The Philippines Essay

International Health. I have an MPH degree in International Health and spent more than seven years with a small Connecticut based NGO dedicated to improving the health and rights of orphaned and abandoned children in the Philippines. For three of those years, I served in the Philippines as Field Director of Operations. As a member of the…

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter contains a compilation of local and foreign literatures and studies about the topic researched and are provided as a guide for the hypothesis of this research and served as a basis for the methodology of the study. These provided studies were also used to support the study and compare the difference of the present. DIABETES According to the International Diabetes Federation (2013), diabetes is one of the most challenging health…

The three heads to Vietnam first. After the unsuccessful search for Steph’s family, it is time to go to the Philippines. Steph decides to stay in Vietnam to give herself more time while Vi and Matt continue to the Philippines. Standing on the streets of her birthplace, Vi talks about her adoption story to Matt. It was the first time she ever talked about it since the Brans told her. She has been refusing to think…

Homosexual portrayals have been present on Philippine television long before the 2000’s. The first ever gay Filipino movie, which is Jack and Jill, starring Dolphy and Lolita Rodriguez was released in the year 1954. This movie has not only revolutionized the Philippine television, but it also opened the doors for homosexuals to be seen on television. From then on, homosexuals have been seen quite often on Philippine television. One of the most popular and in demand homosexual actor in the…

My husband and I have been dating for about five years before getting hitched. Since Philippines and America are eight thousand two hundred twenty two miles from each other we always rely on the internet just to feel we are together. For five years of longing for each other is the hardest thing we ever did, there are moments that we need to adjust the time because during day in America, its night in the Philippines, when the internet/ data is down, we cannot communicate well, pretty much we are…

West Point for 4 years and had the highest academic record in the history of West Point. Douglas was a brave man. “Despite advance warning, the Japanese invasion of December 1941 badly defeated MacArthur's forces in the Philippines.” “MacArthur was determined to hold the Philippines but the situation was hopeless, and he was ordered to withdraw to Australia to take command of Pacific operations. Reluctantly MacArthur agreed, and accompanied by his wife and child, he set out on a daring escape by…

As societies evolve, history and culture contributes to its development and the value and meanings of its situations. Reconsideration to norms and tradition pushed the people to radical choices that are not always in line with others. Still man does what needs to be done to survive in a state wherein it is natural to go against the other. Even considering that non-benevolent acts and choice to be an ideal choice for to self-persevere. This paper humbly argues that despotic leadership may have…

volcanoes are located in the Ring of Fire. Within it’s boundary in the Pacific Ocean, the Ring of Fire consist of the Pacific Plate, where it runs along against other plates such as the North American Plate, the Nazca Plate, the Eurasian Plate, the Philippines Plate, the Indo-Australia Plate and other plates. This is known as sebduction and the volcanically and seismically active area nearby is known as a subduction zone. There…

Throughout the books The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the themes of recovering from setbacks and obtaining success despite obstacles are very prevalent. Holiday uses various examples of stoic philosophers and historical figures to teach valuable lessons showing the necessary steps to take something that could be an “obstacle” and will hinder you and turn it into something useful. The “obstacle” in the way could be turned around into a lesson to be…

Business Process Outsourcing in the 21st Century Business Process Outsourcing Morris Kamau N Introduction Business process outsourcing (B.P.O) is a subset of Outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider (Tas, J. & Sunder, S. 2004) it can also be simply described as the contracting of a specific business task to a third-party service provider. Body This process…