Women in the Philippines

During his voyage to Tahiti, Captain James Cook encountered heavily tattooed men and women. The word ‘tatu’ meaning to mark something and the tattoos the captain and his crew got cemented our use of the word. The term derived from the specific method of inscription where sharp needle-like instruments were tapped onto the skin to penetrate the dye under the surface skin layers. However Tahiti is not the only evidence of ancient tattooing tradition. The history of tattooing can be dated back at…

The world has a surplus of food, but still people are starving. Supposedly, this surplus is not enough to fed 795 million people in the world who are undernourished. This is the issue of Malnutrition and World Hunger, which creates social disturbance, and economic instability in the developing countries, resulting poverty inclines. World hunger is a chronic problem in most of the developing countries. Hunger is not only a physical circumstance; it is an exhaust on the economic growth, and a…

The LGBT Community I want to discuss to you is all about LGBT Community, What is the LGBT Community? The LGBT Community or GLBT Community is also known as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender. And LGBT are supportive people, organizations, united by a common culture and social movements. These community generally celebrate pride, diversity, individuality, and specially sexuality. The gay community is associated with certain symbols especially the rainbow or rainbow flags.…

This week, we discussed the U.S occupation of the Philippines and the arrival of Europeans that created a discourse in Hawaii. The Philippines was illegally ceded to the United States from the Treaty of Paris, along with Cuba and Puerto Rico. The Filipino-American War resulted as the United States attempted to establish control over the islands. The war lasted for more than 10 years, resulting in the death of more than 600,000 Filipinos. Our readings described it as the "first Vietnam", where US…

case, he was very patient with them. President Taft passed away on February 3rd 1930. He was the first president to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. William H. Taft had accomplished so much in his lifetime. When he was governor of the Philippines, he showed compassion to the Filipinos. He treated them as equal and worked very hard to include them in their government. He also helped the people of Cuba become independent. While as a professor at Yale, he gave students first-hand…

In many countries, women are paid less than men with equal qualifications and equal working hours. Furthermore, some companies also have “glass ceilings” that prevent women from ascending the corporate hierarchy. From Figure 1, Singapore is not an exception. This study aims to investigate the reasons why gender inequality persists in Singapore’s work force, the resultant consequences and the possible solutions to ameliorate the current situation. In 2011, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) predicted…

Lowen (2017) emphasizes that abortion is a reality for filipino women. It’s very dangerous for them, proving, in 2015, 10000 women died because of unsafe abortion complications but they terminate their child because of some reasons. First is the negative impact on mothers’ lives, specifically are to those teenage girls that experience teenage pregnancy, where pregnancy occurs at the wrong time . They weren’t ready to be a mothers and take the responsibilities that is included in motherhood…

Public Health in the Philippines: The Issue The recent catastrophe of Typhoon Haiyan has exposed countless issues of waste-water management and basic sanitation in the Philippines. Being an environment always on the brink of flooding and large, unpredictable ocean waves, one would think that the infrastructure in the country would match the very environment in which it exists. Unfortunately, such is not a reality, and it is largely the fault of American business corporations cheaply…

This theory emphasizes daily exchanges between individuals so as to develop an understanding of basic human interactions via three core principles: meaning, language and thought. One’s identity of self is derived from how they perceive things, how they speak in relation to others and what is meaningful. Interpreting a situation, understanding verbal and nonverbal communication as to how it relates to one’s self and someone/thing else is the underlying concept of understanding this theory. The…

Filipinos. Staying on air for almost four decades, Eat Bulaga first aired on July 30, 1979, being the the longest running noontime variety show in the Philippines (Carvajal 2016). Eat Bulaga captured the tastes of the audience for entertainment and introduced a number of segments such as the iconic “Laban o Bawi,” “Pinoy Henoy,” “Little Miss Philippines,” “That’s My Boy,” “Teevee Babe,” “Mr. Pogi” and the recent “Kalyaserye” featuring the “Aldub” love team (WikiPilipinas 2007). Aside from these…