Senate of the Philippines

Wurtzbach of the Philippines was crowned the Miss Universe 2015. After being questioned on her opinion about the United States having a military presence in her country, she stated that she does not see any problem with it. Her pro-U.S. military presence response elicited strong reactions that baffled some politicians, leftist leaders, and activists who are against U.S. military presence in the Philippines. The debate of having U.S. military bases and/or troops in the Philippines has become a…

flowing from volcanoes, majestic mountains, and hula dancers. All of which are true, but there is another side to Hawai’i that many people don’t know about. Hawai’i was a territory of the United States of America, like Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, from July 7, 1898 until August 21, 1959. On that day, Hawai’i became the 50th state of the United States of America. Did you know that Hawai’i was once a thriving independent Kingdom recognized by many nations across the world? According…

Funding Volcano Monitoring The U.S. Senate has recently released their budget. This caused many people to begin debating whether the United States should fund volcano monitoring or not. Although many people have disliked taxes, they are an important need. Without taxes, money for roads, schools, and retirees would not be available. The Senate should push for the funding of volcano monitoring. This would be essential for the future, especially with the uprise of volcano eruptions. With the…

was among the five presidential candidates last May 9, 2016, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2014. She showed physical weakness during campaign and making fewest public appearances among other candidates. Santiago told on her interview in CNN Philippines that she was perfectly normal since she is taking her anti- cancer pills. On the contrary, she confessed that she occasionally had to take some short pauses to catch…

During the Philippine war, more than 4,000 American soldiers, about 20,000 Filipino fighters, and an estimated 200,000 Filipino civilians died. In addition the goal of spreading democracy went mostly…

the U. S. Senate Judiciary approved the Immigration Reform bill that would deliberately make citizenship possible for as many as eleven million undocumented immigrants. Such humanitarian-inspired legislation, defined as “sweeping in scope”; however, in my opinion, is not entirely sweeping enough, as it leaves the plight of the Amerasians in Asian countries unaddressed. There are tens of thousands of adult and children Amerasians fathered by U.S. servicemen stranded in the Philippines. I am one…

against the idea of obtaining the Philippines to make it a U.S territory. The reason being is because anti-imperialists felt it was amoral to the American democratic values. They also did not support America in the involvement of the wars. However, democrat William Jennings convinced anti-imperialists to get on board with Treaty of Paris. Jennings proclaimed that ending the war would give Philippines their independence. After much controversy and debate, the Philippines ended up getting their…

involved in imperialism towards the end of the Imperial Age. Two of the first places the United States acquired was Alaska and Hawaii. The fever of imperialism in the US escalated after the Spanish-American War. The US continued to acquire Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and others. There were many different opinions on imperialism in the US. Some people thought imperialism…

a. One of the biggest sources of anger with the Marcos administration was the perception of widespread corruption and fraud which plagued the governmental process. Aquino and her revolution made campaign promises to “clean up the corruption and cronyism for which Ferdinand Marcos’ was famous” (Niu 93) though once she herself had won office, the revolutionary vigor and fervor of her campaign somewhat reversed themselves. In addition to the above policy positions which she made which notably did…

Latin America, Philippines, and Hawaii as a pathway to natural resources and trade with China not to acquire territory. At the beginning of the Spanish-American War, we provided help in getting rid of Spain and but then wanted to remain and imperialize the newly acquired territory. These countries didn’t want to assimilate and wanted independence from the United States. In response to the objection, the United States unleashed violence and formed concentration camps in the Philippines. At first,…