The Philippine Embassy in Bangkok‚ Thailand‚ is pleased to inform overseas Filipinos in Thailand and in other ASEAN countries that an official from the Department of Education of the Philippines will be administering the Third Alternative Learning System Accreditation and Equivalency (ALS A&E) test inBangkok‚ Thailand on 15 – 16 November 2013. The ALS A&E Test is a standardized paper and pencil test. It is designed to measure the competencies of those who have neither attended nor finished formal
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Throughout United States history‚ voting requirements have broadened‚ allowing different kinds of people to vote. In the early 1800s‚ only white men could vote. However‚ they did not need property to vote anymore. In addition‚ the white men no longer needed to take the religious test to vote. By the mid-1800s‚ most white males had the privilege to vote. After the Civil War in the year 1865‚ men of all races could vote. The 15th Amendment declared that any male could vote regardless of their
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Philippine Drama What is Drama? • Drama comes from Greek words meaning “to do” or “to act.“ • Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. • According to Oxford Dictionary‚ drama is a composition in prose or in verse; adapted to be acted and is represented with accompanying gesture‚ costume‚ and scenery‚ as in real life. • It is essentially social and involves contact‚ communication and the negotiation of meaning. • Drama needs an individual or a group of people who use themselves
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A Better Philippines Is it just a vision or “the future”? Thesis statement: Almost each of us has a vision for our poor country. But the problem is most of the time it just remain a mere vision. So the question is; would it just remain our vision or it’s going to be the future of this country? The main problems found in the Philippines are (randomly): economic crisis‚ graft and corruption in the government‚ poor kind of education on most part of the country‚ low rate of employment
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Sculptors in the Philippines Submitted by: Boquiron‚ Karl Christian De Vera‚ Joshua James Mendoza‚ Lady Lavenie Salagubang‚ Shiena Kate Submitter to: Prof. Galang Napoleon Abueva Napoleon Isabelo Veloso-Abueva (born January 26‚ 1930)‚ more popularly known as Napoleon Abueva‚ is a Filipino artist. He is a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines National Artist for Sculpture. He is also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He is the first and only Boholano given
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The top 3 problems of the Philippines is‚ one‚ poverty. Poverty is common in our country. We are doom of poverty because there are many poor families and we have slow progress in our economy. Yes‚ we have government to help us and the poor people and families out there but there are so many of them because we have high levels of population growth and slow developing agriculture sector. These are one of the causes of the poverty. We are known as one of the poor countries in the world because of poverty
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message by Abraham Lincoln as a way of stating that one vote is capable of changing the fate of the country. Voting is the act of selection and some may say that someone’s vote is unnecessary‚ since there are already so many people voting in that region. However‚ one vote is capable of determining the destiny of the future of America. Moreover‚ voting not only makes the nation unique with its rights‚ but more importantly it impacts the country and its civilians. A great example is the presidential election
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Abstract Suffrage is the right of the people to choose their officials as their representatives‚ for definite and fixed periods‚ to whom they entrust the exercise of the powers of government. This right‚ as conferred by the constitutional provision‚ is not a natural right of the citizens‚ but a political right intended to enable them to participate in the process of government to assure it derives its powers from the consent of the governed and this right is well practiced in school. The election
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When it comes to Voting participation‚ those who have a higher socio-economic status are likely to have a higher voter turnout/participation rate. However that is not the case for Asian American voters. With Asian Americans having some of the highest level of income and education‚ they still result in low voter turnout in general elections. With Asian American political participation being a puzzling phenomena‚ there are bloc of reasons for their bizarre voting behavior. The reasons for lower turnout
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POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES During the 1990s‚ the Philippines made significant progress in fighting poverty. According to the Family Income and Expenditure Survey of 1997‚ poverty incidence fell from 49.3% of total population in 1985 to 40.6% in 1994 and 36.8% in 1997. According to an ADB study conducted by Ernie Pernia and Arsenio Balisacan‚ however‚ the decline in poverty rates did nothing to improve the country’s notoriously inequitable income distribution. Despite the more-or-less sustained
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