A couple weeks ago‚ I accompanied my friend‚ Pala Agustin‚ for a day of work at her family’s restaurant‚ Banig. To be quite honest‚ I was not expecting to learn as many things as I did learn on that trip. Firstly‚ I was expecting to learn more about the fast food and food service culture‚ but to my surprise I learned more about the culture of the people who owned the restaurant. Being a close friend of Pala’s I had an emic perspective in the whole experience;
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Chinese. A coin in the form of a small conical gold nugget‚ called the piloncito‚ appeared next. On its flat base was an embossed inscription‚ which some scholars say is the character Ma‚ or the letter M‚ in the ancient Tagalog script. The term piloncito comes from the word pilon‚ a local sugar container that resembles the coin. They are engraved with the Brahmanic character “ma” which looks like an upside down “R”. We can only guess that this character refers to the
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Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES The Bilimbi tree is attractive‚ long-lived‚ it reaches 16 to 33 ft (5-10 meters) in height. The leaves‚ very similar to those of the Otaheite gooseberry and mainly clustered at the branch tips‚ are alternate‚ 12 to 4 inches (30-60 cm) long‚ with 11 to 37 alternate or sub opposite leaflets‚ ovate or oblong‚ with rounded base and pointed tip. Small‚ fragrant‚ 5-petalled flowers‚ yellowish-green or purplish marked with dark purple. The bilimbi
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monument of Jose Rizal in Laguna. The monument is composed of twenty-two steps‚ representing the twenty-two languages that Rizal can speak. The height is 35 feet for Rizal died at the age of thirty-five. In our monument‚ Jose Rizal is wearing a barong tagalog which represents his nationality. An infinity sign can be found on the 22nd step where Rizal stands. This sign represents his infinite potential when he was alive. He was an actor‚ an agriculturist‚ an animal lover‚ an anthropologist‚ an archeologist
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Education in the Philippines The system of education in the Philippines was patterned both from the educational systems of Spain and the United States. However‚ after the liberation of the Philippines in 1946‚ the systems have changed radically. The Department of Education (or DepEd) administers the whole educational system‚ which also includes the allocation of funds utilized for school services and equipment (such as books‚ school chairs‚ etc.)‚ recruitment of teachers for all public schools
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Rizal as an Engineer Rizal was a licensed land surveyor before he took up medicine. This training enabled him to engage in civil engineering works. Among his achievements were the dam and waterworks he constructed in Dapitan in 1894 through the help of his pupils. The waterworks were built using stones‚ cast-off tiles‚ bamboo pipes‚ and mortar from burnt coral. He also invented a brick making machine‚ and a preparation of bakhaw paste‚ useful for roof construction because of its water resistance
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Spanish theatrical group that became nationally renowned. 2. Aurelio Tolentino - one of the mystics of the Katipunan‚ a compadre of Andres Bonifacio‚ a nationalist writer in both Kapampangan and Tagalog. He coined the worddula for drama and ironically became known in history as the Father of Tagalog Drama for his anti-US colonial masterpiece Kahapon‚ Ngayon at Bukas. A theatre at the Cultural Center of the Philippines is named Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino in his honor. 3. Jose Abad Santos -
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Language Innovations in a Multi-lingual Classrooms Multilingualism is noticed all around the world. Connotatively‚ multi as several or many‚ and lingual as language‚ combined‚ basically meaning the use of multiple languages. It does not simply dictate the language they use but also the place where they have been influenced and had grown‚ thus‚ even reaching out to multiculturalism‚ meaning multiple experiences‚ influences‚ cultures‚ ideals‚ and more. It is clear furthermore that the above linguistic
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May 10 columns in the future. Today I reproduce Lazaro Makapagal?s eyewitness account of the execution of the Bonifacio brothers published in the Dec. 1‚ 1928 issue of the Philippines Free Press. This is supposed to be an English translation of a Tagalog document then preserved in the archives of the
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Philippines Cultural Assessment: The primary language that business is conducted in the Philippines is English. This is a result of the American influenced era which began in 1898. One should not assume that just because English is the most commonly used language that both verbal and nonverbal forms of communication are conducted the same way that they are in America. The Philippines business environment is known to be highly personalized. The communication style of the Philippines has also been
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