José Rizal |Date of birth: |June 19‚ 1861. | |Place of birth: |Calamba‚ Laguna‚ Philippines | |Date of death: |December 30‚ 1896 (aged 35) | |Place of death: |Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park)‚ Manila‚ Philippines | |Major organizations: |La Solidaridad‚ La Liga Filipina | |Major monuments: |Rizal Park
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The Pretender by F. Sionil Jose Summary Antonio Samson had just returned from the United States after finishing his doctorate studies. He visited his father in prison and told his father that he will soon be married to Carmen Villa‚ a member of an affluent family in Manila whom he met in the United States. Carmen’s mother did not like Tony because he is poor while her father likes him because he will be good for business. Anyways‚ the marriage was secretly held far earlier then planned because Carmen
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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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Jose Rizal‚ Liberator of the Philippines In the early morning of December 30‚ 1896‚ 35 year old Jose’ Rizal‚ an indio with strong oriental features but the bearing of a western intellectual‚ wearing a black suit and hat‚ stood erect and calm in an open field by Manila Bay. Ministering to him were two Jesuit priests. Wanting to be master of his own execution‚ he refused to kneel and be blindfolded. He asked to face the firing squad but was forced by the officer in charge to turn his back. A military
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After reading Robert Finlays The Refashioning of Martin Guerre‚ and rummaging through the texts he presents‚ made me get the impression that Natalie Davis is stating merely subjective opinions on the case of Martin Guerre. Robert Finlay gives reasons with clear and convincing evidence on how Natalie Davis doesn’t show enough‚ or at all evidence in the case of Martin Guerre. First‚ Finlay makes a well thought out case against Davis in that “Bertrande’s good faith was always assumed” and “never
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The Battle of San Jacinto San Jacinto is known as the birthplace of Texas freedom. San Jacinto is considered one of the world’s definitive fights. Sam Houston and his battered band of 910 pioneers steered Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna‚ President‚ and Dictator of Mexico and so-called "Napoleon of the West‚" with his glad armed force‚ and changed the guide of North America. This story that has excited Texans for over a century. An account of high courage and initiative; of horrid hardship‚ disaster and
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summary The El Filibusterismo is the sequel of the Noli Me Tangere. Both nationalistic novels were written by Dr. Jose Rizal. In Noli Me Tangere‚ Rizal described the full extent of slavery and abuse suffered by the native Indios at the hands of Spanish authorities. Hence in this second book‚ Rizal pictured a society at the brink of revolution. The Indios have started to adapt liberal ideas and guerrilla factions have started to revolt against the government. The advent of the novel starts
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writer‚ intellectual‚ statesman as well as becoming the seventh President of Argentina. He fought for a higher level of European education in addition to a modernization and Europeanization for all of his country for the people of Argentina. In Cuba‚ Jose Marti was a tremendous and outstanding writer and revolutionary philosopher who fought for the independence and liberation of Cuba from Spain and effectively preserving the traditional Latin America. By
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crops‚ perhaps that is the reason why people may want to move there. The poverty rate of those living in the San Joaquin valley‚ about twenty percent‚ was way below the nation’s poverty rate of about fourteen percent. The rate of educated people‚ including adults with a high school diploma‚ is also much lower in this valley. According to the Joint center for political and economic studies San Joaquin Valley place matters team‚ the life expectancy of the residents ranges widely from sixty nine years
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SACE STAGE TWO MODERN HISTORY SANS-CULOTTE EMPATHIC RESPONSE We‚ the Sans-Culotte‚ make up 99% of the population of France; this equates to 28 million angry and hungry people looking for change. It is 1794 and we have already taken many steps in assuring our expectations are met. We have been brought to the forefront of the revolution and our presence is influential in the overthrow of the monarchy. We have been neglected and been misleadingly depicted as urban proletariat‚ valiantly resisting
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