Category: Recommendations
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On Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police: How Individual Memories Shape Our Collective Identity
Perhaps, at the end of it all, being human is reason enough to compel oneself to look out for others, memory loss be damned.
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Filipino Rising: How a Common Enemy Can Bring Out the Heroes in Us
Our common enemy today is not a certain group of authorities, but a system. A system of oppression, corruption, and “padrino.”
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Learning From Ants: On Hunter x Hunter’s Iconic Bugs Arc
Meruem’s transformation from an insufferable royal brat to a caring king teaches us that when you include love in forging relationships, you can create something beautiful.
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On Attack on Titan’s Insidious Human Cage
Beyond Paradis, past the sea, and all over Isayama’s war-stricken world, the prison caging humans to their collective doom is a vast, desolate forest.
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When Happenstances are By Design
If Eiichiro Oda can pull Luffy out of his miseries a thousand times over, to lead him to his ultimate dream, is there a reason for me not to believe that a Master Planner more intelligent and capable can do much better for real-life characters such as myself?
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Lessons from Rizal’s The Indolence of the Filipino That Still Matter Today
A love for the Filipino name and what it stands for would have been enough to prove the Westerners who called us indolent wrong.