industries are concentrated in the urban areas around metropolitan Manila. Mining also has great potential in the Philippines‚ which possesses significant reserves of chromate‚ nickel‚ and copper. Significant natural gas finds off the islands of Palawan have added to the country’s substantial geothermal‚ hydro‚ and coal energy reserves. Today’s
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University of the Philippines System Website >> UP Forum >> Managing the West Philippine Sea* Managing the West Philippine Sea* Posted on August 28‚ 2013 by Carlos L. Agustin‚ Lauro Baja Jr.‚ Leticia Ramos-Shahani‚ Aileen S.P. Baviera‚ et al. in UP Forum http://www.up.edu.ph/managing-the-west-philippine-sea/ 1 This white paper was prepared by the WPS Informal Expert Group‚ and dowloaded from the UP Asian Center’s foreign policy website (http://philippinesintheworld.org/?q=node/164). An abridged
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Evolution of Tigers The tiger (Panthera tigris)‚ a member of the Felidae family‚ is the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera include: The tiger‚ lion‚ jaguar‚ leopard. Native to much of eastern and southern Asia‚ the tiger is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. 1‚ The origin and evolution of the tiger. Carnivorous mammals evolved from Miacids small pine marten-like insectivores that lived 60 million - 55 million years ago. The miacids split into
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Enriquez‚ M.C. (2011). For the country’s first green hotel‚ sustainability makes good business. Retrieved from http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/27635/for-the-country%E2%80%99s-first-green-hotel-sustainability-makes-good-business Abano‚ I.V. (2011). Palawan: Embracing green‚ eco-friendly hotels and beach resorts. Retrieved from http://pnej.org/?p=477 Villareal‚ M. (2010). 10 Philippine Hotels Win ASEAN Green Hotel Award. Retrieved from http://outoftownblog.com/10-philippine-hotels-win-asean-green-hotel-award/
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Schools can codify folk dancing‚ while society can continue to change this in real life circumstance. Before‚ dances such as the Pangalay‚ a dance of the Samal which is danced languidly on the ground‚ or precariously on bamboo poles or the pagdiwata of Palawan‚ which involves offerings during a festival to solicit a good harvest‚ are now formally taught in schools under the Physical Education program thanks to Francisca Reyes Aquino. The topic that I have chosen is under the Physical Education component
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IFUGAO HOUSE OR ISKET It is a small enclosed structure‚ a one-room affair that serves as living and sleeping room‚ kitchen and dining room. It is elevated above the ground by four posts made of sturdy tree-trunks with roots intact. It has solid panels for walls and tightly thatched roofing. The two main base girders – the horizontal support (at the front and back) just on top of the posts are held to these posts by dowels. No nails are used. The Ifugao carve each part of the house as interlocking
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Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippinesencompass a wide range of personal‚ cultural‚ and traditional beliefs and practices which Filipinos observe in relation to bereavement‚dying‚ honoring‚ respecting‚ interring‚ and remembering their departed loved ones‚ relatives‚ and friends. Sources of the various practices include religious teachings‚ vestiges of colonialism‚ and regional variations on these. In past and present times‚ Filipinos believe in the afterlife and give attention to
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DANCE THE ART OF MOVEMENT The Art of Dancing Dancing is the rhythmical movement of the body‚ usually with music‚ to express an idea or emotion‚ to narrate a story or simply to enjoy and take pleasure in the movement itself. It can be traced that Dance as an art started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm‚ probably the stamping of the feet and clapping of the hands. Dance of the earliest times differ from those of the present times; the dances of the barrio folks differ from those of
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Cultural evolution of the early Filipinos Through archaeological records and extensive researches‚ Historians believed that during the Pleistocene Epoch‚ the first settlers of the Philippines . Pleistocene Epoch The first settlers of the Philippines came from the present-day islands of the Malay Archipelago when sea levels were lower‚ creating land bridges to the Southeast Asian mainland. These Paleolithic Hunters May have followed herds of wild animals across these land bridges to
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Region‚ western part of Mountain Province‚ western part of Nueva Ecija‚ Central Luzon‚ Metro Manila‚ Cavite‚ Laguna‚ Batangas‚ Tarlac‚ Pampanga‚ Bulacan‚ Bataan‚ Zambales‚ Occidental Mindoro‚ southern parts of Antique and Iloilo‚ northwestern part of Palawan‚ and the southern parts of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental). Type II. No dry season with a very pronounced maximum rain period from December to February. There is not a single dry month. Minimum monthly rainfall occurs during the period from
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