Beggars in Spain

De Ocampo, Sheena Mae M. Dr. Evangeline Martin I-12 Reflection: Veneration Without Understanding Firstly, upon reading the title itself, ‘Veneration Without Understanding’, I already know that the article that I am going to read will be about how we, Filipinos, revere Rizal as someone of a high order without fully understanding why we do such thing. I initially thought that the author, Renato Constantino, was an anti-Rizal for writing it and for saying that we fail to understand…

The people of colonized areas, Asia and Africa, were open to an opportunity, to travel away to the imperial center, Europe, during colonial period. Even after the uproot of the colonial period, people still migrated because of economic, political, cultural, or personal reasons. They started settling there. The movement of people to an alien land and then settling there is known as Diaspora. The settlers face great burden in accommodating themselves with the society of the new land, because the…

who wishes to protect the Indians of the New World from the brutality afflicted on them from the Spanish. Las Cases sailed to the New World in 1502 and stayed till 1547 before returning to Spain. In this time, he saw the cruelty his nation laid upon the natives in the name of Christianity. When he came back to Spain, he took up the defense of the Indians in a series of debates from 1550-1551 and a year later, wrote a summary of these debates. In this summary, Las Cases gives the major points of…

1. In 1986, I was born in Angeles City Philippines. The City was once called “The City of Angels,” but it never turns out like that during my time, because of crimes happening left and right. 2. In 1991, I entered kindergarten in where my school is just 50 steps away from our house, but even that close I can't go all by myself to my room, I always wanted somebody to come with me and stay for a while. That’s my life for two years, and I can still remember my very first shoes, “Mighty Kid,”…

American politician, Hillary Clinton once said, “We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all religions, can make a home. America was built by immigrants” (Clinton). Afterall, the United States was created by immigrants who came in to form their own way of life, and practiced religions they believed in. But, in America today it seems as if people are making stereotypes once they see a specific religious group. Even though, they came from a group of people who helped shape this country…

The American dream is a fantasy of living in an utopia, where Americans can coexist in peace, harmony, and freedom. Over the years, many citizens of the United States constructed their own definition of this dream, making it unrealistic. The American dream is not obtainable today due to discrimination against race, religion, sex, and social class. In order for citizens to achieve this dream, people will have to overcome their own prejudices and treat everyone fairly, making the dream seem…

As stated by Jay Parini, "We [the United States] are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors" (BrainyQuote). America is the culmination of peoples and cultures from all across the world. As a seamstress adds and moves pieces while making the American quilt, each change brings different challenges and excitement to the beautiful work. One such dynamic alteration to the fabric of America was the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans moved north, driven by opportunity.…

The Inca empire. The Aztec Empire. Empire. A very large group of people ruled over by one person. The Aztec and Inca empire were both different empires but they did have things common. Today I will be sharing and comparing the similarities and differences between the Aztec empire and the Inca empire. Although the tribes came from different locations and don’t have much in common, they do have different things that make them alike such as the fact that they both have important events that occur…

Power and privilege: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Oscar Wilde’s Salome, published in French in 1893 and translated to English the following year, is a biblical one-act play that revolves around the central themes of gender roles, institutionalized misogyny, as well as the ‘the gaze’ and its effect. Being a somewhat controversial play, it was denied the right to be staged in Britain until 1931 (Price & Tydeman, 1) as it was illegal to depict biblical figures in…

Annexation is when a country takes over a smaller, weaker country and makes it a territory. The Philippine Islands are one example of annexation. In 1898, the United States went to war with Spain. As a result, America took many Spanish colonies into their care, the Philippines being one of them. America gave independence to some countries, while annexing others. The Philippines were annexed and great anger arose among the Filipino people and some Americans. It is widely debated whether or not…