May 10
Posted: under General Interest.
May 10th, 2009
The vacation is coming to a close, and pretty soon it will be back to school or back to work. But I still haven’t finished reading the different chapter summaries of Jose Rizal’s El Filibusterismo.
There are 37 chapters, and the novel is quite riveting (although I still prefer the more romantic Noli Me Tangere). The [...] [...more]
The vacation is coming to a close, and pretty soon it will be back to school or back to work. But I still haven’t finished reading the different chapter summaries of Jose Rizal’s El Filibusterismo.
There are 37 chapters, and the novel is quite riveting (although I still prefer the more romantic Noli Me Tangere). The El Fili has darker undercurrents which talk about revolution. It is easy to understand how the main character (Ibarra in the Noli) has transformed into Simoun in the El Fili.
As I’ve mentioned earlier, time is running out. I’m scrambling for a summary (or buod) of the entire novel. Perhaps if I had the luxury of time, then I would carefully savor Rizal’s writings and get to know his characters better.
Characters such as Padre Florentino, Fray Damaso, Isagani, Maria Clara, Senor Pasta, and many more will surely be treasured and remembered thanks to this masterpiece of Jose Rizal. Among the colorful characters I shall never forget is Donya Victorina, who was first introduced in Chapter 1 of the El Fili.
The strange thing is, most of us fail to appreciate the novel while we are still in high school or college. It is usually only when we have left the four walls of our school, when we are busy with work and family, that we finally learn to appreciate Rizal’s Noli and El Fili better.
That’s when we have more time, somewhat, to go back and read those old, yellowing pages. There’s no pressure, no high grades to aim for. There’s only the still, quiet air around us as we ease into a comfortable chair.
And as we go deeper into the story, we remember our life back then. Back when we were teenagers wishing we did not have to read Rizal, and back to the days when we had the time of our lives with our friends.
Truly, required reading does not have to be boring. It does not have to be some kind of chore. We may not see the true value today, but I am certain that somewhere down life’s road, we shall come back.
In the meantime, I will return to the pages of the El Filibusterismo, and admire the skill and writing talent of Jose Rizal.
May 10
Posted: under General Interest.
May 10th, 2009
Doing a background check for free on the Internet is not as straightforward as some advertisements want you to believe. Whilst the Internet has given us some great tools to conduct our own free background checks, it is also opened the doorways to some unscrupulous corporations and services.
A great amount of the free background check [...] [...more]
Doing a background check for free on the Internet is not as straightforward as some advertisements want you to believe. Whilst the Internet has given us some great tools to conduct our own free background checks, it is also opened the doorways to some unscrupulous corporations and services.
A great amount of the free background check information is got by corporations from free public records repositories.These types of information databases are usually local or state legislature agencies that make their data ready to the public.
A situation that alot of people including myself have ran into is that a lot of these companies use old or poor data sources for their commercial Internet sites. This worthless data is sometimes worthless and supersededfor the arm chair investigator.
A frequent problem that I also, I’ve came across frequently with services on the web is the old bait and swith method strategy. These services will be offering you free records and let you to search their records but the service will then want cash for you to review the data found .
Their are a couple of things you can do to make certain your not wasting your time with these poor quality background check sites. Your first step is to search the company on the Internet. Look for reviews and articles concerning the company.
The other step I would suggest is to first, check if your local presidency has a free public records site. Many local and state regimes provide free public data services to the citizens. These sites are sometimes current and provide very relevant results.
Look past the flashy ads of these sites. If it seems too good to be true, than well it is. I have not basically found a useful free background check so don’t believe the false advertising that is shoveled at you everyday on the web.