Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Gameplay involves swimming‚ players passing the ball while being defended by opponents‚ and scoring by throwing into a net defended by a goalie. Water polo‚ therefore‚ has strong similarities to the land-based game of team handball. The frequency of ’man-up’
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Ferdinand Marcos’s Regime In about two months it will be the elections here in the Philippines. As I ponder about the candidates for president my mind goes back to all the history lectures I had about Ferdinand Marcos and his regime. He held the presidential seat for about twenty-one years and his time in power and even after power has always been controversial. I usually take cabs to get around‚ and it is common for cabs to have their radio on usually on the news station. Here in the Philippines
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Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11‚ 1917 – September 28‚ 1989) was the tenth (10th) President of the Republic of the Philippines and the only president to stay in office for more than twenty years (1965 to 1986). Dubbed as the country ’s "strongman‚" he holds the distinction of being the first and only Philippine President to be re-elected in office and the last Philippine Senate President to be elected to the highest office of the land – the Philippine Presidency. He served as president from
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Volkswagen Polo advertisement Marco Mannoni Eric Sabatino Volkswagen‚ which means “people’s car”‚ is one of the most selling automotive companies in history. It has three cars in the top 10 list of best-selling cars of all time‚ the Volkswagen Golf‚ the Volkswagen Beetle and the Volkswagen Passat. The protagonist of the Volkswagen Polo advertisement is a student who is bullied by a group of “cool” guys. The situation changes when he gives a drive to one of the most beautiful girls of the
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Uncle Marcos The story Uncle Marcos is about a girl named Clara and her uncle’s relationship and of Uncle Marcos’s past. Clara hasn’t seen her Uncle for two years but still remembers a perfect image of her Uncle Marcos. She retained an image of him since her childhood and every time she wants to see him she would close her eyes instead of looking at the old photograph they had in the drawing room. He was buried in the middle of the courtyard in a long black coffin. Uncle Marcos would come to
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Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos (September 11‚ 1917 – September 28‚ 1989) was 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer‚ member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949–1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959–1965). He was Senate President from 1963-1965. He claimed to have led a guerrilla force called Ang Maharlika in northern Luzon during the Second World War‚ although this is doubted.[1][2] As Philippine president and strongman‚
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1. Why was the 1973 Constitution amended? 2. What is martial law? 3. Why did President Marcos declare martial law? 4. How did the people show their discontent during the Marcos administration? 5. What problems did the country confront during the Marcos dictatorship? The 1973 Constitution basically changes the ‘presidential system’ of government into a ‘parliamentary system’ that puts the President into a purely symbolic statue. Therefore the president didn’t actually hold any power and wasn’t allowed
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Uncle Marcos and his stories are still fresh in Clara’s mind‚ and are told to others by Alba. Clara and Uncle Marcos always got along and were good friends‚ "Each time Uncle Marcos had visited her sister Nívea’s home‚ he had stayed for several months‚ to the immense joy of his nieces and nephews‚ particularly Clara" (10). Whenever Uncle Marcos was over at his sisters’‚ Clara was the only one that did not mind having Uncle Marcos stay and live with them. "It has been two years since Clara had last
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Imelda R. Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitación Romuáldez on July 2‚ 1929) is a Filipino politician and widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Upon the ascension of her husband to political power‚ she held various positions to the government until 1986. She is the first politician elected as member of the Philippine legislature in three geographical locations (Manila‚ Leyte‚ Ilocos Norte). In 2010‚ she was elected to become a member of the House of Representatives to represent Ilocos
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Marco Rubio is now one of the freshest faced lieutenants of the conservative insurrection in Washington. On Tuesday 12-2-10 Rubio finished off Florida’s governor to become the state’s U.S. senator. Rubio’s victory over governor Charlie Crist was one to remember because it went down as one of the most dramatic political downfalls in the country. He will be the second Cuban-American senator. He is a member of the Republican Party. As a Hispanic Rubio is representing the nation’s biggest battleground
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