Jonina Sy36Hs3-EPacita Juan Nowadays‚ coffee shops are one of the hottest places to hang out‚ but even before thecoffee house lifestyle hit the Philippines‚ one café has already established a name for itself. In the timethat serious coffee lovers had to get their fix at sky-high prices in hotels‚ Pacita “Chit” Juan‚ together withher friends‚ started the first local coffee chain that served good coffee at affordable prices. Their specialtyshop became known as Figaro.Even as a child‚ the youngest of
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I. Introduction The unpopularity and total failure of the Marcos land reform plan paved the way for the initiation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in the Spanish agricultural sector‚ during the Presidency of Aquino. In fact‚ this formed one of the major points against Marcos‚ emphasized during the Presidential campaign of Aquino. In other words‚ the introduction of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program had an underlying political motivation. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
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The municipality of Sta. Cruz was an active participant in the making of Mindanao’s and Philippines’ histories. From the Spanish rule‚ to American regime‚ to Japanese occupation‚ to independence‚ to Martial Law‚ to EDSA\Revolution‚ Sta. Cruz’ story was intricately interwoven into the country’s saga. This gulf town was originally called "Labo" a Bagobo word meaning "marshland". Labo is situated "between a confluence of two mountain streams where waters were as clear as crystal and was but a short
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PROFILE OF PHILIPPINE TARIFF SYSTEM Tariff Originated from Old Spanish coast town of Tarifa‚ 21 miles from Gibraltar‚ which received its name in the Arab who are said to named it after “Tariff Iban Malik”. Like Gibraltar‚ Tarifa is a high promontory and is connected to the coast only by a narrow cause way‚ easily defended. When the moors‚ many centuries ago‚ founded the town of Tarifa‚ they prepared the way for a system that is probably the most important factor in the international trade. As
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South Africa’s revolution was unlike any other during this time and I will give my reasons for believing so. From 1917 until 1989 the Philippines was under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. They had been a U.S colony until 1946 and America still had an immense amount of influence over the country and its leaders. Marcos had been the President since 1965‚ due to conflict between communist and the government he ended their established congress and put many of their politicians in prison. Amongst
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The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines‚ is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. The Philippines is a constitutional republic with a presidential system of government. It is governed as a unitary state with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao which is largely free from the national government. The President of the Philippines is the head of state governing the country. According to the Philippine government‚ the office has
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History of Samal Early Beginnings The name Samal was derived from the word Sama‚ a tribal group found in the island. People used the word Samal because of the Visayans who miscalled the word Sama. The first datu in the island was Datu Taganiyug‚ a native of Peñaplata‚ Samal. In the past‚ the people of Samal name a place about what was the said place known for. For example‚ the name Peñaplata was derived from the word "piña" or pineapple because of the abundance of pineapple in the area
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Philippines becoming an independent country‚ after being occupied by three colonialists‚ was nothing but a victory and a moment of opportunity. Dr. Estanislao last August 21 had imparted his knowledge about how the country was fairing in terms of economic performance after the country became independent until present. According to him‚ these periods can be divided into three parts namely the post war era (1946-1966)‚ Macros era (1966-1986) and the post-EDSA era (1986-2006). The post war era‚ was
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authority. The term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power‚ especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. One specific example is Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986). The second type is the democratic. It is a type of leadership style in which the people of
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Josh Davies looks at the history of the Philippines‚ from its domination by the Spanish to its present day Maoist insurgency The modern history of the Philippines has been defined by the domination of outside powers and resistance to them. The Philippines was a formal colony of Spain until 1899 and then de facto a colony of the US until the Second World War. Thereafter it suffered under semi-colonial domination - formally independent but with regimes that did the every bidding of the US. Nevertheless
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