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Andress Bonifacio Notable works/battle A moro-moro actor One of the greatest motivational writers and speakers of his generation

ion He also wrote about how the Filipinos were tortured by the Spaniards.

Role of Andres bonifacio to the youth With young people, we share the experiences of heroes in their youth, we had been taught. In the case of Andres Bonifacio, so much of value can be shared. He was orphaned at 14. Urging his parents to make an effort to survive tuberculosis. When they died, he neither approached relatives for support nor did he bring his younger siblings to an orphanage. Instead he decided to stop schooling and support them himself. Such a strong sense of self-reliance at 14 makes us understand his demand for independence from Spain, later in life. When he chose to make canes and fans, he would not sell fans lacking in finish. He was only willing to sell well-made canes and fans. How beautiful to find the insistence on quality control from someone who needed to earn money fast. And he chased after a customer to return the extra money she had paid for his product! Although he stopped schooling, he took responsibility for his education by reading Rizals two novels, the Bible, the history of the United States, the French Revolution, Les Miserables and others. He was more well-read than certain elite reformists who could easily buy books. Perhaps, reading prevented him from leading a life with a narrow perspective, concerned only with the survival of his family. And he had a colorful life, which included experience as an actor. Although he gave way to the writing skills of Emilio Jacinto, Bonifacio gave us the very beautiful and moving, Pag-Ibig sa Lupang Tinubuan. So it was not surprising to find him among the founding members of the Katipunan. The group was aiming not only for independence but for three major changes in the country: political change, the shift from a colony to an independent country; social change, the shift from individualism to mutual help, and defense of the oppressed; personal change towards strong moral character. I have admired the wisdom of believing that political change is not sufficient for the authentic liberation of our country and the realization that we needed to transform our relationships as well as ourselves.

Comparison of adjectives
In many languages, some adjectives are comparable. For example, a person may be "polite", but another person may be "more polite", and a third person may be the "most polite" of the three. The word "more" here modifies the adjective "polite" to indicate a comparison is being made, and "most" modifies the adjective to indicate an absolute comparison (a superlative). Among languages that allow adjectives to be compared, different means are used to indicate the comparison. Many languages do not distinguish comparative from superlative forms. In English, there are three different means to indicate comparison: most simple adjectives take the suffixes "-er" and "-est", as "big", "bigger", "biggest"; a very few adjectives are irregular: "good", "better", "best", "bad", "worse", "worst", "old", "elder", "eldest" (in certain contexts only; the adjective is usually regular) "far", "farther/further", "farthest/furthest" "many", "more", "most" (usually regarded as an adverb or determiner) "little", "less", "least"; all others are compared by means of the words "more" and "most". There is no simple rule to decide which means is correct for any given adjective, however. The general tendency is for simpler adjectives, and those from Anglo-Saxon to take the suffixes, while longer adjectives and those from French, Latin, Greek do notbut sometimes sound of the word is the deciding factor. Many adjectives do not naturally lend themselves to comparison. For example, some English speakers would argue that it does not make sense to say that one thing is "more ultimate" than another, or that something is "most ultimate", since the word "ultimate" is already absolute in its semantics. Such adjectives are called non-comparable. Nevertheless, native speakers will frequently play with the raised forms of adjectives of this sort. Although "pregnant" is logically non-comparable (either one is pregnant or not), it is not uncommon to hear a sentence like "She looks more and more pregnant each day", where a transference has taken place: grammatically the adjective is comparative but in fact it is the appearance that is being compared. Likewise "extinct" and "equal" appear to be non-comparable, but one might say that a language about which nothing is known is "more extinct" than a well-documented language with surviving literature but no speakers, while George Orwell wrote "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". These cases may be viewed as implying that the base form of the adjective is not as absolute in its semantics as is usually thought. Comparative and superlative forms are also occasionally used for other purposes than comparison. In English comparatives can be used to suggest that a statement is only tentative or tendential: one might say "John is more the shy-and-retiring type," where the comparative "more" is not really comparing him with other people or with other impressions of him, but rather, could be substituting for "on the whole". In Italian, superlatives are frequently used to put strong emphasis on an adjective: Bellissimo means "most beautiful", but is in fact more commonly heard in the sense "extremely beautiful".

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