The Jose Rizal

Jose Rizal's signature by wiki.org    There are questions we challenged ourselves, do we appreciate Rizal? Or we only recognize him as a Hero and a prominent writer? Honestly, if any would be asked about providing details about Rizal, some might suppose he's a womanizer, a liberalist, a hero, and a devoted son. Those were only his basic and known facts we perceived and discovered about him. To widen our knowledge about him and appreciate him more, these are three facts out of several facts about him that could be very helpful to know Rizal more:   Jose Rizal is a sculptor . A man like him is a jack of all trades, a man who can do more. Well, except singing, I might say. Jose Rizal wasn’t just only good at one thing. Not only he’s good at literature and science, but he’s also good at arts, especially in sculpting. Jose Rizal showed the potentials of being a great sculptor ever since he was young. In fact, at age 14, he sculpted a 9-inch statuette of the sacred ...

photo from google “Indolence in the Philippines is a chronic malady, but not a hereditary one. The Filipinos have not always been what they are.” -Jose Rizal    To continue his crusade in awakening his compatriots to their misdeeds during the Spanish Colonization, Rizal authored a very long essay named La Indolencia de Los Filipinos, commonly known as The Indolence of the Filipinos. The Indolence of the Filipinos appeared in La Solidaridad with five installments in 1890. This essay exposed the indolence present in the Filipinos in the past, and can be seen today. Rizal did not proscribe it, but rather he explains why the Filipinos were acting that way. He pointed out that the Spanish reign was the cause behind the disinclination of the Filipinos, and these are as follows: "In the Philippines one's own and another's faults, the shortcomings of one, the misdeeds of another, are attributed to indolence." - Jose Rizal First , indolence was often ...

photo from esquire.ph One document from the past can increase the legibility of the narrative being passed from generation to generation. These documents have a say to the records of a notable event that happened in the past. But what if that information is a hoax?  A document forged by others that feeds off something from the past to defame and invalidate someone such as Jose Rizal? The Philippines is composed mostly of Catholics, and the Filipinos expect so much from Rizal being a Catholic himself. We wanted him to be in line with us because we're Catholics. This controversy created a debate among the church and the freethinkers since Rizal is a prominent man, and there's a need to talk about the status of Jose Rizal. A lot of historians are studying the life of Jose Rizal because of his influential contribution to the Independence of the Philippines. Rizal's life gives an essence of a must read background story to understand his sentiments and actions. There hav...

photo from: istockphoto.com It might not be simple to engage in a fight with a pen rather than a sword or a gun against powerful enemies, but a young gentleman, who attracted much attention for writing against the church and society, proved something beyond astounding. Who would have thought Rizal has what it takes to be a hero? Jose Rizal might not be fitted to be as an ideal hero for the eyes of the other Filipinos, but behind those achievements masked a story to tell on how he believes life would have been for the Philippines if it weren't for the Spaniards. He is the symbol of nationalism and the patriotic side we must expose for our country. " On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart. "                                                                   ...