José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda (June 19‚ 1861 – December 30‚ 1896)‚ was a Filipino polymath‚ patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by the National Heroes Committee. His execution day in 1896‚ now known as Rizal Day‚ is a national holiday in the Philippines. Rizal was born to a rich family in Calamba‚ Laguna
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AN ESSAY ABOUT JOSE RIZAL Who is Jose Rizal to common people? What is the impact of his life‚ woks and writings? When we ask most average persons today these questions‚ they might answer something like‚ he is our national hero‚ he died in Bagumbayan‚ and he wrote two great novels. Beyond that nothing more is explicitly said about Jose Rizal. As I read through the chapters of the book I have come discover many more things that is admirable about this man. In his childhood‚ he wrote a poem to
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JOSE RIZAL The movie tells the life story of Jose Rizal‚ the national hero of the Philippines. It covers his life from his childhood to his execution at the hands of the Spanish forces occupying the Philippines in the late 19th century. We are also thrown into the world of Rizal’s novels. So we get a glimpse of how he viewed Filipino society under the Spanish heal. One note‚ this movie is not for the faint of heart. There are graphic depictions of violence and even torture. The opening few
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Jose Rizal‚ An Exemplary Leader Many were still debating on the credibility of Jose Rizal as the national hero of the Philippines. Many assumes that he was an American hero for he was appointed by the Americans. Others believed that Bonifacio was the real hero for he was the one who fought the battle for the Philippines. Who is who? Who is the real hero‚ who is the greater leader? I myself believed then that Rizal do not deserve to be the national hero and is not worthy to be called a leader
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Pride by Sionil F. Jose from Sionil Jose’s Book Waywaya and other short stories. 1. What are the settings of short stories of Sionil Jose? 1.1 Place - urban p. 58 ".. shop windows and the cars edged one another on the Escolta. He did not call for the office car to take him home..." 1.2 Time - afternoon to midnight p. 58 ".. but in a while the iceplant siren blew into the dead afernon air- it was five and the crownd began to swell in the cafe. " p. 59 " When
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Unidentified vandals defaced the monument of Philippine national hero Dr. Jose Rizal in Madrid‚ said a Negros-based priest visiting Spain. Brother Jaazeal Jakosalem‚ property administrator of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos said he saw the vandalized monument on Tuesday. “Being in Spain‚ I visited the monument as a proud Filipino‚ and as a faithful disciple of the sculptor‚ I was shocked to discover that the monument is defaced with those dirty words‚" Jakosalem said in an article
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The San Jose Museum of Art is nicely decorated and furnished museum with many different types of art. I decided to start out by looking at some of the various paintings. There were many different kinds‚ including traditional oil paintings on canvas as well as ordinary paper. One that stood out in my mind was "Desert Restaurant" by John Register. It’s a painting of the inside of a diner sitting in the middle of an open desert. The picture gives an eerie sense of isolation. One sculpture that
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Rizal in the Big Screen: A Summary Paper on Jose Rizal the Movie It was finished. Jose Rizal’s life‚ works‚ and writings finally culminated in the vast expanse of land facing the Manila Bay where he stood in front of the firing squad and the teeming crowd of Filipinos and Spaniards all under the morning sun of December 30‚ 1896. This is just one of the memorable scenes in the film based on his life‚ not only for its historical significance‚ but for its cinematography and focus on production
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On February 28‚ 1888‚ a year after the publication of Noli Me Tangere‚ and six months after his arrival in the Philippines‚ José Rizal sailed from Manila again‚ by "advice" of the government. The letters he wrote back home show how his heart ached at going‚ yet his judgment told him that it was best for him to go. The phenomenal effect of Noli Me Tangere made it clear that Rizal could wield a mighty influence through his pen‚ but to write the truth he would have to go to some country where he would
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Jose Clemente Orozco was a famous Mexican Social Realist who specialized in bold murals that established Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros‚ and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists‚ fond of the theme of human suffering‚ and realist. Mostly influenced by symbolism‚ he was also a genre painter between 1922 and 1948. Orozco’s painting Hidalgo was painted in 1949 at the governor’s palace in Guadalajara. The ceiling painted
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