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Jose Rizal, The HERO

Dr. Jose Rizal was one of the greatest Filipino heroes for his contributions to the Philippine Revolution of the late 1890s through publications like Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which criticized Spanish rule. He was born in 1861 to a wealthy family in the Philippines and showed early intellectual prowess. He went to Europe to study medicine and other subjects, where he realized the oppression faced by Filipinos under Spanish colonial rule. This inspired him to write his famous novels and join independence movements. Although he advocated for reform over violence, his writings threatened the Spanish and he was executed in 1896, becoming a martyr for the nationalist cause. His life and works continue to inspire Filipinos today in the

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Jose Rizal, The HERO

Dr. Jose Rizal was one of the greatest Filipino heroes for his contributions to the Philippine Revolution of the late 1890s through publications like Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which criticized Spanish rule. He was born in 1861 to a wealthy family in the Philippines and showed early intellectual prowess. He went to Europe to study medicine and other subjects, where he realized the oppression faced by Filipinos under Spanish colonial rule. This inspired him to write his famous novels and join independence movements. Although he advocated for reform over violence, his writings threatened the Spanish and he was executed in 1896, becoming a martyr for the nationalist cause. His life and works continue to inspire Filipinos today in the

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Jose Rizal was a man who is famously known as one of the greatest Filipino heroes there are
considering his contributions that have led to the Philippine Revolution of the late 1890s where his
written publications like the “Noli Me Tangere” and “El Filibusterismo” received an ire of the local
Spanish Friars, the Government and a source of inspiration for the Filipinos, Indios in particular, to
stand up against the Spanish abuse of power. And there is more on Rizal that is worthy to be discussed
in the way that it gives the way on what he has becoming of that is essential of  the ever-growing
Nationalism at that time. That is, about his wonderful life, experiences and realizations that made him
grow and became the person he was known for.

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born in Calamba in the Philippines' Laguna Province.
He was the Seventh child among the nine children of Francisco Mercado Rizal and Teodora Alonzo
Realonda where Rizal idolizes as a model of fathers and loving, prudent mother. That alone gives
realization that Rizal’s parents inspire him and molded him of what he became wherein his intellectual
prowess were enhanced by his mother when he was three years of age where he was taught to learn
the alphabet and learned to read and write two years later. The sense of motivation which was tapped
the intellect inside Rizal was so astonishing that in my point of view gives inspiration as a student or as
an academia to harness and use the potential things in learning that gives an ever-lasting impact to the
society later on where Rizal demonstrate it.

His intelligence and a good heart really is a good combination to have. Upon knowing his mother’s
sickness, he motivates himself to learn medicine at University of Santo Tomas and eventually going to
Europe to learn more about medicine, poetry and other things. It was then at that time that he realizes
number of things that he notices about the sad reality of life. It was there he made the novels Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo, being a member of La Liga Filipina which was made by several Filipinos
aspiring for reforms as well as for the well being for the Filipinos back to the fatherland in which they
were either abused, maltreated or exploited by several Spaniards where in such sense needed
significant change in the nation in which in my point of view, gives a sign of hope for enlightening
Nationalist minds that was inspired from various revolutions sparked in Mainland Europe and in
Americas where it gives me the inspiration to love our nation. But all of it comes at a cost where he
pay it with his life for all of his writings for the sake of making the nation and its citizens free again
from oppression.

There are many lessons to get pondered from his life. First is from his saying “the hope of the
fatherland lies in the youth.” It gives us the sense of realization that the youth have a huge
responsibility to be good citizens of this beloved nation where we do our respective roles that makes
improvements as well as making our country progressive, the community responsive and the family
being benefited from all of the things the nation provides through labor, laws, policies and other
various things that come upon it. Moreover, his life in itself is an amazement that each and every
Filipinos shall emulate in the sense that our contributions in the society as well as our collective
intellect do help for each and every people’s benefit where in the end, nobody loses.

At the end of the day, it is beneficial to learn about Dr. Jose P. Rizal and all of his works,
achievements and personal life where it is worth reflective in my life as a student in such a case that it
gives me a reason to strive more, work more, motivate more and most of all, inspire more. Overall, his
life serves as a beacon to each and every Filipinos to do the best of their efforts for the country’s
development as well as for educating the people where his legacy lives on.

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