The Philippines Essay

Family is the basic unit of the society. Filipinos are very fond when it comes to family because Filipinos are known for giving importance to the presence of their families among anything. This trait is obviously common among the Filipino citizens and because of this remarkable closeness between the families, most of the parents are having a hard time in letting go of their children. For this reason, it explains why most of grandparents seen living with their children which is very different in…

Thesis Statement: In the “Gender Issues and Pro Women Labor Laws in the Work Place” opinion piece by Atty. Josephus Jimenez, Atty. Jimenez thinks pro-women advocates should stop pushing pro-women labor laws through legislation. In the article, although he committed mistakes by using unfair statements, and by committing the red herring fallacy, he is successful in supporting the arguments of his article with factual evidence. The Bias Solutions of Gender Inequality: An Article Critique of Atty.…

Based on the given case the man living without a heart named Barney Clarke, they chose what is right for the patient given the current situation of Barney who was nearly dying due to chronic heart disease. Since the doctors and the patient knows the risk and procedure and decided to continue the artificial heart surgery. Barney’s case was somewhat similar with my late great grandmother named Zusema Cajepe, who had her artificial pacemaker in America when she in her late 60’s. Back then, my late…

characteristics of the locals. In the Philippines, each culture has their specialty food. The Bicolanos, for example, are best remembered for their hot and spicy Bicol express. Another one worth noting is the Cebuanos…

American instead of become nun and staying in your own country Philippine (Roley 135). In modern literature, the term is understood as the Americanization process through which are approved by the American cultural values in other countries. Ika took the process of Americanization as the standardization and universalisation of all aspects of social life; however, the degree of Americanization is different in both countries. In some Philippine, it is obvious and pervasive, in others less…

The Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam. This increased Americans view of imperialism. Historian Louis Perez emphasizes this as he says, “the Spanish–American War of 1898 "fixed permanently how Americans came to think of themselves: a righteous people given to the service of righteous purpose" (Perez, 1998). Americans believed they were ready to constantly be in international affairs and act as an international police. As stated earlier, The United States acquired the Islands of the Philippines…

to move beyond the destructive and divisive Civil War. Due to economic problems and little room for growth in the continental United States, governmental officials started to look beyond America’s borders at the islands of Hawaii, Cuba, and the Philippines, with the hopes of moving the country into a solid position of world power and extending its reach into the economic markets of Asia. Many of America’s controversial actions at the turn of the 20th century were questionable because they…

of Alaska. Which in my opinion was morally justifiable because Russia basically offered to sell Alaska to the Americans instead of fighting over it. The Philippine-American war wasn’t morally justifiable. The Filipino’s wanted independence, but the United States seemed like they didn’t want that for the Philippine Republic so the Philippines reacted by waging war against the U.S.…

the Spanish government because Cuba was not an independent country, yet. The U.S. saw the need to assistance Cuban people that were still suffering from the reconcentration camps. 2. United States was justified in sending troops to Cuba and the Philippines to fight against Spain. This was reasonable because the U.S. citizens felt that Spain was responsible for the explosion of the USS Maine…

By the front of the twentieth century, America had finally transformed into one of the world’s greatest powers for the first time in its history. Rearing the Spanish War of 1898, America’s military strength reached all over the world from right under its nose in Latin America all the way to China. As America surely became a force to be recon with, questions such as: would these military adjustments fit into the plans of the Constitution of 1787, began to knock at the door of the U.S. political…