HAZEL MAE C.

DAGUINES 7-TRUFFLE WEEK 3

PRACTICE TASK 1
1. The audio clip is all about the Filipino’s fascination for smallness or what Nick Joaquin
calls its heritage of smallness.
2. The author, Nick Joaquin, points out that Filipinos think small.
3. After listening to the article, it can be drawn/extracted that the Philippines is the only
country where items can be bought in small quantities, such as a stick of cigarette, a
sachet of hair gel, or a piece of candy. Filipinos gain less and work more, we are used to
think small and do small, which explains why Filipinos seem to have a fear of the large
and ambitious. It also made mention of the ningas-cogon and crab mentality attitude of
the Filipinos which prevents us from becoming progressive.
4. According to the article, society for the Filipinos is a small rowboat: the barangay.
5. Filipinos think that their country is a hardworking one when they continue to practise
whatever values they learned from their childhood throughout their adult lives, in
personal interaction with others as well as in their workplaces, no matter where they
are in the world. We are well-known to be hardworking with the ability to work with
others, whatever be the race, ethnicity, or gender orientation. Last but not least, we
Filipinos never fail to smile and have a strong faith in God which carries us through
hardships, be they be personal difficulties or bad situations. We Filipinos are proud of
our values and heritage.

PRACTICE TASK 2
On Monday, June 14,2021, several medical groups in the Bicol Region flagged the “worsening surge
of cases in May and June due to localized transmission sweeping most parts of the region. They
recorded an average of 183 new cases daily, with Camarines Sur, Albay, and Sorsogon as the biggest
source of new infections. In connection to this, in a joint letter addressed to Interior Secretary Eduardo
Año, the Albay Medical Society, Camarines Sur Medical Society, Philippine Medical Association-Bicol,
and the Philippine College of Physicians-Bicol called for stricter quarantine restrictions. They asked that
the province be placed under the strictest enhanced community quarantine. This measure is asked to be
done to prevent the occurrence of a surge similar to that which happened in India which experienced a
deadly second wave in May.
Source:
CNN Philippines-Doctors fear Bicol might be like India, urge gov’t to place it under ECQ-June 15,2021
https://www.rappler.com/nation/ medical-groups-urge-iatf-place-bicol-under-ecq-june 2021?utm_
PRACTICE TASK 3

Dr. Eloisa Pornillos, the president of the Philippine College of Physicians-Bicol Chapter, said on
Wednesday that private and public hospitals in the region are 100% full and that there is a shortage of
medical devices such as ventilators and high-flow nasal cannulas.

Although the situation is dire or terrible in government facilities, the official said that it is worse in
private hospitals as they also deal with shortage of healthcare workers. “What is suffering right now is
the private hospitals because the nurses are going to the government hospitals because they pay
better”, she told CNN Philippines.

ASSESSMENT

1. “The Philippines: A Century Hence is an essay written to forecast the future of the country in a
hundred years. Jose P. Rizal wrote this essay because he felt that he needed to remind Spain
that the circumstances that ushered in the French Revolution, could have an effect for her, in
the Philippines.
2. The question then arises as to what had awakened the hearts and opened the minds of the
Filipino people with regards to their plight. Eventually, the natives realized that such oppression
in their society by foreign colonizers must no longer be tolerated.
3. Rizal foresee the Filipino people start to awaken and if the government doesn’t change its acts, a
revolution will occur. The Philippines will remain under Spanish colonization, but with more law
and greater liberty. The Filipinos will declare themselves independent. In his essay, we see his
urge to put freedom in our land through peaceful negotiations with the Spanish government in
Spain.
4. “The Philippines: A Century Hence” is an essay written by Philippine national hero Dr. Jose P.
Rizal to forecast the future of the country within a hundred years. Rizal felt that it was time to
remind Spain that the circumstances that ushered in the French revolution could have a telling
effect for her in the Philippines
5. Jose Rizal is said to have first expressed his sense of nationalism, and of the Philippines as a
nation separate from Spain, as a young student in Manila. Proof of this can be found in two of
his writings. In his poem ”To the Philippine Youth”, which he wrote in 1879, when he was 18
years old(and which won a prize from the literary group), Rizal speaks of the Filipino youth as
the “Fair hope of my Motherland” and of the “Indian land” whose “son “ is offered a “shining
crown” by the “Spaniard… with wise and merciful hand”. Still in this poem, Rizal considered
Spain as a loving and concerned mother to her daughter, Filipinas. His essay, ”Love of Country”
which he wrote in June 1882(but appeared in the newspaper Diariong Tagalog Manila in
August), when he was already in Spain, and he was 21 years old. The young people of today or
of this generation have many problems, but we can also be a big part of the solution. This can be
done by being aware of what is happening around us and by being involved in the issues
happening in our society . “The future belongs to us, starting today, we have to own it”.