Because of the church's age, it has become a witness to many significant events in Philippine history during the Spanish period. In 1762, during the Seven Year’s War, British forces looted the church. In 1898, the church became a venue for American and Spaniards to discuss and sign the ...
Fresh from studies in American universities, usually as Fulbright or Rockefeller scholars, a number of these writers introduced New Criticism to the country and applied its tenets in literature classes and writing workshops. In this way were born the Silliman Writers Summer Workshop (started in 1962...
Pre-Colonial Period between 900 AD - 1565 - Parents, families and villages were responsible for children's learning as formal schools are not yet existing. -People mostly learned on their own surrounding as they all share one culture; unique language, music, art, written literature, spoken lite...
This was Rizal’s favorite park in Madrid which inspired him to name his place of exile in Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte as “Mi Retiro.” This was also the site of theExposición deFilipinasof 1887 in whose Palacio Cristal pavilions were exhibited Philippine artifacts, art works and botanical...
Philippine English has followed the two super-varieties in experiencing a decline in wh-relatives and an increase in that-relatives, but differs from them in the rapidity with which the changes have occurred, reflecting an attempt to approximate the patterns of its 'colonial parent', American ...
In the Philippines, notably in and around Manila, Spanish Roman Catholic art flourished after the Spanish colonization. Elsewhere, European academy painting conventions made a steady incursion from the mid-19th century onward. The postwar period of nationalism, which marked the end of European ...