... depended on the exchange of New Spain's (now Mexico) silver for silk from China. Chinese capitalists immigrants produced mestizos and helped produce a distinctive new culture (Republic of the Philippines 5). In the 1700s, the empire of Spain crumbled. Open trade was available and led to the emergence of a local wealthy ... to the United States for the sum of US$20 million. The Treaty of Paris was not well received in the Philippines. Filipino nationalists were incensed at the arrogance of the imperial powers to bargain away their independence for the tidy price of US$20 million with ... ...

• Word Count: 1895
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• Grade Level: High School

... ideologies that we pick up through our families and educational institutions. Specifically, I wanted to talk about "PMS-, a term which I first heard from Filipino demographers. It was a term which initially puzzled me since I came in from work on reproductive health and thought of PMS as premenstrual syndrome. As things ... conservatives will cite the figures to blame sex education and mass media for driving the young into frenzied sex while liberals will cite the culture of silence in homes and the lack of sex education in schools as the causes. Implicitly, all these responses presume ...

• Word Count: 2393
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... and spent that much money on a single painting. It is not only an investment. It is the epitome of an essential part of our history and the core of the Filipino culture and heritage. We have always known about the magnitude of Juan Luna's "Spoliarium" to Philippine history. This same amount of importance must also be given to "The Parisian Life". There ... is no doubt in our minds that its purchase would no longer be dubitable if people are able to see just how much of our culture and heritage that single painting holds and consequently reflects. ...

• Word Count: 285
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