Title: "Philippine helicopters fire rockets at Muslim rebels in Zamboanga siege." Date: Monday‚ September 16‚ 2013. Source: Internet - http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/world/asia/philippines-mindanao-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c2 How does the article relate to social studies/history? This article relates to the social studies discipline of world history. The article discusses about war‚ Muslim rebels and the Philippine military. The article also takes place in the Philippines which is a sovereign
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Ferdinand Magellan‚ the Portuguese navigator explored the Philippines in 1521. Twenty-one years later‚ a Spanish exploration party named the group of islands in honor of Philip II of Spain. Spain retained possession of the islands for the next 350 years. The Treaty of Paris ceded the Philippines to the U.S. in 1899 after the Spanish-American War. Meanwhile‚ the Filipinos‚ led by Emilio Aguinaldo‚ had declared their independence. They initiated guerrilla warfare against U.S. troops that persisted
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The origin of the Philippines The Philippines is a country of Southeast Asia‚ with its 7‚107 islands strewn over the Western Pacific Ocean‚ approximately 13 N of the equator and 122 E of Greenwich. Its collective land area is about 300‚000 sq. km‚ about the size of the state of Arizona. This island archipelago is one of the most megadiverse countries in the world‚ housing over 5% of the entire world’s flora in an area not even 1% of the world’s total. An estimated 10‚000 to 11‚000 species of
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The Philippines is located in South East Asia and the Philippines economy has been industrialized in the recent times. In terms of the purchasing power parity it ranked 24th according to the World Bank. The sectors that are of key importance in the Philippines Economy are agriculture‚ industry and mining each of which can be detailed under the following heads; Agricultural sector contributes about 17.1% of the GDP‚ Industrial Sector contributes 18.1% in the GDP. “The Gross Domestic product (GDP)
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than poor nations. http://www.indexmundi.com/philippines/population_below_poverty_line.html Philippines [pic] A man is rescued as part of an emergency simulation on Manila Bay involving the Philippine Coast Guard‚ Philippine Navy‚ the National Disaster Coordinating Council and the Japanese Coast Guard. The simulation was part of an ASEAN disaster response exercise. Photo: Claire Dennis. • Australian aid activities in the Philippines • Country strategy • AusAID Manila office
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The Philippines has a very low cost of living. The peso has significantly lost much of its value since the Asian Financial Crisis but over the past few years the country is getting back on its feet. The Philippine economy ranks 47th worldwide with a total GDP of over 120 billion euros. Expatriates will find living in the country very cheap compared to the United Kingdom. The unemployment rate is not tremendously high but poverty may have been rampant due to overpopulation. The Philippines is the
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The history of the Philippines can be divided into four distinct phases: the pre-Spanish period (before 1521); the Spanish period (1521-1898); the American period (1898-1946); and the post-independence period (1946-present). Pre-Spanish Period The first people in the Philippines‚ the Negritos‚ are believed to have come to the islands 30‚000 years ago from Borneo and Sumatra‚ making their way across then-existing land bridges. According to popular belief‚ Malays subsequently came from the south
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philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights‚ Quezon City • 1108 Philippines Philippine Commonwealth and Cult of Masculinity Alfred W. Mccoy Philippine Studies vol. 48‚ no. 3 (2000): 315–346 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print
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PHILIPPINE WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY THE PHILIPPINE DIASPORA: THE RESULT OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE COUNTRY Marie Gabrielle Jimenez 8/5/2013 This is a paper submitted to Ms. Lilia Casanova for the partial fulfillment of requirement for the course of Philippine Social and Economic Development Issues (MFSC011). I. Unemployment in the Philippines According to the International Labor Organization (ILO)‚ unemployed people are those who are currently not working but are willing and able
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SCIENCE Boado‚ Denniele Yvet O. PS1313 Sir Agnes 1. Discuss elitism in the Philippines in the context of Patron-Client or Bossism framework. Use concrete data from other references to support your discussion. Elitism is the rule of the minority in whose hands power‚ wealth or privilege is concentrated in a society‚ justifiably or not‚ regardless of the political system (Heywood89). Elitism in Philippine politics started during the Spanish colonial era‚ but wasexacerbated and cemented
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