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PEACE

Living in a world that has a lot to do with misunderstandings and troubles are the most difficult things in life. We, people always think of living in a peaceful world that has no problem and live a simple life, but some people are unhappy of that thought. Thus, they make use of other people just to satisfy their needs.

Today, our government is trying to build up a better future for the next generation. having peace in our country is a nice way to start building a peaceful community, and later a peaceful world. Of course, it will not happen if we don't try to cooperate with the person in the position, and i think it is one of the effective ways on helping our country become more committed with its constitutes and make a just and humane society. I've just read an article "Finding Peace" which talks about the happenings in Mindanao. It says there that we should contribute something in order to help build and create peace so that when the time comes that we need one another, there will be no doubt on clinging to another person's arms. On other words, we should not create a barrier that will lead another person to betray us. We should have trust in one another. This is nearly the first step of two opposite sides in having or building bridges for peace.

Peace and unity is what everyone is dreaming about. All of us wants to live in a country with no war, no misunderstanding, and no suffering. But somehow, some people are taking that rare chance from us, thus making our dreams somewhat impossible. Those are the people we should take pity. Those are the people who are lonely and living in darkness and sorrow. They don't know what 'peace' is because they didn't experience it throughout their lives, or maybe they did but they just prefer to forget it. And we should be the ones to help them find true peace within themselves.

In this spherical world, we must consider other people's feelings. How others want to have a peaceful living. We must respect and understand accept that nobody is perfect. That sometimes in this world we're living, people just tend to become good/evil, depending on their nature and environment. So, i believe we should make our simple ways first to have what we needed, and that is peace

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Noli Me Tangere

              Our national hero Gat José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and its sequel, El Filibusterismo, have become widely known as the great novels of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder (human rights abuses that continue to menace our nation), these books represent the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism.They have played a key role in shaping Filipino consciousness – of our Spanish colonial past, and more significantly, of our struggles as a people.

              Few novels have made a more shattering impact on our society than these two novels. And no novelist paid a higher price for self-expression. Rizal was executed by a firing squad mainly because of these two books.Filipinos, inspired by these novels, initiated the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic republic, which survived until 1901, and in 1946, exactly half a century after Rizal’s execution, became the first Asians to win independence from Western colonialism. The narratives expose the violence and abuses suffered by the Filipinos, as well as their struggles, under the almost 400-year Spanish rule.

             From Love and Romance to Resistance and Martyrdom Between the two narratives, the first one, which inspired the production of Noli Me Tangere, The Opera, takes on a more romantic, optimistic and idealistic tone, particularly as the love story between the lead characters, Juan Crisostomo Ibarra and Maria Clara, unfolds.

             The theme of romantic love, however, was apparently farthest from the mind of Rizal as the plot turns from what could have been a tale of romance to a theme of violence and social conflict. The love between Ibarra and Maria Clara is doomed from the start as Ibarra clashed with the villain friar, Padre Damaso, who turns out to be his love interest’s biological father.


             The novels condemn corruption and abuse within the Church, with themes of immorality and rape. The friars are like predators preying on the female natives — Padre Damaso on Pia Alba, Padre Salvi on Maria Clara, and later in the even darker tale of El Filibusterismo, a priest named Padre Camorra would attempt to rape Huli, Basilio’s girlfriend and daughter of Cabesang Tales.

             Accompanying this hideous friar-predator narrative are the themes of hypocrisy and colonial mentality, which pervade the minds of the privileged classes. These are best represented by such characters as Dona Victorina and Don Tiburcio – and to a certain extent – Capitan Tiago, the surrogate father of Maria Clara.

            The rich and the privileged become conspirators and act like blind agents and executioners behind the schemes of exploitation, violence, and abuses perpetrated by the functionaries of Spanish colonial rule and the Catholic church.

            It is easy to imagine how the seemingly deranged character, — such as Sisa (and her two sons, Crispin and Basilio) and later, Huli in Fili — would represent, like ghost figures, the exploited and impoverished among the colonized. Derangement and suicide (in the case of Huli in Fili) dovetail misery, dehumanization, rape, and poverty. Unlike its sequel El Filibusterismo, the more restrained Noli Me Tangere stays within the domain of romance – and hope for reform and, perhaps, redemption. Still, it forewarns of an impending struggle, presenting hero figures, such as Elias and Basilio.

            The actual plan for a revolution unfolds in El Filibusterismo. It is executed by the returning Ibarra, now disguised as Simoun, with the help of revolutionary characters, such as Cabesang Tales. The narratives lead to a radical ending. But Rizal shifts gear toward the end, concluding with tragic defeat and capitulation. Ironically, it mirrors his own life story of resistance and martyrdom.

            Rizal’s temperance and restraint justify the presence of the other character type – the philosopher/thinker/intellectual, represented in Noli by Pilosopong Tasyo. 


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