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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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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(24) Baay‚ Jan Michael U. The Tallest and Latest Monument of Jose Rizal in the Philippines (Calamba‚ Laguna) The tallest Jose Rizal monument was inaugurated during the celebration of Jose Rizal ’s 150th birth anniversary in the City of Calamba in Laguna‚ earlier today. The event was attended by His Excellency President Benigno Simeon Aquino III (PNoy) who unveiled the gigantic statue‚ himself. PNoy unveiling Dr. Jose Rizal ’s tallest statue to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of the National
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guilty of spreading sedition based on his anti-friar novels written while he was overseas. These novels were not intended to cause a Spanish overthrow‚ but to show decent‚ liberal-minded Spaniards how unjust things were back in his beloved islands. Jose was found guilty and exiled hundreds of miles away to the very fringes of the archipelago to the tiny town of Dapitan on Mindanao. He spent years there‚ and during the
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José Parlá José Parlá is a modern contemporary artist born in 1973 Miami‚ Florida. Parlá began painting in 1983 and by 1988 he was accepted into the Savannah College of Art and Design’s scholarship program. He used this experience to extend his art making by combining concepts he already knew as a self taught artist and concepts he learnt from the Savannah College. Parlá’s works are huge canvases (usually 4x6ft) painted in a way that makes you wonder what it is that lurks under all the layers
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The "Cinco de Mayo" celebration commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5‚ 1862‚ under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza. The Battle was important because 4‚000 Mexican soldiers defeated a much better-equipped French army composed of 8‚000 men that had not been defeated for almost 50 years. In 1862‚ the Mexican army defeated France’s forces at the Battle of Puebla. This battle was one of many such altercations that took
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JOSE RIZAL‚ RTU STYLE When viewed from a distance‚ it looks like a stone guardian on a platform overlooking three massive pools of water (with diving boards‚ as students call it). At night‚ it seems like it’s guarding a door to another realm‚ much like the gatekeeper in the film Thor. What’s odd‚ though‚ is that it wears an overcoat. But of course‚ it is Jose Rizal. Thousands of people pass by the monument in the University every day. For those who have seen it a countless times‚ it’s no unusual
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Jose Carlos was administered an 11th grade level passage‚ “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells‚ to read aloud in English. It was apparent this passage is still advanced for his language level of fluency. He mispronounced many words such as: vague‚ inkling‚ Filby‚ Hastings‚ anachronisms‚ Plato‚ extravagant‚ theories‚ interest‚ communistic‚ and verifications. However‚ the student had no prior exposure to the proper names and other high tier vocabulary words. Jose Carlos conducted many pauses to sound out
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Going Gone by Abraham Lopez An American‚ and former agent for the United States‚ assassinated Prime Minister Saiid‚ a liked and well-respected Muslim leader. The assassin was shot and killed by the person who hired him and who then turned his body over to the mob for desecration and mutilation after hanging above the American Embassy. Kurt Ramis‚ former Assistant Director of the CIA‚ presently retired‚ and suffering with cancer‚ feared that there would be retaliation. He told his son to take his
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