Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay by Ariana SchwinnClanton https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50 Alex Wu, Reid Giribaldi, Declan Machold, Ariana Schwinn-Clanton en-us 2023-05-05 14:31:20 UTC 2023-05-08 16:42:09 UTC hello@padlet.com aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579635747 2023-05-05 14:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579635747 aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579636082 2023-05-05 14:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579636082 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579638967 Published in the same year as Patron Saints of Nothing, this documentary details the story of President Duterte's violent campaign against drugs in the Philippines. They grasp the full story by getting the perspectives of people on both sides of the war: the Manila police and an ordinary family from the slums. Watching this could give a lot of background to what was going on in the time of the novel, and what it was really like.]]> 2023-05-05 14:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579638967 aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579650329 These articles speak about the ongoing drug war in the Philippines. In the Philippines drugs are illegal and any use of them warrants your death. Policemen are ordered to offer help to drug pushers and if they do not accept help the policemen are required to murder the drug users. In the article "How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel The Philippine Drug War", readers are given a look into the mind of Duterte. He used Facebook to spread fake information which gives us an idea to how terrible Duterte was in power. The article "Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte's Drug War Photos", readers have the ability to visualize the pain that Filipinos have been enduring, the pain that Duterte has caused. Both of these articles related to Patron Saints of Nothing because they are both centered around the drug war and the lives that are impacted. ]]> 2023-05-05 14:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579650329 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579653216 Patron Saints of Nothing takes place during the Drug War in the Philippines, which is the violent anti-drug campaign enforced by President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration. His power in office lasted from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2022. Under a new power, the war on drugs carries on in the Philippines. This has led to the death of over 12,000 Filipinos and at least 2,555 of those deaths can be attributed to the Philippine National Police so far.

This book is told in the present tense and takes place in the last semester of the main character Jay's senior year.]]> 2023-05-05 14:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2579653216 awu2025_3_1 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2581164396 Though hard to find, this selection was the most endorsed biography of President Duterte I could find, reviewed by publications such as the Economist. This biography documents Duterte's controversial and ruthless ascent of the Philippine governing hierarchy. While the President himself isn't a focal character in Patron Saints, his policies are vital to the progression of the story and understanding his ideals and background could provide an interesting perspective on his infamous "war on drugs", an endeavor central to the novel.]]> 2023-05-08 00:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2581164396 awu2025_3_1 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2581181139 One of Emily Dickinson's numerous poems about truth, is Tell all the truth but tell it slant, a poem reminding readers to always tell the truth, but to tell it with a grain of falsehood. Sometimes the truth can be so surprising, it can affect a person deeply. The poem echoes the plot of Patron Saints, as Jay's parents at first, withheld information about Jun's untimely death in order to protect Jay.]]> 2023-05-08 00:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2581181139 What are the benefits you gain from experiencing a life you ignorantly thought you understood? aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582266359 2023-05-08 15:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582266359 Can allowing yourself to accept what is unknown sometimes be better than finding the real truth? aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582266606 2023-05-08 15:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582266606 Does strict parenting lead to sneaky kids? aschwinnclanton20251 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582267447 2023-05-08 15:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582267447 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582308563 Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. He is also the author of After the Shot Drops and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. He earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master's Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently teaches English and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Patron Saints of Nothing
Originally published: June 18, 2019
Author: Randy Ribay 
Genres: Fiction, Mystery 
Original language: English

]]> 2023-05-08 16:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582308563 https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582339759 In the Phillippines on Valentine's Day eve, 2020 cops of the San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan conducted a buy-bust operation at the house of a suspect named on their narcotics list, but he would sooner be joined by five other unwitting passersby at his house. They were hogtied, blindfolded, and detained in a police station, deprived of lawyers, of due process. Like many before them, soon their bodies were found lifeless and bloodied in separate locations - with alleged guns in hand and the suspiciously convenient presence of drugs in their pockets. This art is seen as a call out to the brutality and inhumane treatment of those who are disenfranchised, living in squalor, unable to defend themselves in the presence of fascist, law enforcers eager to please their masters by fabricating crime where there is none. This art shows another view of what is also going on in the time the patron Saint of Nothing was taken place and shows how harsh and blunt this response was by President Duterte.]]> 2023-05-08 16:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aschwinnclanton20251/acfu8pixr2ta1v50/wish/2582339759