SH1635

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What Claim is it?

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Directions: Identify if the statements below is a claim of fact, value, or policy. Briefly explain your
choice. Write your answers on the space provided. (5 items x 2 points)

1. National strength can only be built on character.

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2. The Filipinos of the past became strong-willed, earnest, and adventurous by necessity. They
had to brave the seas, clear the forest, and erect towns and cities upon the wilderness in order
to establish communities.
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3. To ensure the accomplishment of this task of national spiritual reconstruction, we shall

formulate and adopt a social code that can be explained in the schools, preached from the
pulpits, and taught in the streets and plazas, and in the remotest corners of our land.
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4. Teachers are in the best position to inculcate this social code in the youth because they are in
the most contact with them during their formative years at school.
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5. During the last 40 years, life’s been too easy for us. We have secured political rights almost for
the asking and we have gained prosperity not only because of the bounties of our
extraordinarily fertile soil, but also through the advantages that our economic association with
the richest and most generous people in the world has given us.
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Reference:
Quezon, M. (1938). Address of President Manuel L. Quezon on Policies and Achievements of the Government and Regeneration of the
Filipino. Retrieved from http://www.gov.ph/1938/08/19/address-of-president-manuel-l-quezon-on-policies-and-achievements-of-
the-government-and-regeneration-of-the-filipino/

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