Name: Mark Brian P.

Flores Date Submitted: September 20, 2021

Course/Section: BSED – SCIENCE 2A

ASSESSMENT # 3: Rizal as a Symbol

In the space below, answer the following question in two to three sentences. (5points

each)

1. What is the difference between the historic Rizal and symbolic Rizal?

Historic Rizal relates to Rizal in 19th century who was born and died (the

genuine individual), distributed Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, studied at the

Ateneo Civil in Manila, able to read in History Books, and established the La Liga

Filipina and the Martyr of Bagumbayan. But the symbolic Rizal relates to the second

Rizal, Rizal in Luneta, the Rizal as an symbol of Rock, the Rizal within the one peso

coin, the Rizal in t-shirts, the Rizal in postage stamps, and the list goes on.

2. What is a text? a sign? a symbol?

a. Text

 Is anything that can be read, interpreted, and analyze.

 Includes sign and symbol.

 Contains an effect to the reader’s interpretation rather than a product of

its author.
 b. Sign

 A kind of text which represents a fixed reality and posits itself as a means

of portraying the reality.

 A sign is a “closed” text which implies that the freedom to create meaning

is being monopolized (Umberto Eco).

 A sign is a readerly text, which can be understood as a kind of text whose

meaning is predetermined; the reader is merely a site to receive

information (Roland Barthes).

c. Symbol

 Conveys meaning not only about itself but about cultural processes and

relationships; meaning, therefore that is not constant but constituted

through a human agency.

 A symbol is an “open” text which implies that any interpretation may be

valid (Umberto Eco).

 A symbol is a writerly text, meaning that the reader is in a position of

control and takes an active role in the construction of meaning (Roland

Barthes).

3. What instances in the past show that Rizal’s image was manipulated by people?

Since anybody can be a hero, makes his own image and his own story like a

soldier who have received an award through their bravery and penances within the

center of the war to protect and keep up peace to its people.

STUDENT’S JOURNAL (20points)

Reflect on the concept of text. It can be deduced using the definition of text that it

is impossible to establish a single meaning since all things viewed as text are open to

many interpretations. Applying this in the study of History, the past may be considered a

text, especially when it has been put into writing. It is really impossible to come up with

a single historic fact?

As we know text is anything that can be studied, interpreted, and analyze, so a

few text written in our history are not precise enough since of lack of historic fact.

We cannot say that all text written within the Philippine history are genuine and

cannot be objected since in some cases journalists of historical wrote only facts

that are found which isn't enough to demonstrate on what truly happened within

the past since most of our historical facts had been destroyed by the colonial war.
ASSESSMENT # 4: (Rizal and Nation Building)

In the spaces below, answer the following questions in two to three sentences. (5points

each)

1. How many History contribute to the process of nation-building?

The Spanish, American, and Japanese war influenced the Philippines

for the reconstruction and development through modernization and

democratization. It contributes a special relationship to transform Philippines

into a model that would then naturally expand into a transcontinental informal

empire.

2. How can the study of life, works, and writings of Jose Rizal contribute to the process

of nation-building?

 The noble aspiration was a major step necessary in national

development.

 The means at nation building is national unity.

 Rizal insist on education as the instrument of social progress

3. What are the crucial infinitives in life according to Gemino Abad?

Gemino Abad referred to as the crucial infinitives in life which are “to

read, to think, to write”. Everyone is enjoined to participate in political and

social processes of building the nation, not necessarily great things right away
 but in small yet impactful ways.

STUDENT’S JOURNAL: (20points)

Reflect on Rizal’s role as a symbol of nation-building. As a student, how can you

become a herald of nationalism?

As a student and future accountant, I must consider my learnings at school to

use as a weapon on pushing nationalism by conducting what is right and the greatest

good for the nation without violating any laws and regulations of the government. As

a student, I become a herald nationalism by starting to support and esteem the

knowledge that have been taught to us by the elders or in school particularly those

subjects that focusing the story how our ancestors live before and share or teach it to

the future generation so that the unity that we have before until in our era will grant

significance in our life.