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the following is the introduction i had written for the poem and fiction anthology i submitted to professor gemino abad for my philippine literature in english class, with a dedication that reads "For the Muse of Laguna Lake, whose fire kindled this scholarly fruition." Read on!:D ***A century after English was introduced by the Americans to the Filipino nation with the former’s imperial project

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au revoir!:)

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In fitting tribute to the closing summer season and as an opening salvo to the approaching rainy season, Xanadu alternately fires you up and gets you drenched with its searing, slippery 3rd Anniversary grand celebration. Savor the warm and wet feeling as male hotstuffs drive you feverish with their display of sweltering bodies and cool moves that are guaranteed to make you experience the

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below is the text of my paper's (and nine other papers') acceptance to the Queer Studies Conference 2010 to be staged in Royce Hall, University of California – Los Angeles on October 8-9, 2010. sumaakin nawa ang suerte.:)***Hello all!I wanted to let each of you know that your papers have been accepted in the Queer Studies Area for the MPCA/MACA conference this Fall. You will find the queer area

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The Filipino talent is very much renowned far and wide, so in recognition of this global acclaim, Xanadu presents its own acknowledgement that Pinoys’s got talent. It takes your dedicated eyes and applauding hands for Xanadudes to be prized for their inventiveness and originality, so watch them as they undress their inner geniuses and astound you with their masculine pride. Crafty, clever, and

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scenes from the recent sexiest men in the city bikini competition in metro bar, west avenue, quezon city, sponsored by planet xanadu.Here’s a take from the event’s script:Sexiest Men in the CityA Grand Bikini ChallengeMay 16, 2010, 8 PMMetro Bar West Avenue, Quezon CityMissionThis project conceptualized for young, fresh-looking Filipino men aged 18 to 26 years old is a competition-oriented event

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As the national election reaches fever pitch, another high-temperature phenomenon hits this side of town, and we’re not talking of the current El Niño. It’s about boys, yes, but more appropriately, boys with burning bodies whose heat can compete with both the hotly-contested Philippine polls and the blistering global atmosphere. Let their infernal flesh pump your blood to a boiling point in

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again, here's another ad from my good friend genesis, whose managed bar planet xanadu celebrates a month-long anniversary in its scout borromeo, quezon city homebase, highlighted by a weekly spectacle including the following:The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Pharos at Alexandria. All but one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have forever vanished from the face of the earth, yet the

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my good friend genesis is managing the popular gay bar planet xanadu which will soon celebrate its month-long anniversary. i'm posting this ad for the love of this wonderful friend as well as for the interest of the bar-going pink community. see you there! As the midsummer rages, Labor Day serves as a witness to the month-long celebration of Xanadu’s 3rd Anniversary. Workers from all

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A growing number of Filipino gay migrants are being published in the Philippines’ former colonial master, the United States of America, a testament to the postcolonial truism that the power dynamics binding the colonizer and the colonized long after the latter achieved independence continues to operate. Among these global Pinoys are Rinehart Zamora Linmark who authored Rolling the R’s (Kaya

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Gloria Anzaldúa, the Hispanic-American feminist critic, propounded the concept of “borderland”, which she defines as “a place where two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory.” If, instead of talking about America as homeland, we speak of it instead as borderland, how would you apply this to certain Contemporary American texts? Write an essay

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Loren Baritz, in Backfire: American Culture and the Vietnam War, concluded by saying: “Our power, complacency, rigidity, and ignorance have kept us from incorporating our Vietnam experience into the way we think about ourselves and the world.” While on the surface, such a sweeping pronouncement could be deemed correct, explain in what ways Contemporary American literary texts, while underscoring

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Historically, Boston had been among America’s cities which were long identified as gay. Cultural critic Joel Cohen observed that “the gay subculture of Boston seems to already have been flourishing in the eighteenth century.” One manifestation of this was the emergence in late 19th century America of the setup that has been called “Boston marriage,” wherein two unmarried, financially

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Among the ways Contemporary American Literature course discussed late 20th century American literature is by way of looking at texts as “memory” texts, the self deemed not as an “empty self”, but as a “constituted self”, making sense of community, one that has a “collective history” and “a constitutive narrative” (Bellah, et.al.). How do these texts engage the American self and this “community of

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It is not uncommon for tabloids and, lamentably, even major broadsheets, to carry news stories whose titles alone are either misogynist or homophobic by temperament. Headlines that read “Lesbian Rapes Grade 5 Pupil!” “Sabik sa Balot, Tisay Pinilahan ng Anim,” “Gay Pimp Caught Peddling Minors,” “Atsay Nag-amok, BF at Dyowang Bading Ginilitan” and their ilk cast serious doubts on media’s

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Three articles written during the breakthrough Enlightenment Period have political insights that helped clear the ground for the lasting impact of the Age of Reason in contemporary times. Immanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” is among his most influential works which explains the reason for the absence of Enlightenment in society. This lack, Kant asserts, is actually caused by the missing

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because love permeates the air of this gay planet, here is what the best in philippine independent queer cinema has to offer in celebration of the valentine's month (click image to enlarge):spread the love, everyone!:)

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as the night wore on, i dreamed about the muse lying on a patch of evening meadow scattered with fallen fireflowers. Everything else spoke of stillness, but my silent muse seemed to have a story to tell in his lonesome silence. In that dream, I saw him dreaming about me too. The mutual dreaming began series of dreams of me dreaming of him dreaming of me and so on. That moved me to smile.

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Sa The Death of Ivan Ilyich, ipinakita ni Leo Tolstoy ang isang lalaking winaldas ang kanyang buhay at walang kakayanang bigyang imahinasyon ang sariling kamatayan. Malinaw sa tekstong ito na ang paraan kung paano pinaiiral ang buhay ng tao ay mahalaga kung magkakaroon man ng pag-asang mabuhay sa dako pa roon. Makikita rin ditto kung paanong ang hindi iilan sa mga tao ay artipisyal lamang ang

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Blame colonial overload if up to now, the mestizo look still prevails as our social standard of beauty and with this domination subsists the investment of virtues and class. Sure, we have Nora Aunor, a morena, for a superstar and a host of fair-skinned contravidas who give Philippine cinema and television audiences some hypertension pangs, but the Spanish and American descendants and, of late,

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supreme being, the origin of all things and all nations, you have bestowed upon us the freedom to fulfill our destinies and the values to overcome the challenges that we encounter as we pursue truth, goodness, and beauty.in times of desperation, you have bestowed hope upon us in order to make us look beyond our current predicaments.in times of discord, you have bestowed love upon us in order to

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When Ninotchka Rosca’s State of War (Mandaluyong City: National, 1988) was published in novel form, the University of the Philippines-bred activist girl best known for her Marxist short fictions has embarked on imagining a larger picture of the NATION, a recurring topic for most if not all of the Philippine novels in English. Ninotchka and other Filipino novelists, because they are in the most

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Francis, Ignatius, Therese, John Paul and Mother Teresa were able to show the humanity of the Church through their relationship with family, friends, and the society. When they felt the calling to serve God through their service to the poor, most of them became in conflict with their human relations. For example, Francis’ family ties sagged when his parents thought that he was not only wasting

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Born in Loyola , Spain in 1491, Ignatius worked in the king’s court until he was 30. A cannonball injury almost cost Ignatius his life, but a miracle of dreaming about St. Peter touching his wound made him well. While recuperating after three operations, he discovered the books The Life of Christ and Lives and of the Saints, which inspired him to devote his life to God. Like Francis before him

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Born in Assisi , Italy in 1182, Francis was friendly and pleasure-seeking as a young boy. Once, when a beggar asked for alms from him, he realized life’s poverty and misery. While he gave all his money to the beggar, his friends and own father rebuked him for his charitable act. After sometime, he became very ill for several months until his prayer and vow to serve other people gave way to his

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Cinema Paradiso’s theme, “Life is not like in the movies,” may be integrated into the following symbolisms: the rusty anchors by the sea which are Toto’s collective force pinning him down in his non-progressing town and the deep blue sea beyond which is an opportunity-rich place that is always farther away sum up Toto’s boring, tragic life, so unlike hopeful, happy-ending movies. Meanwhile, the

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Hinugis ng patakarang kolonyal ang tula bilang anyong pampanitikan sa pamamagitan ng relihiyosong ideyolohiya na pinapairal ng mga prayle upang papaniwalain ang mga katutubo. Dahil sa aroganteng perspektibo ng mga kolonyal na mga Kastila na ang mga indio ay ‘di-sibilisado at, parang “lost sheep,” naging sintomas ng kamalayang ito ang mga relihiyosong tula na nagsasaad ng pagkakatagpo at

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Marriage is a term that is not really common to daily conversations. There are just lots of other subjects under the sun to be tackled at length and marriage is perhaps the last to cross the chatters’ minds. Often, this topic is brought up only when two people in love feel that it is already time for them to be joined by their faith with each other. Before this gut feeling occurs, love usually

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Halaw sa panahon ng pananakop ng mga Kastila noong 1521 hanggang 1898 ang Florante at Laura, isang mahabang pasalaysay na tula ng katutubong si Francisco Balagtas. Dahil sa pamamalakad ng mga dayuhan, nagkaroon ng maraming pagbabago at karagdagan sa katutubong panitikan lalo na sa uri at paksa. Sa kaso ng Florante at Laura, isa itong karagdagang uri sa katutubong panulaan sapagkat isa itong

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Before the turn of the twentieth century, shortly right after the military loss of Spain to the United States of America over the colony known before as the Philippine Islands, the U.S. Army established the first public school in the historic Corregidor Island off Bataan Peninsula. Without formal training in teaching, the soldiers nonetheless could be credited for having laid the bricks of the

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There are many ways through which I may seize the day. I may do now the things I have been postponing to do or have not been able to do in the past for one reason or another. I want to seize the day by visiting the Philippine countryside. I want to travel to Baguio to experience the cold again without having to go to wintry countries. I also want to go to Boracay to experience the sugar-white

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While there are positive implications that may be drawn from genetic counseling, there are also negative ones which consist of the foregoing:Genetic counseling is not advisable since the tests that frequently accompany it is found by consensual researchers to be inaccurate in diagnosing illnesses. For example, genetic counselors may tell a patient that he has a certain disease which gets him the

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Once upon a time, there was a couple who did not have a child. They longed to have one, but the heavens have yet to hear their prayers. One day, while praying for a child to grow in her womb, the wife saw from her window a clump of plants with the most mouth-watering appearance. She longed for it but the husband did not dare ask or steal it from its owner, who was a witch living in the

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Maasikaso, may utang na loob, nakikisama, magalang at makapamilya ay ilang mga katangian na makapag-aangat ng antas ng kultura sa Pilipinas. Kabilang ang mga ito sa mga litaw na kaugaliang Pilipino na madaling mapansin ng mga banyaga. Mahalaga ang mga kaugaliang ito sapagkat mas matanda pa sa panahon ng pananakop ang pag-iral ng ganitong mga katangian. Dahil sa katandaan ng mga kaugaliang ito,

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Bumibigkas ang tao ng meron upang ipakitang buhay siya na siyang pagpapagalaw niya ng kanyang katauhan. Sa pagbigkas ng meron, maaaring gumamit ng salita upang ipaliwanag ang material na mundong ginagalawan niya, ngunit may pagmemeron na sa kilos ibinabatay ang pagbibigkas, at ito ang mas nagbibigay ng katauhan dahil galaw itong mas may lapit sa meron. Lamang, dapat maging maingat na huwag

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Ang pagbigkas sa meron ay binibigyang-daan ng paggamit ng isip, na bumubuo naman ng konsepto. Higit pa sa maaabot ng isip ang meron, ngunit sinusubok na lapitan ang merong ito sa pamamagitan ng konsepto. May kakulangan man ang konsepto sa paglarawan, pagpapakahulugan at pagpapaliwanag ng totoong meron, mabuti nang may maiiwang mapagsisimulan pa ng ibang magmemeron kung tapos na sa pagbigkas

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Para kay Heidegger, para makaunawa sa tunay na pag-iisip, kailangan ang seisvergessenheit (pagkalimot sa meron) at balikan ang pag-unawa sa kasabay nitong nagpapahayag ngunit nagkukubli. Dapat pakilusin ang isip dahil meron ang nagpapahayag ng aletheia, na totoo at aktong nangyayari kaya hindi mapasusubaliang isang kilos na tuluy-tuloy lamang ang pangyayari kaya hindi mahuhuli. Hindi bale dahil

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The game of love in which the three characters of the Paz Marquez-Benitez' story "Dead Stars" figured in did not make any one win. Alfredo was a loser because he could not choose to marry Julia, the person he loved more than Esperanza. He had to follow what the society expected of him: to be a man and marry the woman he was engaged to. Julia was also a loser because she was not chosen by

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In the last forty years, the relative availability of staple foods like cereals, pulses and starchy roots has declined in almost all geographic regions of the earth. There are partial shifts from staple foods toward vegetable oils and sugar in low- and lower-middle income countries; towards vegetable oils, sugar and meat in upper-middle income countries; and towards vegetable oils and meat in

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Magkaiba ang istruktura ng pamilya sa Litisang Bilog ng Caucasus at ng sa Labaw Donggon.Sa Labaw Donggon, machong-macho ang bayaning si Labaw Donggon dahil tatlo ang naging asawa niya mula sa lahat ng antas panlipunan, isang basehan ng pagkakakilanlan ng kapangyarihan. Napangasawa niya sina Gintibitinan na galing sa bunga ng ilog, Doronoon na mula sa ilalim ng lupa at Nagmalitong Yawa na galing

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Double burden of malnutrition means that underweight and stunted children outnumber the overweight children in both 0-5- and 6-10- year-old age brackets. In a hundred 0-5-year-old children scale, 27 are underweight and 30 are stunted whereas only two are overweight. Meanwhile, in a hundred 6-10-year-old children scale, 26 are underweight and 36 are stunted whereas only one is overweight. Also,

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Sa pagtatanghal ng Ang Litisang Bilog ng Caucasus ni Bertolt Brecht sa bersiyong katutubo, angkop ang paggamit ng sayaw na igal, isang masining at maindayog na galaw ng mga Sama ng baybaying Timog-Silangang Asya, halimbawa ay ang Sama Dilaut (o Sama ng Karagatan) at Sama Badjao ng mga isla ng Sitangkai at Sibutu sa Lalawigan ng Tawi-Tawi. Masasabi kong angkop ang paggamit ng sayaw na ito sa

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Nang mahiwalay si Kierkegaard kay Regina dahil ayaw nitong mapakasal sa nobya, inakala niyang magiging sakuna lamang siya kapag sila ay napakasal. Ayaw niyang ipilit ang kanyang sarili dahil ito na ang sakunang tinutukoy niya: ang mawalan ng pagkabuo ang isa't isa kapag may iba nang maghahawak ng kanilang sarili maliban sa kanilang sarili sa bisa ng nagpapaisang kasal. Hindi akalain ni

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you pay homage to my lake worldall wise warnings you have ignoredthese ripples sought by men before youare collected tears impossible to holdeach dew-kissed satin petalis as much a venom as ecstasyto mortals who came of their own accord.away with your hands--your obsession stands no chance.i allow you not to pluck memuch less touch my fragility.i belong to this fluid sanctity--be content in

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Tita Lacambra-Ayala is a poet who gets her inspiration from anything that she experiences, be it the environment, people, relationships, a trip out of town, or even Haagen Dazs ice cream. The word that we should take note of is “experience.” All writers, whether of fiction or poetry, are in certain degrees moved by the things that indeed transpired in their lives. As for the poet in focus, she

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the rains won’t stop, just won’t stopsince the White Man came.when I step out, the mud bore printsof feet too large for my people to have done. it is this that the White Man assertswe need Him to carry us upcan’t he see we have our own feet to stand on?

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As suggested by “Wives as Primary Breadwinners,” the revolutionary trend of married women joining the labor force points to the increasingly becoming equal market responsibility between wives and husbands. As wives earn as well as or even more than husbands do, not only are wives able to pursue their own careers and to augment the household income, but also are they able to create a market niche

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If I have to choose a symbol, I would want that to be a university. Why? It is the place where people go to learn and meet persons of diverse backgrounds. It is a laboratory where students learn the theories that they will apply when they eventually join the society, which is the University of Man. Inside the university is a microcosm of the universe where all possible learnings happen in order

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Economies of scale occur when a company gets to decrease its operational costs as the firm enlarges and its production units of a single product grow whereas economies of scope take place when a company gets to decrease its operational costs as the firm broadens its market and widen its distribution of its various products. Aside from the aforementioned, the former refers to the efficiencies

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Sa The Death of Ivan Ilyich, malinaw ang paniniwala ni Leo Tolstoy na may dalawang uri ng buhay: ang buhay na balatkayong kinakatawan nina Ivan, Praskovya, Peter at marami pang iba sa lipunan at kumpanya ni Ivan at ang makatotohanang buhay na kinakatawan ni Gerasim. Makikita sa balatkayong buhay ang kababawan ng mga ugnayan, makasariling interes, at materyalismo. Ang buhay na ito ay walang

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A person’s social nature or that which one manifests while dealing with other people is comprised, among other essentials, by one’s culture and history. As one lives over time, one acquires traditions, language, arts and the like which are drawn from the location in which one lives. These identifications, influenced by events in the past, are those that constitute the entire makeup of a person.

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The spate of bombings across the globe after the ill-fated 9/11 New York terror attacks reminds us that the government cannot just sit around and take chances regarding the sustenance of national protection and security for all citizens. Whether it is high-end London or busy Spain or touristy Bali, there seems to be no sacred cows for democratically notorious terrorists, and the Philippines is

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The society nowadays has higher standards when it comes to beauty because of the continued prevalence of Western beauty ideology aggravated by the superficial concepts of metrosexuality, narcissism and exhibitionism. I say higher regard for physical good looks since before, it was enough to have beauty of character but now, some people equate virtues with stunning face. While beauty is relative

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Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector, Luisa Valenzuela, Isabel Allende and many others broke into the world literary canon via the fictional device called magic realism, wherein the marvelous is taken as a matter of fact. In the Philippines, magic realism harks back as far as the postwar period

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The air in Metropolitan Manila is so filthy that one can actually see the dirty particles hanging in the atmosphere like black snow. This griminess of the air comes as a result of the steady urbanization of Metro Manila, an enormous city of 17 towns and charter cities with a total population of 9.93 million as of National Statistics Office’ 2000 census, a population density of 158 persons per

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I engage in various worthwhile activities, but I consider reading a matter of special import. Ever since my father’s sister—my first teacher—taught me how to figure out characters in papers, I have established an intimate friendship with this activity. With the many benefits reading offers me, it is small wonder why I prioritize decoding texts over, say, traveling or exercise. After all, with

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Individual performance and team spirit are two disparate ways through which tasks may be accomplished. At one end, the enhanced quality of a person’s life depends on his optimized freedom and opportunity for self-development. On the far end, this improved quality depends not necessarily on individual liberty and improvement but on one’s team spirit. As may be gleaned from above, a person’s

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The experience of migration hybridizes the Filipino identity because the necessary adjustments migrants have to undergo allow them to be accustomed to the ways of their adoptive country. This acculturation is somewhat inevitable, since migratory people including Filipinos cannot isolate themselves and consummately preserve their country of origin’s culture. Should they stubbornly insist in

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Interregime and intraregime uncertainties negatively affect the Philippine economy because for one, political instability is seen by investors as a business risk; they will establish business to earn money, not to lose it. Therefore, investment will run low. Two, a government turnover might have the incoming administration neglect the outgoing regime’s pro-development programs, hence the

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Organizational culture is a structure of values, beliefs, and assumptions deemed appropriate in thinking and acting inside an organization. Being shared by the organization’s elements, culture helps solve and understand extrinsic and intrinsic problems. Neglected notions, stable and long-lasting beliefs on significant matters and understandings of the relationship between objects and concepts

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(note: here's a paper i turned in a couple of years ago)Alam ba ninyong maraming online website na nagbibigay-payo sa mga taong nagbabalak magpatiwakal? Ganito ang kaso sa Hapon, kung saan nauuso ang sabay-sabay na pagpapakamatay ng mga tin-edyer. Hindi kataka-taka, sa mga chat room ng nabanggit na mga site nagkatagpu-tagpo ang mga taong kasangkot sa grupu-grupong pagpapatiwakal. Isang “akto

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The policies of International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization hostage the world economy, aggravating the poverty situation across the globe. All three have poor countries enter one-sided transnational investment deals that instead of lessening unemployment, intensifying production technology and globalizing exports, only enrich transnational corporations whose investment

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Hamlet is one complex man. His manner in dealing with himself and with people is very inconsistent. By analyzing four given attitudes that could be considered reasonable explanations for Hamlet’s odd behavior, we could make the intricacy of his disposition more unpretentious.First, we need to consider the possibility that perhaps, Hamlet is truly insane. After all, it is a plausible

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Change rules the world. Changes brought about by events and accomplishments surely define who one is now. Not surprisingly, one experiences changes in every facet of one’s life. One’s growth is manifested in one’s physical, social, mental, and emotional transformation. For this, a human is different from lower forms of animals in that one is capable of evolving into a refined individual. One

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My current lesson in ENG1 in UPLB deals with summarizing so in the interest of performing what one preaches, here are the summaries of three stories in the fabulous collection Feast and Famine by Rosario Cruz-Lucero: Doreen’s StoryThe story is about a woman who led a sheltered existence inside a house in Silay City. The woman, Anabella, had a typical macho haciendero father and a cultured yet

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The Katipunan as the initiator of the 1896 armed uprising probed how the revolution got its flame fanned from below. The rapidity in which Katipunan gathered fire was on one hand caused by Andres Bonifacio’s manifesto, Kalayaan, which was pasyon-like in its traditional form. While the initiation rites in the Katipunan may have Masonic origins, the group eventually customized them for

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Not unless my brave estimations fail me for the nth time (my numerical faculty is insecure, remember?), you are a sweet sixteen going on seventeen: so young, so vibrant, so much in the prime of your life. The cosmos at large teems with many awesome fields for your boldly driven curiosity to explore, experiment on, discover. You jot these down: girls, fads hard drinks…Amazingly, I was not in the

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i was goofing around in a mall looking over a crossroad famous for big rallies when i thought about eating chocolate cake. the elevator being filled to bursting and the escalators being miles and miles away, i descended the nearby flight of stairs to the food court. the two bake shops lamented that they ran out of what i demanded but i refused to give up, short of making a scene. the more my

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Banasi. Calatagan. Luisita. These haciendas have gained media mileage for quite sometime, owing to the owners’ non-recognition of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law. While the lands are supposed to be awarded to the tenants who have farmed the haciendas for a couple of generations, the transfer of ownership remains elusive, like a dream that forever escapes reality.This very case gets a film

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As far as my memory can remind me, I have never been one to lose touch with my faith in God, not even when family, academic or personal plights seem too unbearable if others were in my shoes. Optimism always reigned in my system, until that fateful twilight when a car accident almost cost my life, to think that right before the mishap occurred, I just came out of a mass celebration.It was one of

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sometimes, what english majors see as pinoys' glaring errors in the colonial language may actually manifest a subversive side. caribbean stories with native characters mouthing off broken english have done it; paolo manalo's jolography has a brilliant take on it. anyhow, these domestic rental ads were posted (but eventually removed--somebody must have gotten the message) in an overpass

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i was again invited to judge in a high school beauty pageant somewhere in my neighborhood. i'm wondering whether or not the organizers ever found out my ambivalent take on beaucons, but something in my personal profile--probably the entry on socio-cultural criticism--won over their urge to cancel the invitation altogether. meanwhile, i accepted upon the agreement that it will not match or even

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The sweetness of sugar apples Refreshes in my memory With your smile and the scent of your body While in the pallor you stand shirtless, Silent as starlight, Oblivious of brazen hands Tugging at your towel. My mind travels, And as I return to climbing trees I take the corner you desert, Feeling the surfaces you’ve touched To revive the seasoned fruit, Sensing your wafting fragrance To relish

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One case of the hidden cost of economic development in the Philippines is the onslaught of white men’s disease such as chicken pox, cholera and dysentery, which the foreign invaders have brought from their land of origin during the time of colonization. This is most especially true to the Americans, whom Filipinos regard as the most economically influential colonists of the country, what with

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The following day, when one of The Vigils reported to Archie that Jerry casually detached his notice of chocolate sale assignment and threw it onto the waste bin, Archie sought for Jerry. Bursting with anger at such defiance but effecting a composed disposition, the bully found him at the locker room and warned him with just one sentence: “Dare, and you’ll see.” Jerry shuddered at the

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While the debate of whether to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens or to retain them in London is a largely socio-historical matter, it can also be read as a political one. It must be remembered that the states involved have stakes to care about, which will be sustained or missed depending on how the power relation between Great Britain and Greece will yield a decision affecting the ownership of

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“Completing the Picture of Cha-Cha” is a return to the 1987 constitution, assessing the current proposals for a shift in government form, completing the picture and fetching possible responses. The review of the existing supreme laws of the land reveals its unique features such as economic nationalism, social justice, separation of powers and the like to be somewhat flawed. Thus, the

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You now receive tailor-made essays from a relatively unspecified source. You get bewildered why you are the only subject of all these compositions, as if you are the sole rich attention-drawing specimen there is. Maybe you are dead sure, you are truly the lonhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gife alive reason for the eloquent words you, your dorm mates and classmates constantly browse from the wee

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after meeting my essay coach who possesses this reliable midas' touch (for she continues the streak of making her student trainees win championship trophies in regional competitions), i went to fetch my gay colleague at the bus terminal. i convinced him to promenade first in elegant gateway, but he chose to cruise the up-diliman campus instead. since most of his adult years were spent in the

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At sa gayun nga ay isinumpa ni Haring Salermo ang nagtanang magkasintahan para makalimutan ni Don Juan si Donya Maria. Habang papatakas ang dalawa sakay ng matutuling simaron, sumungit ang panahon, nagsalimbayan ang kulog at kidlat, bumangis ang hangin at yumanig ang lupa tanda na nagkakabisa na ang sumpa ng inulilang hari. Lalo pang binilisan ng magkasintahan ang paglayo mula sa engkantadong

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Human trafficking is the contemporary version of old-time slavery. It still involves the master-slave setup, only that it gets updated in the form of syndicated rings-victims. Notwithstanding the modern form, it remains true to its ill motive: to exploit people at their own expense. Human trafficking operates in order to produce money out of its victims. It transcends national and

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Despite widespread efforts by many sectors to build a world without borders, the problem of racial discrimination still persists. The white/colored binary hardly disintegrates although it has drawn flaks since the heydays of Exploration, Conquests and Slavery, even from within the Caucasian society to which the white masters belong. Half a millennium since and yet the seeds of postcolonial

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allowing the constituent assembly to materialize is no different from opening pandora's box: all sorts of plagues from human rights violations to death of democracy will bedevil the filipino citizens. the possibility of president gloria macapagal-arroyo's rule beyond 2010 is not unfounded, given the grim and determined behavior of her congressional allies in railroading the con-ass. she may not

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Job applications are breeding grounds of life experiences. More than the accumulation of knowledge and the honing of skills necessary for the applied position, values must be acquired in order to survive that uncovering of career opportunities. Life is like that too: it is pointless to know lots of information and to be able to apply the same in one’s context if related values are lacking in

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It is possible that sexist attitudes are perpetuated through language. Since humans use language to speak of consciousness and culture, this medium can articulate and send cultural meanings and values, underpinned assumptions and prejudices included such as devaluation of members of one sex. For instance, the seemingly harmless, all-encompassing use of the male pronoun reference, i.e. man, he,

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Peter Brown’s “Amadeus and Mozart: Setting the Record Straight” presents an analysis of the play Amadeus set against the known biography of the man being referred to in the play’s title. Thrown somewhere in the middle of the criticism is the question “Does the biography support the music or is there no relationship between the man and the art?”Brown answered the second part of the question,

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Fine arts and practical arts are two disciplines that may be distinguished from each other. The two arts are distinct by way of their development as form. On the one hand, fine arts are developed mainly for aesthetic or conceptual purposes. As an expression, this art form is usually produced visually and performatively such as in painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, printmaking,

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Seriously, defining Filipinoness is a difficult task. It is so because I believe that the activity involves looking beyond the surface value of things considered Filipino. In other words, being a Filipino goes more than the issues of geographical location, of blood and marital relations, and of physical features. To be defined Filipino, one may be born and may live permanently in any of the 7,

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In Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression,” even the very act of a man’s opening the door for a woman is considered part of oppressive structure. The argument is that it deems women too incapable of doing so, with the action turning into a ritual instead of being a circumstantial performance of good manners. In the interest of gender fairness, I believe that women should be allowed to do the door opening

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It is indeed extremely hard in any government's part to create policy solutions to address morally enveloped issues, all because of the anticipated clash between polar oppositions, from religion versus state, the right-winged versus the leftists, to the machos versus the feminists. As it is, consensus will never be arrived at since the subject involves an ethical item. Abortion is one such issue

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Males and females are different from each other foremost through their developmental and anatomical differences, with women maturing earlier than men. Also, they have chemical and hormonal differences, with women having estrogen whereas men, testosterones. Likewise, they differ in functions and emotional processing, with women responding to more emotive and sensual stimulants than males.

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it was bad enough that L's commercial for a telecom gets aired on TV rarer than the previous months, so imagine a worse scenario when one of those once-in-a-blue-moon opportunities descended the planet and i missed L's adorable boobtube appearance. I was safely couched in the car just this lazy Friday when a classmate called me up to ask if I will grace another classmate's weekend party. I had

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Produkto ng karanasan ang sining, dahil mahalagang maisakatuparan ang anumang imahinasyon sa pamamagitan ng pagsasakatotohanan nito. Pansining ginamit ang salitang “imahinasyon” para katawanin ang anumang bungang-isip, dahil sa katunayan, ang sining ay ang pagtatagpo ng bisyon at reyalidad. Hindi basta kung anong kaisipan lang ang pinagsisimulan ng sining; marapat itong tumugma sa kahulugan ng

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Apart from dull legal cases involving unpaid taxes and actual references (albeit lacking) from his contemporaries, there is practically nothing about Shakespeare’s life that is publicly known. Hence, his works are the remaining things which could shed light regarding the mystery shrouding the life of England’s and the world’s most celebrated poet. Because of their fictionality, Shakespeare’s

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my sincerest congratulations to sir dante mendoza for romping off with the cannes film festival's best director prize for sir bing lao's "kinatay," beating the likes of quentin tarantino, ang lee, jane campion and pedro almodovar. mendoza and lao compose the same team that produced last year's "serbis." it's the philippines' time to shine in world cinema!:)

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Just today, I found out that at least two of my friends in Facebook were connected to this charming student of mine whom I lost touch with for years. After his brief sojourn at the tutorial and review center I taught him in, I had seen him in a TV commercial for a telecommunications network which Judy Ann Santos now endorses. Often, when I chance upon old print ads featuring him, I never fail

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Leadership is an extraordinary human quality to create a difference in the lives of many. The ability to initiate social change is central to the idea of leadership.A leader is charismatic because without the command for followership, the leader will not be able to foster progress in the institution the leader and the followers are part of. Also, a leader is a good manager because he is able to

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Kahit na sa pagdating ng mga Amerikanong mananakop sa Pilipinas ay naipakilala ang mapanggayumang wikang Ingles na naitadhana ng batas na maging pangunahing wikang banyaga sa bansa, itinuturing na ginintuang panahon ng panitikang Hiligaynon ang panahong namamahala ang mga dayuhang ito, partikular noong dekada ‘20 hanggang 1942, o bago dumating ang mga Hapones.  Sa relatibong maikling panahong ito

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(A speech delivered at the 12th Commencement Exercises of my colleague and friend Edwin's administered language school.)I am overwhelmed by the privilege of having to stand before an audience and address it about two things that are both hallmarks of the contemporary times, the globalization age. We have heard so much about globalization that we can easily dismiss it as among the most abused

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Pinanghahawakan ni Samuel Beckett ang kaisipang hungkag at ilohikal ang relihiyon. Ipinakita niya ang pananaw na ito sa dulang Waiting for Godot. Ginamit niya ang mga tauhan sa dula upang ilarawan ang maparunggit at eksistensyal na pagtinigin sa relihiyon. Ginamit ni Becket si Godot bilang isang mapaghiganting manliligtas kina Estragon at Vladimir. Gaya ng isang taong naparusahang magdusa sa

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