Rizal's Life

• Hero - characters who must overcome struggles and adversity
• Struggles and Adversity of Rizal - Mothers blindness and Suffering of Filipino people
• Knowledge and Ability of Rizal - a polymath, ophtalmologist and writer
• Patriotism - love of country
• Nationalism - loyalty to one's nation
• Nationalism - typically carries a bad reputation
• Patriotism - feeling of attachment and commitment to a country
• R.A. 1425 Rizal Law - An act to include in the curricula of all public and private schhol
• There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves - Jose Rizal
• Principal Author who wrote senate bill 438 which later became the Rizal Law - Claro M. Recto
• sponsor who was the chairman of the committee on education - Jose B. Laurel Sr.
• President that signed - Ramon Magsaysay on June 12, 1956
• Canon Law 1399 - which forbids or bans book that attack or ridicule the catholic doctrine and practices
• 19th century as period of change. This will discuss the social, economic and political structures of the 19th century Philippines.
• 19th century philippines as rizal's context

  1. 19th century was the era of challenges and responses
  2. it is the period of major changes that affect man & society
  3. age of enlinghtenment
• Political Context - the struggle of nationalism
• Frailocracy - rule of frairs
• Economic Context

  • Industrialization
  • Encomienda to hacienda
  • Indulto de comercio
  • Forced Labor
  • Taxation
• Hans Kohn - Professor of History, University of New York
• Andrea Baumeister - Lecturer of politic, University of Sterling
• Industrialization - applied to the extraordinary transformation in the method of: production, transportation, and communication through the substitution of the manual labor to machine.
• Encomienda to hacienda - Labors systems developed by spain granting large amount of land to settlers in the americas and claiming ownership of all of the resources sand of the natives
• Indulto de comercio - privilege of provincial governors to engage in and monopolize trade
• Forced Labor - (Polo y servicio) - is the forced labor for 40 days of men ranging from 16-60 years of age who were obligated to give personal services to community projects. In 1884, labor was reduced to 15 days
• Taxation - to support the colony, several forms of taxes and monopolies were imposed. the tithe is the payment of 10% of an individual's annual income to the government.
• During the time of Rizal, the sinister shadow of Spain's decadence darkened the Philippine skies. Among these evil were as follows:

  • Evil of the unjust colonial power - instability of colonial administration
  • Corrupt officialdom
  • No philippine representation in the spain cortes
  • Human Rights Denied to Filipinos
  • No equality before the Law
  • Maladministration of justice
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Frailocracy
  • Forced Labor or Polo y Servicios
  • Haciendas Owned by the Friars
  • Guardia Civil