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"To Be By Man" -Daina Rose A. Maningas HUMSS 12-3 It is written in our vein- Not to bother with any pain. It is normal in every destined phase To consume us and glorify with each phrase. We-who's love by the body and beauty For who have the purest and whitest grace Will be cherish in the start of eternity While everything is sacred and at peace. And now you are owned, must be owned By the hands who puts you a crown On how you feel heat on every sense On how he brings you to heaven He saw everything in you From inch to the smallest taste For they said you are completed in his love Let see how it goes, when the beauty fades and the soul is the only thing left. Do you remember how he makes you feel conquered? On how he brings heat in your soul? And on how he consumes each part of every moment. Let us see how those hands brought you. He put a ring in your finger up to your neck To savour him and be his trophy You are chosen due to your beauty You are delicate not after the time passes you standing They look on you like their treasures They objectivised us to complete their necessities They needed us for them to become a man And we are jailed in the culture of the woman solely to be by man.

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Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics Daina Rose A. Maningas HUMSS 12-3

Guillermo, A. G. (1989). Philippine Contemporary Aesthetics, 27-36. The purpose of the article was to determine the struggle of Philippine contemporary aesthetics, its history and condition, and the linkage to economic and political aspects. Also it states the premises of aesthetics concerning in its form and content (1), it is historically and socially related (2) and conform by place and time(3).   As the Philippines is one of the third world countries that had a crucial history because of centuries of colonization of western countries particularly Spain, Japan, and United States dominating the culture and ingraining it to the people. Yet the indigenous cultures are unceasing but only exist away from the mainland, such as Baguio, and parts of Muslim Mindanao, as they are not colonized which causes them to preserved their cultures and traditions. But the culture and traditions is not separated politically and economically as they continue to suffer gregarious judgment, poverty, and are part of exploitation, fight for their ancestral lands. Also as the author pointed that the Philippine aesthetics cannot be box by just being decoration on museums without understanding its contemporary content and form because there is always a must respect as cultural significations.   “On the hand, the national-popular culture must be recognized as indeed belonging to the people and not be exploited to further the selfish interests of elites.” Alice G. Guillermo. According to James Follows “Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore—all are short on natural resources, but all (as their officials never stop telling you) have clawed their way up through hard study and hard work. Unfortunately for its people, the Philippines illustrates the contrary: that culture can make a naturally rich country poor.”   This clearly shows that there are people sucking the country’s richness and blocking the vision of the Filipinos for seeking national identity. Yet the author only cites the problem but has a weak point for not using and citing more facts, for example when she uses the Marcos Era and indigenous people status but unable to produce strong evidences.