Davao City

even if this means breaking the law…” (Breuil and Rozema 2009). One of the most notorious groups in the Philippines is the Davao Death Squads, which hails from the same city as the nation’s new president. Davao City is located on the largest of the Philippines southern islands along with some of the island nation’s largest rebel groups, making it no stranger to violence. So when Duterte campaigned on a platform of law and order to clean up the city, he was swept into power. “The people of Davao City are ‘desensitized’ to violence by its ‘history of being used as a laboratory for violence’…” (Breuil and Rozema 2009). During his time as mayor, Duterte at least tacitly supported the actions of the Davao Death Squads. A member of one of the squads said “they worked off a list given to them by police officers and were paid between five thousand and fifty thousand pesos per target” (Chen 2016). The DDS worked with grim efficiency, with more than 320 people suspected of petty crimes having been reportedly killed since 1998 (Simbulan n.d). When he stepped down in as mayor of Davao City in 2000, the number of executions dropped, before rapidly rising when he won election back to his office in 2001 (OMTC 2003). Despite this, the overall crime rate in the city decreased, and this swept him into office. Duterte campaigned for office on the back of his work in Davao City, vowing “to restore peace and order by any means possible, including extrajudicial killings and a declaration of…

SHOULD MAYOR RODRIGO DUTERTE BE THE RIGHT PRESIDENT FOR THE PHILIPPINES? INTRODUCTION Definition Our country and all of the Filipino people need Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte because our country is in a dire situation and would never be able to move forward unless a good leader takes it’s in charge and we all know that Mayor Duterte is a great leader because of his platform. In Philippines, corruption is endemic in all levels of government, including in the barangays but he also focus on…

education as a way of using the “city as a classroom” and “nature” as well as “integrated social and ecological [system]” (2-5). There are numerous ways to become involved in urban environmental educational projects. Fortunately, “urban environmental education continues to reinvent itself” in many ways (Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab). Used to focus on social-ecological systems, urban environmental education uses many forms of community based practices “such as...streamside…

Also, Socrates will try to argue that a city is necessary because humans need to rely on one another in order to accomplish tasks. Socrates begins his argument when he states, “So if you approve, why don’t we start by finding out what sort of thing it is in cities? After that we can make a similar inquiry into the individual, trying to find the likeness of the larger version in the form the smaller takes” (line 369). He first proposes the dissection of a city. First, you must look for justice in…

The Impact of living in a Remote Area (Isolation) on the Health Outcomes of all Australian Adults 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the impacts of living in a remote area with relation to the physical and mental health of Australian adults. Although there are different types of remote areas such as the outback, rainforest areas, mining and coastal towns – the same quality they all possess is that they live far from any major city (Australian Institute of Health and…

animals. As we moved into the industrial, factories and city centers began being built. There arose a need for adequate living arrangements for the people that worked in the factories and city centers. Urban areas designed to accommodate large numbers of families began to spring up around these factories and city centers. Fast forward to today and we have 78% of the population in North America living in urban areas (Boston University College of Arts & Science, 2012). This figure represents a…

When dealing with small town police departments, many issues tend to arise when comparing the problems faced in a small town to an urban environment (Johnson, 2000). Some factors that small-town areas face include budget constraints, response time difficulties, and community relations (Gordner, 2006). These issues greatly affect rural areas due to a high poverty rates, low unemployment, and detrimental funding issues (Gordner, 2006). These problems cause small-town police departments to have…

the numbers of population immigrating from rural areas or other cities to Bangkok to work have been increasing as well. This is noticed from the numbers of communities, which are established formally for more than 2,000 communities. The communities are divided according to their locations into 3 areas; Inner City, Urban Fringe and Suburb. 1. The inner city communities are city central and other areas including 21 sections, where the initial communities were formed and also where the historical…

The Importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wild is a playwright about a country man living a double life in the city. The main character of this play is Jack Worthington. He goes by Ernest in the city add to the mystery of his fanciful life. This play describes his pursuit to win over and marry a young lady from the city, named Gwendolen. Algernon Moncrieff is the girl 's cousin and an absolute nuisance to the main character. Algernon exploits Jack 's double life, and creates a situation where it…

acres in 2000. After noticing bulldozers adjacent to his farmland, Nygren feared that urban sprawl would consume this peaceful environment, and thus, with over 500 neighboring landowners, mandated that 80% of the 40,000-acre Chattahoochee Hill Country region must be preserved as wildlife green space. Serenbe is now a community inhabited by over 400 residents (Green). With mile long trails and organic gardens, the community of Serenbe incorporates biophilic designs as an attraction that combines…