Men in the Philippines

was the main American airbase in the Philippines, in America’s most forward and important territory in the Pacific. General Douglas MacArthur, who at the time was serving as the commanding general of all U.S. and Filipino forces, had only just heard about Pearl Harbor when his base was struck. A few days later, Japanese forces landed in the Philippines while American forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. MacArthur and his men fought valiantly against…

Importance of Courtship in the Philippines While other countries are slowly ignoring the concept of courtship as a precedent for romantic relationships, the Philippines stays true to the tradition of wooing a lady before publicly declaring her as somebody’s girlfriend. Even though a lot of modern Filipinos have been influenced by Western movies and TV shows to just follow their hearts if the feeling is mutual, the Philippine society still has some ground rules. These unspoken rules bears…

Man's burden, he simply means to send the best men abroad and your son’s into exile to offer service to the captives who are wild, angry, “Half Devil and half-child”. He repeats that you…

superintendent of West Point on June 1, 1919; Chief of Staff; Field Marshall of the Philippines; Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces; then Commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, General Dougal MacArthur demonstrated capability and potential of the Army Core Values and Warrior Ethos. His drive and ambition occurred in the heart of the Philippines. General MacArthur’s journey…

sides of the civil arguments over war and colonialism summoned an assortment of thoughts of manhood, including topics of generational contrasts, the reverence of the men who created this nation, and many differing meanings of exactly what masculinity invoked. Hoganson believes that the purposes behind the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars had part to do with the “renegotiation of male and female roles… helped push the nation into war by fostering a desire for marital challenges (14).…

Bataan is a province known as a Peninsula which was located on the Manila Bay. This was were the battle took place. The Significance of this battle was that it helped delay the Japanese advance through the Philippines. It all star with the Japanese forcing over 76, 00 allied soldiers from the Filipinos and America to march to what is believed to be 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula during World War ll. However, the march would take place after the bombing…

Force The Philippines is the one who supplies more than one-fourth of competitive and globalized labor for seafarers. The employment contract combines the rules and regulation of the Philippine Overseas Employment Authority (POEA). According to Amante (2005), their social estimations of pecking order, admiration, hardworking attitudes, assumptions about exertion and remuneration, and food are defined by upbringing in their local communities, as well…

immigrants who migrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar plantation industry. Steffi San Buenaventura begins the study discussing the history of the Filipino immigrants that migrated after World War II in 1946. The word “Sakada” refers to the Filipino men recruited by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association (HSPA), thus referring to the group of Filipino immigrants the “1946 Sakadas”. The central theme in this study discusses the place of the Filipinos in the ethnic and class hierarchy in Hawaii…

record of discriminatory action in terms of granting freedom and in what volume it has been willing to grant that freedom. Since the annexation of the Philippines America has displayed a zeal for democratic justice and inalienable rights only when it has been beneficial to either a domestic or foreign agenda. The issues of allowing the Philippines to self-govern and granting citizenship to non-Caucasian immigrants were things that did not help fulfill the agendas of American politicians and…

-enalrging the navy -constructing a cana that linked Atlantic and Pacific oceans - and got stations and army bases in the Pacific to service the fleet. U.S. officials disregarded the nationalistic views of freedom fighters in Cuba and in the Philippines in favor of the imperial spoils gained from winning the War of 1898. The United States justified their intervention in their affairs with the reasoning of moral standards. The US stated that the United States had the…