Accommodating people, rich culture, lavish resources, splendid white beaches and numerous magnificent spots- Philippines is highlighted with these glorious features. Explicitly, these show great grandeur to our beloved country. But what lies behind these impressive panoramic horizon? What truths are hidden inside the house just to flaunt a beautiful façade? Philippines is abundantly blessed with manifold superb creations. Everything that a nation wishes to have is found in our archipelagic country. God made perfectly- structured land formations such as towering mountains, hills, plateaus and valleys. This encouraged our ancestors to reveal their innate engineering and architectural abilities, and carved astounding formations as well. The 7,107 …show more content…
Also, the catchphrase “It’s more fun in the Philippines” seemed to be a false reaction about the ever-trending “Laglag-bala” crime in Ninoy Aquino International Airports (NAIAs). Tourists already felt horrible just upon arriving in the Philippines. The departure is more like a celebration for leaving the dramatic scenario in squatter areas, the mountainous garbage, the uncomforting comfort rooms, the pitiful faces of beggars, the mixed odors in the jeepney, the chained vehicle due to traffic, the suffocating pollution and the dreadful crimes. Perchance, they are grateful for being free form the Philippines’ horrible situations.
Despite the wondrous resources of our country, we are still deprived of the real fun and amazement. Figuratively, we can say that the space between the houses in squatter areas is as narrow as the space of the lining automobiles in traffic. The rate of poverty is as constant as the waves that hugs the seashore. The souls of the corrupt leaders are as black as the smokes coming from the vehicles. And the infrastructures are as rotten as the government
America: The Beacon of Hope To many, America is considered the greatest country in the world; a place where anyone’s dreams can come true, a beacon of light in a world of oppression. Open doors give everyone the chance to enter, with a chance at a better life, with the mentality that working hard will let you succeed, building America up from the original 13 colonies to the 50 states we have today. However, in recent times there has been a change in people’s frame of mind, and as a result America has started to slip from its number one status.
America. Beautiful, strong, resourceful, courage’s, enlightened, though unfortunately at times very harsh and unforgiving. The darker shades of our country have always existed. Their cold hands have reached out and touched the lives of citizens spanning all demographics. Even although hardships befall many in this country, how much more difficult is it for those who naturally seem to find themselves marginalized and isolated?
Without Jacob Riis’s photo essay bringing awareness to American urban decay and poverty, the reality would have been unknown. Through his baffling photos taken in urban cities, he successfully made people realize that these so-called “improvements to America” such as good economy, trade, and innovation were actually making the working class poorer by resulting in little pay and unsanitary working and living environments. The federal government’s
Growing up, I have always had an interest in geography and thinking about different countries and what makes them the way that they are. I have not been in a geography class since middle school and Human Geography was a class that made me think about things I have never thought of before. The readings of both Kropotkin and Mackinder brought up very interesting points, some that conflict and others that agree. Each author writes in a way that stimulates and makes you think about geography and certain topics in different ways which I find to be very rare in writings from this time period. Discussing Kropotkin’s and Mackinder’s general ideas, points they disagree or agree on, and my own views on the topic will all be discussed in this final paper.
I chose to study about Tiwanaku, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in South America in A.D. 500 and compare it to Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city in 500 A.D. located in a sub valley of the Valley of Mexico. There a great similarities to each place but the two things that separates them is location and time. Tiwanaku is located in the southern shores of Lake Titicaca, in the Province of Ingavi, Department of La Paz. It was built nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, making it the highest urban centers ever constructed of its time. Surrounded by mountains and hills settled in a valley, it began as a small settlement in 1200 BCE that reached its peak of inhabitants roughly around 400 A.D. and 900 A.D..
The geography of the land greatly effects the development of a civilization. The early civilizations lacked the expertise and knowledge of how to make their civilization grow and expand. These civilizations didn 't know how to create large irrigation
A visit is much less memorable than a journey. With just a visit, one does not learn from experiences and carry that knowledge to the next journey. Once again the journey,
Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron, “ and Denzel Curry’s song, “Walkin, “ reveal that corruption rooted in society forces us to act against our will as a means of self-preservation. Both of these examples show the limitations of a corrupt government, and how we humans have to react to keep up. The way our system works “handicaps” our ability to perform in our daily lives, as shown by Harrison Bergeron’s handicaps due to his intellectual and physical superiority. In a society where physical and mental ability is looked down upon and judged, they handicap those that have too much power in the community.
Every civilization throughout history has their ups and downs. What if these ups and downs could all be connected back to one main factor, to one influence? Throughout history, it can be noticed that the location of a civilization affects the shape of its culture, economy, trade, and security of its borders. It defines which societies rise to power and which lose power. Geography influences history in many ways, as can be seen in the Indus Valley, Greece, and Aksum civilizations.
Poverty is “...the most savage of all human afflictions” (1). It “...[spreads] like a cancer” through generations that become ever more powerless to “...mobilize their efforts against it” (1). Nowhere is this more clear than in Gordon Parks’ essay, “Flavio’s Home”. Parks vividly retells the story of a young boy, Flavio de Silva, and his family as they struggle to survive on grossly less than the bare minimum in the slums of Rio.
The Philippines had been fighting for their freedom against the Spanish for many years. Naturally, when America defeated the Spaniards in the war, the Filipinos rejoiced at the thought that they may be able to finally return safely and peacefully back to their home, Manila. Where this information comes from in the text, would be: “These Filipinos believed that
The beauty in this era covered was a wide range of years, allowing different influences to develop. Women were praised for their natural features and body types. The ideal woman was that on the more voluptuous side, paintings from the Renaissance period often focused on women who would today be considered overweight. Her bust would appear full of no signs of bones. The ideal female would also have pale skin, unlike the tanned look that is popular in our modern day.
A civilization’s architecture not only shows the artistic skills of its designers and builders but also the functionality of its engineers, the power of its government, and the inventiveness of its people. Architecture was a crucial element to the success of two major cites in Europe, Rome and Athens. Each city had structures consisting of formal architecture like temples and basilicas showing the influence that its leaders had over each city, while utilitarian buildings like bridges and aqueducts helped build communication between distant cities throughout each empire. Though architecture as a whole was an important role in unifying the cities, the architecture design within each illustrates the similarities and differences between two.
Tectonics is defined as the science or art of construction, both in relation to use and artistic design. It refers not just to the activity of making the materially requisite construction that answers certain needs but rather to the activity that raises this construction as an art form. It is concerned with the modeling of material to bring the material into presence - from the physical into the meta-physical world (Maulden, 1986). Since tectonics is primarily concerned with the making of architecture in a modern world, its value is seen as being a partial strategy for an architecture rooted in time and place therefore beginning to bring poetry in construction. Tectonics, however, has the capacity to create depth-ness of context resulting in the implicit story being told by the tectonic expression.
The home is a sanctuary of love and peace. It is the place where one feels entrenched upon. We do not talk of a physical structure which holds the living room, garage, and bedroom; but rather, of home and its embodiment in entirety. We talk of people as a home or people who causes something to become home. Moreover are events, memories, and experiences which relate to a person’s most comfortable feelings.