the pretenders

this novel is all about a man who is struggling on his life to fight for his belief. Just like Rizal he was a man who studied in other country to gain knowledge. And along his fight he interact with many people. Guido, charlie, etc. he learned from Guido that his belief is not enough. because he is just like Rizal who want a reform. and Guido want to have freedom. that is why he is continuously writing against our government. Guido is like Andres Bonifacio,

Hum014

Hum014???

It is nice to be on hum014. because I learned many things from it and even it is not related to my engineering course, I find it very nice. I hate reading but I forced myself to do that because it is required. But in the near end of the course I find it interesting(making poems, reading novel, and introducing a play).on the first day, i'm not nervous because i have many friends on that section they are, LEE MARK, JESSECA, NOEL, BLANCH, and EDRICH. Lee mark was my classmate on trigo last 2nd term. we are not that close but in this term we became close friends and we always see each other almost every day. Jesseca was my blockmate and i know her very well. Noel and Blanch is my old classmate on Rizal and Hum013. in this class a met my new friends: Jolo, Meriz, Mark, Nikko, Aldrin, Robert, jenny, Jordan, and Majay. And at last ma'am jhoanne, she is cool niceand considerate proffesor. she always give benefits on us. And it is ok for her even if we are making noise at the room as long as we are listening to the lecture. . . .

Perception


I am a spherical ball
;Reflects what ever you do
Just like throwing it on wall
It will just return to you

NICK JOAQUIN

Joaquín was born in Paco Manila. He dropped out of high school and did odd jobs on Manila's waterfront and elsewhere. He taught himself by reading widely at the National Library of the Philippines and the library of his father, Leocadio Joaquín, who had been a lawyer and a colonel in the Philippine Revolution. This developed further his interest in writing. His mother was named Salome Marquez Joaquin. Joaquín was first published in the literary section of the Pre-World War II Tribune under writer and editor Serafín Lanot.

And some of his awards are:

• José García Villa's Honor Roll (1940)
• Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest (1949)
• Ten Most Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM), Awardee for Literature (1955)
• Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards (1957–1958; 1965; 1976)
• Harper Publishing Company (New York, U.S.A.) writing fellowship
• Stonehill Award for the Novel (1960)
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award (1961)
• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award from the City of Manila (1964)
• National Artist Award (1976).
• S.E.A. Write Award (1980)
• Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature (1996)
• Tanglaw ng Lahi Award from the Ateneo de Manila University (1997)
• Several ESSO Journalism awards, including the highly-covetedJournalist of the Year Award.

Source:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Joaquin#Awards)

Carlos Bulosan

(1913-1957)

Carlos Bulosan was born in the Philippines in the rural farming village of Mangusmana, near the town of Binalonan (Pangasinan province, Luzon island). He was the son of a farmer and spent most of his upbringing in the countryside with his family. Like many families in the Philippines, Carlos’s family struggled to survive during times of economic hardship. Many families were impoverished and many more would suffer because of the conditions in the Philippines created by US colonization. Rural farming families like Carlos’ family experienced severe economic disparity due to the growing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the economic and political elite. Determined to help support his family and further his education, Carlos decided to come to America with the dream to fulfill these goals. And based on my own words Carlos Bulosan inform us on how Americans treat us which is:( America is not a land of one race or one class of men. We are all Americans that have toiled and suffered and known oppression and defeat, from the first Indian that offered peace in Manhattan to the last Filipino pea pickers. America is not bound by geographical latitudes. America is not merely a land or an institution. America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world. America is a prophecy of a new society of men: of a system that knows no sorrow or strife or suffering. America is a warning to those who would try to falsify the ideas of free men.). ---carlos bulosan

Source:http://www.bulosan.org/html/in_his_words.html

For me. . . Lit is like an eye

Literature is like an eye

Every people in this world have different perceptions in life

Each people see diiferent thing on their own

Just like an eye Literarure represent as reality

It show both negative and positive things