José Rizal Essays

  • Jose Rizal In The Philippines

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    bloodshed.” (Freedom’s Myrtyr. 2003) Dr. José Rizal said on his second book El Filibusterismo in which spark the dislike of the Spanish government towards him. Rizal was a Filipino nation hero for creating a peaceful revolt against the Spaniard’s corrupted rule in the Philippines, and for raising the Filipino men’s nationalism through his books and speeches during the colonization of the Philippines by the Spanish. Rizal was born in June 19th 1861 to Francisco Rizal and Teodora Quintos who also opposed

  • Of Jose Rizal and His Moustache

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    1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Only a few took note of Rizal having a suave physique. He is usually described of what he virtually was perceived through different sources. Of all those different sources, some have shown discrepancies. This de facto notion was inculcated by the movie Bayaning Third World, directed by Mike de Leon. Descriptions of Jose Rizal nonetheless lack of what truly is suave of him. Little disputes are made in debunking what he usually have worn and what he was irked

  • Jose Rizal National Hero Of The Philippines

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    is what Dr. Jose Rizal said. Jose Rizal is widely known as the national hero of my country, the Philippines. Dr. Rizal is a very special man. He is the man that brought freedom to the Philippines. The Spanish friars had kept the country misruled for about 333 years. A country is for people, for everyone, it is to be cared and not mistreated. Dr. Jose Rizal wrote novels that brought him hatred and an undeserved death . He sacrificed himself for the freedom of my country and his. Dr. Rizal called peaceful

  • Essay About The Philippine Revolution

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    Introduction The Philippine Revolution was a military conflict between the Filipinos and Spanish colonial regime that started in the year 1896. The Filipinos were growing exhausted of the Spaniards’ rule over them. A charismatic leader, Andrès Bonifacio, formed a ghost propaganda movement, The Katipunan, to battle the Spaniards for independence. The Katipunan leaders and everyone associated with the revolution all knew the risks of getting captured: dying and risking the chance at freedom. War and

  • Book Report On A Nation Aborted

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    Introduction About recovering a lost history and vision, an invitation to re-read Rizal, rethink his project, and revision Philippine nationalism. Traces the trajectory of the Philippine nationalist movement from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its deformation and co-optation by US imperialism in the early years of the 20th century--- through a genealogy of the rise and fall of the symbol of Rizal, the national hero. Reconstructs Rizal's vision of the nation, a moral vision that

  • The Last Will and Testament

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    The greatest and wisest of philosophers and historians once knew of a story that is filled with mystery and curiosity. It has been said, that several centuries before present time, a community flourished in what is now the Philippines. The place was like those that you would see in films that featured the ancient times - festivals full of arts and music, peasants and farmers working with utmost passion, denizens swaying to beats with drunken revelries. Innovation and progress developed in the land

  • Bwenatoga Maya Livati: A Short Story

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    Bwenatoga Maya Lilavati lived in Mojenjo Daro, India. His parents died of pneumonia when he was young and all he had left was his older brother, Sadeine. Bwenatoga lived as a guard of his highly protected city. Sadeine was a guard as well except he worked on the other side of town and rarely saw his brother. Bwenatoga stayed up in a watchtower all day while his brother got to patrol the city. He was proud of what he was though. He rarely complained to his Raja Commander for a promotion and was delighted

  • Rizal the Subversive

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    Rizal as a Rational Thinker During his life, Jose Rizal was described as a heretic and subversive, an enemy of both the Church and Spain. He has made tremendous contributions to the progress of the Filipino society. His political works and essays, being anti-clerical and anti-colonial, frankly aimed to expose the maladies of his time and cure the Philippines of what he calls “the social cancer”. Rizal had been the progressive radical thinker, and promptly answered the ailing call of his Motherland

  • Embracing Rizalism as a Way of Life

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    Rizalism as a Way of Life Jose Rizal, a hero! Many of our youth today equate Rizal, the hero with martyrdom, death! Being a hero isn’t “cool”, this is for “freaks”. Jose Rizal is no longer “in”. Distinguished members of the board of judges, ladies and gentlemen – I don’t have to go into detailed account of dates, places and people in the biography of Pepe. No! All literate Filipinos start their lesson in history with the stories of the boy from Calamba, Laguna. Rizal lived his life in an extraordinary

  • Cansecos Steroid Allegations

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    In Jose Canseco’s 60 Minutes interview, he stated that he and some of his teammates used steroids in the past. With all the hoopla surrounding Major League Baseball and its connection with allegations made by BALCO president Victor Conte, this report is intriguing at the least. High profile athletes such as Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds have been under direct scrutiny over the past year because of the steroid issue. Canseco firmly states that he and former teammate Mark McGwire casually injected together

  • Folk Tales

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    makes ends meet by growing beans and selling them to the local townspeople, who are very sympathetic to Filipa. When a rich sheep herder named Don Jose starts harassing Filipa because she refuses to marry him She wishes for him to fall off a cliff and break his neck, when her wish comes true she feels very guilty and makes penance by giving away all of Don Jose’s sheep to those poor enough to deserve them. At the end of her penance she finds her son. This story tells allot about Spanish Culture

  • one hundred years of solitude

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    life – magic becomes more real than reality itself. The theme of religion and different perspectives on issue are introduced by different characters. The indigenous members of the Buendia family are very flexible toward religion. For example, Jose Arcadio Buendia teases the priest. Most of the Buendias have incestuous relationships. Most of the Buendia men have affairs with prostitutes. These examples do not prove that the Buendias are nonreligious but on the contrary they believe that religion

  • Characterization, Symbolism, and Repetition in Hundred Years of Solitude

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    contemplative, stubborn man, or the impetuous, forceful man, the patient and nurturing woman, and so on, are represented by more than one individual in the several generations of the Buendia family. All the Jose Arcadios, for example, are assumed to have at least some of the traits of the original Jose Arcadio Buendia (impetuous and forceful), and all the Aurelianos have something in common with Colonel Aureliano Buendia (tendency toward solitude and contemplation). The repetitions are not exact, but

  • Balthazar

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    money?) ¡° Balthazar¡¯s Marvelous Afternoon ¡±, written by Gabrial Garcia Marquez, is a story about a birdcage and a poor carpenter, Balthazar. In the story, Balthazar made a beautiful birdcage that was commissioned by Pepe, the son of a rich man, Jose Montiel. However, when the carpenter took it to the boy, his father refused to pay and rather said to sell it other people. Although Balthazar got really angry, he gave the cage to Pepe as a present. At the end of the story, he told townpeople that

  • Solitude and Isolation in One Hundred Years of Solitude

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    alone, and forgotten, is their destiny. The novel begins with geographic isolation.  Jose Arcadio Buendia shouts, "God damn it!  Macondo is surrounded by water on all sides!"  Whether it is, in truth, an island is irrelevant.  The town believed itself to be cut off from the rest of the world.   In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are looking for solitude.  The founding of Macondo was a result of escaping Jose Arcadio Buendia's murder of Prudencio Aguilar.  Aguilar's ghost haunted them, eventually

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude: Linear and Circular Time

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    plot of the novel is simple: Jose Arcadio Buendia marries his cousin Ursula, they found Macondo, the family grows, declines, and is eventually blown off the face of the earth by a hurricane. There is a beginning, and time moves the story to a total, apocalyptic conclusion (117). Within this linear background, the structure of One Hundred Years of Solitude is circular (McMurray 77). Events throughout the entire novel repeat themselves in cycles. The names Aureliano and Jose Arcadio are repeated in each

  • My Philosophy as a Teacher

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    recount that discussion about Elie Weisel’s Night to her friend on the bus, and I want them to feel enlightened and emotional about it. Years from now, I want to hear Jose tell his son about the class where he realized he wasn’t stupid and could write well. I want him to write a story about it. I haven’t taught a David, a Julie or a Jose yet, but one day I want to have that kind of effect on my students. No matter how a child feels about school, it plays a tremendous part in a child’s life. Teachers

  • Malcolm X

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    of these areas try to create. For example, KNTV news continually reports on the thefts and shootings in East San Jose but does not make an effort to show how residents are dealing with these situations. The day a local East San Jose church helped sway the city council to put a streetlight on a very busy intersection, the news pre-empted the report with an accident on another East San Jose intersection. As a result, most people in these communities do not realize that they have power to change their

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude: Relationship between Ursual and Jose Arcadio Buendia

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude:  The Relationship between Ursual and Jose Arcadio Buendia In literature, a central relationship can bond a group, and serve as a measure of the vitality of the society that it bonds. One such monumental relationship is that between Ursual and Jose Arcadio Buendia in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the chosen passage, the author uses imagery, metaphors, and characterization to illustrate their relationship, establishing a preview of their

  • The Narrator of One Hundred Years of Solitude

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    able to read a character's thoughts. Generally, we get to know characters from close observation of what they say and do, and we have to infer what they may be thinking. The narrator's knowledge also fails us in the one great unresolved mystery: Jose Arcadio, elder son of the founder, is murdered in his bed, but no one ever knows by whom. The narrator is also ignorant of who guns down all of the colonel's illegitimate sons and, in fact, seems as surprised as we are when the last survivor from