Representing Men’s and Women’s Speech: A Linguistic Analysis of Nick Joaquin’s “The Summer Solstice”

Without a moment’s hesitation, he sprawled down flat, and, working his arms and legs, gaspingly clawed his way across the floor, like a great agonized lizard, the woman steadily backing away as he approached, her eyes watching him avidly, her nostrils dilating, till behind her loomed the open window, the huge glittering moon, the rapid flashes of lightning. She stopped, panting, and leaned against the sill. He lay exhausted at her feet, his face flat on the floor. She raised her skirts and contemptuously thrust out a naked foot. He lifted his dripping face and touched his bruised lips to her toes; lifted his hands and grasped the white foot and kissed it savagely—kissed the step, the sole, the frail ankle—while she bit her lips and clutched in pain at the window-sill; her body distended and wracked by horrible shivers, her head flung back and her loose hair streaming out the window—streaming fluid and black in the white night where the huge moon glowed like a sun and the dry air flamed into lightning and the pure heat burned with the immense intense fever of noon. (Joaquin, “The Summer’s Solstice” 38

The Gendered Spaces of Globalization

Using a discourse analysis of texts produced and consumed within globalization, this paper examines globalization as a gendered territory in which feminine and masculine spaces are carved out and invested with particular values. Specifically, the paper shows how these spaces are gendered through the use of stereotypical representations of femininity and masculinity. In the end, the paper argues that a discourse analytical framework is critical in revealing how the gendering process works, shedding light on the material construction of gender within globalization

Creating an Inclusive Social Enterprise Ecosystem: A Policy Recommendation for the Growth of SE Sector in the Philippines

This policy paper highlights the critical roles of both public and private organizations in creating an enabling ecosystem for social enterprises to grow while striking a good balance in their social ,economic, and environmental bottom lines. It contains recommendations on the formation aspect of social entrepreneurs and the support mechanisms that need to be established by different stakeholders such as the academe, national government agencies, local government units, private institutions, and communities

The Book Truly Stops Here: A Lacanian Reinterpretation of Reinaldo Arenas’ Freedom

In his essay, “Reinaldo Arenas, Re-writer Revenant, and the Repatriation of Cuban Homoerotic Desire,” Benigno Sánchez-Eppler puts forth what he terms a “signifying possibility,” an informative yet nondefinitive explanation of what the exiled queer Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas meant in his suicide note. Arenas’ suicide note, which served as the conclusion to his autobiography, Before Night Falls: A Memoir, written in 1990 and published posthumously in 1992, has an inconclusive meaning stemming from the novelist’s brief declaration of his own freedom at the end. After encouraging the Cuban people to remain vigilant in their fight for freedom and against the rule of Fidel Castro, Arenas succinctly yet confidently declares that he himself is already free without suggesting the source of his freedom. Citing various works of the novelist, Sánchez-Eppler argues that this individual freedom originates from the exiled novelist’s literary act of self-repatriation, using suicide as an inspired form of return to his homeland. This essay argues against Sánchez-Eppler’s signifying possibility. As expressed in his suicide note, Arenas’ notion of freedom, far from being a literary monumentalization of the writer and his Cuban queerness, destined to be creatively repatriated back to his native Cuba through the vehicle of suicide, is more an example of a successful Lacanian “end-of-analysis,” when the individual subject comes to terms with and accepts his or her own irredeemably divided self in the present. My own “signifying possibility” for interpreting Reinaldo Arenas’ freedom relies on Lacanian psychoanalysis, as interpreted by critical race and Lacanian theorist Antonio Viego in his book, Dead Subjects: Toward A Politics of Loss in Latino Studies

Breathing Processing to Help Maintain Health Includes Techniques and Benefits

Breathing exercises are designed and performed to achieve more controlled and efficient ventilation. The dilation of blood vessels affects blood pressure, which is to reduce the resistance to blood flow, so that blood pressure tends to be normal. Holding your breath also helps to increase your concentration, and stabilizes your emotions. Thoughts and emotions feel more stable and it is easy to concentrate on holding your breath. In breath-holding meditation practice is very helpful in increasing concentration. By holding your breath when the lungs are filled with air or empty, the process of taking oxygen by the blood stops, resulting in a lack of oxygen in the blood. This condition stimulates the blood to form more Hb cells, so that when you inhale, the amount of oxygen absorbed by the blood increases, as well as when you exhale, the amount of CO2 that is removed is also greater. The holding of breath will also cause a decrease in the amount of oxygen in the body's tissues, which increases the acidity of the body's tissues. The process of moving air in and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the body's internal environment, primarily by introducing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. Breathing exercises are designed and performed to achieve more controlled and efficient ventilation