forcing him out of power was an invasion that came to be known as “The Bay of Pigs”. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by Cuban exiles and the US government to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was to take place on April 17‚ 1961 by an estimated 1‚400 Cubans that were trained by the CIA (). Although the Cuban exiles were the ones who came up with the idea to invade and attempt to force Fidel Castro out of power‚ it soon became known as a United States government
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IMPORTANT PEOPLE REGION I -2012951196975Enriqueta de Peralta July 15‚1882 was born in Dingras‚ Ilocos Norte An Ilocana poet who is a known advocate of women’s rights and issues. Peralta was a social worker and was an active member of various organizations‚ which included Dingras Women’s Club‚ Ilocos Norte Women’s Club‚ and the Provincial Women’s Club of Ilocos Norte. Peralta worked hard for the passage of a legislation that grants Filipino women the right to vote. She also proposed the celebration
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martyrdom our great national hero‚ Dr. Jose P. Rizal. This year‚ the President will lead the simultaneous raising of Philippine flag at half-mast and wreath offering at the monument of Jose Rizal at the Rizal Park in Manila‚ Calamba‚ Laguna and in Dapitan‚ Zamboanga del Norte on December 30‚ 2010. The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Rizal: Haligi ng Bayan”. Although frequently at the center of controversies and criticism of the public‚ the government must be given credits for its efforts
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primarily to gain independence from Spain through revolution. The society was initiated by Filipino patriots Andrés Bonifacio‚ Teodoro Plata‚ Ladislao Diwa‚ and others on the night of July 7‚ when Filipino writer José Rizal was sentenced to banished to Dapitan. Initially‚ Katipunan was a secret organization until its discovery in 1896 that led to the outbreak of Philippine Revolution. The word "katipunan" (literally means association) came from the root word "tipon"‚ an indigenous Tagalog word‚ meaning:
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First Romance of Rizal was Segunda Katigbak a pretty fourteen-year old Batangueña from Lipa.In Rizals own words‚ she was rather short‚with eyes that were eloquent and warm‚ rosy cheeked‚ with an enchanting and provocative smile that revealed very beautiful teeth and her entire self diffused a mysterious charm. Unfortunately‚ his first love was engaged to be married to a town mate- Manuel Luz. His second romance was Leonor Valenzuela who was a tall girl with a regal
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The concept of exile‚ or the act of being separated from others‚ is a common threat in many pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature. The reasoning for incorporating the idea of exile into so many works is to instill the culture’s greatest fear in order to create a greater impact on the reader or listener. The Anglo-Saxon people wanted to be remembered in the future. If exiled‚ no memory of this person would ever remain in the future because he or she was banished from the land to forever be forgotten
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the Spanish medical corps in Cuba? Why did he‚ moreover‚ give Rizal a letter of recommendation‚ addressed to the Ministers of War and of the Ultramar‚ a portion of which is given below? "His (Rizal’s) conduct during the four years he remained in Dapitan has been exemplary‚ and he is‚ in my opinion‚ the more deserving of pardon and benevolence in that he is in no way involved in the chimerical attempt we are deploring‚ neither in the
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Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ written by Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden respectively‚ are both responses to exile and isolation and a cry for those who are suffering from them. Disabled‚ written in 1917‚ was a response to the isolation caused by disability and especially that of war veterans. Auden’s‚ Refugee Blues‚ written in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War‚ was criticism of the widespread discrimination of Jews in Europe and more specifically German Jews by the Nazis. A key difference between
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Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film‚ one is living‚ the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay‚ a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject‚ his own life is affected when he unravels his subject’s hidden life and secret love. Written by Anonymous Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film. Jay Santiago is a gay TV producer documenting the family of a gay hate crime victim who happens to be his
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Chapter 19 El Filibusterismo He had begun writing it on October 1887 while practicing medicine in Calamba The following year‚ in London‚ he made some changes in the plot and corrected some chapters already written He wrote more chapters in Paris and Madrid‚ and finished the manuscript in Biarritz on March 29‚1891 September 18‚ 1891 the sequel to the Noli came off the Press Privations in Ghent & Alejandro Rizal left Brussel for Ghent a famous university city in Belgium. July 5‚ 1891 His reason
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