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“The Policies and Achievements of the Government and Regeneration of the
Filipino”
By: Manuel L. Quezon
CRITIQUE PAPER
Being a President of a country is a hardworking one, and a challenging one,
because it’s up to you what would be the scenario in your country. You will be the
one to manage your country. In the year, 1935 to 1945 Manuel Luis Quezon y
Molina he was became the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. He
was born on August 19, 1878. He was the first Filipino to head a government of
the entire Philippines. He have been considered the second President of the
Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo. Being a President for him is a challenging
one because he had been faced a lot of problems that try of what he can do to
solved those problems.
The speech of Manuel L. Quezon is considered to be a interesting one. In the
speech of our past President he highlight this one trait of Filipinos which is about
the bad attitude and manners of the Filipino. He compare the attitude of our
ancestors up to the present, in our generation. He didn’t intend to offend or to
bring the citizens of Philippines down but he wants to point the wrong doings. He
wants to tackle of what he want to change about the manners of the Filipinos in
our generation. And he want to preserve of what our ancestors attitude have, and
he want for us to inherit it. In the speech that he delivered he pointed about the
claims; claims of fact, claim of value and claim of policy. Claim of fact referred
about a quantifiable assertion, or a measurable topic. They assert something that
existed, exists or will exist based on data. It usually answer the question “what”.
Claim of value is about, assert something that can be qualified. They consist of
arguments about moral, philosophical, or aesthetic topics. These types of topic
try to prove that some values are more or less desirable compared to others.
They make judgements. Claim of policy posit that specific actions should be
chosen as solution to a particular problem. They begin with a word “should”,
“ought to” or “must”. They defend actionable plans, usually answer the question
“how”. In the first stanza of Manuel L. Quezon speech he said that “ National
strength can only be built on character” and that is an example of claim of fact,
because we will have a progressive nation if we have a good character. Because
good character is equivalent to a good country. Also, in the first stanza of his
speech, you can find an example of claim of policy, “ We must find the flaws, if
there be any, in our concept of individual and community life, as well as in our
character, and proceed at once to remedy them “ I can say that this is an example
of claim of policy because from the word “must” and it answered the question “
