efforts. It was no secret that Spain was oppressing the people of Cuba. McKinley reasoned to the American public that the U.S. needed to liberate the Cuban people from Spain‚ leaving room for McKinley to negotiate for the Philippines‚ setting the Filipinos free and giving America rule over this island before another powerful nation could take over. Many pro-expansionists excused this motive for expansionism as a side-effect. Looking back‚ the motives for obtaining the Philippines are clear. Territory
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Romblon /rɒmˈbloʊn/rom-blohn‚ (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Romblon)‚ is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region. It lies south of Marinduque and Quezon‚ east of Mindoro‚ north of Aklan and Capiz‚ and west of Masbate. Its capital is also named Romblon. According the May 2010 Philippine census‚ it has a total population of 283‚930 people.[2] The province of Romblon is composed of three larger islands; Romblon Island at the center where the provincial capital is located‚ Tablas
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“A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” Nick Joaquin Act I ”Bitoy Camacho‚ an old friend of the Marasigans‚ pays them a visit one afternoon after many years of absence. He is greeted by the two daughters of Lorenzo Marasigan‚ a famous painter‚ who in his declining years has been living in isolation and abject poverty. Recently‚ he finished his latest and perhaps last major work of art‚ a painting he entitled Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. The sisters Paula and Candida welcome Bitoy. They
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Know I Can"‚ by raper Nas‚ has a positive message that encourages people‚ but mainly children to work hard and stay in school‚ so that they can be what they want to eb in life. his song’s lyrics instill a certain pride‚ fight and determination in the listener to go out and better themselves. From the begingging the song tell children who wants to become a singers or actors to just deal with the positive influence with it and not the negative things about the business. Nas tell the listener not to
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LEADERSHIP I. DEFINITION Leadership is a process and a function of getting people together to work for a certain goal. It is an essential attribute of all social groups‚ because there is a greater need to work with others to attain one’s goals rather than work on them oneself. When groups form‚ organization is needed to keep the group together working to reach the goal‚ or objective. As a process‚ leadership answers three basic questions : Where are we now? Where
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"Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit Fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean." After that‚ they directed the attention to a table with the NA book and other books and pamphlets which could be purchased or are for free. After the text was read‚ people celebrated special occasions. New members were welcomed greatly‚ as we had one at the time‚ and also a mother and son who came in later. All
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8"‚ referring to Caidic’s regular jersey number while playing for the National Team. Renz Patrick T. Narag Grade V- ST Joseph James Yap‚ Sr. James Carlos Agravante Yap‚ Sr. (born February 15‚ 1982 in Escalante City‚ Negros Occidental) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the San Mig Coffee Mixers in the Philippine Basketball Association. Yap enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Bacolod Tay Tung High School and then at Iloilo Central Commercial High School‚ where
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Good morning to all of you. It is a rare pleasure for me to be here in such company to share my own profound insights about a topic that‚ in the light of close scrutiny‚ may as well define our future as a nation. But let me not bore you with such technicalities as an analysis of a cataract several times remove‚ yet persistent as the barnacles on a ship’s hull. Rather‚ permit me to begin with a story‚ one in which all of us might have been a part of at one time or another. A story quite common
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changing the design of money? We use money as a medium of exchange in everything we buy or sell. That’s why some people are creating ways to make exact copies of money in order to do whatever they want. This is the main reason why BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) changing the design of the money regularly. The central banks regularly change the designs of the money - whether coins or paper bill (banknotes) mainly because to make it safe from counterfeiters. By regularly changing the designs of the
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Last week‚ we have given the opportunity to take tour in the Davao Doctors Hospital to see the Specializations in Radiologic Technology such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging‚ Computed Tomography‚ Nuclear Medicine and etc. After seeing the different modalities‚ I felt happy because it is my first time to take a look and encounter any kinds of machine. Before‚ I was expecting that being a radiologic technologist is a hard job. But then when I had given the chance to see and know what their works are
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