padata sangutan chap 1

Chapter 1
1. Kuya Rico knows well the people and activities in this street throughout the day. (tense consistency; you used past tense earlier)
2. how they give in to drug and alcohol abuses and to murders. (tense consistency)
3. As he dwelt in this place for so many years, he learns to view them as just “normal,” that is, just a part of his society’s everyday life. (tense consistency)
4. n the past, common business establishments that are found in Junquera (tense consistency, you mentioned “in the past”)
5. This study aims to understand Junquera through the context of its transformation. It (This) describes
6. Very good introduction and significance.


Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Rationale of the Study
It was afternoon in General Junquera Street when Kuya Rico, a resident in Kamagayan, Cebu City, spent the rest of his day watching people pass by along the University of San Carlos – Main Campus. For 29 years, he had been a witness to the changes that are happening in this area beside the university. At daytime, he was busy working as a “dispatcher” for jeepneys along the street. At night-time, he made fun with his friends in the Karaoke bars while watching suspicious girls who were eyeing for costumers. Kuya Rico knows well the people and activities in this street throughout the day.
As he sat in his self-made bench, he recalled the events from his childhood in this street where his family’s barong-barong once stood. Those were the days when he witnessed events which were so tragic that, from a psychological perspective, should not have been seen by a young child like Rico. However, Kuya Rico saw (1) how girls were harassed on the street, (2) how boys seek sexual pleasures from prostituted women, and (3) how they give in to drug and alcohol abuses and to murders. As he dwelt in this place for so many years, he learns to view them as just “normal,” that is, just a part of his society’s everyday life. For 29 years, he has learned to live with this mysterious and chaotic street --- yes, mysterious and chaotic in the sense that for many years now, this area in Cebu City cannot be clearly understood. At daytime, usual business activities dominate the street while at night illicit sex trade becomes its trademark.
The street being referred to here is a famous Cebuano street called Gen. Junquera named after the Spanish Governor General who was responsible for the construction of “Teatro Junquera” which once stood along the street (Mojares, 1997). It bisects P. del Rosario and Sanciangko streets and is a part of Kamagayan, Cebu City. In the past, common business establishments that are found in Junquera are “pungko-pungko businesses.” These are sidewalk establishments found in street corners which sell cheaper products to the consumers, most of the time those products are food (Cabacungan, 2006). However, folks and natives remember the place as an area of massive prostitution (Seares, 2010). For so many years, the street never had any brand name other than the fact that whores once dominated the place. As time passed by and modernization impacted the city’s social core, business activities (e.g., shoe repair, buying and selling, etc.) began to flourish in the area replacing the old set-up of Junquera. Nevertheless, the notion that Junquera is a place where many prostituted women meet is not yet eliminated. In fact, underground prostitution still operates up to this very day.
The reality that Junquera has changed from past to present supports the idea of Sociocultural evolutionism that societies evolved as a result of influences from various factors. The introduction of new ways to the old social set-up in Junquera is a testimony that any society responds to the growing demands of time. In addition, the changes in Junquera are not only a matter of past-to-present relationship but also of day-to-night transformation. These changes in Junquera motivated the researchers to curiously investigate the two phenomena of change in Junquera, those are the transformations from past to present and from day to night.
This study aims to understand Junquera through the context of its transformation. It describes Junquera during the day and during the night. It will try to answer why Junquera is considered a daytime business zone and a night-time prostitution hub. Through the researchers’ observations and interviews from five knowledgeable people in Junquera who dwell in Junquera for over ten years, the researchers present their findings about Junquera’s past, present, daytime and night-time facets. Although the present Junquera is a lot different from its past and its daytime is as distinct as its night-time, the researchers try to gather information that would somehow answer the common issues Junquera is facing as a place of still undiscovered facts.
In spite of the widespread transformations happening in Junquera, it is surprising to note that prostitution is still Junquera’s trademark when night breaks, while some of the respondents say that there are incidences of prostitution even during the day. For this reason, this study will inevitably consider prostitution in the hope of knowing Junquera in a greater aspect.




Statement of the Problem
This research study aimed to find out the dual looks of Junquera: Business zone at daytime and Prostitution hub at night-time by assessing whether the past has influenced or not the present state of Junquera. Specifically, the study intended to answer the sub-questions through these following objectives:
• To examine the historical background of Junquera in terms of the following: economic activities, physical set-up and profile of the occupants.
• To assess whether the past Junquera has influenced the present-day Junquera in terms of the following: economic activities and profile of the occupants.
• To compare the present Junquera from past Junquera in terms of the following: economic activities, physical set-up and profile of the occupants.
• To see how the business spot of Junquera at daytime is transformed into a prostitution den at night-time.
• To find out how prostitution emerged in Junquera.





Significance of the Study
This research, being descriptive, would help interested people from different parts of the world particularly the Filipinos in better understanding Junquera Street, Cebu City. Throughout the study, the researchers would be analysing Junquera’s past economic activities, physical set-up and the profile of the occupants that would allow the people to have a glimpse of its past so that they could relate it to its present situation.
The study would somehow clear some issues and speculations about the street, being so-called the Prostitution capital of Cebu so that the residents of Junquera might be able to develop and change the image of their place. In turn, the people with these negative speculations about Junquera would be aware and corrected by the present reality in Junquera even though many people in the past already undermined Junquera’s image.
Moreover, the government of Cebu City would be aided in finding solutions to these long-time problems in the street. The officials in the government might do some preliminary actions with the end of restoring back the beauty of Junquera as an exceptional district in Barangay Kamagayan.
For the residents, this research might help them in solving the problems on prostitution, drug and alcohol abuses, and other vices we can name of. The occupants might be assisted in their efforts of renewing Junquera and in developing its shoe industry. To the women in Junquera, this research is conducted so as to protect these women from engaging into prostitution predominant already in Junquera and, in cases of already prostituted women; they might be freed from the evil of prostitution through the actions of concerned individuals.
Above all, this study will try to find solutions for the improvement of Junquera as a Cebuano street. The researchers still expect that through this study, negative conceptions and old notions by the folks and natives will be changed after the findings will bring to reality the present condition of Junquera; that the vices and crimes in the place will at least be reduced to the smallest measure possible; that the government of Cebu City will do some actions in developing Junquera in its physical set-up, people, and economy; and that Junquera will become a place of decent entertainment once more.