Poverty in Philippines Essay

Shahad Alotaibi is a fifteen-year-old, 9th grade student, who attends Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, New Jersey. Shahad is originally from Saudi Arabia; she moved here with her family in 2015. Her father is a marine who moved his family to the United States so that he could continue his career in the marines. Her father works in Philadelphia, but he did not want his children to live or attend school in Philadelphia due to the crime rate; Shahad’s father preferred to send his children…

known, as Metropolitan Manila is the national capital region of the Philippine. Metro Manila is an area where many tourists visit with their Mall of Asia and other tourist attraction. Metro Manila is the largest urban city in the Philippines with Americanize materials. In the Metro Manila filmed by Sean Ellis, it touched base on a poor man named Oscar Ramirez and his family who struggle to make a living in Banaue Province, Philippines and moved to Manila for a better life for him and his family.…

My hometown is Qingdao, let me give a brief introduction of Qingdao to you. The “Qing” is a color, as same as cyan or green. The “dao” is island. There is a small island on the sea near Qingdao. Because there are many plants on the island, the island looks green and this is the origin of the “Qingdao”. Qingdao is located in the southern part of Shandong province. Qingdao's climate is typical temperate monsoon climate, so it is relative warm in winter and relative cool in summer. Summer…

more influence in foreign areas. Imperialism caused many political problems. Henry Cabot Lodge stated that the Philippines “have never known liberty” (Doc6). Politicians thought that some territories would be an easy gain but yellow journalists hyped up the…

In the late 19th century, the United States acquired both the Philippines and Guam; however, this proved to be unbeneficial for the native inhabitants of those territories due to the effects of colonialism. In Colonial Pathologies, Warwick Anderson discusses the ways in which colonialism complicates health initiatives by marginalizing the Filipinos and conducting sanitary “experiments” that proved ineffective. Similarly, Leilani Ganser’s article, “In Guam, the Gravest Threat Isn’t North…

America: The Bigger The Better It’s Christmas day and Alex Tizon goes to open your first gift; he automatically picks the biggest present to open first because he’s been taught his whole life that bigger is better. Almost all Americans have the philosophy that bigger is better because we live in a world where everything needs to be bigger: our phones, meals, computers, watches, cars, and everything else. It’s not just our appliances though, Alex Tizon captures this in his piece “Land of The…

become and remain one of the greater nations. For example when the United States decided to adopt the Philippines, America refused to allow Filipino leaders to form their own government. Essentially it was not only to better the lives of the Filipinos but to ensure that the Philippine legislature would not pass any laws that could hurt American business. Much like the domination of the Philippines when America decided to claim Hawaii as a territory it was mainly because Hawaii was at a…

At the beginning of the Mexican crisis the IMF was busy congratulating itself on how successful previous bailouts and restructuring programs had been. Mexico was like a star pupil; its economy was getting stronger and it had just joined NAFTA. While in hindsight the forces that led to the crisis seem obvious, at the time nobody saw a crisis approaching. The Mexican crisis was set off by a series of political assassinations which led to decreased investor confidence and the flight of foreign…

reached. The missionaries to the Philippines are no exception to this, they went to the third world country and imposed their language, culture, and provided financial welfare. America’s influence structurally, culturally, and religiously in the Philippines is vast though it has not always come with good intentions; American missionaries are now working to repair the damage done in the name of the Lord in the Philippines. Along with the American’s coming to the Philippines, there were also…

Growing up in life I have realized that school may not be the thing for me. I have always struggled to be a consistent student and was honestly surprised when I made it to college. Since my freshman year I have always thought that the Military might be the path for me. One thing that I know about myself is that I need structure to succeed, where has more structure than our armed forces? One thing I knew about myself is that if I joined the Military I wouldn’t want to be just another soldier on…