Category: Education

Why can’t Philippine elections be about issues rather than personalities?

June 5, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

In 2009, at the height of a vastly popular but utterly misguided campaign to catapult the reluctant then-candidate Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III to the presidency, we launched our Platform Plez initiative. In that groundbreaking initiative, we provided a simple and intuitive four-point idiot’s guide to formulating a campaign platform and, specifically for the 2010…

Civics, Culture, Education, Government, Media, Politics

Could hiring practice biased towards women and minorities doom Silicon Valley?

June 2, 2015 benign0 6 Comments

According to a Huffington Post report there is “a diversity problem vexing the entire technology industry” because there are not enough women, black, and Hispanic people employed by Silicon Valley technology companies. Search giant Google, for its part, is seemingly under pressure to hire more people from those groups. It has mounted “a concerted effort…

Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

Misrepresented Filipino character: A Look at Historical Figures

June 1, 2015 Grimwald 13 Comments

A lot of people reacted quite negatively to Fallen Angel’s latest article as well as Marcial Bonifacio’s first article. Their critics claim that they have written things that are overwhelmingly negative and are putting the spirits of Filipinos down. People who only briefly looked through the articles without ever understanding the spirit of them have…

Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Rodrigo Duterte: The Dark Knight of Davao?

May 30, 2015 Grimwald 55 Comments

“Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero: He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector… a Dark Knight.” ~Commissioner Gordon, The Dark Knight I’ve already thought about the idea of having Rodrigo Duterte as a president…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Destruction Of Dreams: The True Pinoy Legacy

May 29, 2015 Grimwald 11 Comments

It’s been almost a year since I had the misfortune to watch the film Human Centipede. I think I’ve already said quite a bit about the film in a previous article and I don’t really think I want to talk about its details again and with good reason. Besides, my friends and I only watched it as…

Culture, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Organized Religion and Organized Crime…

May 27, 2015 Grimwald 28 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making this up and I am not saying this lightly. If any of you have bothered to keep up with my articles and posts here on GRP, you probably know that I hold religious beliefs. So yes, I know that what I’m about to say will sound somewhat hypocritical….

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, The South

Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs: Where We Go Wrong

May 27, 2015 Grimwald 7 Comments

For those keeping up with my Deep series, chapter 6 is on its way. I just think that this article is of greater importance so I’m posting it first. This article is essentially a response and expansion of this post. Please read all of it and watch the video. When I was in nursing school, we were…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

We Need to Wake Up for 2016

May 23, 2015 Grimwald 26 Comments

I’m not gonna mince words anymore. It’s time for me to be brutally frank. The immaturity of Filipinos as it is is probably one of the biggest factors that keep it in the dark about what’s really going on in the world around us. Remember my article about the immaturity of Filipinos? Well, I think…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society