Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Gloria Steinem is an American journalist, feminist, and social activist. Born in Ohio, early in her life her mother became an invalid and her father left the family. She followed her dreams and became a writer, organizer, and reporter. Her work focused on equal rights for women, which later helped found the National Women’s Political Caucus and feminist magazine Ms. In her op-ed piece, Women Are Never Front Runners, Steinem asks us to imagine a female Barack Obama. Keep in mind this piece was…

In an attempt to give body meaning, Irigaray refuses to accept the binary of the sexed body. Patriarchy views the male and female body within a constant framework. Time-periods, cultures, and traditions shape the body with different representations. Irigaray wants the body removed from its normative constraints of patriarchy. This paper consists of Irigaray’s theory while also comparing and contrasting it to other theorists including Bartky, Anzaldua, and Daly. Luce Irigaray is a well-known…

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms,…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

the Philippine Senate rejected the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Security between the two nations, which had been to continue U.S. military bases in the Philippines (Yeo, 2012). In addition, previous president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo turned down the offer of U.S. troops that suggests an act of anti-U.S. military presence (Hookway, 2001). Those who study the U.S. military presence in the Southeast Asian country have been discussing the campaign against terrorism and…

301 declared by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo involves establishing a green procurement program for all departments, bureaus, offices and agencies of the executive branch of the government. All government departments, offices, and agencies are hereby ordered to establish their respective…