...Alma Arce English 4 Mr. Anderson June 3, 2010 The Spanish Influence on the Philippines One day at work as I was wiping down the counter tops, I overheard my manager Adrian and my co-worker Albany talking to each other in a different language. It sounded familiar, but I had no clue what they were saying to each other. Later on that day, not trying to be funny at all, I went up to my manager as he was sweeping and asked, “Hey can you teach me some words in Chinese?” He stop sweeping, threw a weird face on, looked at me and said “What?!” I remembered this book I read a while ago that talked about how the Japanese and Chinese people were at war with each other and how they hated being confused. I could see that Adrian was offended, so I immediately changed my question to “I mean some Japanese?” He leaned his face in and said “What the hell I’m Filipino!” I was so embarrassed at that moment that all I could say was “Ohhh ok”. I did not even want to look his way for the rest of the day. After a few days passed, Adrian brought that incident up again and we both laughed about it. I then developed enough courage to ask again, “Can you teach me a few words in Filipino?” Adrian chuckled and explained to me, “Our language is called Tagalong and yeah sure it’s going to be pretty easy for you to learn since you know Spanish already”. I turned and asked “How’s that?” He responded by saying “’Cuz you f*ckers colonized us” Ever since then, Adrian has been teaching me a lot about...
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...Hispanics Must Know Spanish When I left North Carolina a few years ago and moved to Puerto Rico, I had no idea why understanding the Spanish language as a Hispanic was so important until I moved out there. While being around many Hispanics, I discovered most of them spoke Spanish towards each other and would only speak English to someone who looked non-Hispanic. If I was a non-Hispanic and self-identified as one, knowing the Spanish language would not be considered mandatory for me. However, that is not the case. Because I look Latina and self-identify as Latina, I have been stereotyped as someone who must know Spanish. My first encounter was when I was living in Puerto Rico and stumbled across a Walgreens somewhere in Mayaguez, a woman approached me speaking in Spanish. By her tone of voice, I assumed she was asking me a question, but I did not know how to respond because I did not...
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...so swiftly throughout the Philippines in the 1500s, it began to decline in the 1600s despite the Spanish clergy’s attempts to use it for evangelization. Filipinos continued to sign their names with baybayin letters throughout the 17th, and even into the 18th century, though most of the documents were written in Spanish. Gaspar de San Agustín still found the baybayin useful in 1703. In his Compendio de la lengua Tagala he wrote, “It helps to know the Tagalog characters in distinguishing accents.” And he mentioned that the baybayin was still being used to write poetry in Batangas at that time. But in 1745 Sebastián Totanes claimed in his Arte de la lengua Tagala that, Rare is the indio who still knows how to read [the baybayin letters], much less write them. All of them read and write our Castilian letters now. However, Totanes held a rather low opinion of Philippine culture and other writers of the period gave a more balanced view. Thomas Ortiz felt it was still necessary to describe the Tagalog characters in his Arte y Reglas de la lengua Tagala of 1729 and as late as 1792 a pact between Christians and Mangyans on the island of Mindoro was signed with baybayin letters, which is not surprising because the Mangyans never stopped using their script. Many people today, both ordinary Filipinos and some historians not acquainted with the Philippines, are surprised when they learn that the ancient Filipinos actually had a writing system of their own. The complete absence of truly...
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...making Saint Mary and Jesus Chris known by Indians. Spanish priests had accomplished better missionary tasks than the other European colonial empires like France and England. Their Catholic preaches arrived the in southern parts of the Mississippi River before 1700, and the west and south area of the Mississippi after 1700. I believe the reason why Spanish accomplished the missionary job more successfully than the others is that they paid enough reverence to Indian¡¦s tribe traditions and customs. Spanish missionaries understood that the tribe people have to retain their habits like complex cosmology worship, hunting game, and defending practice; therefore, they preserved Indian¡¦s traditional activities when converting them into Catholics. Spanish bishops transformed Indian¡¦s superstitions into Christianality step by step gently and gradually. At the same time, the Spanish missionaries traveled and fight together with tribe military soldiers from hostile attacks and introduced new industrialization technique to improve Indian¡¦s agriculture. This apparently revealed Spanish¡¦s determination to assimilate Indian and to transfer Spanish civilization to improve Indian¡¦s daily lives. Compared with French, Spanish missionaries were more effective and lucky because they encountered stronger and bigger tribes like the Mayans, the Incas, the Aztec, and the Sioux. Bigger tribes were more stable and their people were willing to learn and assimilated....
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...Personally I would define culture as what the people of a particular group believe in. What that means is completely varies from group to group and it follows a wide spectrum of topics and degrees of severity. It could mean some people value religion more than others in their everyday lives. It's determining how much the government should be in regards to its peoples behavior. It could mean being particularly defensive over a sacred piece of land. It's political with certain people denouncing democracy, autocracy, liberalism and conservatism in other nations. It may be hostility or openness to outsiders from another culture. Overall culture can be whatever people want it to be and is imbedded in normative behavior, laws and history. The best...
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...different companies. There are many different teams within the company, it just depends on where you are seated what team you will be a part of. The team that I was assigned to was the Tuesday crew. On the Tuesday crew we came in later than everybody that day and left later. This group consisted of fourteen employees, two squad leaders, and a manager. On the other days you was regular work days and you communicated with everybody from the squad leaders, manager, to the boss, and other employees that was not a part of your crew. It was a small net family not a big cooperation. The communication between the employees was limited, just because most of your time was spent on the phone taking or making calls. In our organization gender was not a big factor. The two owners of the company were male and a female, so labor was balanced. The job is not hard labor so everybody has the same task. Depending on your position did you do different jobs, and these were filled by both male and female employees. The cultural differences in our company were very important. Speaking Spanish and English was a big advantage in our company. If you were not able to speak to a Spanish client you would transfer the call to someone that speaks the language. Reason why it is an advantage is because like thirty percent of the callers spoke Spanish and required a representative that spoke same...
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...established by foreigners. Along with this, most have to learn a new language as well. In Clark Blaise’s short story titled: A Class of New Canadians, the main character is a young man in his thirties living in Montreal. He is teaching English as a foreign language to a variety of foreign students, two days a week. His name is Norman Dyer. Dyer seems to see himself as a “god”(34) to his students.They need to learn this new language and he is the one to teach them. His students come from a variety of different backgrounds. Some are French Canadians, more are South Americans. Others are Greeks, Germans, Spanish and French. One student, Mr. Weinrot, is from Israel and is having a difficult time with the course. He tells Dyer that he is not speaking much English at his job. He talks about when he went to work in Italy he spoke Italian. Other places he spoke Russian, German, Hebrew, Arabic in five dialects, and Danish. “So what’s the matter I can’t learn English?”(36) This particular student believes that “two years in a Country I don’t learn the language means it isn’t a Country.” (36) 2 Dyer is frustrated. He is an American himself and has been living in Montreal for the last eighteen months. He cannot understand why his students want to learn just enough English to be able to get a job in the United States or elsewhere. Dyer thought “Montreal was the greatest city on the continent, if only they knew it as well as he did.”(37) One student named Miguel Mayor is looking to find...
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...Spanish for the Future Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my classmates to further their knowledge of the Spanish Language and Culture by enrolling in their first Spanish class or another one. Central Idea: To make my classmates realize all the benefits of enrolling in Spanish classes. INTRODUCTION 1. Gain the attention and interest of the listener/s: (“Attention” of Monroe’s Sequence) When I was in seventh grade, I enrolled in my first Spanish class. All I thought was, “Wow this class is a pain in my butt, it is so hard, and what is the point?” After nine years of studying this language and culture, my feelings have not changed, but I have discovered “the point” of learning Spanish. 2. Reveal the topic: I understand the negative feelings that you may feel about taking a Spanish class, but being a college student is all about pushing your limits, reaching your greatest potential, and...
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...majority group (Schaeffer, 2011).” The differences of each group help us to understand the differences of each and their accomplishments and struggles. We have learned with these differences so much with statistics for health and other related issues that give us insight to better prepare ourselves for different outcomes. I am a Mexican American. My mother was raised in Texas and my father in Wyoming. I have been fortunate to learn the culture, especially how to make Mexican food. Recently, with my work, I am have been able to learn more Spanish than I have growing up. My parents did not speak much Spanish to my siblings and I when we were younger. They did take us to events that celebrated significant dates that are special to Mexico though. My life was kind of comical because I was the minority in my school being part of the only family that was Mexican American and we only had one family of African American nationality. So you can kind of see why I did not learn or retain much Spanish when I was surrounded with the English language. I grew up though in a predominantly African American neighborhood. I felt a little lost, but I was able to...
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...markets in California and the Southwest, Entering new markets, especially one of this size, is expensive, and your boss has decided to forgo Spanish-language advertising as a part of the firm’s market-entry strategy. You’re inclined to disagree. What might you say to your boss to change her mind? I did a bit of research on the effectiveness of general marketing campaigns on Hispanic Americans; I would use hard data to allot advertising resources to a Spanish-language campaign. According to global media information measurement firm, Nielsen, Hispanic television audiences mostly lean toward Spanish-language programing – regardless of their proficiency in English- language. 2. You’re a top manager in a large factory whose workforce is approximately 40% Hispanic. Business is down because of the recession, and you’ve learned that there’s a rumor about layoffs circulating in the grapevine. In particular, a lot of Hispanic-speaking employees seem to think that they’ll be laid off first. How should you deal with the rumor? In a situation like this, I would first like to set aside a meeting with the factory managers. I would inform them that the factory is going through a recession, as they already know. So, the only way to push through this time would be have some of the employees laid off. Once the management team is on the same page, I believe the company can then begin to inform the employees as to what is going on and what the next steps will be. 3. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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...I have never liked talking in front of a large crowd, in fact, I hate it. I don’t know why; it just really has never been my thing. In this paper I will tell you about the different things I do when I talk in front of many people, what goes through my mind, and why I think I am so scared of talking. Talking in front of a group of people has NEVER, EVER been something easy for me to do. Not even when I was a little kid, even then I would always stutter or talk very quietly. Unless I know the group of people very well, then I can sometimes talk with no problems. In my opinion I think the reason to why I am so bad at talking in front of people is because I worry way too much about what people say and think about me. I am afraid to even stutter because I feel like I would get made fun of or the group would laugh at me. I have had a very rough past when it comes to interacting with others. I can remember many times I got made fun of for doing or saying something wrong and on the outside I would always act like it was nothing, sometimes I’d even laugh along with them, but really on the inside I felt horrible, as if I was “stupid” or miserable. It all started...
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...I was very pleased and moved with the storyline of Detained in the Desert. This book really got me to want to shout out for social justice, mostly because I know that scenarios like these do exist in our world. I myself have been racially profiled due to my color of skin; let me tell you it was not a joyful experience or one that I will ever forget. Unlike Sandi, I didn’t resist on showing my identification because I figured if I did resist or question the officer I would end up arrested or worse. In fact, like Sandi, I wish I had said, “No! I am not showing you any stinking badges, cabron!” (33) At that moment I felt as if “the law”, the officer, was my enemy instead of being someone that would protect my rights and keep me safe. Furthermore, I was also grateful for the mention of the loss of...
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...much later. They knew what the symptoms did, but they didn’t understand it like we do now that the flu was connected to animals such as birds and pigs. In 1918 J.S. Koen, a veterinarian discovered symptoms of influenza in the pigs he treated with symptoms of the Spanish Flu that was devastating the world at the time. Independent researchers of this disease McBryde and Robert Shope, were the first scientists to study and begin to understand the disease. It was first identified in 1933 through the researcher's Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrews, and Patrick Laidrow. The first vaccine for...
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...enough of it. Personally, I swing both ways about writing. I enjoy being able to express my feelings down and share them with others, not all the time because there are some things I like to keep to myself. I love the idea of letting my ideas and thoughts stream out and come to the surface. Reading other people’s stories or thoughts inspires me to be free and write down how I feel. Sometimes it’s hard to express the feelings I get and how to incorporate them into words for others to comprehend, but I guess that’s the reason. To have others approach your feelings and figure out the emotions they capture through your piece of literature. Now, the part I dislike about writing is having to follow structure and regulations. I do understand why there are building blocks to literacy writing, I just don’t feel you get to allow yourself to come out of your shell as much. For example, me, I am writing this essay allowing myself to express what I feel and about my writing history, but it’s going by some guidelines of the class. The font, margins, and the minimum length of the essay are just the beginning of them. In high school I remember we had to write about how we felt about a book that was assigned in class, but we had to have a thesis statement, a full-circle ending, and it had to be 3 pages long. I did enjoy reading the book, the analysis behind the words and writing what we got out of the book. It was the structural part of the assignment I didn’t enjoy. I do love to write, seeing...
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...Institute 1 Introduction I n this reading, you will learn about the Age of Exploration. This period of discovery lasted from about 1418 to 1620. During this time, European explorers made many daring voyages that changed world history. A major reason for these voyages was the desire to find sea routes to east Asia, which Europeans called the Indies. When Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, he was looking for such a route. Instead, he landed in the Americas. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies. In time, Europeans would realize that he had found what they called the ”New World.” European nations soon rushed to claim lands in the Americas for themselves. Early explorers often suffered terrible hardships. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan set out with three ships to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America. He had guessed, correctly, that the Indies lay on the other side of the Pacific. But Magellan had no idea how vast the ocean really was. He thought his crew would be sailing for a few weeks at most. Instead, the crossing took three months. While the ships were still at sea, the crew ran out of food. One sailor wrote about this terrible time. “We ate biscuit… swarming with worms…. We drank yellow water that had been putrid [rotten] for days... and often we ate sawdust from boards.” Why did explorers brave such dangers? In this reading, you will discover some of the reasons for the Age of Exploration. Then you will learn about the voyages of explorers...
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