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The United Nations Headquarters resides in international territory in New York City, with further main offices at Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, and has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.




HISTORY OF UNITED NATIONS

The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II (1939–1945). Because of the widespread recognition that humankind could not afford a third world war, the United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations in 1945 in order to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems. The earliest concrete plan for a new world organization was begun under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1939. Franklin D. Roosevelt first coined the term 'United Nations' as a term to describe the Allied countries. The term was first officially used on 1 January 1942, when 26 governments signed the Atlantic Charter, pledging to continue the war effort. On 25 April 1945, the UN Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco, attended by 50 governments and a number of non-governmental organizations involved in drafting the United Nations Charter. The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945 upon ratification of the Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council—France, the Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States—and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. The first meetings of the General Assembly, with 51 nations represented, and the Security Council, took place in Westminster Central Hall in London in January 1946.

The organization was based at the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation's facility in Lake Success, New York, from 1946–1952, before moving to the United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan upon its completion.

Since its creation, there has been controversy and criticism of the United Nations. In the United States, an early opponent of the UN was the John Birch Society, which began a "get US out of the UN" campaign in 1959, charging that the UN's aim was to establish a "One World Government." After the Second World War, the French Committee of National Liberation was late to be recognized by the US as the government of France, and so the country was initially excluded from the conferences that aimed at creating the new organization. Charles de Gaulle criticized the UN, famously calling it le machin ("the thing"), and was not convinced that a global security alliance would help maintain world peace, preferring direct defence treaties between countries.

We may noticed that many of us were not educated. Especially the people in the streets, rivers and many more. Education is one of the problem of the Philippines. That's why our country is not progressive. And also one of the reason was the corruption of the government officials. So let's start about our topic. Last week, our teacher let us to watched a short documentary films about the life of other Filipinos in the other provinces. The " Batang Mansisibak " and " Batang Kalabaw ". The first documentary film was the " Batang Mansisibak ".

Batang Mansisibak


Batang Mansisibak, documents children swimming naked in the dirty water of Manila Bay along Pier 18. As you can see, these children should studying in a school but unfortunately they were working for a young age. 6 in the morning the children will wake up just to go in the Manila Bay and get some garbages just to sell them. Some of the profits of the children is will be given to their parents just for a bit of help. The one boy, started to work when he was just 3 years old. See! How fantastic.

Batang Kalabaw

Many children work at an early age. And the children in " Batang Kalabaw " was one of a good example. Every morning they climb to the mountain to get some woods. The youngest in their group was only 6 years old in age. Every person will carry two woods in their shoulder. And when a wood fell down in the mud, it will be rejected. They will earn only P 1.50 per wood. And the biggest profit was only P 12.00. Cherrielyn was one of the carrying the timber from the mountain, after she done working, she will go home then she will wash their clothes, wash their dishes, taking care of of her siblings. Her father was imprisoned because he killed his family's enemy. And her mother became insane. So she is the one who will raise their family. And in the very young age ( 14 years old ) she is like a mother. And she can't enjoy her teenage life.

We are very blessed that we can't experience the life of our other unfortunate countryman.

- Modern Day Bayanihan -

Philippines is characterized by true blend of cultures. A destinctive blend of east and west happened because of American rule and contact of merchants and traders.
The Filipino character is actually a little bit of all the cultures put together.
Bayanihan is a Filipino term taken from the word bayan, referring to a nation, town or community. The whole term bayanihan refers to a spirit of communal unity or effort to achieve a particular objective.
he origin of the term bayanihan can be traced from a common tradition in Philippine towns where community members volunteer to help a family move to a new place. The process involves literally carrying the house to its new location. This is done by putting bamboo poles forming a strong frame to lift the stilts from the ground and carrying the whole house with the men positioned at the ends of each pole.

- Vietnam Cuisine -

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between culture and food. It is also the art and science of good eating, is one of the Vietnamese's cultural influences. Vietnam is an agriculture-based country.
is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef or chicken. The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with basil, lime, bean sprouts, and peppers that are added to the soup by the consumer. There are somewhat up to 20 kinds of Pho.

Banh Cuon is a dish from northern Vietnam. It is a crepe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice flour filled with ground pork, minced wood ear mushroom, and other ingredients.
A similar Chinese dish is the Cantonese dish usually translated into English as "steamed rice roll" or "rice noodle roll," which is a form of dim sum.
Com hen has a sweet-smelling flavor of rice, onion, and grease, as well as strange tastes of sweet, buttery, salty, sour, bitter, and peppery-hot. It requires 15 different raw materials to prepare for the dish, including mussel, fried grease, watery grease, peanuts, white sesames, dry pancake, salted shredded meat, chilly sauce, banana flower, banana trunk, sour carambola, spice vegetables, peppermint, salad, etc.


There are quiet plenty of traditional delicious dishes of the contrary localities of Vietnam.

- Marriages and Asian Family -

The Asian Traditions of marriage are important in their own way for they aim to bind not only the bride and the groom but also their brides with the help pf these traditions. Family has always played an important role in all the ancient civilizations of Asia. Due to this reason, Asian Traditions ensure that every family member plays a vital role in a family marriage. Beginning from the clergy to the parents of the couple, each have their assigned duties. The underlying meaning of all these religious performances are quite essential. Most of the times, these traditions are a means to bring the two families closer to each other. For instance in most parts of India, the newly wedded bride is supposed to get gifts for all the family members. This is nothing but an attempt on the part of the society to begin a sweet relationship between the bride and the members of the family of which she is about to be a part of. Another important ritual that every Indian lady has to perform before leaving her paternal hose is the ritual of throwing grains behind her as leaves for her in laws place. The significance of this ritual is that the girl symbolically tries to pay back everything that she has received from her parents for so long. It also symbolizes her transformation as a member of a new family altogether.

Japanese marriages are also an integral part of Asian Traditions. If it is a Buddhist marriage, then two strings of beads are interwoven, symbolizing the coming together of the newly wedded souls and the families to which they belong. In Shinto Marriages the bride must wear purple iris flowers on top of her extensively worked upon grand kimono. This is because ancient Japanese tradition considers purple to be the color of love. Asian Traditions also incorporates Chinese traditions where red is the color of love. Hence the bride is adorned in red colored dress with heavy works of dragon painted all over the dress. The groom on the other hand wears a black silk dress and must present a roasted pig as an engagement gift to the bride's family.