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2022, Sakay (1993) & Heneral Luna (2015) Film Review
Films play an important role in shaping societal consciousness because they are frequently representations of the real world. Often, our favorite films are those that had a profound emotional or mental impact on us. Indeed, the portrayal of history in popular culture made it more easily digestible for the general public. As a result, the films Heneral Luna (Tarog, 2015) and Sakay (Red, 1993) are important in raising awareness and preserving Filipino history.
Shane Venette B. Alcampado
Film Review: "General Luna and Macario Sakay "-Alcampado, Shane Venette B.2021 •
General Antonio Luna and Macario Sakay were great fighters for our motherland. They devoted their lives to fighting for our freedom. They sacrificed their past lives before risking their lives with the weapons they held. They sacrificed their personal lives and even their love lives for the war.
History is what made a nation or a country has become now in the present. It gives us how our ancestors live, what their culture was, and how our civilization evolved through time. Comparing our culture in the present from the past can give accurate information on how our ancestors live and on what happened from the past. History usually gives the readers and scholars information and understanding on the past events. To fully understand our history, it must be from the perspective of our ancestors, not from the perspective of the foreign.
Its not my work
2021 •
The "The Philippines: A Past Revisited from the Spanish Colonization to the Second World War" is a book written by Renato Constantino published in year 1975 to discuss and open his thoughts and ideas during the Spanish and American colonization in the Philippines. We all know that the Philippines was colonized by the said countries, and he is the one of many people who introduced a different perspective on what really happened during those times. He is a well-known Filipino historian and part of a leftist tradition of the Philippine historiography. In his book, he exposed a lot of things, traditions, and ways that the Filipinos are not able to have within their own identity and ways. He inducted that we should establish a foundation in which we understand what really happened in the past and how it affects our lives in this present time. We need to revisit our past and focus on the things on what the Filipinos should learn and give identity for themselves. The book itself has 18 chapters, in which every chapter has its own subject and topic. We can explore each chapter and extract each point presented in them. Let us revisit the past and know what truly happened in the colonial period and see if there is a connection and relevance on what happened in the things that is written in the books that reflects our history and with the lives of the Filipinos today. Let us start in the first chapter where it talks about the people's history, in which it must be refined that fits in the views of the Filipinos. Our history is very dependent on our colonizers back then. They run the tempo of our lives and even chose the path of our history and how it should be absorbed by the Filipinos. In short, we are not free to learn our own history and it points towards the history that our colonizers want us to have. But many Filipino historians have their own way of successfully align our history to have a perspective in a Filipino sense. The problem is with in the Filipinos themselves. They are not ready to accept their own history or even build and manifest with their experiences during colonial period. We should have a better understanding regarding on what truly happened in the past. And with this, we can relive and revisit the history of our country.
Renato Constantino's The Philippines: A Past Revisited Renato Constantino's The Philippines: A Past Revisited is a different take on the Philippine history from the earliest point up to 1941. The book does not contain new findings and claims but instead new interpretations of known facts and events. It is a book that does not have bias from the Spanish and American colonialists unlike other takes on Philippine history. Renato Constantino's goal is to try and rediscover the past so that our history can serve as a guide of the present. An analytical interpretation of history can assist in steering the society towards a better development by knowing what policies and concepts is correct based on experience. It is also pointed out that the main driving force of Philippine history is its rich tradition of struggle which is still relevant to this current time and era. As the citizens become more conscious of the nation's state of affairs they would also begin struggling for change. Struggling can take multiple forms nowadays, it could be in a form of protest or it could be shown through social media. This is what Renato Constantino wants from learning history, to understand the struggles of the past Filipino people and apply this knowledge to fight for what we have been always fighting for, that is, freedom and the development of the Philippines.
In our post-colonial situation, how do we go about teaching our national history and the lives of important historical figures to young readers? More importantly, what version of these narratives do we teach them? Considering that the biography is a form of literary history that focuses on the individual rather than the collective, the biography written for young adults is a form that has the unique challenge of selecting the most appropriate narrative for young readers and presenting it in a way that will engage them and encourage them to study more technical historical texts. Through this study, I analyzed the Great Lives Series, published by Tahanan Books, which is made up of twelve books, each one focused on telling the story of an important figure in Philippine history with the intended audience being children between the ages of eight and twelve. Through this study, I looked at the literary value, the historical value, and the literary historical value of these texts in order to determine how they dispensed and distilled these historical and biographical narratives in such a way that they could be made palatable for the young reader. Overall, my study found that there is sufficient evidence to say that this particular series of books had a certain degree of censorship, and it used the version of the truth that was in line with making these readers good citizens. More importantly, these books used common literary devices in order to capture the interest of these young readers.