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Middle East Religions and Ethnic GroupsReligions of the Middle East - ReviewWHAT IS SCIENCE? - is a way in which answers related to NATURAL events are proposed. - a way in which people can learn and UNDERSTAND events in the NATURAL WORLD - based on OBSERVABLE EVENTS - a study of the NATURAL WORLD - a method of DISCOVERY and UNDERSTANDING by using a PROBLEM-SOLVING process called the?? - A systematic body of knowledge based on observation and experimentation. FOUR COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENCE: 1. It focuses on the NATURAL WORLD. 2. Goes through experiment. 3. Relies on evidence. 4. Passes through the scientific community. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY? Brian Arthur (2009) defined technology as: 1. a means to fulfill a human purpose 2. assemblage of practices and components 3. a collection of devices and engineering practices available to a culture. SOCIETY ST (Science Technology) would not exist without society. WHAT IS STS? Science and Technology and Society (STS) is the study of how society, politics and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation and how these, in turn affects society, politics and culture. EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THAT TRANSFORMED THE SOCIETY (IN THE WORLD) ANCIENT PERIOD 3500 BC. - 500 AD EUROPE - use of fire by Homo Erectus CA 750,000 - Stone Headed Spears CA 45,000 - Wooden bow and arrow CA 20,000 - The Minoans build palaces in Crete CA 2,000 THE AMERICAS - The Folsom people living on eastern side of the Rocky Mountain developed sophisticated tools CA 8,000. - Pottery is made in South America CA 6,000 - Olmec sculpture carves figurines and giant human heads. CA 1200 ASIA AND OCEANA - Earliest known clay pots are made in Japan CA 11,000. - Bronze is first made in Thailand CA 4000 - A lunar calendar is developed in China CA 2950 - Chinese doctors begin using acupuncture CA 2500 - The Hindu calendar of 360 days was introduced in India CA 1000 AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST - Homo erectus uses stone tools CA 1000000 - CA 15000 in Africa, bone harpoons are used for fishing. - Clay tokens are used for record keeping in Mesopotamia CA 7500 - Mesopotamian mathematicians discover the Pythagorean Theorem MEDIEVAL PERIOD CA 500 -1500 - Dark ages because few written records and evidences remained - Scholastic tradition was established by Charlemagne - Vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clock, water mills, gothic style were invented - Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press RENAISSANCE PERIOD 14TH â 17TH CENTURY - Rebirth of revival - Printing with movable type allowed Bible, secular books made in large amount - Nicolas Copernicus presented a heliocentric theory - Galileo Galilei invented telescope INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 18TH CENTURY - Skilled workers were set aside because of the machines - Iron production, steam engine and textile flourished - Scottish James Watt improved steam engine Robert Fulton (steam boat) - The following were invented: Light bulb, telephone, first steam powered locomotive 19TH CENTURY - Age of machine and tools - Herman Helmholtz (law of conservation of energy) - James Clark Maxwell (light as electro-magnetic wave) - Henry Becquerel (radioactivity) - Marie and Pierre Curie (radium) - Hans Christian Oersted (electric current near the magnet) - Michael Faraday (magnet produces electricity) - Atomic Theory proposed by John Dalton - Electron discovered by JJ. Thomson - Telegraph developed by Samuel Morse 20TH CENTURY - Communication, transportation, military research were developed - Personal computer was created - Intel developed microprocessor - Apple was introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - Internet was created (ARPANET) - Henry Ford's mass production of cars - Artificial Intelligence was invented SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (PHILIPPINE HISTORY) Stone Age - Archeological findings show that modern man from Asian mainland first came over land on across narrow channels to live in Batangas and Palawan about 48,000 B.C. - Subsequently they formed settlement in Sulu, Davao, Zamboanga, Samar, Negros, Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan and Cagayan. Inventions - They made simple tools and weapons of stone flakes and later developed method of sawing and polishing stones around 40,000 B.C. - By around 3,000 B.C. they were producing adzes ornaments of seashells and pottery. Pottery flourished for the next 2,000 years until they imported Chinese porcelain. Soon they learned to produce copper, bronze, iron, and gold metal tools and ornaments. Iron Age - The Iron Age lasted from the third century B.C. to 11th century A.D. During this period Filipinos were engaged in extraction smelting and refining of iron from ores, until the importation of cast iron from Sarawak and later from China. INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES - They learn to weave cotton, make glass ornaments, and cultivate lowland rice and dike fields of terraced fields utilizing spring water in mountain regions. - They also learned to build boats for trading purposes. - Spanish chronicles noted refined plank built warships called caracoa suited for interisland trade raids 10TH CENTURY A.D. - Filipinos from the Butuan were trading with Champa (Vietnam) and those from Ma-I (Mindoro) with China as noted in Chinese records containing several references to the Philippines. These archaeological findings indicated that regular trade relations between the Philippines, China and Vietnam had been well established from the 10th century to the 15th century A.D. TRADING - The People of Ma-I and San-Hsu (Palawan) traded bee wax, cotton, pearls, coconut heart mats, tortoise shell and medicinal betel nuts, panie cloth for porcelain, leads fishnets sinker, colored glass beads, iron pots, iron needles and tin. SOME PRESPANISH FILIPINO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Curative values of plants extract use as medicine - Alphabet (Alibata) - Counting Methods - Weights - Measuring system (isang gatang) - Calendar based on the periods of moon - Banaue Rice Terraces SPANISH REGIME ï· Religion the Catholic Church - The latter part of the 16th Century Development of schools: - Colegio de San Ildefonso-Cebu-1595 - Colegio de San Ignacio-Manila-1595 - Colegio De Nuestra Senora del Rosario-Manila 1597 - Colegio De San Jose-Manila-1601 ï· Colegio De San Ildefonso De Cebu - In 1863 the colonial authorities issued a royal degree to reform the existing educational system. In 1871 the school of medicine and pharmacy were opened to UST, after 15 years it had granted the degree Of Licenciado En Medicina to 62 graduates. ï· Medicine - Development of hospitals San Juan Lazaro hospital the oldest in the far east was founded in 1578. ï· Roads and Bridges Among other Spanish contributions: - Arithmetic - Algebra - Geometry - Trigonometry - Physics - Hydrography - Meteorology - Navigation - Pilotage American Period and Post Commonwealth Era - BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES (1901) - BUREAU OF SCIENCE (1905) - INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE (1946) RA 2067 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE âSCIENCE ACT OF 1958â. - This was enacted to integrate, coordinate, and intensify scientific and technological research and development and to foster invention including allocation of funds and other purposes. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WAS ESTABLISHED ON DECEMBER 8, 1933. - Its Mandate (Nrcp) Promotes And Supports Fundamental Or Basic Research For The Continuing Total Improvement Of The Research Capability Of Individual Scientists Or Group Of Scientists; Provides Advice On Problems And Issues Of National Interest; Promotes Scientific And Technological Culture To All Sectors Of Society; And Fosters Linkages With Local And International Scientific Organizations For Enhanced Cooperation In The Development And Sharing Of Information NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WAS ESTABLISHED IN DECEMBER 8, 1933. - Its Mandate (NRCP) promotes and supports fundamental or basic research for the continuing total improvement of the research capability of individual scientists or group of scientists; provides advice on problems and issues of national interest; promotes scientific and technological culture to all sectors of society; and fosters linkages with local and international scientific organizations for enhanced cooperation in the development and sharing of information. It was during the American Period when Science was inclined towards: - Agriculture - Food Processing - Forestry - Medicine - Pharmacy - NursingMYTH The British helped the Jews displace the native Arab population of Palestine. FACT Herbert Samuel, a British Jew who served as the first High Commissioner of Palestine, placed restrictions on Jewish immigration âin the âinterests of the present populationâ and the âabsorptive capacityâ of the country.â1 The influx of Jewish settlers was said to force the Arab fellahin (native peasants) from their land. This was when less than a million people lived in an area that now supports more than nine million. The British limited the absorptive capacity of Palestine when, in 1921, Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill severed nearly four-fifths of Palestineâsome thirty-five thousand square milesâto create a new Arab entity, Transjordan. As a consolation prize for the Hejaz and Arabia (which are both now Saudi Arabia) going to the Saud family, Churchill rewarded Sharif Husseinâs son Abdullah for his contribution to the war against Turkey by installing him as Transjordanâs emir. The British went further and placed restrictions on Jewish land purchases in what remained of Palestine. By 1949, the British had allotted 87,500 acres of the 187,500 acres of cultivable land to Arabs and only 4,250 acres to Jews. This contradicted Article 6 of the Mandate which stated that âthe Administration of PalestineâŠshall encourage, in cooperation with the Jewish AgencyâŠclose settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not acquired for public purposes.â2 Ultimately, the British admitted that the argument about the countryâs absorptive capacity was specious. The Peel Commission said, âThe heavy immigration in the years 1933â36 would seem to show that the Jews have been able to enlarge the absorptive capacity of the country for Jews.â3 MYTH The British allowed Jews to flood Palestine while Arab immigration was tightly controlled. FACT The British response to Jewish immigration set a precedent of appeasing the Arabs, which was followed for the duration of the Mandate. The British restricted Jewish immigration while allowing Arabs to enter the country freely. Apparently, London did not feel that a flood of Arab immigrants would affect the countryâs âabsorptive capacity.â During World War I, the Jewish population in Palestine declined because of the war, famine, disease, and expulsion by the Turks. In 1915, approximately 83,000 Jews lived in Palestine among 590,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs. According to the 1922 census, the Jewish population was 83,000, while the Arabs numbered 643,000.4 Thus, the Arab population grew exponentially while that of the Jews stagnated. In the mid-1920s, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased primarily because of anti-Jewish economic legislation in Poland and Washingtonâs imposition of restrictive quotas.5 The record number of immigrants in 1935 (see table) was a response to the growing persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. The British administration considered this number too large, however, so the Jewish Agency was informed that less than one-third of the quota it asked for would be approved in 1936.6 The British gave in further to Arab demands by announcing in the 1939 White Paper that an independent Arab state would be created within ten years and that Jewish immigration was to be limited to 75,000 for the next five years, after which it was to cease altogether. It also forbade land sales to Jews in 95% of the territory of Palestine. The Arabs, nevertheless, rejected the proposal. Jewish Immigration to Palestine7 1919 1,806 1931 4,075 1920 8,223 1932 12,533 1921 8,294 1933 37,337 1922 8,685 1934 45,267 1923 8,175 1935 66,472 1924 13,892 1936 29,595 1925 34,386 1937 10,629 1926 13,855 1938 14,675 1927 3,034 1939 31,195 1928 2,178 1940 10,643 1929 5,249 1941 4,592 1930 4,944 By contrast, throughout the Mandatory period, Arab immigration was unrestricted. In 1930, the Hope Simpson Commission, sent from London to investigate the 1929 Arab riots, said the British practice of ignoring the uncontrolled illegal Arab immigration from Egypt, Transjordan, and Syria had the effect of displacing the prospective Jewish immigrants.8 The British governor of the Sinai from 1922 to 1936 observed, âThis illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery.â9 The Peel Commission reported in 1937 that the âshortfall of land isâŠdue less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population.â10 MYTH The British changed their policy to allow Holocaust survivors to settle in Palestine. FACT The gates of Palestine remained closed for the duration of the war, stranding hundreds of thousands of Jews in Europe, many of whom became victims of Hitlerâs âFinal Solution.â After the war, the British refused to allow the survivors of the Nazi nightmare to find sanctuary in Palestine. On June 6, 1946, President Truman urged the British government to relieve the suffering of the Jews confined to displaced persons camps in Europe by immediately accepting 100,000 Jewish immigrants. Britainâs foreign minister Ernest Bevin replied sarcastically that the United States wanted displaced Jews to immigrate to Palestine âbecause they did not want too many of them in New York.â11 Some Jews reached Palestine, many smuggled in on dilapidated ships organized by the Haganah. Between August 1945 and the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948, sixty-five âillegalâ immigrant ships, carrying 69,878 people, arrived from European shores. In August 1946, however, the British began to intern those they caught in camps on Cyprus. Approximately 50,000 people were detained in the camps, and 28,000 remained imprisoned when Israel declared independence.12 MYTH As the Jewish population grew, the plight of the Palestinian Arabs worsened. FACT In July 1921, Hasan Shukri, the mayor of Haifa and president of the Muslim National Associations, sent a telegram to the British government in reaction to a delegation of Palestinians that went to London to try to stop the implementation of the Balfour Declaration. Shukri wrote: We are certain that without Jewish immigration and financial assistance there will be no future development of our country as may be judged from the fact that the towns inhabited in part by Jews such as Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, and Tiberias are making steady progress while Nablus, Acre, and Nazareth where no Jews reside are steadily declining.13 The Jewish population increased by 470,000 between World War I and World War II, while the non-Jewish population rose by 588,000.14 The permanent Arab population increased by 120% between 1922 and 1947.15 This rapid growth of the Arab population was a result of several factors. One was immigration from neighboring statesâconstituting 37% of the total immigration to pre-state Israelâby Arabs who wanted to take advantage of the higher standard of living the Jews had made possible.16 The Arab population also grew because of the improved living conditions created by the Jews as they drained malarial swamps and brought improved sanitation and health care to the region. Thus, for example, the Muslim infant mortality rate fell from 201 per thousand in 1925 to 94 per thousand in 1945, and life expectancy rose from 37 years in 1926 to 49 in 1943.17 The Arab population increased the most in cities where large Jewish populations had created new economic opportunities. From 1922â1947, the non-Jewish population increased by 290% in Haifa, 131% in Jerusalem, and 158% in Jaffa. The growth in Arab towns was more modest: 42% in Nablus, 78% in Jenin, and 37% in Bethlehem.18 MYTH Jews stole Arab land. FACT Despite the growth in their population, the Arabs continued to assert they were being displaced. From the beginning of World War I, however, part of Palestineâs land was owned by absentee landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus, and Beirut. About 80% of the Palestinian Arabs were debt-ridden peasants, semi-nomads, and Bedouins.19 Jews went out of their way to avoid purchasing land in areas where Arabs might be displaced. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy, cheap, andâmost importantâwithout tenants. In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as âthe most important asset of the native population.â He insisted that âunder no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them.â Instead, he advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. âOnly if a fellah leaves his place of settlement,â Ben-Gurion added, âshould we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.â20 Jews only began to purchase cultivated land after buying all the uncultivated territory. Many Arabs were willing to sell because of the migration to coastal towns and because they needed money to invest in the citrus industry.21 When John Hope Simpson arrived in Palestine in May 1930, he observed, âThey [the Jews] paid high prices for the land and, in addition, they paid to certain of the occupants of those lands a considerable amount of money which they were not legally bound to pay.â22 In 1931, Lewis French conducted a survey of landlessness for the British government and offered new plots to any Arabs who had been âdispossessed.â British officials received more than 3,000 applications, of which 80% were ruled invalid by the governmentâs legal adviser because the applicants were not landless Arabs. This left only about 600 landless Arabs, 100 of whom accepted the government land offer.23 In April 1936, a new outbreak of Arab attacks on Jews was instigated by local Palestinian leaders who were later joined by Arab volunteers led by a Syrian guerrilla named Fawzi al-Qawuqji, the commander of the Arab Liberation Army. By November, when the British finally sent a new commission headed by Lord Peel to investigate, 89 Jews had been killed and more than 300 wounded.24 The Peel Commissionâs report found that Arab complaints about Jewish land acquisition were baseless. It pointed out that âmuch of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchasedâŠThere was at the time of the earlier sales little evidence that the owners possessed either the resources or training needed to develop the land.â25 Moreover, the Commission found the shortage was âdue less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population.â The report concluded that the presence of Jews in Palestine, along with the work of the British administration, had resulted in higher wages, an improved standard of living, and ample employment opportunities.26 It is made quite clear to all, both by the map drawn up by the Simpson Commission and by another compiled by the Peel Commission, that the Arabs are as prodigal in selling their land as they are in useless wailing and weeping (emphasis in the original). âTransjordanâs king Abdullah27 Even at the height of the Arab revolt in 1938 (which began in April 1936 with the murder of two Jews by Arabs and the subsequent murder of two Arab workers by members of the Jewish underground28), the British high commissioner to Palestine believed the Arab landowners were complaining about sales to Jews to drive up prices for lands they wished to sell. Many Arab landowners had been so terrorized by Arab rebels they decided to leave Palestine and sell their property to the Jews.29 The Jews paid exorbitant prices to wealthy landowners for small tracts of arid land. âIn 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre.â30 By 1947, Jewish holdings in Palestine amounted to about 463,000 acres. Approximately 45,000 were acquired from the mandatory government, 30,000 were bought from various churches, and 387,500 were purchased from Arabs. Analyses of land purchases from 1880 to 1948 show that 73% of Jewish plots were purchased from large landowners, not poor fellahin.31 Many leaders of the Arab nationalist movement, including members of the Muslim Supreme Council, and the mayors of Gaza, Jerusalem, and s sold land to the Jews. Asâad el-Shuqeiri, a Muslim religious scholar and father of Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Ahmed Shuqeiri, took Jewish money for his land. Even King Abdullah leased land to the Jews.32 MYTH The British helped the Palestinians to live peacefully with the Jews. FACT In 1921, Haj Amin el-Husseini first began to organize fedayeen (âone who sacrifices himselfâ) to terrorize Jews. El-Husseini hoped to duplicate the success of Kemal AtatĂŒrk in Turkey by driving the Jews out of Palestine just as Kemal had driven the invading Greeks from his country.33 Arab radicals gained influence because the British administration was unwilling to take effective action against them until they began a revolt against British rule. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, former head of British military intelligence in Cairo, and later chief political officer for Palestine and Syria, wrote in his diary that British officials âincline towards the exclusion of Zionism in Palestine.â The British encouraged the Palestinians to attack the Jews. According to Meinertzhagen, Col. Bertie Harry Waters-Taylor (financial adviser to the military administration in Palestine 1919â23) met with el-Husseini in 1920, a few days before Easter, and told him that âhe had a great opportunity at Easter to show the worldâŠthat Zionism was unpopular not only with the Palestine administration but in Whitehall.â He added that âif disturbances of sufficient violence occurred in Jerusalem at Easter, both General [Louis] Bols [chief administrator in Palestine, 1919â20] and General [Edmund] Allenby [commander of the Egyptian force, 1917â19, then high commissioner of Egypt] would advocate the abandonment of the Jewish Home. Waters-Taylor explained that freedom could only be attained through violence.â34 El-Husseini took the colonelâs advice and instigated a riot. The British withdrew their troops and the Jewish police from Jerusalem, allowing the Arab mob to attack Jews and loot their shops. Because of el-Husseiniâs overt role in instigating the pogrom, the British decided to arrest him. He escaped, however, and was sentenced to ten years in absentia. A year later, some British Arabists convinced High Commissioner Herbert Samuel to pardon el-Husseini and to appoint him Mufti (a cleric in charge of Jerusalemâs Islamic holy places). By contrast, Vladimir Jabotinsky and several followers, who had formed a Jewish defense organization during the unrest, were sentenced to 15 years. They were released a few months later.35 Samuel met with el-Husseini on April 11, 1921, and was assured âthat the influences of his family and himself would be devoted to tranquility.â Three weeks later, riots in Jaffa and elsewhere left forty-three Jews dead.36 El-Husseini consolidated his power and took control of all Muslim religious funds in Palestine. He used his authority to gain control over the mosques, the schools, and the courts. No Arab could reach an influential position without being loyal to the Mufti. His power was so absolute that âno Muslim in Palestine could be born or die without being beholden to Haj Amin.â37 The Muftiâs henchmen also ensured he would have no opposition by systematically killing Palestinians who discussed cooperation with the Jews from rival clans. As the spokesman for Palestinian Arabs, el-Husseini did not ask that Britain grant them independence. On the contrary, in a letter to Churchill in 1921, he demanded that Palestine be reunited with Syria and Transjordan.38 The Arabs found rioting an effective political tool because of the lax British response toward violence against Jews. In handling each riot, the British prevented Jews from protecting themselves but made little effort to prevent the Arabs from attacking them. After each outbreak, a British commission of inquiry would try to establish the cause of the violence. The conclusion was always the same: The Arabs feared being displaced by the Jews. To stop the rioting, the commissions would recommend that restrictions be placed on Jewish immigration. Thus, the Arabs learned they could always stop the influx of Jews by staging riots. This cycle began after a series of riots in May 1921. After failing to protect the Jewish community from Arab mobs, the British appointed the Haycraft Commission to investigate the cause of the violence. Although the panel concluded the Arabs had been the aggressors, it rationalized the cause of the attack: âThe fundamental cause of the riots was a feeling among the Arabs of discontent with, and hostility to, the Jews, due to political and economic causes, and connected with Jewish immigration, and with their conception of Zionist policy.â39 One consequence of the violence was the institution of a temporary ban on Jewish immigration. The Arab fear of being âdisplacedâ or âdominatedâ was an excuse for their attacks on Jewish settlers. Note, too, that these riots were not inspired by nationalistic fervorânationalists would have rebelled against their British overlordsâthey were motivated by economics, the radical Islamic views of the Mufti, and misunderstanding. In 1929, Arab provocateurs convinced the masses that the Jews had designs on the Temple Mount (a tactic still used today to incite violence). A Jewish religious observance at the Western Wall, which forms a part of the Temple Mount, served as a pretext for rioting by Arabs against Jews, which spilled out of Jerusalem into other villages and towns, including Safed and Hebron. Again, the British administration made no effort to prevent the violence, and, after it began, the British did nothing to protect the Jewish population. After six days of mayhem, the British finally brought troops in to quell the disturbance. By this time, most of Hebronâs Jews had fled or been killed. In all, 133 Jews were killed and 399 wounded in the pogroms.40 After the riots, the British ordered an investigation, resulting in the Passfield White Paper. It said the âimmigration, land purchase and settlement policies of the Zionist Organization were already or were likely to become, prejudicial to Arab interests. It understood the mandatory governmentâs obligation to the non-Jewish community to mean that Palestineâs resources must be primarily reserved for the growing Arab economy.â41 This meant it was necessary to restrict Jewish immigration and land purchases. MYTH The Mufti was not a Nazi collaborator. FACT In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazisâ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world. The Mufti sent Hitler fifteen drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle East. One called on the two countries to declare the illegality of the Jewish home in Palestine. He also asked the Axis powers to âaccord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the interest of the Arabs, and by the same method that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.â42 In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Muftiâs requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his âthanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches.â He added, âThe Arabs were Germanyâs natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namelyâŠthe Jews.â Hitler told the Mufti he opposed the creation of a Jewish state and that Germanyâs objective was destroying the Jewish element in the Arab sphere.43 In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his role in recruiting twenty thousand Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. He escaped French detention in 1946, however, and continued his fight against the Jews from Cairo and later Beirut where he died in 1974. MYTH The bombing of the King David Hotel was part of a deliberate terror campaign against civilians. FACT British troops seized the Jewish Agency compound on June 29, 1946, and confiscated large quantities of documents. At about the same time, more than 2,500 Jews from all over Palestine were arrested. A week later, news of a massacre of 40 Jews in a pogrom in Poland reminded the Jews of Palestine how Britainâs restrictive immigration policy had condemned thousands to death. In response to the British provocations, and a desire to demonstrate that the Jewsâ spirit could not be broken, the United Resistance Movement planned to bomb the King David Hotel, which housed the British military command and the Criminal Investigation Division in addition to hotel guests. The Haganah pulled out of the plot and left it up to the Irgun. Irgun leader Menachem Begin stressed his desire to avoid civilian casualties and the plan was to warn the British so they would evacuate the building before it was blown up. Three telephone calls were placed on July 22, 1946, one to the hotel, another to the French Consulate, and a third to the Palestine Post warning that explosives in the King David Hotel would soon be detonated. The call to the hotel was received and ignored. Begin quotes one British official who supposedly refused to evacuate the building, saying, âWe donât take orders from the Jews.â44 As a result, when the bombs exploded, the casualty toll was high: 91 killed and 45 injured. Among the casualties were 15 Jews. Few people in the main part of the hotel were injured.45 For decades, the British denied they had been warned. In 1979, however, a member of the British Parliament provided the testimony of a British officer who heard other officers in the King David Hotel bar joking about a Zionist threat to the headquarters. The officer who overheard the conversation immediately left the hotel and survived.46 In contrast to Arab attacks against Jews, which Arab leaders hailed as heroic actions, the Jewish National Council denounced the bombing of the King David.47 1 Aharon Cohen, Israel and the Arab World, (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1970), p. 17220. Ang unang yugto sa pagbuo ng Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Management (CBDRRM) Plan ay tinatawag na ________. A. pagtugon sa sakuna B. paghahanda sa pagtugon C. pagsasaayos at pagbangon D. pagtataya ng panganib at paghahanda ANSWER: D 21. Ang gawaing ito ay isinasagawa upang maging handa ang komunidad at maiwasan ang malawakang pinsala nito sa pamamagitan ng aktibong pakikibahagi ng mamamayan. Ito ay nakapaloob sa _______. A. Philippine Disaster Risk Management B. Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council C. Community Preparedness and Risk Management Approach D. Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Management Approach ANSWER: D 22. Bahagi ng rehabilitasyon at pagbawi mula sa kalamidad ang mga hakbang at gawain na nakatuon sa pagsasaayos ng mga nasirang pasilidad at estruktura. Ano ang pangunahing gampanin ng yugtong ito? A. Mabigyan ng sapat na proteksiyon ang mga nasalanta ng kalamidad. B. Manumbalik sa dating kaayusan at normal na pamumuhay ang mga nasalantang komunidad. C. Makapagbigay ng mga inaasahang serbisyong panlipunan at paglilingkod sa pamahalaan. D. Maipagkaloob sa mga nasalantang komunidad ang mga pangunahing pangangailangan at gamot. ANSWER: B 23. Alin sa sumusunod na mga sitwasyon ang nagpapakita ng Top-Down Approach sa pagbuo ng Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Plan? A. Pinamunuan ni Kerwin, isang lider ng Non-Government Organization (NGO) ang pagtukoy sa mga kalamidad na maaaring maranasan sa kanilang komunidad. B. Ipinatawag ni Kapitan Capin ang kaniyang mga kagawad upang bumuo ng plano kung paano magiging ligtas ang kaniyang nasasakupan mula sa panganib ng paparating na bagyo. C. Hinikayat ni Albert ang kaniyang mga kapitbahay na maglinis ng estero upang maiwasan ang pagbara nito na maaaring magdulot ng malalim at matagalang pagbaha sa darating na tag-ulan. D. Nakipag-usap si Kelly sa mga may-ari ng malalaking negosyo sa kanilang komunidad upang makalikom ng pondo sa pagbili ng mga first aid kit at iba pang proyekto bilang paghahanda sa ibaât ibang kalamidad. ANSWER: B 24. Bakit mahalaga ang pagkakaroon ng community engagement o kolaborasyon sa pamayanan at iba pang katuwang na sektor? A. Makatutulong ito upang makalikom ng mas maraming pondo. B. Magiging makabuluhan ang plano kung ang gagawa nito ay ang mamamayan. C. Malaki ang posibilidad na maging matagumpay ang proyekto kapag pinagplanuhan. D. Mas magiging komprehensibo at matagumpay ang plano kung binubuo ito ng ibaât ibang sektor. ANSWER: D 25. Sa pagbuo ng CBDRRM Plan, ano ang PINAKAMABISA mong nararapat gawin bilang mamamayan ng isang lugar upang maging handa sa pagdating ng ibaât ibang panganib at kalamidad? A. Maging aktibong kabahagi sa pagbubuo ng plano para sa buong pamayanan. B. Makibahagi sa gawaing panrehabilitasyon at tulungan ang mga naapektuhan. C. Magsagawa ng personal plan para matugunan ang pangangailangan ng lipunan. D. Magkaroon ng planong pampinansiyal upang matustusan ang pangangailangan ng mga tao. ANSWER: A 26. Ang pinuno ng mga bansang kasapi ng organisasyon ay nagpupulong-pulong upang magtulungan para sa kapakanan ng kanilang pangangailangan. Anong anyo ng globalisasyon ang tinutukoy nito? A. ekonomiko B. kultural C. politikal D. teknolohikal ANSWER: C 27. Alin sa sumusunod ang buhay na manipestasyon ng globalisasyon? A. ekonomiko B. OFWs C. sosyo-kultural D. teknolohikal ANSWER: B 28. Ang brain drain ay tumutukoy sa mga propesyonal na manggagawa, samantalang ang brawn drain ay tumutukoy sa ___________. A. construction workers B. domestic workers C. overseas workers D. skilled workers ANSWER: A 29. Alin sa sumusunod ang negatibong epekto ng paglitaw ng maraming multinational companies at transnational companies? A. pagkakaloob ng hanapbuhay B. pagbaba ng presyo ng produkto C. pagdami ng produkto at serbisyo D. pagkalugi ng multinational companies at transnational companies ANSWER: D 30. âAng globalisasyon ay laganap na noon pa man at naging mas malawak sa kasalukuyang panahon.â Ang mahihinuha natin sa pahayag na ito ay _______. A. ugnayan ng mga bansa sa daigdig na walang pagitan o hadlang B. suliraning panlipunan na pumipigil sa kaunlaran ng mga bansa sa daigdig C. bagong anyo ng malayang kalakalan, pagpapalitan ng produkto, impormasyon at tao, dahil sa pag-unlad ng teknolohiya sa komunikasyon at transportasyon D. isyung panlipunan na tumatalakay sa pamahalaan, ekonomiya, relihiyon, teknolohiya, kapaligiran, komunikasyon at kultura ng mga bansa sa daigdig ANSWER: C 31. Alin sa dalawang pahayag ang nagsasaad ng PINAKAANGKOP na konsepto ng globalisasyon? I. Ang globalisasyon ay proseso ng mabilisang pagdaloy o paggalaw ng tao, bagay, impormasyon at produkto sa ibaât ibang direksiyon na nararanasan sa ibaât ibang panig ng daigdig. II. Ang globalisasyon ay may ibaât ibang pagkakakilanlan tulad ng ekonomiko, teknolohikal, sosyo-kultural at politikal. A. Mali ang nilalaman ng una at ikalawang pahayag. B. Tama ang nilalaman ng una at ikalawang pahayag. C. Tama ang nilalaman ng una at mali ang ikalawang pahayag. D. Mali ang nilalaman ng una at tama ang ikalawang pahayag. ANSWER: B 32. Alin sa sumusunod na mga pahayag ang nagsasaad ng dahilan sa pag-usbong ng globalisasyon? A. pagbuti ng mga lokal na kompanya sa presyo at kalidad ng serbisyo at produkto upang maging kompetitibo laban sa mga banyagang kompanya B. pagpapalitan ng impormasyon at teknolohiya at paggalaw ng mga tao dulot ng migrasyon C. pagbaba ng sahod ng mga manggagawa at pagdami ng mga taong walang trabaho dahil nalulugi ang maliliit na negosyo D. paglaganap ng biological weapons dulot ng mabilis na pagkalat ng impormasyon sa ibaât ibang panig ng mundo at pagdami ng pamilihan ng materyales na ginagamit dito ANSWER: B 33. Alin sa mga sektor ng manggagawa ang madalas nakararanas ng pang-aabuso at hindi pantay na oportunidad sa pagtratrabaho? A. agrikultura B. industriya C. pamahalaan D. serbisyo ANSWER: A 34. Ano ang tawag sa anyo ng subcontracting kung saan ang mga subcontractor ay may sapat na puhunan para maisagawa ang trabaho ng mga manggagawang ipinasok nila? A. iskemang subcontractor B. job mismatch C. job contracting D. labor-only contracting ANSWER: C 35. Bakit hindi maitaas ang pasahod, maipagkaloob ang kasiguraduhan sa trabaho, at madagdagan ang benepisyo ng mga manggagawa sa bansa? Ito ay dahil_____ A. sa sistema ng kontraktuwalisasyon. B. puro regular na ang mga manggagawa. C. mataas na ang pasahod sa ating manggagawa. D. marami ang benepisyong natatanggap ng ating manggagawa. ANSWER: A 36. Bilang tugon sa suliraning nararanasan ng mga manggagawa, mayroon silang karapatang hindi dapat malabag upang masabi na sila ay may disente at marangal na hanapbuhay. Alin sa sumusunod ang HINDI kabilang sa mga karapatan ng manggagawa? A. Karapatan sa pantay na suweldo para sa parehong trabaho. B. Karapatang sumali sa marahas at mapanganib na uri ng unyon. C. Karapatang maging ligtas at malayo sa panganib ang kalagayan ng pagtatrabaho. D. Karapatan na makatanggap ng sapat at karapat-dapat na suweldo para sa makataong pamumuhay. ANSWER: B 37. Halos mapudpod na ang sapatos ni Justin sa paghahanap ng trabaho ngunit hindi pa rin siya natatanggap. Maraming job fairs na rin ang kaniyang pinuntahan ngunit bigo siyang makakuha ng trabaho. Bakit kaya ito nangyayari kay Justin? A. Kulang pa ang kaniyang lakas ng loob. B. Kulang siya sa aspekto ng personal relations kaya hindi siya nagugustuhan. C. Hindi kaaya-aya ang kaniyang pisikal na kaanyuan kaya hindi siya natatanggap sa trabaho. D. Biktima si Justin ng job mismatch kung saan hindi tugma ang kaniyang kakayahan at kasanayan na hinahanap ng mga kompanya. ANSWER: D 38. Ayon sa tala ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), maraming job fairs noong 2010 ngunit kakaunti lamang ang mga natanggap na kalipikadong aplikante mula sa maraming bilang ng mga nag-apply. Alin ang HINDI angkop na dahilan nito? A. Ang mga aplikante ay hindi interesado sa mga trabaho sa bansa. B. Kapansin-pansin ang patuloy na paglaki ng bilang ng job skills mismatch ng mga aplikante sa bansa. C. May patuloy na mismatch sa kasanayan at kakayahan mula sa tinapos na kurso at sa hinihinging kalipikasyon ng mga employer. D. Maraming kurso sa higher education institutions sa bansa ang hindi na tumutugon sa pangangailangan ng mga pribadong kompanya na nagtatakda ng mga pamantayan sa pagpili ng mga manggagawa. ANSWER: A 39. Alin ang angkop na salita na tumutukoy sa sitwasyon kung saan inaako na ng lalaki ang mga gawain sa tahanan dulot ng migrasyon? A. helper B. house boy C. house father D. house husband ANSWER: D 40. Ang sumusunod ay mga ahensiya ng pamahalaan na nangangalaga sa kapakanan ng migrante MALIBAN sa __________________. A. Commission of Filipino Overseas B. Philippine Overseas Labor Offices C. Department of Labor and Employment D. Department of Science and Technology ANSWER: D 41. Isang epekto ng migrasyon ay ang pagtanggap o pagpapadala ng mga lakas-paggawa sa ibang bansa. Alin sa sumusunod ang HINDI nagpapakita ng magandang benepisyo ng brain gain? A. Malaki ang posibilidad ng promotion ng manggagawa. B. Gastusin ng kompanya ang pagpapadala ng manggagawa sa ibang bansa. C. Maaaring magtrabaho sa ibang bansa ang empleadong ipinadala upang matuto. D. Magiging asset ang migranteng manggagawa sa nagpapadala at tumatanggap na bansa kahit saan man sa mundo. ANSWER: B 42. Matagal na naghanapbuhay si Ginoong Pascual sa Australia, kaya sa kaniyang pag-uwi sa pamilya ay hindi siya pinansin ng kaniyang mga anak at nagtago ang mga ito sa kuwarto. Ano ang iyong mahihinuha rito? A. Malaki ang takot ng mga anak sa kanilang ama. B. Walang pasalubong si Ginoong Pascual sa mga anak. C. Hindi kilala si Ginoong Pascual ng kaniyang mga anak. D. Nagkakahiyaan ang mag-aama sa kanilang pagkikita. ANSWER: C 43. Paano nakaaapekto ang pangingibang-bansa sa estado ng ekonomiya ng bansa? A. Madaragdagan ang populasyon ng bansa. B. Mapananatiling matatag ang palitan ng piso at dolyar. C. Mahihirapan ang mga Pilipino na makisama sa mga dayuhan. D. Mas maraming papasok sa bansa na mga imported na produkto. ANSWER: B 44. Marami sa mga OFW na nasa Middle East ang napag-alamang nakararanas ng mga pang-aabuso mula sa kanilang mga amo tulad sa Saudi Arabia. Kung ikaw ang ambassador ng Pilipinas sa Saudi, alin ang pinakamabisa mong gagawin upang matulungan at maprotektahan sila? A. Pababayaan sila hanggang matapos ang kanilang kontrata. B. Maglulunsad ng rally sa embahada ng Saudi Arabia sa Pilipinas. C. Hihingi ng tulong pinansiyal at pauuwiin ang mga manggagawa sa Saudi. D. Maglilikom ng mga ebidensiya ng mga pang-aabuso at isusuplong ang mga amo sa kinauukulan. ANSWER: D 45. Alin sa sumusunod ang konseptong tumutukoy sa slavery? A. pang-aalipin B. sitwasyong payapa C. sapilitang pagtatrabaho D. pagpupuslit ng mga tao ANSWER: A 46. Kung ikaw ay opisyal ng pamahalaan na nangangalaga sa kapakanan ng mga OFW, alin sa sumusunod ang dapat mong gawin sa mga kaso ng pang-aabuso sa mga Pilipino? A. Pauuwiin ang lahat ng OFW at bibigyan na lamang ng trabaho sa Pilipinas. B. Pababayaan na lamang ang mga OFW dahil isolated cases lang naman ang mga ito. C. Ipauubaya na lamang ang mga gagawing aksiyon sa pamahalaan ng bansa kung saan nagtatrabaho ang mga OFW. D. Magtatatag ng mga mekanismo upang ma-monitor ang kalagayan ng mga OFW at gagawa ng kaukulang hakbang kung may pang-aabuso. ANSWER: D 47. Bilang isang mag-aaral sa kasalukuyan, alin sa sumusunod ang maaari mong magawa upang masigurong makaaangkop ka sa pangangailangan ng ating bansa na umunlad sa kabila ng globalisasyon? A. Magpalipas ng panahon at umasa na lamang sa pamilya. B. Tumigil sa pag-aaral at magtrabaho na upang kumita ng pera. C. Magsumikap sa pag-aaral upang makatapos at magkatrabaho. D. Maging layunin ang makapagtrabaho sa ibang bansa upang yumaman. ANSWER: C 48. Alin sa sumusunod na mga pangungusap ang tumutukoy sa konsepto ng fair trade? A. Itinatakda ng mga bansa ang pamantayan ukol sa mga kakayahan ng mga manggagawa. B. Ang mayayamang bansa ay nagbibigay ng tulong sa pinakamahihirap na tao sa mundo lalo na sa Aprika at Asya. C. Sinisiguro ng mga bansa ang patas o pantay na kalakalan gaya ng pagbabantay sa tamang presyo ng mga produkto. D. Ang pamahalaan ay nakikialam sa kalakalang panlabas na may layong protektahan ang mga lokal na namumuhunan. ANSWER: C 49. Marami sa mga pamilya ng OFWs ay nakararanas ng pangungulila sa kanilang kaanak na humahantong sa pagkawasak nito. Paano kaya sila matutulungan? A. Makisimpatiya sa kanila. B. Bigyan sila ng sulat isa-isa. C. Bigyan sila ng load pantawag sa kanilang kaanak. D. Magtayo ng isang samahan ng mga pamilya ng OFW upang gumabay sa kanila. ANSWER: D 50. Sa Pilipinas ay marami ang nangangarap na mangibang-bansa dulot ng kahirapan sa buhay. Nangangamba naman ang mga ekonomista dahil naaapektuhan ng brain drain at brawn drain ang ekonomiya. Bilang ekonomista, ano ang maaari mong gawin upang masolusyunan ang isyung ito? A. Pigilan ang mga nais mangibang-bansa. B. Hayaang umalis ang mga nais na magtrabaho sa ibang bansa. C. Bigyan ng suportang pinansiyal ang mamamayan na walang trabaho. D. Gumawa ng isang development plan na tutugon sa mga isyu ng migrasyon. ANSWER: DSoutheast Asia, vast region of Asia situated east of the Indian subcontinent and south of China. It consists of two dissimilar portions: a continental projection (commonly called mainland Southeast Asia) and a string of archipelagoes to the south and east of the mainland (insular Southeast Asia). Extending some 700 miles (1,100 km) southward from the mainland into insular Southeast Asia is the Malay Peninsula; this peninsula structurally is part of the mainland, but it also shares many ecological and cultural affinities with the surrounding islands and thus functions as a bridge between the two regions. Mainland Southeast Asia is divided into the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Vietnam, and the small city-state of Singapore at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula; Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, which occupy the eastern portion of the mainland, often are collectively called the Indochinese Peninsula. Malaysia is both mainland and insular, with a western portion on the Malay Peninsula and an eastern part on the island of Borneo. Except for the small sultanate of Brunei (also on Borneo), the remainder of insular Southeast Asia consists of the archipelagic nations of Indonesia and the Philippines. Southeast Asia stretches some 4,000 miles at its greatest extent (roughly from northwest to southeast) and encompasses some 5,000,000 square miles (13,000,000 square km) of land and sea, of which about 1,736,000 square miles is land. Mount Hkakabo in northern Myanmar on the border with China, at 19,295 feet (5,881 meters), is the highest peak of mainland Southeast Asia. Although the modern nations of the region are sometimes thought of as being small, they areâwith the exceptions of Singapore and Bruneiâcomparatively large. Indonesia, for example, is more than 3,000 miles from west to east (exceeding the west-east extent of the continental United States) and more than 1,000 miles from north to south; the area of Laos is only slightly smaller than that of the United Kingdom; and Myanmar is considerably larger than France. All of Southeast Asia falls within the tropical and subtropical climatic zones, and much of it receives considerable annual precipitation. It is subject to an extensive and regular monsoonal weather system (i.e., one in which the prevailing winds reverse direction every six months) that produces marked wet and dry periods in most of the region. Southeast Asiaâs landscape is characterized by three intermingled physical elements: mountain ranges, plains and plateaus, and water in the form of both shallow seas and extensive drainage systems. Of these, the rivers probably have been of the greatest historical and cultural significance, for waterways have decisively shaped forms of settlement and agriculture, determined fundamental political and economic patterns, and helped define the nature of Southeast Asiansâ worldview and distinctive cultural syncretism. It also has been of great importance that Southeast Asia, which is the most easily accessible tropical region in the world, lies strategically astride the sea passage between East Asia and the Middle EasternâMediterranean world. Within this broad outline, Southeast Asia is perhaps the most diverse region on Earth. The number of large and small ecological niches is more than matched by a staggering variety of economic, social, and cultural niches Southeast Asians have developed for themselves; hundreds of ethnic groups and languages have been identified. Under these circumstances, it often is difficult to keep in mind the regionâs underlying unity, and it is understandable that Southeast Asia should so often be treated as a miscellaneous collection of cultures that simply do not quite fit anywhere else. Roofs of the Forbidden City, Beijing, China Britannica Quiz All About Asia Yet from ancient times Southeast Asia has been considered by its neighbors to be a region in its own right and not merely an extension of their own lands. The Chinese called it Nanyang and the Japanese NanâyĆ, both names meaning âSouth Seas,â and South Asians used such terms as SuvarnabhĆ«mi (Sanskrit: âLand of Goldâ) to describe the area. Modern scholarship increasingly has yielded evidence of broad commonalities uniting the peoples of the region across time. Studies in historical linguistics, for example, have suggested that the vast majority of Southeast Asian languagesâeven many of those previously considered to have separate originsâeither sprang from common roots or have been long and inseparably intertwined. Despite inevitable variation among societies, common views of gender, family structure, and social hierarchy and mobility may be discerned throughout mainland and insular Southeast Asia, and a broadly common commercial and cultural inheritance has continued to affect the entire region for several millennia. These and other commonalities have yet to produce a conscious or precise Southeast Asian identity, but they have given substance to the idea of Southeast Asia as a definable world region and have provided a framework for the comparative study of its components.Middle EastMiddle East Conflicts--The Kurds and Turkey