Men in the Philippines

In his poem The White Man’s Burden, Author Rudyard Kipling instructs white men to take up the “burden” of responsibility for the “sullen peoples/half devil and half child” who are affected by colonization. Kipling, was a well-known pro-Imperialist writer and a prestigious college graduate who had won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for writing. His tone throughout the poem is insultingly patronizing and reflects the popular attitude toward imperialism at the time. Despite widespread…

are three ways the death toll has risen up as fast as it has. The first is by the government through the Philippine army and national police in executions and ambushes at police checkpoints. Sometimes people will be stopped by the police and then arrested or killed immediately. Out of fear, people turn themselves in to the local police stations for processing, hoping that by turning themselves…

With European countries imperializing rapidly the United States was behind and beginning to appear weaker. Some US citizens believed in the imperialism and others were against it. Imperialism of the United States was debated greatly at the time of its occurrence, some people believed in it because they felt it was the only option to grow strong like the European powers and others did not believe in the imperialism because they felt it would make their country weaker. The largest differences…

Climate change or global warming has been the center of discussion for the past years as it poses detrimental effects on but not limited to the environment and to human activities. As defined by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change is a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer; climate change may be due to…

I went to the Pilipino Street Festival on October 29th, 2016 at the Bayou City Event Center. I must say that I was totally surprised to see so many people; the place was packed. There was a good environment, music, dance performances, and beauty pageants. Although, I did not feel familiarized at first, I could see that there were people from different cultures and not just Filipinos’ that helped me not to feel constrained. The queue to buy the tickets was quite long. When I arrived to the Bayou…

Impact on schooling & education. As Filipino American’s are more likely to speak English, their successful access to and achievement within the U.S. education system is greater than that of Mexican American’s. Important Traditions Filipino American traditions. Many Filipino American traditions center on family and Catholicism such as Misa de Gallo (series of nine Christmas mass) and Noche Buena (grand family Christmas Eve dinner after midnight mass). Other traditions and cultural themes…

General Tomoyuki Yamashita, known as “Tiger of Malaya” and “the Beast of Bataan,” was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War 2. He also was the supreme commander of all Japanese forces located in the Philippines in which he would later soon be known for the most remarkable single victory of the entire (Pacific) war – the fall of Singapore. Leading the invasion of Malaya and Singapore for around two months ended with Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, to…

that occurred to two of the five ships that were to be apart of the expedition. Nature took a lot from both crew including boats, food, and even men along the way of this voyage. One very unfortunate event that happened during Magellan’s time of circumnavigation his entire crew getting stuck in the middle of the Philippine war only leaving eighteen men alive to complete the voyage. Also on his voyage Magellan was shot and killed by the natives of and island and never actually got to finish his…

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water portrays various lives of characters intertwined by the Native American folkloric gods. Lionel Red Dog, a man turning 40 years old attempts to reconstruct his life on a better path while struggling with his identity. As a born Canadian with an Asian ethnicity, my personal reading of Lionel and Charlie’s father Portland Looking Bear highlights their struggle with identity. Although never explicitly stated, the conflicting needs of being an individual and…

the circumnavigation began from Spain to unknown place. The voyage started with 270 diversity men. Five ships: Trinidad ship led by Ferdinand Magellan also the flagship of the voyage, San Antonio ship run by Juan de Cartagena, Santiago ship led by Joao Serao, Victoria ship run by Luis Mendoza and last The Conception…