. This statement that he made I agree to be correct on the surface. However, later on in the situations of the Spanish American War and World War I other intentions were discovered in the aftermath of these wars. Although the initial intention was to simply spread democracy this was not the conclusive result. Both after the Spanish-American War and World War I democracy was not spread. I will explain…

the early-mid 1900’s. One example of the effect of big business on United States foreign policy can be seen in the way in which the United States justified its entry into the Cuban War. Another example is that the United States imperialized the Philippines during this time in order to expand markets and create opportunities to gain natural resources. The things the United States wanted and used their resources for is yet another example of the power Big Business held over the United States…

for HIV. Out of the total 255 respondents from the Philippines, 142 (55.8%) MSM reported never being tested for HIV. Other significant reasons for never testing include low risk perception to HIV infection, HIV stigma and discrimination, financial concerns, and not knowing where to get tested (Guadamuz, Cheung, Wei, Koe & Lim,…

days to complete, but along the way thousands of troops died due to what all they had to go through. Accordingly after Japan bombed U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines within a month and Filipino defenders of Luzon. For the next three months the combined U.S. Filipino army held out of despite a lack of naval and air support. On April 9th forces crippled due to starvation…