Eric Gamalinda was born in Manila where he worked as an editor and journalist. He received a fellowship for fiction from the New York Foundation for the arts, and has had much of his work published in a diverse range of publications such as Harper's Magazine, Columbia, Manoa, International Quarterly, as well as several anthologies, such as In My Life: encounters with the Beatles, Returning to a Borrowed Tongue, Brown River, White Ocean, and Flippin": Filipinos on America, which he co-edited. His latest novel, My Sad Republic, was recently awarded with the Philippine Centennial Prize for Fiction. A book of poems, Zero Gravity, was awarded the New York/New England Selection by Alice James Books, and was recently published. He teaches at the Asia/Pacific American Studies Program at New York University and was appointed Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999. He lives in New York City.
In the Philippines" presidential election of 1965, the Nacionalista candidate Ferdinand E. Marcos (1917-1990) was victorious over Macapagal. Marcos dominated the scene of politics for the next two decades as an elected president in 1965 and 1969, and as a dictator after his 1972 proclamation of martial law. On September 21, 1972, Marcos declared martial law over the entire nation of the Philippines, and under his command, opposition figures including Benigno Aquino, journalists, student and labor activists, and criminal elements were arrested by military figures. An estimated total of about 30,000 detainees were kept at military compounds run by the army and the Philippine Constabulary. Weapons were confiscated and "private armies" connected with prominent politicians and other figures were disbanded. Newspapers were censored and many cases shut down, the mass media brought under the tight grip of censorship. Eventually, Marcos assumed control of the Philippine Congress. During the 1972-1981 martial law period during Marcos" period of dictatorship, the president issued hundreds of presidential decrees, many of which were never published.
Rhodes believed that the Anglo race was superior and sought to widen the colonization of foreign lands, particularly Africa, for the British Empire. ... Educated at the prestigious Oxford University, Rhodes" worldview was formed and his conquest as politician and colonialist for the British Empire took shape. ... He was found guilty of breach of duty and stripped of his post. ...
And before they can recover from the nauseating image, Orwell continues with pictures of people in rags and smoothly transitions into his thesis that "all colonial empires are founded on [the] fact" that people easily die. ... Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects," which is racist towards the Moroccans and discloses who he intended this passage for-the colonialist. ... By bombarding his audience with images giving no time to recover from them and by disguising himself as a non-threatening tour guide or obje...
It suggests an existentialist viewpoint that individuals ultimately have control of the world around them. ... However, a closer scrutiny of The Matrix reveals the covert perpetuation of colonialist ideology. This perpetuation of colonialist ideology is not intentional, but is rather a product of hierarchies of power and dominant culture itself. In this way, colonialist ideology is concealed unconsciously into media and likewise in The Matrix. ... The covert perpetuation of colonialist ideology is revealed in the hierarchy of cultures that The Matrix presents. ...
Analysis of Eyewitness Memory Journal Articles Eyewitness memory is a valued piece of information when regarding criminal activity, or other types of incidents. ... One theory leads us to believe that what race and status the victim and criminal are, effect the encoding of memory. ... In another study, subjects were tested on how long the memory encoded from different videos stays in their memory under when the same test is issued. They are given inoculation (educate the subjects about the effects of misleading post-event information prior to receiving the misleading information) procedu...
Post-disaster events and circumstances had less effect on the anxiety and arousal symptoms like insomnia, agitation, nightmares, intrusive memories, jumpiness or an exaggerated startle response, and strong physical reactions to reminders of the traumatic event (Maes, M. et al, 2001, p.1-12). ... Three cases of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms associated with cognitive decline were examined. ... Chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases medical morbidity and mortality. ... It is well known that traumatic memories are encoded differently than usual memories. ... There is evi...
In 6th century BCE the Persian Empire was the main empire dominating most of the Mediterranean Sea. ... (Curtis, 16) The Persian Empire was a strict state with powerful kings ruling over the massive empire. The empire ruled over a vast ethnic group and proved to have success in diversity, especially with Jews, whose history have been well documented with the Persian Empire. ... After this the Persian Empire was enormous. ... Despite its rule of both dynasties at different times the Persian Empire continued to be considered one of the Roman Empire's biggest rivals. ...
"The term was used by Indonesian President Sukarno as a linguistic designation for the collective light of those countries which had until very recent memory suffered thorough the dying spasms of the grand imperial projects of Europe." ... The issues are raised after the long statuses of these social structures are broken by the conquering of colonialist powers. ... The definition of nation in this sense has the former colonialist majority still imbedded in every aspect of the current status of the nation. ... It refers to the untapped culture before the overtaking by colonialist powers. ... T...
Question Why did the European Empires collapse in such a short amount of time? ... The British Empire found itself in a difficult position when Nazi racism was apparent, meaning Britain's claim of legitimacy of a superior race ruling another was no longer valid, meaning the colonised country could see its own destiny, not needing an empire to rule them. With this in mind, an empire can no longer stay stable if a horrific war in which many countries, colonised and independent, have to fight together against an imperialist enemy, meaning the legitimacy of the allied empires can be no longe...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After experiencing a traumatic event the mind has been known to pack away the details and memories and then send them back at unexpected times and places, sometimes after years have passed. ... Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the name for this mental condition that follows a psychologically distressing event "outside the range of usual human experience" (Internet). ... This event may have taken place only weeks ago, or as far back in memory as forty years. ... In the seven years since the Gulf War, three percent of United States military members hav...
