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Philippine life under American colonization with good detail. It talks about some
religion and cultural changes, and the life that Filipinos lived under American
This source has a section on Spanish colonization of the Philippines. While that section
is brief, it helped me figure out what portions of Spanish colonization I wanted to expand
dated school textbook, but it helped me figure out my plan for the essay.
www.philippinecountry.com/philippine_history/spanish_colonization.html. Accessed 22
Dec. 2017.
This source provided more information of Spanish colonization of the Philippines. I have
written down some notes based on the information on this page. While this source might
not be as good as the other, more educational sources listed here, it helped me write down
some initial notes on Spanish colonization. Like the textbook, it helped me figure out
This was an interview from my mother. This interview provided an interesting and
factual story about how my mother’s grandfather was a soldier in World War 2. He had a
child with my mother’s grandmother, who turned out to be my mother’s mother. This
story, along with other information from her about Filipinos who had American lineage
coming to America, helped me recognize the patterns of migration out of the Philippines
helped me decide the two topics that I wrote about in my midterm essay; Spanish and
American colonization. Her interview segment about how the Spanish changed the
Filipino names and religion influenced my decision to choose that topic for the essay.
This is my last source on Spanish colonization of the Philippines. This source provided
some reference information that was pretty detailed. It Like the others, it helped me get a
2017.
This is my most unique source. It was created by Filipinos, giving it a more unique point
of view on American colonization of their home country. Seeing the FIlipino view, or at
least what some Filipinos think, about American colonization is useful in determining
how it influenced their patterns of migration. All my other sources were from white or
unrelated races, but this source comes straight from the fingers of the people I am
researching.
This is a useful source on Spanish colonization. It is an e-book that explains the cultural
changes that the Philippines underwent during the period of Spanish colonization. It
explains how Spanish colonization influenced the widespread use of Catholicism in the
Philippines. It does have other sections unrelated to the Philippines, but I am focusing on
the Philippine-related chapter. I will use that information to figure out how these cultural