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    Word Document Analysis Worksheet: Impoverish and Brutalize Us, The

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    This document is a letter written by Jose Rizal in January 1888. The letter discusses grievances of farmers in Calamba, Philippines who were having their lands confiscated and being charged excessive rents by Spanish landowners. It provides examples of farmers being made to pay rent on lands that could not produce enough to cover the costs, and having to pay more if they improved their plots. The purpose of the letter was to bring attention to the plight of farmers in the Philippines who were being impoverished and having their lands taken away by unjust Spanish policies at the time. It aimed to unmask hypocrisy and ease the grief of Filipinos struggling under Spanish rule.

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    This document is a letter written by Jose Rizal in January 1888. The letter discusses grievances of farmers in Calamba, Philippines who were having their lands confiscated and being charged excessive rents by Spanish landowners. It provides examples of farmers being made to pay rent on lands that could not produce enough to cover the costs, and having to pay more if they improved their plots. The purpose of the letter was to bring attention to the plight of farmers in the Philippines who were being impoverished and having their lands taken away by unjust Spanish policies at the time. It aimed to unmask hypocrisy and ease the grief of Filipinos struggling under Spanish rule.

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    This document is a letter written by Jose Rizal in January 1888. The letter discusses grievances of farmers in Calamba, Philippines who were having their lands confiscated and being charged excessive rents by Spanish landowners. It provides examples of farmers being made to pay rent on lands that could not produce enough to cover the costs, and having to pay more if they improved their plots. The purpose of the letter was to bring attention to the plight of farmers in the Philippines who were being impoverished and having their lands taken away by unjust Spanish policies at the time. It aimed to unmask hypocrisy and ease the grief of Filipinos struggling under Spanish rule.

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    Word Document Analysis Worksheet: Impoverish and Brutalize Us, The

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    This document is a letter written by Jose Rizal in January 1888. The letter discusses grievances of farmers in Calamba, Philippines who were having their lands confiscated and being charged excessive rents by Spanish landowners. It provides examples of farmers being made to pay rent on lands that could not produce enough to cover the costs, and having to pay more if they improved their plots. The purpose of the letter was to bring attention to the plight of farmers in the Philippines who were being impoverished and having their lands taken away by unjust Spanish policies at the time. It aimed to unmask hypocrisy and ease the grief of Filipinos struggling under Spanish rule.

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    Word Document Analysis Worksheet

    Provide the required information in the given spaces

    1. Type of document (Encircle the letter that corresponds to your answer)

    a. newspaper
    b. letter
    c. map
    d. report
    e. diary
    f. others, please specify: B. letter

    2. Date of the document: January 1888


    3. Author of the document: Jose Rizal
    4. Who is the audience of the document?
    The audience of this document is for the people, Dominicans, Spanish and Filipinos
    who are blinded by and living in accordance to the ruling of the Spaniards.
    5. List three things in the document that are important:
    1. Some lands pay twice for two harvest of rice.
    2. The farmers pays for the land and the bamboo grooves
    3.Ricefields that are planted with only 3 or 4 cavanes of seed, pay as if they have a
    capacity for 9.5 and 14 cavanes, on pain of being declared vacant and given to others.

    6. Why is this document written? Cite pieces of evidence in the document that support
    your answer.
    This document was written by Jose Rizal, whose family was one of the evictees of
    the Hacienda de Calamba, was himself an eminent propagandist. The contract is
    arbitrarily altered by the Estates, the rent rises enormously, and also it raised when the
    tenant makes improvement in the lot, or when replaces bamboo with a stone one, and
    also the products of the tenants have decreased considerably in spite of continuous
    labor as proven large numbers of farmers ruined and indebted and dispossessed of
    their property. His earnestness, personal discipline and determination to win reforms for
    the Philippines were admired not only by his colleagues but also by liberal Spaniards.
    Thus, though helpless in a faraway land, he was not alone in his struggle to help the
    Calambeños and his family seeking justice before the Supreme Court in Madrid. With
    him were his co-propagandists who did not only espoused the Calambeños’ cause but
    also used the incident as a propaganda battle cry to win reforms for the Philippines.

    7. List two things that tell you about life in the Philippines at the time the document was
    written.
    The grievances and hypocrisy impoverish and brutalize us, the Philippines was
    struggling including its people. The social condition, the life, the beliefs, the hopes,
    and desires but despite of these Rizal help the people unmasked the hypocrisy and
    ease their griefs because he never stop fighting for the independence of the
    Philippines.

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