Jose Rizal Essay

fearlessly admits that Jose Rizal should not be the Philippine national hero and I somehow agree with his stand. For many decades, distorted information about Rizal and our history has been passed from one generation to another. Our history textbooks and professors have successfully made the Filipinos believe that Jose Rizal was the greatest Filipino hero who served his country during the time of the Spaniards' conquest and national revolution. This, in fact, is not true for Rizal even opposed…

Philippines is a country composed of different regions; which are inhabited by different people with different cultures. There are the Tagalogs, Pangasinenses, Cebuanos, Kapampangans, Bicolanos, Warays, Hiligaynons, Zambuangeños, Ilocanos, Surigaonons and the Moros (Wikipedia). It is a common knowledge to everyone that these groups of people live together as Filipinos in peace and harmony, but there is one ethnic group that wishes to have its own government. The Moros or Bangsamoro people are…

humanity of Rizal as the hero’s asset. A Victorian hero is one’s ultimate picture of Guerrero’s biography of Rizal. Guerrero even talked about a popular myth about Rizal in the book. The popular myth, as Guerrero pertains is that Rizal could never love a woman as he had given his whole heart to his country. “In any case, no woman was worthy of the hero; he had a higher fate.” Well, those are the words anyone would say to Rizal to comfort the hero’s bitter heart, most especially the words Rizal…

Spaniards executed. Next in line of the execution was Father Jacinto Zamora who was involved because of the discovery of a letter he wrote containing suspicious words. And lastly Father Jose Burgos who was blamed by Octavo that is one who will rebel against the Spanish government was also…

A La Juventud Filipina Jose Rizal wrote the poem a la juventud Filipina in 1879 when he was but a student in the University of Santo Tomas, and as the title suggests, was written for the Filipino youth. The first prize was conferred upon Rizal for this composition, at a competition held by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. Rizal’s teenage years were the years when his nationalism and patriotism were being fostered more and more, according to Fr.…

because he is fending for himself including the payment for his school fees. Furthermore, the reader can have an idea of who Rizal was like by looking at his purchases whether he is inclined to something that has not been known before. Through my reading of Rizal’s diary, I have seen Rizal as a thrifty and melancholic achiever who has a peaceful and thoughtful nature. Firstly, Rizal can be seen as a thrifty and virtuous man who knows how to prioritize his education…

America: The Bigger The Better It’s Christmas day and Alex Tizon goes to open your first gift; he automatically picks the biggest present to open first because he’s been taught his whole life that bigger is better. Almost all Americans have the philosophy that bigger is better because we live in a world where everything needs to be bigger: our phones, meals, computers, watches, cars, and everything else. It’s not just our appliances though, Alex Tizon captures this in his piece “Land of The…

One of the longest rebellion made in Philippine history was the Dagohoy Rebellion. The rebellion was led by himself, Francisco Dagohoy and it was held in the island of Bohol from year 1744 to 1829. This rebellion took the Spaniards 85 years to quell and completely end the act Francisco Dagohoy led. The reason why Dagohoy took rebellion was that the Spanish authorities did not allow and refused a Christian Burial for Dagohoy’s brother’s death. This made Dagohoy promise to himself that he will…

My people, the Filipino race, are citizens of the world. Our lives are God-given and the fact that we were made into this world shows that we have the right to live as part of this world. We all stand on equal footing, and so, we must be treated the same as you do your people. We demanded the simple respect that at least you treat our people as human, but you did not deliver. Such pride of being a lighter complexion and being of a different race from us had made you look at us with such disgust…

In the early twentieth century, the United States set its eyes upon Asia. It was looking for an Open Door Constituency trading policy that was laid out by U.S politicians such as, Teddy Roosevelt, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Alfred T. Mahan. After failed attempts to trade with the Japanese during the mid nineteenth century, the United States gained a foothold in Asia by annexing the Philippines, which it had gained in the Treaty of Paris (1898) from Spain as a result of the Spanish defeat…