Essays on Philippines

Must everything dying be saved? The ideas and discussions that surround this question have become truly more relevant in this day and age, especially in terms of languages. Many linguists are fervent in their works to document, preserve, and protect dying languages; or more aptly...

Keynesian Economics and Neoliberalism are two of the prevailing economic ideologies, with the latter being the dominant ideology used by most developing nations today. These two ideologies rely on different foundations – on who the main actors are to achieve economic development – but both...

In these recent years, Philippines is one of the developing countries in the whole world and though we are ‘developing’, it seems that our motherland is still falling on the scale of the global competitiveness and the introduction and signing of Republic Act No. 11232...

Three hundred thirty three years of Spanish regime went by slowly in Philippine history. Just like South America, the natives were colonized and treated like slaves and below in status by the white complexioned invaders. It is a wonder why in their three centuries of...

Diabetes is a disease that has reached epidemic proportions over the years. It is caused by the increase of sugar in the bloodstream (hyperglycaemia) due to the pancreas’ failure to produce enough insulin to level it out. It can be classified into three (3) main...

The first chapter of Charles Mills’ Sociological Imagination tackles about correlating the human experience to the society. To expound, Mills says that the two must always work together; that the individual cannot progress just by thinking of himself alone. According to Mills, in instilling the...

Access to safe water is a fundamental requirement for good health and is also a human right (Bain, et al. ). Diseases related to contamination of drinking-water constitute a major burden on public health. The principal risk to health is from ingestion of water contaminated...