Men in the Philippines

Darren J. O’Byrne, author of an Introduction to Human Rights (2003) defines human rights as universal and belonging to each of us regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, age, religion, political conviction, or type of government . This idea is clearly beneficial to many but it does come with an array of difficulties which will be touched upon later in the introduction. O’Byrne pushes the notion that human rights should be incontrovertible. Are human rights be incontrovertible? Under…

Volleyball has been played for over 100 years. The game of volleyball has been changed several times science William G. Morgan invented it back in 1895. He was a graduate from Springfield, Illinois college of the YMCA. The name of the game has been changed three times. Volleyball is now played all around the world. William G. Morgan is the son of George Henry Morgan and Nancy Chatfield. He was born in Lockport, New York, United States on January 23, 1870. He was the oldest and most intelligent…

utilizing that foreign land and those foreign resources for their own economic, political, or social endeavors. A direct example of a historical event that deals with the exploitation of resources involves the Spanish colonization efforts of the Philippines in the sixteenth century. The Spanish took advantage of the surplus and durability of timber such as molave, lanang, and laguan in order to generate a monopoly on Galleon shipbuilding (McCarty,124). They also utilized the local Indio…

I proudly identify myself as a female Filipino Canadian who believes in equality. My parents were born in the Philippines and I grew up in Canada. In today’s society, I feel as if I am a minority because of my race and my gender. The article written by Peggy opens my eyes and enables me to recognize the advantages she has because of the colour of her skin. Peggy states all the privileges she receives, “I can go into a music shop and find music of my race represented”. Peggy says that it’s…

The United States entered the war unprepared, with very little planning. Although they had a large navy, The United States had a small army with just 125,000 men. These men were by no means trained or equipped for the war in Europe. In President Woodrow Wilson’s war message, he pledged to contribute all his nation’s significant resources to the Allied countries. However, he was not able to provide troops to aid the Allies in Europe. Building an army would take time that the Allies could not…

world, traveling from Third World countries to First World. Men and women alike travel abroad to send back funds to their family in order for them to survive. They sacrifice their own dreams, and time, to help their families. Although both genders migrate, the work that they do is very different. Jobs are divided between what are suitable for men and what is better suited for women. The traditional heteronormative gender roles allow men to be the breadwinners who earn the money for the family,…

unable to be employed while my family lived there, and constantly had to go through my dad to get anything done (e.g., repair men would wait around until my dad got home, unwilling to speak to my mom about issues perceived to be above her head). I started to notice these disparities and became curious about the social factors that lead to these differences in attitudes towards men and women. Acknowledging these cultural differences spurred my research interests in psychology, especially the…

Bosnian investigators and sex trafficking victims came forward with what they knew. The evidence suggested that American and other international contractors were having sex with underage trafficking victims or even buying them outright. Some of the men weren’t even hiding it. It was increasingly difficult for anything to get done about this because the corruption was so far up. When she wrote reports to her superiors, either they were ignored or dismissed as solved although the details of…

Prior Knowledge of Native Americans When I was young and still living in the Philippines, my knowledge about Native Americans are almost to none. The only Indians I knew are the Indians from India. We never had any class lecture or topic about American Indians. In fact, at that time, I thought white Americans were the original settlers in the America, and I could not remember any class teachings contradicting this assumption. When I was younger, I always watched Peter Pan, and Tiger Lilly, the…

in August of 1898, Kipling wrote the poem “A White Man’s Burden” in 1899, after Josephine died of influenza and Kipling’s writings focused more on politics . The poem appeared to take on a satirical attitude towards America gaining control of the Philippine Islands from Spain. Kipling’s controversial poem sparked the downward spiral of his career. He released several other works that presented unorthodox views of politics and religion. Rudyard Kipling’s radical views led to a decrease in…