Philippines Essays

Before the Spaniards came, early Filipinos led simple lives. They planted rice, fished, hunted, wove cloth from abaca and bartered goods with countries across the Asia. The Philippines was unknown to the peoples of the west. Similarly, the Filipinos did not know that there were people aside from the Asians …

PART 1 – indolence – misused in the sense of little love for work and lack of energy – indolence does exist among the Filipinos – examine the causes based on facts before proposing a remedy – climate – factor for being indolent “A hot, climate requires of the individual quiet and rest, …

President Benigno Aquino’s SONA 2014 was all about what his administration has done for the past two years in serving the Filipino citizens. The president expressed how his administration was effective by increasing investment for each government scholar, raising the national budget without raising taxes, improving tax collection, improving infrastructure, …

Varela would then retire from politics but his nationalism was carried on by another Creole, one Pedro Peláez, who campaigned for the rights of Filipino priests (Creoles, Mestizos and Indios) and pressed for secularization of Philippine parishes.[1] He reasoned out the same point Sancho had, friars are for missions on …

In this article, different beliefs have been brought up. Apparently, I cannot believe anything that has been written in that article mainly because as a Catholic, I believe that there are only three Gods. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Is it not funny to …

Corazon Aquino was the 11th president and first female president of the Philippines. She restored democracy after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. She was known as the “Mother of Democracy” of the Philippines for she led the revolution, the culmination of a battle for freedom that was her husband’s …

Founded by the late José Ramos along with his wife Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, the company has evolved from a small stall in Escolta that sold supplies, GI novels or US Armed Services Editions books, and school textbooks. When the Second World War broke out, strict book censorship enforced by the Japanese …

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) was founded on November 28, 1928. It is the leading telecommunications service provider in the Philippines. Through its principal business groups – fixed line, wireless and others –PLDT offers a wide range of telecommunications services across the Philippine’s most extensive fiber optic backbone and …

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno S. Aquino III just delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, which lasted for about one and a half hours. Here are the highlight’s of his second-to-the-last SONA speech: 1. “Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, hindi makararating sa paroroonan.” Before, the …

The Filipino Revolutionists won against the Spaniards who colonized us for more than 300 years. Our flag was hoisted on June 12, 1898 as a symbol of our independence. Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo was elected the first President of the Philippine Republic but this was short-lived. The Fil.-American was resulted in …