As a typical Filipinoa‚ Jose Rizal was a product of the mixture of different races. In his veins flowed the blood of both East and West. Like Negrito‚ Indonesian‚ Malay‚ Chinese‚ Japanese and Spanish. Predominantly‚ he was a Malayan and was a magnificent specimen of Asian manhood. Rizal had a trace of Chinese ancestry that came from a businessman named Domingo Lam-Co‚ the ancestor of Rizal’s father. He was a Chinese immigrant from Fukien‚ who arrived in Manila in about 1690. He married a Chinese
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Santos‚ Carlos Gerard B. 1SS14/B2 2012140355 Prof . Cruz Writing Task 2 To many Filipinos‚ Dr. Jose Rizal’s life had been an open book‚ but his works and sacrifices seems not to achieve independence for his country and countrymen but still admired and remembered up to this day. His life was full of controversies and unanswered issues about his works and beliefs. One of them was the issue of his supposed retraction. Retraction is defined as to withdraw a promise‚ statement or
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F. Sionil José or in full Francisco Sionil José (born December 3‚ 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. José’s works - written in English - have been translated into 22 languages‚ including Korean‚ Indonesian‚ Russian‚ Latvian‚ Ukrainian and Dutch. José was born in Rosales‚ Pangasinan‚ the setting of many of his stories. He spent his childhood
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except for the bottle of alcohol and the small border on the bottom that consists of the alcohol that you would find in the bottle. The bold motto “ PURSUE YOUR DAYDREAMS” also stood out to me. This somewhat has an underlying message as to if you drink Jose Cuervo‚ all your dreams will come true. Since there is a happy couple on the advertisement‚ we could assume that the motto refers to sexual intercourse. It always interests me when there is the very small text at the bottom that states‚ “Drink Responsibly
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Jesus C‚ Zuñiga Jr. Mr. Guro Dais ACT - 143 JOSE RIZAL The movie Jose Rizal is about our national Hero Dr. Jose Rizal- His life and work‚ his struggles In order to free his countrymen‚ until his death under the Spaniards. Most of the scenes I like was took place during Rizal’s imprisonment at Dapitan wherein he meets Luis Traviel ( the one who will defend him on his trial in court ) Traviel points out the contradiction that Mother Espana is what made Rizal into what he is. Traviel
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between two Spanish football giants- FC Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. The rivalry between these two has become such a loud issue in football such that any meeting between the two is simply‚ elegantly and without exaggeration known as ‘El Clasico’. El Clasico (also known as El Derbi Español) is the name given in football to a match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. It is contested twice every La Liga season and if the clubs meet in other competitions. It is the second most followed football match worldwide
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Ahmedi lived in a war-torn city so she had to get a better life and go to Pakistan. A boy which his name Aengus and he is finding a girl who he falls in love with her but it was all a dream. They all had a hard time. Have you ever heard of Barrio Boy? Barrio Boy is a story about a boy going to America. The boy is called Ernesto. His new school was called Lincoln School. He had trouble speaking english because all he said was spanish words‚ his first english word was butterfly ‚although‚ he first
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Domenicos Theotocopoulos‚ otherwise known as El Greco‚ was born in Crete in 1541 and died in 1614‚ Domenicos was a talented Cretan painter‚ architect‚ and sculptor. He was given the name El Greco‚ translated literally as "the Greece"‚ because he was born on the island of Crete in 1521 and at that time Crete belonged to Greece. El Greco lived on the island of Crete until the age of 25 when he left to explore the world. In Venice‚ El Greco worked under Titian who was considered the Great Master
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A. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969). The students were suspended from school for showing their support of the anti-war movement. Wearing the armbands was protected by the First Amendment. It is implied that there are limitations to free speech in a school area‚ but the principal lacked the reasoning for imposing the limitations in this case. It was not shown that the conduct from the students would substantially interfere with appropriate school discipline
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Jose V. Ayala‚ Jr. was born on 22 April 1932 in Ermita‚ Manila. He was a poet‚ a fictionist and a painter. His wife‚ Tita Lacambra is also a poet/fictionist and one of their children‚ Joey Ayala‚ is a well-known poet‚ composer and singer. He finished biology at the Ateneo de Manila and agriculture at the UP Los Baños‚ Laguna. After teaching and farming for several years‚ he worked as an advertising copy editor‚ editor for the US Information Service‚ and writer and fiction editor for the Philippine
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