The Philippines

The primary source by William McKinley, The Acquisition of the Philippines, were written instructions. The twenty fifth president of the United States wrote these instructions on August 12, 1898, with a purpose. McKinley’s words were meant to reach the American peace negotiators that were to be convening in Paris with Spanish commissioners. Hence, his basic purpose behind this text was to create lasting peace between the nations involved. However, this reasoning only skims the surface of…

the Philippine government for failing to protect children who are forced by poverty to work in small-scale gold mines and refocused international attention to the exploitation of child labor in the Philippines. (2016). they also took statistics and the number of children that are in the child labor is very outrageous. People need to open their eyes because that’s a lot of children working in these poor conditions for inadequate pay. Research by the PSA supports that ‘’In 2011, the Philippine…

Introduction The Republic of The Philippines is a Presidential Republic located in Southeast Asia. The Philippines consists of a group of over 7,100 islands, which is an area slightly larger than the state of Arizona (Factbook, 2010). With an estimated population of just more than 100 million people, The Philippines is very diverse in ethnic groups, languages and religions. The nation is also very rich in natural resources to include major deposits of copper, chromium, gold as well as producing…

A Humiliating Failure for America The decision to annex the Philippines by the US created widespread unrest on both foreign and domestic fronts. This topic was recognized highly controversial by both the American and Filipino people, as well as the rest of the world, and a foolish move on America 's part. The debates following the annexation made clear distinctions on the reasons why the Philippines was annexed in the first place versus the reasons our actions contradict our motives. The…

century, the United States gained a foothold in Asia by annexing the Philippines, which it had gained in the Treaty of Paris (1898) from Spain as a result of the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American War. The people of the Philippines were excited, at first, about annexation because they wanted U.S liberation, protection, and freedom. The United States Government received push back from its own citizens for going to the Philippines. Created in the wake…

Introduction Mass media has been successful in presenting quality and block buster films that Filipinos have been patronizing over the past years since the inception of the Golden Age of Philippine Cinema in the 1950’s. Cinema has been part of Filipinos’ lives. Watching movies for Filipinos is one of the ways to relieve and amuse themselves and to escape from their despairs for a short time. In our society, mass media has a great influence. It plays a vital role in forming and reflecting public…

The late Dr. Florentino H. Hornedo a renowned Cultural Historian said in our first day of our class in Social History of the Philippines, “anything that is social is also cultural”. He explained further that in order to study the social history of the people you have to find out its re-groupments and thus falling under the study of culture. I agree on what he said because culture explains the patterns of the organization of a particular society by determining the behaviour, movements and…

colonies including the Philippines were acquired by the Americans. However one question remained and was debated throughout America, should America annex the Philippines, eventually America decided to annex the Philippines. The United States should not annex the Philippines because it is hypocritical and morally wrong. The Americans annexing the Philippines would eventually cause the Filipinos to rebel against America. The Anti-Imperialist League is against annexing the Philippines because it is…

The Philippine archipelago comprises of Filipinos who’s linguistically and culturally diverse. In fact, there are 171 living languages being spoken in the Philippines today. However, these languages do no merely reflect governmental and educational policies. The current constitution of Philippines states that both Filipino (Tagalog) and English are the official languages of the country. The concept of what language should be used as a medium of instruction is an occurring debate in the…

of the Philippines. Although Imperialist viewed the annexation as helpful to the US, the inability to give the people of the Philippines lawfully equal treatment, racial differences along with opposing moral views, and the cost of expansion would become arguments justifying why the Anti Imperialist were against the colonization of the Philippines. The first reason the Anti Imperialist wanted to avoid colonizing the Philippines was how it affected the US and the people of the Philippines…