Name: Fernalyn Arellano

Course and Year: BSBA 1-F

I. First Impression
A. What are your first impressions about the
undelivered speech?
-Reading the undelivered speech of the late Senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ S. Aquino, my first impression to be
honest was that it is very detailed. He seems to have a diary for all the dates and the events he wrote
down. It is only in detail that you can imagine where, how and when all the circumstances were. It also
includes his clear disposition to all the accusations and false rumours surrounding him even during his stay
in America.After reading though, I felt that there were a lot of things we needed to discover and uncover
about his time. I think there are many unspoken facts in our history. Some of these can be tables around
our own beliefs and knowledge.

B. What kind of document is it (letter, ad,

newspaper, etc.)?
-The type of document of the late Benigno S. Aquino Jr. undelivered speech, is a speech of the manuscript.
A speech manuscript is a form of a speech that involves exploration, and a work summary widely delivered
by formal speakers, politicians, business overseers, and preferences. Often used when the important
statement on a public platform is required. Therefore, the undelivered speech of the late Senator Benigno
'Ninoy' Aquino Jr, to be given to the Philippines after his return from his exile to the United States, is
considered a speech manuscript. This is because it is carefully written, and is expected to be delivered
formally to a political figure on a public platform.

II. Looking More Closely

A. Make a list of unusual or unfamiliar words or

phrases you encountered while reading the speech.
1. Political Asylum
2. Promise of leniency by the regime
3. Insolent tyranny
4. Blood-lettig
5. Deteriorated
6. Habeus Corpus
7. MilitaryTribunal
8. Submersion Stems
9. Curbed
10. Authoritarian dogma

B. Is there a specific date on the speech? If so,

When is it? If there is none, are there clues that might indicate when it was
Written?
-There is no specific date when Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. wrote this speech, but there is a hint
suggesting when this document will be written. He arrived on August 21, 1983, which may have been a
clue when he wrote it.
C. Is there an indicated location?
Where is it?
-He said he returned from the United States of America for a heart bypass surgery; Therefore, he should be
in the Philippines at this time..

D. Who authored the document? Why

did you say so?
-In reading and sensing the human voice of a person whose desires are reality as described in his own true
words. This is my answer to writing such an amazing and inspiring truth that trying to achieve in life, it has
to be written by himself. Senator Benigno S. Aquino. Why? I came to this conclusion; he wrote the truth of
what he believed, why he believed what he believed. He is, himself, writing from the first point of view and
he wrote his deliberations and experiences.

E. To whom was the written document

addressed? How did you know?
-The document addresses those who oppose him and do not believe in him because he spoke in a way
that justified himself and his beliefs.

F. What is the purpose of the

document? What made you think so?
-The purpose of the document is to inform people that justice can not be achieved only by military solutions
but can also be achieved by no violence.