July 1897 and issued a proclamation stating the following demands: * Expulsion of the friars and the return of the friar lands to the Filipinos. * Representation of the Philippines in the Spanish Cortes. * Freedom of the press and religion. * Abolition of the government’s power to banish Filipinos. * Equality for all before the law. A charter was then drafted based on the Cuban
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language and those of American colonial officials, especially around the relationship between English and the vernacular languages. Both conceived of that relationship in terms of a war of and on translation. It then turns to an important but overlooked essay by Nick Joaquin published around the same time as Constantino’s, “The Language of the Streets” (1963). By closely considering Joaquin’s views on “Tagalog slang” as the basis for a national language, we can see a different politics of language at work
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reasons why the Spanish Armada failed but one of the most important reasons is simply because they were not organized and prepared. They came into battle being arrogant. The Spanish were not prepared for the worst thing that could happen. The English planned what they were going to do step by step. They surprised the Spanish by waiting for them at sea instead of having a land battle with them. All of this history is very significant because it shaped how England is today because if the Spanish Armada had
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Alma Arce English 4 Mr. Anderson June 3, 2010 The Spanish Influence on the Philippines One day at work as I was wiping down the counter tops, I overheard my manager Adrian and my co-worker Albany talking to each other in a different language. It sounded familiar, but I had no clue what they were saying to each other. Later on that day, not trying to be funny at all, I went up to my manager as he was sweeping and asked, “Hey can you teach me some words in Chinese?” He stop sweeping, threw a weird
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NOTES IN LIT II Literature under Spanish Colonialism (1893) 1565 * When Spain established their first permanent settlement in the Philippines. They place upon the on the Filipino people the Spanish Monarch and Roman Catholic Religion. Pueblos * (taga-bayan) Filipinos who settled where they were within easy reach of the power of the church and State. Hinterlands * (taga- bukid or taga bundok) are the Filipinos who kept their distance from colonial administrators and their native
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However, the essay mainly goes in depth with details of her experience being fostered into a community in New Jersey diversely occupied with other Spanish natives, and her family's reaction to such drastic shift in régime. Amongst her interpretation of the transition to life in the United States, she incorporates a depiction of a silent film she created, which illustrates an assembly of other Spanish natives she comes across at a get-together in her home
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this country. Among those people, Spanish and English colonization had played important roles in shaping today’s America. In fact, beginning in the 1400s, European countries had been searching for sea routes to reach Asia. In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, sailed west and believed that he had found China, which was actually Cuba. Although Columbus did not find the passage to Asia successfully, his discovery of America marked as a start of Spanish exploration in America and changed
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Basque nationalism? The humiliating defeat of Spain to America during the Spanish-American War of 1898 dealt a catastrophic blow to the Spanish nation. In the subsequent Treaty of Paris signed on December 10th 1898, Spain relinquished its remaining colonial territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific. The disaster evoked heavy criticism of the Restoration government and its inherent corruption amongst many groups within Spanish society and served as a catalyst for the emergence of new political forces
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works, both oral and written, that Filipinos, whether native, naturalized, or foreign born, have created about the experience of people living in or relating to Philippine society. It is composed or written in any of the Philippine languages, in Spanish and in English, and in Chinese as well. Philippine literature may be produced in the capital city of Manila and in the different urban centers and rural outposts, even in foreign lands where descendants of Filipino migrants use English or any of the
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PASIG CATHOLIC COLLEGE College Department Course Syllabus Course No: History 1 Course Title: Philippine History Credit Units: 3 I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course deals with the history of the Philippines from the ancient past to the present scene to the pro-Filipino point of view. It aims to enrich the students’ knowledge of our history and character as a people thus, instilling in them the spirit of Filipinism. The students’ learning of the history of our
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