1. Understanding History
Vision, Identity and Responsibility

3. History Why study History? Las Damas Romanas, Juan Luna
Tampuhan, Juan Luna , 1895
History
Why study History?
Las Damas Romanas, Juan Luna

4. History People Time Place HISTORICAL FACTORS
Does History Repeat itself?

7. *History is an endless cycle of repeating events with no purpose.
fatalist VIEW OF HISTORY*
randomness
*History is an endless cycle of repeating events with no purpose.

8. History View of Linear GOAL / PROGRESS SMS-Sun/ Smart/Globe Pocketbell
Providential view of history – History is driven by God’s providence.
History
View of
Linear
GOAL / PROGRESS
SMS-Sun/ Smart/Globe
Pocketbell
Telegraph

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE TWO VIEWS?
Cyclical view vis-à-vis the Linear View of History
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE TWO VIEWS?

10. ProGRESSIVE view of history
It is the human being instead of God that drives human history.
DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS?

11. For Marx, it is material forces that drive history.
Historical materialism
For Marx, it is material forces that drive history.
He presented "the materialist conception of history," namely, "historical materialism" (also called "revolutionary view of history").
For him, history is a history of class struggle.
Class struggle = bourgeoisie vs. proletariat
Question: Was Marx right?

12. Manila to Spain Trip*
*4 months to 1 month

13. di makararatíng sa paroroonan.
Ang di lumilingón sa pinanggalingan…
di makararatíng sa paroroonan.
Photo Credit: National Museum of the Philippines website

14. Photo Credit: National Museum of the Philippines website

15. Women of Cebu, 1905
(Photo Credit: Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods)

16. España
Filipinas
What do you think is our God-given identity?
IDENTITY

19. North and West: South China Sea (SCS) East: Pacific Ocean
GEOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
TOTAL LAND AREA: 343, sq. km.
North and West: South China Sea (SCS)
East: Pacific Ocean
South: Celebes Sea and Sulu Sea
Major islands: Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate

20. East: Pacific Ocean

21. Mt. Apo – 2,954 meters
Davao, Davao del Sur & North Cotabato

22. Mt. Apo view from Lake Venado

23. (Region I) –Ilocos Region (Region II) – Cagayan Valley
PHILIPPINE REGIONS
(Region I) –Ilocos Region
(Region II) – Cagayan Valley
(Region III) – Central Luzon
(Region IV-A) - CALABARZON
(Region IV-B) - MIMAROPA
(Region V) – Bicol Region
(Region VI) – Western Visayas
(Region VII) – Central Visayas
(Region VIII) – Eastern Visayas
(Region IX) – Zamboanga Peninsula
(Region X) – Northern Mindanao
(Region XI) – Davao Region
(Region XII) - Soccsksargen
(Region XIII) - Caraga
(ARMM) – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(CAR) – Cordillera Administrative Region
(NCR; Metro Manila) – National Capital Region

24. As of July 2010
Population: 99,900,177
Filipinos aged from y.o. -
16,500,000
90,109,960 Christians
(all denominations except INC)
Weekend Mass attendees
67,932,120

25. 473,000 out of 3.1M per year Annual Abortion Rate
Important Social Stats & Figures
No. of childbirths in 2010
2,565,432 babies
Childbirths from mothers y.o.
769,930 (30%)
27/1000 pregnancies
Abortion Rate
Annual Abortion Rate
473,000 out of 3.1M per year

26. Population below Poverty line =
______________________________
32.9% (2006 report)

27. Corruption = 44th most corrupt nation in the world
4th most corrupt in the Asia Pacific