John Paul T.

Agtay AB Philo 1-1 / RIPH 10/20/2019

TITLE OF THE BOOK CREDIBILITY OF THE WRITER CREDIBILITY OF THE SOURCE PURPOSE OF WRITING BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK PERSONAL LEARNING

1. Customs of Fray Juan de Plasencia, known as Can be counted as credible due In a document by Loarca, “ I have He described the different classes of the As people nowadays in the
Tagalogs by the Friar of the Franciscan Order in to his personal experience obtained the simple truth, after barangay and the system of it, then the Philippines, as they have heard
Juan de the Philippines. He lived his life in (missionary travels) on the weeding out much foolishness, in reports of their superstitious beliefs, “Spanish” and “friar” it is
Plasencia the Philippines as a missionary and subject which is the “Tagalogs”, regard to their government, including “Anito” and the “devils”. automatically it is a conqueror
defender of the Ill, from his and counting his lengthy time administration of justice, inheritances, and abusive. But not in this
background he personally on the Philippines. slaves, and dowries” that explains that case, the abusive was the
witnessed the Philippines. he intends to state the injustice in the Datu’s and their absurd self-
system of the Tagalogs. centered policies
2. Kartilya ng Emilio Jacinto y Dizon, is the As an author, Emilio Jacinto is Was written for the Katipuneros. As It is a guide/policy virtuous way of a It is greatly admirable that they
Katipunan by secretary, advisor on fiscal the main source of the book, they join the group they are obliged to Katipunero will act to become a great implemented such policies and
Emilio Jacinto y matters, and “ingat-yaman” of the and as a Katipunero. Then he follow these set of rules. A proper man. The book only entails the very strict ones, to their
Dizon Katipunan. can be, considered as a credible discipline among the members is the characteristics of what should Katipunero members. With this policies,
source. As a book has a subject change everyone needs. act and why would they act. they implemented a discipline
of like a “Do’s and Don’ts of a needed for the revolt.
Katipunero”
3. Gunita ng Emilio Famy Aguinaldo Sr., part of As an author, Emilio Aguinaldo Acted as diary for Emilio Aguinaldo The book describes the conflicts of the Even if the book is self-tailored,
Himagsikan by the Magdalo, and the leader of the is the main source of the book, and titled as a memoir, a biographical Spaniards and The Katipuneros. It was or Aguinaldo was the main
Emilio Famy Katipuneros. Known as El and as a Katipunero with a high account of a certain set of events said that the event happened in the source of the book. We can’t
Aguinaldo Sr. Presidente of the Katipuneros. position, he is considered as a happened in the Philippines. election for the president position of the fully say it was credible,
credible source but some points Katipuneros, in which Bonifacio lost to because it was not consistent
are seen personally and might Aguinaldo for president position and and information was lacking for
fall into subjectivity, but still a ended with a no-casualties aggression. further verifications.
credible source
4. Philippine Alfred McCoy, Is an Historian McCoy, spent his professional This caricatures, even set aloof The caricatures artistically symbolizes the These caricatures are
Caricature by focused on Philippine history. He years writing about Southeast description for our political status. It problems seen by the authors. But this important to our study of our
Alfred McCoy has prior knowledge to Philippine Asian History and politics. The indirectly describes the problems seen text is mainly a compilation and analysis history in politics and such. It is
government and its society. following publications that by the author and the writers of these was given by the reader with regard with regarded as credible because it
made are: Philippine Cartoons, caricatures. historical setting. somehow supports the text
Closer than brothers, Lives at written by other authors, that
the margin and much more. there was a crisis.
5. First Voyage Antionio Pigafetta, was the scribe The credibility is somehow The book was written to talk about the It entails the adventures of Magellan as Even if the author was the
Around the and chronicler that accompanied suspicious here because it lacks journey of Magellan and his seafarers he arrives at certain locations in find of main source, like a biographical
world by Magellan to his circumnavigation consistency in the dates of their to circumnavigate the world. spices and the main goal perspective of the adventure
Antionio of the world. And he was an Italian events. circumnavigation the world. still need verification from
Pigafetta scholar. other sources and yet it wasn’t
that credible.
6. Katipunan and Santiago Alvarez, was a general The author was credible due to It was an encouragement, a form of It tells about the experience of Alvarez as It was fun text to read. The
the Revolution : and honorary president of the first his close proximity of the inviting other generals to share their a general of the revolt. And an important point towards the end on the
Memoir of the doctorate of the Nationalist Party. events that was written. The experiences and thoughts for the next part of Aguinaldo’s part is his acceptance proclamation on Biak-na-bato
Generals by A general of the Katipunan, description of the people of the of generations. of money to exile of himself and the republic. And the tricky choices
Santiago Alvarez contributes to his credibility and revolt was seen part of the surrendering of the arms, but Aguinaldo made by Aguinaldo as he
his achievements as a general. book. came back with more arms. He obviously tricked the Spaniards to buy a
used the money to buy the arms to help much more reliable guns in
the revolt. Hongkong.
John Paul T. Agtay AB Philo 1-1 / RIPH 10/20/2019

The things I learned in Readings in Philippine History (RIPH)

I substantially learned more on verification of text, unlike before. It is useful for our course due that our course is
heavily more books and pieces of literature by philosophers, and finding credibility amidst of all these things are essential.
Then this subject came into our units as part of the curriculum, it is somehow made me realize that history verification in
the Philippines is greatly needed. Common illiteracy is on Philippine history, I myself is guilty of such due to my ignorance
of the regarding the subject. The main point as given by our subject professor that these texts are here to be analyzed by
the students to acquire analytical skills for information they will obtain, as a scholar and as a citizen of the country. A more
intricate part of learning in this subject is the perception of other scholars for the text given. The analysis given by these
scholars gave light on possibilities for such probabilities given by the text, on account that, I as a student, not skillfully
confident on such tasks. But coming from these, that relevant studies are needed to be sought for further verification in
which common students nowadays fail to do. As a start-up of this subject, it was awfully hard for me to grasp the intention
of the author, but I somehow develop but I seemed to overly giving meaning to their texts.