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Identify and elaborate significant events and instances that had

transformed the principles and philosophies of Jose Rizal. How did it affect
and shape his reactions and responses of his zeitgeist?
Identify and elaborate significant personalities and entities (groups and
organization) that had transferred the principled and philosophies of Jose
Rizal. How did it affect his life and shape his reactions and responses to
his zeitgeist?
Identify and elaborate instances wherein Jose Rizal was able to manifest
self-development and self-improvement. How did it help him of his works
and writings?
Identify and elaborate significant works and activities (endeavours) and
writings of Jose Rizal during his particular moment of life. What could have
motivated or prompted him to do these? How did these affect Rizal and
the society?
Identify and elaborate instances wherein Jose Rizal was able to attain the
fullest of his human potential. What could have motivated him to engage
on these if he could just have lived a relatively peaceful life?

Rizals voyage to Spain to study was the start of his endless voyage
throughout the world. Rizal was an adventurous person having travelled extensively
in Europe, America and Asia on his lifetime entitled him into many titles and
professions, some of it unknown to us and some are known such as his trait as a
writer and his profession as an ophthalmologist. Furthermore, he learnt and
mastered a total of twenty-two (22) languages, includes Spanish, Latin, English,
Chinese and many more native and international languages.
His first voyage when he graduated was on 1885 when he was twenty-four
(24) years old to Paris, France to practice his profession as an ophthalmologist. He
worked as an assistant to a renowned ophthalmologist Dr. Louis de Weckert. He
polished together with his ophthalmology was his music skills.
He eventually left for Heidelberg after a year and settled in the house of Dr. Karl
Ullmer. Still, his goals were to polish his ophthalmology skills and worked as an
assistant to Dr. Xavier Galezowsky and Dr. Otto Becker one after another. He was
not just in Heidelberg for ophthalmology though, because he was also able to
exercise his writing skills when he wrote A Las Flores De Heidelberg, a poem of
appreciation to the flowers of Heidelberg. It was also in Heidelberg when he met and
befriended Ferdinand Blumentritt who was his very close friend.
Rizals travels did not end there for he travelled to Leipzig and to Berlin
after to further polish his ophthalmology, to study the countrys language and
culture, and to join some important and influential science communities and most

especially to finish his novel, Noli Me Tangere. However, because of some

unfortunate events, he got short of money because his family was not able to send
his allowance but good grief; his friends were able to collect just enough to publish
the novel.

He eventually went home for a brief time for the main reason of curing his
mother from her eye sickness with his self-developed knowledge in ophthalmology.
He was successful and became instantly famous being a doctor sought by Filipinos
and foreigners alike. Though he couldnt hide the fact that he went home to check
the responses of the Filipinos to his novel as well which brought Governor General
Terrero to question his work. However, he was latter praised by the governor
general for the beauty of the piece. Nonetheless, the Governor Generals praise
wasnt a pass for him not to be criticized by the people who read, Spanish or Filipino
alike, supporters or not.
Because of the feeling of anxiety for his security on his own country, he travelled
back to Europe roughly six months later. However, before his departure, a friend
asked him to write a poem about the farmers, which he did and entitled the piece
Himno Al Trabajo.
Frustrated and desperate, he sailed to Hong Kong wanting to be close to the
Philippines as possible. His stay in Hong Kong was brief because after duration of
three weeks, because of the invitation of the secretary of the Governor General, he
sailed to Japan. He was eventually invited to live at the Spanish Legation, though he
knew that it was his bait, he accepted it so that Spain would think that he had
nothing to hide. With his stay in Japan, he fell in love with the scenery and the
culture that kindled his curious mind to ponder on. In its heart, he met his apple of
the eye in the shadow of a 23-year-old lad, O-Sei-San. He described her as a caring
and loving girl and he was allured to stay with her for the rest of his life. However,
he decided to leave the lad for United States.
He travelled across its states, from San Francisco, to Oklahoma, to Sacramento, to
Reno and finally to New York City. A month later, he boarded a ship back to London
until the March of the following year. He chose to stay in London to study English
and to study the annotations of Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. He
stayed on Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidors abode and boarded with the Beckett family
where he eventually fell in love with Gertrude.
He wasnt in London for nothing; during his stay, he was able to receive both good
and bad news from home. He supported La Solidaridad away by writing and sending
in articles for the said newspaper. Months after, with his Filipino-Spanish friends,
they formed an association for unity and reforms.

From London, he departed to Paris to polish his language and artistic skills, being
able to finish two statues The Beggar and The Maid with a Basket. He also
organized a club called Kidlat Club which aimed to have together the Filipinos
residing in France. Soon though, another club was formed Indios Bravos which
envisioned the recognition of Filipinos by Spain.
On the January on the succeeding year, his version of the annotation was printed
and was published by the Granier Freres.
Afterwhich, he went by to extravagant travels to Paris, London and Brussels. He
never forgets to contribute some essays and articles to La Solidaridad in the middle
of his travels though. Because of his brothers, Paciano, letters of bad news seeking
for help, he decided to depart back to Madrid to seek for help but failed. He
experienced too many misfortunes in Madrid after which. One of them was his feud
with Luna over a girl and being heartbroken of knowing Leonora already married
someone else on his absence. Because of some reasons, the Del Pilar Rizal rivalry
leadership on the association they founded became a hot stuff which resulted to an
election of a new leader, Rizal lose the election. He chose to go back home to ease
the tension. But instead of going straight to Hong Kong, he went to Brussels to finish
his second novel El Filibusterismo before going straight to Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong, he lived a peaceful life. Being a doctor, he set up a clinic on
collaboration with his friend Dr. Lorenzo Marquez. His parents, who were by then
with him after they successfully visited him in Hong Kong to reunite with him before
Christmas, supported him emotionally and financially.
He planned great things in Hong Kong, including the relocation of the homeless
Filipinos in a new land by means of the Borneo Colonization Project. He visited
Borneo to negotiate to the British authorities. There were people who supported
him, but there were also who did not, including his brother-in-law, Hidalgo. He sent
letters to the present governor general but was ignored and instead labelled his
plan as unpatriotic and if successful, the Philippines will lose its labourers and will
not anymore bear useful to the colonizers.
Despite his familys warnings, he returned to the Philippines for three main reasons:

To discuss properly with the governor general about the colonization

project
To form La Liga Filipina
To prove his familys innocence to the allegations being thrown at
them.

But it a trap got him which lead to his deportment to Dapitan.

a.

Identify and elaborate instances wherein Jose Rizal was able to

manifest self-development and self-improvement. How did it help
him of his works and writings?
He was able to master the languages in the countries he had been
through by himself and by observing. Moreover, he was able to master
Spanish in an early age. Spanish was the main language he used for his
writings. He was just curious about things and he worked hard for it. If it
should refer to a particular instance, I would be repeating over and over how
he learned each of the twenty-two (22) languages and how he polished his
writing skills together with his vocabulary. However, I am a hundred percent
sure that his self-improved and self-developed latent talent in writing helped
him a lot with his works and writings.

b.

Identify and elaborate significant works and activities (endeavours)

and writings of Jose Rizal during his particular moment of life. What
could have motivated or prompted him to do these? How did these
affect Rizal and the society?
The most remarkable works of Rizal that dealt a great impact to the
Philippine Society was his Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Needless to
say, it was his most, if not, influential and controversial books that eventually
led him to his doom. Of course, he wrote the books out of his disgust towards
the Spanish government in the Philippines. With his death and the popularity
of his books, Filipinos minds were opened and were encouraged to fight
back.

c.

Identify and elaborate instances wherein Jose Rizal was able to

attain the fullest of his human potential. What could have motivated
him to engage on these if he could just have lived a relatively
peaceful life?
On his travels where he was able to polish and to enhance his skills,
there were many instances where he manifested an attitude of a genius.
One of these was his skills in language and writing being able to master 22
languages, including native ones and being able to write amazing poems
and anecdotes. He showed great pride of his self-improved skill in
ophthalmology that cured his mothers eye sickness. His motivation of
everything was his past experiences. As a child, a young Jose Rizal was often
discriminated and such so he chose to work hard. Moreover, he was able to
be successful because of how he was raised. Furthermore, no one beats
curiosity in driving people to learn new things.