EXPERIENCE THE GLOBAL EDGE

NAME: James Francis Magdalino ACTIVITY # 1-2

YEAR & 1ST YEAR 2BSTM INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Engelica R. Buslon

SECTION

RIZ 111: RIZAL LIFE AND WORKS

Part I. Direction: Answer the following question. (10points each)

1. What is the legal basis for the teaching of the life, works and writings of Rizal in higher education
institutions in the country?

That he is fighting for this to stablish the education in the Philippines and to promote and give information to
all Pilipino citizens.

2. Why is there a need to study the life, works and writings of Rizal according to the late Senator Jose P.
Laurel?

To know all of his doings of Jose Rizal and how he illustrates the past so that we know what happen for the
last 100 years ago.

3. What conclusions can be drawn from the Filipinos’ choice of Rizal as the National Hero?

Because Jose Rizal shows that he truly he serves the Philippines and he prove himself to defend the
country.

4. Why was Rizal a hero despite his being a man of peace and not a man of war?

Jose Rizal fought the Spaniards not by fighting through a physical war he fought them by writing a word to
them and Jose showing to all the Pilipino to fight back because we are fighting for our freedom.

Part II. Define or explain each of the following briefly. (10points each)

1. Rizal Law- The Rizal Law, also known as RA 1425, mandates the study of Rizal’s life and works, as
shown in section 1. This Republic Act calls for an increased sense of nationalism from the Filipinos during a
time of a dwindling Filipino identity. According to the judicial system, are public act is a law that has already
been passed and implemented. In contrast to this, a bill is merely a proposed law, in other words it may or
may not be passed by the Congress.

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2. Taft Commission- President William McKinley appointed the Taft Commission on 16 March 1900 to
supervise the adjustment of the Philippine Islands' government from military command to civil rule. The five-
member commission assumed legislative authority on 1 September 1900, less than two years after Spain
ceded the Philippines to the United States following the Spanish-American War of 1898. On 4 July 1901,
William Howard Taft, president of the commission, became the Philippines' first civilian governor.

3. Act No. 137-This rule is giving us to take charge to balance a good relation to the US and to take
responsibility to the Philippines.

4. Martyrdom of Gomburza- Gomburza, alternatively stylized as GOMBURZA or Gomburza, refers to three

Filipino Catholic priests, Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, who were executed by garrote
on February 17, 1872, in Bagumbayan, Philippines by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of
subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. The name is a portmanteau of the priests' surnames.

Gomburza incurred the hatred of Spanish authorities for fighting for equal rights among priests and leading
the campaign against the Spanish friars. They fought on the issues of secularization in the Philippines that
led to the conflict of religious and church seculars.

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Telephone #: (049) 545.3974/ 0995.966.7530
Cgcstarosa@gmail.com www.citiglobalcollege.edu.ph