Wednesday, January 13, 2010

1.Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: "Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West).

* I choose this one because it Say's that every literature can make you experience the thing that you haven't experience before through analyzing literature














* I choose this picture as a meaning or definition of literature because just looking at the picture it will make you feel something and looking at this picture will make you to communicate through the image


2. nick joaquin





Poet, fictionist, essayist, biographer, playwright, and National Artist, decided to quit after three years of secondary education at the Mapa High School. Classroom work simply bored him. He thought his teachers didn't know enough. He discovered that he could learn more by reading books on his own, and his father's library had many of the books he cared to read.(http://www.wikipedia.com/)







*outstanding contribution to philippines: are his works these are the following



Prose and Poems (1952) The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) Selected Stories (1962) La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964) The Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966) Tropical Gothic (1972) The Complete Poems and Plays of Jose Rizal (1976) Reportage on Crime (1977) Reportage on Lovers (1977) Nora Aunor and Other Profiles (1977) Ronnie Poe and Other Silhouettes (1977) Amalia Fuentes and Other Etchings (1977) Gloria Diaz and Other Delineations (1977) Doveglion and Other Cameos (1977) A Question of Heroes (1977) Stories for Groovy Kids (1979) Almanac for Manileños (1979) Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1980) Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980) Reportage on the Marcoses (1979, 1981)





* outstanding achievement:writing short stories, poems, and essays in 1934. Many of them were published in Manila magazines, and a few found their way into foreign journals. His essay La Naval de Manila (1943) won in a contest sponsored by the Dominicans whose university, the UST, awarded him an A.A. (Associate in Arts) certificate on the strength of his literary talents.



(http://www.wikipedia.com/)





* writing influence: he influence the filipino free press to be journalist and to create their own novel or short stories (http://www.wikipedia.com/)







*driving principle in writing: The moment he emerged from his mother's womb, the baby Nicomedes--or Onching, to his kin--made a "big howling noise" to announce his arrival. That noise still characterizes his arrival at literary soirees. He started writing short stories, poems, and essays in 1934.(http://www.wikipedia.com/)
















b.Jose Rizal



JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families. His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called "a model of fathers," came from Biñan, Laguna; while his mother, Teodora Alonzo y Quintos, a highly cultured and accomplished woman whom Rizal called "loving and prudent mother," was born in Meisic, Sta. Cruz, Manila. (http://www.wikipedia.com)







  1. contribution to philippine literature: his two great novel the
  • Noli metangre


  • El Filibusterismo
(http://www.wikipedia.com)

2. Outstanding Achievement: February 1889, La Solidaridad was the mouth-piece of a Masonary-oriented association, also called La Solidaridad, which was founded in Barcelona in December 1888 with Rizal as honorary president. A long piece Rizal wrote for it in 1889 was "Filipinas Dentro de Cien Anos" (‘The Philippines A Century Hence’) where, among other things, he uncannily predicted the imperialist incursion in Asia of the United States.(http://www.wikipedia.com)

3. Writing influence: he woke up the spirit of filipino to fight over the spaniards because the spaniards is stepping on the rights of every filipino as a human being(http://www.wikipedia.com)



4. Driving principle for writing: he wrote all his novel to fight the spaniards using his work and not using violence he also wrote his novel he is a witness of the filipinos being hurt by spaniards

(http://www.wikipedia.com)












c.Jose wendell Capili

José Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines. He earned his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo,University of Cambridge and Australian National University. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he was also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. (http://www.wikipedia.com)






  1. contribution to philipine literature: His contribution are his works

A Madness of Birds (poetry, University of the Philippines Press, 1998); Bloom and Memory (essays, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002); Mabuhay to Beauty! (popular culture, Milflores Publishing, 2003), From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature (anthology, Casula Powerhouse, 2007) and Salu-Salo: In Conversation with Filipinos (anthology, Casula Powerhouse and Blacktown Arts Centre, 2008).


(http://www.wikipedia.com/)


2. Outstanding achievement:


On February 27, 2009, the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines approved the appointment of Capili as Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs effective May 1, 2009 to serve at the pleasure of the Vice President for Public Affairs; and his appointment as Director of the UP System Information Office, effective June 1, 2009 until May 31, 2010.


(http://www.wikipedia.com/)


3. Writing Influence:


Capili worked on a research project involving Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studie(http://www.wikipedia.com/)


4. Driving principle for writing:


He wrote all of these for the philippines to be known and to encourage filipino writers to show their works on the world(http://www.wikipedia.com)

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