Poverty and the Filipino Drug Mules Introduction Among the most admired Filipinos today are the Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs. They have been dubbed as New Heroes or Bagong Bayani by no less than the late Corazon “Cory” Aquino because of the way they willingly leave their families and the comforts of home to pursue high-earning jobs abroad. An estimated 8.2 to 11 million Filipinos or 11% of the total Filipino population work in other countries to support their families and to make their dreams
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that devastated the livelihood and lives of many people in our country. In just a year we become exposed to numerous calamities that left holes and trauma to Filipino people. As much as we seek for peacefulness and contentment in life‚ we cannot alter the nature’s revenge to the mankind. But this would not be the end of the lives of Filipino people. We all know that our days of seeking progress and livelihood become minimal as we face different phenomenal catastrophe in a year. Imagine the numerous
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often fade into obscurity in spite of tremendous momentary fame‚ Filipino novelty songs are so unique because of our famous and distinctive Pinoy humor that is incorporated into these songs. There are three features in the formula of Filipino novelty songs. The first feature is the heavy use of double meanings and entendres. The second is a reference to a number or a food which is used in relation to the first feature. Lastly‚ the Filipino novelty song‚ like any other in the world‚ has to have a catchy
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HAVING AN OFW PARENT Jean Alyzza E. Villaver Chapter 1 I. Introduction Overseas Filipino Workers are lauded world-wide for their heroism. Much has been said about the economic contributions of these modern day heroes‚ but it is also equally important to look into the effects that migration has on their children left at home. On the positive side‚ it is expected that children of migrant workers have better living conditions than their counterparts from non-OFW families. This children experience
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Our Filipino Values: A Connotation to the World What are Filipino values? What is distinctly Filipino in our value system? The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life‚ our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a fourfold sense. First‚ although mankind shares universal human values‚ it is obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively Filipino flavor. The Greek ideal of moderation or meden agan‚ the
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One of the most defining features of Filipinos which sets them apart from other races‚ if not currently the most defining‚ is the shape of their nose. Unlike the higher and narrower noses of Caucasians‚ full-blooded Filipinos bear what the locals would often colloquially refer to as the “flat nose”. There is a wide variety in the types of nose shapes a person may acquire. Being a polygenic trait‚ genetics play a very big role how an individual’s nose will turn out. Thousands of years of living in
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Running head: THE FILIPINO MIND-SET IN COMPETITION 1 The Competition and the Roots of Filipino Crab Mentality Amante‚ Mayca Joy M. Adamson University Author Note Mayca Joy M. Amante. Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Adamson University. This research should be addressed to Mayca Joy M. Amante. Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Adamson University San Marcelino
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Pasyon: A Factor That Shaped the Filipinos’ Identity Anonymous October 7‚ 2011 _______________________________ Table of Contents Chapter I: Research Problem/Topic A. Rationale……………………………………………………………….3-4 B. Review of Related Literature……………………………………..…4-7 C. Statement of the Problem…………………………………………….7-8 D. Objectives of the Study…………………………………………………8 E Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks…………………..……9-10 F. Significance of the Study………………………………………….10-11
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Short Story: Bread of Salt Poem: Isang Dipang Langit Group 11 (Vardeleon‚ Tiu‚ Gabana) Short Story: The Day the Dancers Came Poem: Confessions of a Green Card Bearer Group 12 (Zabala‚ Batoon‚ Rico) Short Story: Children of the City Poem: Filipino American Barbie Questions for Reporting |Short Stories |Poems | |GROUP 1
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