Jose rizal detailed biography of william
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Life and Works of Rizal
Life and Works of Rizal
JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was
born on June 19, , in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of
11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished
families. His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called "a model
of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a highly
cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and prudent mother," was born in
Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila.
At the age of 3, he learned the alphabet from his mother; at 5, while learning to read and write,
he already showed inclinations to be an artist. He astounded his family and relatives bygd his
pencil drawings and sketches and bygd his moldings of clay. At the age 8, he wrote a Tagalog
poem, "Sa Aking Mga Kabata," the theme of which revolves on the love of one’s la
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Rizal in the American Congress
By Vicente Albano Pacis
December 27, &#;IN the semi darkness of the ground floor of the US Capitol in Washington, I entered an office by mistake—and stumbled upon the author of the Philippine Bill of —and an interesting episode in Rizalian lore.
It was Though perhaps not as critical as that of , the American congressional situation with respect to the Philippines was serious. In Manila, General Leonard Wood, the Governor-General, and Manuel L. Quezon, the Senate President, were in the midst of a knock-down-and-dug-out fight. And friends of the general on Capitol Hill were active. One of them, tough and determined Congressman Robert Bacon of New York, had introduced a bill separating Mindanao and Jolo from the Philippines and retaining them under US sovereignty, should Luzon and the Visayas become independent, Senator Sergio Osmeña has rushed to Washington in alarm to try and block the shocking proposal.
A young Associated Press correspondent,
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For this entry, I wanted to write something different; something that I haven&#;t encountered as I researched on William Shakespeare. I found it difficult at first because Shakespeare is EVERYWHERE, literally everywhere&#; in books, as figurines, in commercials and even as lollipops (seriously, shakespeare lollipops? That&#;s so creative!).
Then it hit me. During our History class, we were talking about Dr. Jose Rizal, the National Hero of the Philippines. Our teacher said that Rizal has been adapted into so many ways. There are even those Rizalista who treat Jose Rizal as a god or a prophet. This reminded me of William Shakespeare. Just as how William Shakespeare is everywhere, Jose Rizal is everywhere as well.
Both Shakespeare and Rizal have famous works. They both wrote poems that are remembered and are so influential up to this very day. Rizal however was more political in a way that all his works centered to what was happening the Philippines during the colonization of the Sp