THE SETTING (CHAPTER 1) The Philippines is an archipelago consisting of more than 7‚000 islands and islets stretching almost a thousand miles from north to south. * Land Surface – is 114‚830 square statute miles and is criss-crossed with mountains and drained by small river systems. Mountain System Three large ranges in the mountain system of Luzon * Caraballo del Sur – forms the nucleus of the system‚ has its highest peak at the intersection of the boundaries of Abra‚ Ilocos Norte
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Philippines- Nation of Servants On a column published in HK magazine online dated March 27‚ 2009‚ a Hong Kong journalist by the name of Chip Tsao showed his protest after President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo signed the controversial baselines bill into law which asserted the Philippines claimed over Spratly Islands. In his article entitled “The War at Home‚ Tsao said‚ “As a nation of servants‚ you don’t flex your muscles at your master‚ from whom you earn most of your bread and butter”. Though the
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has been applied to the Philippines since the 1960s and continues to be relevant to their economic situation today. In particular‚ the term has been used to describe the Filipino nursing sector. Although the economic situation has changed in the last several decades‚ academics have tended to discuss the brain drain phenomenon in the Philippines as a historical progression from colonial and international ties. Post-Colonial Philippines In 1946‚ colonialism in the Philippines ended with the election
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Pre-Spanish history According to what can be inferred from somewhat later accounts‚ the Filipinos of the 15th century must have engaged primarily in shifting cultivation‚ hunting‚ and fishing. Sedentary cultivation was the exception. Only in the mountains of northern Luzon‚ where elaborate rice terraces were built some 2‚000 years ago‚ were livelihood and social organization linked to a fixed territory. The lowland peoples lived in extended kinship groups known as barangays‚ each under the leadership
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Rose Laine L. Tabequero November 6‚ 2014 BSN- 1NA NCM 100.1 Lec History of Nursing in the Philippines Early Beliefs & Practices 1.Beliefs about causation of disease: another person (an enemy or a witch) evil spirits 2.Belief that evil spirits could be driven away by persons with powers to expel demons. Belief in special gods of healing‚ with the priest -physician (called “word doctors”) as intermediary. If they used leaves or roots‚ they were called herb doctors (“herbolarios”) Early
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With the Philippine seas south of Mindanao already over fished‚ local tuna producers have looked beyond the country’s fishing grounds for their operations. Marfenio Tan‚ former president of the Socsksargen Federation of Fishing and Allied Industry (SFFAI)‚ continues to reminisce the days when they had to bury tons of tuna catches on the beaches because there were simply abundant supplies and demand could not cope‚ if not non-existent. During the stretch when the industry became the single top
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Currently‚ the market is dominated by the Big Three in the Wireless Telecom industry namely‚ Smart Telecommunications‚ Inc.‚ Globe Telecom‚ Inc.‚ and Digitel Mobile Philippines‚ Inc. or otherwise known as Sun Cellular. ------------------------------------------------- History of the Telecommunications Companies in the Philippines * Smart Communications‚ Inc. * Incorporated in 1991‚ Smart
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Era‚ Quezon City CASE ANALYSIS: The Secret Behind the Continues Success of BPI (Bank of the Philippine Islands) in Savings and Loans Industry As partial fulfillment for the course CORPORATE GOVERNANCE First Semester School Year 2013 - 2014 Presented to: JANINE L. MONEDA‚ MBA‚ FRIBA and to the Faculty of the Management Department NEW ERA UNIVERSITY Quezon City‚ Philippines Presented by: Loumark Efhraim S. Soriano 27 September 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PHILAMLIFE AND BPI ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC LIFE INSURANCE JOINT VENTURE Makati City‚ August 26‚ 2009. Philippine American Life Insurance Company (Philamlife)‚ the largest life insurer in the Philippines‚ has agreed with Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) to acquire a 51% stake in Ayala Life Assurance Inc. (Ayala Life)‚ BPI’s majority-owned life insurance subsidiary. Ayala Life will serve as the platform for BPI and Philamlife’s strategic bancassurance partnership. The joint venture is expected
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the people of the Philippines have been observing the rules drafted by 50 members of Constitution Commission assigned by former president Corazon Aquino. Some laws have been changed‚ and some laws have been added‚ but almost everything remains the same. One of the laws which have not been changed is the law that states the qualifications for president. For the past four Presidential elections‚ the Commissions on Elections used the 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines to evaluate the
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