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...

We’re wondering how economically the Philippines would grow in the future? The transforming economy of the Philippines through the success of Build, Build, Build Program yet solving obstacles that the program may encounter resulting into risks of wasting of money, time and effort. Because the...

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...

The current Construction Industries in the Philippines are hesitant to embrace changes in the traditional way of execution of projects. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave light to a new variable to reconsider in the realization of project. The Quenched and Tempered Steel...

Unemployment is both an economic and social problem. The accumulation of unused labor creates a permanent loss of output together with the decrease of its consumption. Meanwhile, it also bears essential existential minimum such as social transfer, lost taxes, increased health service cost and crime...