Keeping Close to Home Summary In the article “ Keeping Close to Home”‚ the writer Gloria Watkins was grow up in the small town named Kentucky. As a african american female during the time when she went to college. It was really hard for her because of her culture and the place that she is from. In the United states of america during that time‚ it was quiet discriminates not just as an african american and also as a female. When she got acceptted from the university of standford‚ watkins knew that
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The idea I took from “To live in the Borderlands Means You” Written by Gloria Anzaldua. The author grew up around U.S and Mexico borderlands. The poem explains facts that happen in the borderlands such race‚ politics and culture. The poet talks about the difficult living in the borderlands‚ struggling to fit in. The author uses a different language through her poem to show that It’s okay to speak a different language when moving to a new culture. The author also talks about how it’s okay to mix
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Gloria Ladson-Billings’s monumental work on culturally relevant pedagogy has inspired many educators to strive to appeal to the diversity of their students. Culturally relevant pedagogy is “a theoretical model that [...] helps students to accept and affirm
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Analysis on Land Reform Problems Landownership problem and control of resources remains as a political development issue in the Philippines. Agrarian reform is a necessary condition for agricultural modernization and rural industrialization and the fundamental mooring for global competition. Agrarian reform has contributed to improvement of the socio-economic conditions of landless farmers and political development of the Philippines in terms of engaging the landless in the process of policy
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The electoral fraud issue on last 2004 election has proven an obvious breach in the national security. The tape evidence presented by Samuel Ong‚ former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) deputy director for intelligence‚ contained a conversation between the former President Arroyo and Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. Having analyzed the content of the said conversation‚ proven and admitted by the former president that the voice was hers‚ somehow confirmed the point of manipulation of the
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Philippine Military and Police Force Today Mendoza‚ A. Pol sci 11 MHG. October 2013. Corruption‚ inefficiency and politicization are the common characters of the Philippine military and police in status quo. The emerging issues and concerns regarding the military and police are what make them be labelled as weak‚ corrupt‚ and insensitive by Filipinos. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been demoralised and have done inefficient work on establishing peace and order as
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An Analysis on the Modernization of the Philippine National Police (PNP) (Current Issues) A Term Paper Presented to Professor Josephine Tuliao Ph.D. Mapùa Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements in Current Issues (SS15) By: P.H. Raymundo September 2011 Abstract Modernization of the PNP is necessary to cope up with the rapid urbanization in Metro Manila that poses a lot of insecurities for the people. And part of this modernization
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The language that I will be working on is the Maidun language. The Maidun language is shown to come from the Penutian language‚ which is one the the six main languages shown in “Flutes of Fire”. In accordance to native-languages.org‚ the Maiduan language has three different languages that are spoken‚ such as‚ Maidu‚ Nisenan‚ and Konkow. The language of Maidun was used in California‚ more specifically Northern California. “Most Maidu people live on Rancherias‚ which are parcels of land in the state
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Gloria Steinem was born on March 25‚ 1934‚ in Toledo‚ Ohio. Her father was an antique dealer and her mother was a newspaperwoman. She was the granddaughter of the noted suffragette‚ Pauline Steinem. Given her family’s background‚ it was not surprising that she became a feminist and a journalist. But her life followed a winding path which began in her youth‚ when she travelled around the country with her parents in a trailer. When she was only 8 years old her parents divorced‚ leaving Steinem to
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The Effects of Military Corruption (an Opinion by Emil Jurado Published at the Manila Standard‚ February 9‚ 2011) A Reaction Paper Submitted by RAQUEL G. DE LEON A Reaction Paper on “Effects of Corruption in the Military” It is surprising to hear from the news nowadays that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) tops the list of the country’s most corrupt organizations. It seems like gone were the days when the Philippine National Police (PNP) hugs the limelight as the most
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