Women in the Philippines

Most humans who become involved in trafficking are tricked into it. They are women or children who come from very poor families. Someone who is wealthy sees how poor they are and takes advantage of them. They offer the poor woman or child a job as a maid or a salesperson then take them away to some brothel or bar to work as a slave. There are also families where, if the family is poor enough and they have enough children, they will sell some of their younger children to get money to live.…

existence which is a phenomenon that exists amongst migrants, dispersed from their original homelands (Butler). As to the reasons why transnational migration and diasporic existence become a choice and/or a necessary strategy for individuals, family and women in today’s neoliberal era, they vary from case to case, thus making them complex questions to ask. Two of the biggest reasons why individuals migrate from one country to another are warfare and work opportunities. When it comes to warfare,…

After World War II, social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Rights Movement brought the much needed attention to the issues of African-Americans and of women across the nation. Workers ' rights movements brought more voices into the mix of the American social issues as well. And more recently, the LGBT movement has been gaining ground and achieved a historic win for gay marriage with the recent Supreme…

The Second World War not only changed the political world, but socially throughout the entire world. WWII affected America and the American citizens as well; one group I would specifically like to speak about is Mexican and Hispanic groups. These two groups are often time either overlooked and not talked about; but had an important role in the American standing in the second World war. I found a very interesting essay on the reality of Mexican Americans and how the war affected the ethnic group…

In the past thirty to forty years, America has been struggling with resource management, specifically with oil However, more recently, California has been suffering from a different kind of resource scarcity- water. Here in California, many people heatedly debate on the price of gasoline, but few people are aware of the increase in water prices statewide, especially for farmers, who use eighty percent of the state’s allocated water. For farmers, the price of water has increased by as much as…

to hear men being compared to female ‘equivalent’. Regardless to their great performance, comparable to male’s, they receive much less coverage in media – in 1998 77% of recorded sports news is about men, compared to only 11,7% attention given to women (Koivula 1999). This leads to the reflection whether sport is gender – stereotyped as it is indeed shown in the media as a masculine area. In addition, females are seen as a ‘fair sex’ and, because sport is believed to be physically demanding, it…

The Threshold of Society Elections are coming up this November and it seems that all anyone can talk about is immigration policies and stances on refugees. People are comparing such refugees to Skittles. If there is a bowl of skittles and five of them are poisonous, would anyone grab a handful and risk eating them? Is it really possible to compare actual human beings to a candy and base an entire argument on the risk? In “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros and “Outlaw” by Jose Antonio…

7th, 1941, the Japanese began invading Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Within a month, Manila was captured and the U.S. - Filipino Army quickly started to run out of necessary supplies needed for survival. People who are educated enough to know what the Japanese did back in the 1940’s have the mindset of them being cruel and vicious people. However, the Japanese are not as violent and brutal as they were in the Philippine Bataan Death March as they have evolved in economics, culture, and…

come from all around the 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 global market of skin whitening products is predicted to be around 19.8 billion dollars by 2018 (Thompson, 2014). Additionally, the advertising of whitening cream companies also represents lighter toned women as more successful, more confident, and more attractive while darker toned women are stagnant in self-disgust (Rajesh, 2013). This kind of advertisement convince people to hate themselves because of their skin tone by such of those…