Spanish Period (1565-1872) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Long time before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed on Philippine shores, our forefathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race. Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life as traced in our folk stories, old plays and short stories. Our ancient ancestors also had their own alphabet which was different from that brought by the Spaniards. The first alphabet used by our ancestors
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The opponents of the bill have spread a large number of myths and tried to make people afraid that the bill would make abortion legal and cause immoral behavior. I enclose a link sponsored by the bill's supporters, who believe that women in the Philippines deserve control over their own bodies, and should have the right to practice family planning or obtain birth control. Those who are opposed to the bill claim the following: 1. Sec. 17 of RH Bill could mean - Employers must provide employees
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“THERE IS ONLY GOD AND ONLY SON OF GOD” "See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me" Deuteronomy 32:39 Patently, the proverb speaks that there is only one GOD, no one can become GOD because the title GOD was logically created to honor a single man who made the greatest things under the sun. At the outset, we the only country, the only nation, the only Filipinos could not altruistically proclaim a God without the judgment of the other realm, because a God was able to build
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LECTURE GUIDE IN SOC 6 WEEK 1—ORIENTATION / INTRODUCTION TO RIZAL COURSE WEEK 2 BACKGROUNDER OF RIZAL’S FAMILY / HISTORICAL BACGROUND OF RIZAL: A. ANCESTRY OF RIZAL. Rizal came from a mixture of races. From his father side, his great grandfather was a Chinese merchant from Amoy, China. In the closing year of the 17th century, Domingo Lamco who assumed the family surname “ Mercado “ in consonance with the decree of Governor General Narciso Claveria to free all Spanish subjects and their children
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PRC - MDO Form No.5 (Rev.01-11-04-2000) Republic of the Philippines PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION Manila BOARD OF MARINE DECK OFFICERS CERTIFICATE OF SEA SERVICE (All Statements herein are subject for verification) TO THE BOARD OF MARINE DECK OFFICERS: THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT RANDY D. CASTRO had actually served under our Supervision on board CAPTAIN JOHN NP , Motor (LPG) of BAHAMAS
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Jose Dalisay, known as Butch Dalisay is a Filipino columnist, poet, writer, teacher and playwright. He has authored more than 15 books since 1984.He teaches English and has some administrative duties as a director of the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. Soledad’s Sister was his second novel after Killing Time in A Warm Place with the help of a David T.K. Wong fellowship at the University of East and Anglia and a Rockefeller grant in Bellagio, Italy. Soledad’s
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THE ECOTOURISM IN CALAUG, QUEZON: IT'S POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Abstract In Calauag, Quezon, ecotourism is a term yet to be coined by its local inhabitants. Calauag, Quezon is a first class municipality in the province of Quezon in Region IV-A. It belongs to the Luzon group of islands. Calauag is partly urban but still is considered as an agricultural municipality. Statistics would show that a small slice of its land is used for the urban core of the municipality which is as much as 1.59 hectares
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The book, printed in Gothic letters and Tagalog1 characters on paper made from the paper mulberry, now browned and brittle with age, consists of thirty-eight leaves, comprising a title-page as above, under a woodcut2 of St. Dominic, with the verso originally blank, but in this copy bearing the contemporary manuscript inscription, Tassada en dos rreales, signed Juan de Cuellar; and seventy-four pages of text in Spanish, Tagalog transliterated into roman letters, and Tagalog in Tagalog characters.
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Although a recent research on the impact of migration on Filipino families revealed the career aspirations of young children (Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrant and Itinerant People of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Alipato 55 2003, in Asis, 2004), this study, which employed adolescents,
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HISTORY OF PHILIPPINE BANKING Philippine banking has a long and colorful history. It began in 1828 when, as the Philippines reaped the benefits of increased trade, King Ferdinand VII of Spain issued a decree mandating the establishment of a public bank in the Philippines. However, it took 23 years before that bank could become a reality. The man behind the actual organization of the bank was no less than the governor-general of the Philippines at that time, His Excellency Antonio de Urbiztondo
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