Talambuhay ni Sen. Benigno Ninoy Aquino Jr.

Ipinanganak sa Concepcion sa Tarlac noong Nobyembre 27, 1932 sa mga magulang na si Don Servillano Aquino at
Donya Aurora Aquino na may pitong kapatid. Sa kanyang kabataan ay lagi siyang updated sa mga balita at kaganapan
sa kanyang paligid. Nag-aral sa mga paaralang San Joseph College, San Beda College, Ateneo de Manila University, at
University of the Philippines. Noong 17 taon ay nagtrabaho sa Manila Times bilang copy boy at nang lumaon ay
naging correspondent sa Korean War at Vietnam War. Naging emisaryo sa mga Huk, naging dahilan upang sumuko
ang ilang lider nito at nagbalik loob sa pamahalaan partikular si Luis Taruc. Nagpakasal sa may bahay na si Corazon
Cojuangco Aquino noong 1954. Nagkaroon ng limang anak. Sa panahong ito ay iniwan niya ang paglilingkod sa
pamahalaan at pinamahalaan ang Hacienda Luisita sa Tarlac. Nang lumaon, tumakbo at nanalo bilang pinakabatang
Mayor ng Tarlac sa edad na 22, nang matapos bilang Mayor ay tumakbo naman bilang Bise Gobernador ng Tarlac sa
edad na 26 at nanalo, at noong 31 taong gulang ay naging Gobernador ng Tarlac. Pagkatapos ng pagsisilbi sa Tarlac ay
sumabak siya sa senado sa edad na 35 (pinakabatang nahalal na senador sa Pilipinas) sa tiket ng Liberal Party. Bilang
Senador, walang takot nitong nilabanan ang administrasyon sa bilang oposisyon sa pamamagitan ng mga talumpati at
mga pahayag, kabilang na dito ang Oplan Sagittarius na diumano y plano sa pagdedeklara ng Batas Militar sa
bansa. Nang ideklara ang Martial Law, Inaresto at ikinulong si Ninoy sa Fort Bonifacio ng halos pitong taon. Siya ay
nalamang may sakit sa puso kaya nakiusap na sa Amerika tumungo para magpagamot at siya ay pinayagan at
matagumpay na sumailalim sa triple bypass.

Sa isang panayam sa Radio Veritas ay sinabi niyang siya ay babalik sa Pilipinas mula Amerika at tanging kamatayan
lamang ang makakapigil sa kanya. Sa nagbabadyang pagbabalik ni Ninoy ay sinabi ni Heneral Fabian Ver ng
Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas ay hindi maaring payagan makapasok si Ninoy sa bansa kung walang sapat papeles,
kaya gumamit si Ninoy ng pekeng pasaporte na may pangalang Marcial Bonifacio.

Mula Taipei lulan ng China Airlines Jet ay dumating si Ninoy noong Agosto 21, 1983. Habang pababa ay binaril siya at
naging sanhi ng kanyang kamatayan. Maraming ispekulasyon ang lumabas tungkol sa kanyang kamatayan ngunit
hanggang sa kasalukuyan ay hindi pa din malinaw ang totoong utak ng pangyayari sa kanyang kamatayan, ang
malinaw lamang ay si Ninoy ay isa sa mga dahilan upang wakasan ang madilim na pahina sa kasaysayan ng bansa sa
ilalim ng diktatura. Nagsilbing hudyat ang pagbabalik ni Ninoy upang bumalik din ang demokrasya sa ating bansa sa
pamamagitan ng pagkakaisa na ipinakita ng mga Pilipino kaya masasabi nating the Filipino is worth dying for.
 Nene Hatuns Biography

Nene Hatun (1857 22 May 1955) was a Turkish folk heroine, who became known for fighting
against Russian forces during the recapture of Fort Aziziye in Erzurum from Russian forces at
the start of the Russo-Turkish War of 18771878.
According to Turkish folklore, she had been living in a neighborhood of Erzurum called
Aziziye that was close to an important fortification defending the city. On the night of 7
November 1877, Fort Aziziye was captured by the Russian army on the evening of 9
November. Nene Hatun's brother Hasan, who was heavily wounded died that evening. In the
morning when, the news of the Russian capture of Fort of Aziziye was heard, she kissed her
dead brother's head and took an oath to avenge his death. She left her three-month-old baby
girl and an adolescent son at home, joining the counterattack against Aziziye with her dead
brother's rifle and her hatchet. The counter-attack was launched by Turkish civilians who were
mostly women and elderly men armed with axes and farming equipment. Hundreds of Turkish
civilians were killed by Russian gunfire but their numbers were so overwhelming they
managed to enter the fortifications breaking down its iron doors. A hand-to-hand fight ended
with around 2000 Russian soldiers being killed and rest ran away. Nene Hatun was found
unconscious, wounded and her bloodied hands still firmly grasping her hatchet. She was
identified as being the most heroic of them all and became a symbol of bravery.
Nene Hatun lived the rest of her life in Aziziye. She lost her husband in the following years and
her son Yusuf was killed in World War I during the battle of Gallipoli. After Turkish war of
independence she had a difficult life, relying on help given by the local municipality, even
sending a letter in 1943 to Turkish president Ismet Inonu asking for reinstatement of her one
bread a day allowance. American General Ridgway visited her in 1952 and when he asked her
if she could join a new war she told him "of course I will." In 1954 she was remembered as the
last survivor of the Russo-Turkish War of 18771878 and was visited by General Baransel,
commander of the 3rd Turkish army, and from then until her death she was known as the
"Mother of the Third Army". She was named as "Mother of the Mothers" on the Mother's Day
in 1955. She died of pneumonia on 22 May 1955 at the age of 98 and was laid to rest in the
martyrs' cemetery at Fort Aziziye.
 Chinua Achebe Biography

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is
given to him.
Chinua Achebe
Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958, his
groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million
copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe later served as the David
and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of Africana Studies at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston,
Massachusetts.
Famed writer and educator Chinua Achebe was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on
November 16, 1930, in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. After becoming educated in
English at the University of Ibadan and a subsequent teaching stint, in 1961, Achebe joined
the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation as director of external broadcasting. He would serve in
that position until 1966.

Prior to joining NBC, in 1958, Achebe published his first novel: Things Fall Apart. The
groundbreaking novel centers on the cultural clash between native African culture and the
traditional white culture of missionaries and the colonial government in place in Nigeria. An
unflinching look at the discord, the book was a startling success and has become required
reading in many schools across the world.
The 1960s proved to be a creatively fertile period for Achebe. It was during this decade that he
wrote the novels No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of the People
(1966), all of which address the issue of traditional ways of life coming into conflict with new,
often colonial, points of view. (Anthills of the Savannah [1987] took on a similar theme.)
In a related endeavor, in 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-
founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for
a new kind of African-oriented children's books. Okigbo was soon killed, however, in the
Nigerian civil war. Two years later, Achebe toured the United States with Gabriel Okara and
Cyprian Ekwensi, fellow writers, giving lectures at various universities. The 1960s also marked
Achebe's wedding to Christie Chinwe Okoli in 1961, and they went on to have four children.
When he returned to Nigeria from the United States, Achebe became a research fellow and
later a professor of English (197681) at the University of Nigeria. During this time, he also
served as director of two Nigerian publishing houses, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. and
Nwankwo-Ifejika Ltd.
On the writing front, the 1970s proved equally productive, and Achebe published several
collections of short stories and a children's book: How the Leopard Got His Claws (1973). Also
released around this time were the poetry collections Beware, Soul-Brother (1971) and
Christmas in Biafra (1973), and Achebe's first book of essays, Morning Yet on Creation Day
(1975).
While back in the United States in 1975, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Achebe gave a lecture called "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," in
which he asserted that Joseph Conrad's famous novel dehumanizes Africans. The work
referred to Conrad as a "thoroughgoing racist," and, when published in essay form, it went on
to become a seminal postcolonial African work. Achebe joined the faculty at the University of
Connecticut that same year, returning to the University of Nigeria in 1976.
The year 1987 would mark the release of Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, which was
shortlisted for the Booker McConnell Prize. The following year, he published Hopes and
Impediments (1988).
The 1990s began with tragedy: Achebe was in a car accident in Nigeria that left him paralyzed
from the waist down and would confine him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Soon after,
he moved to the United States and taught at Bard College, just north of New York City, where
he remained for 15 years. In 2009, Achebe left Bard to join the faculty of Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island, serving as professor of Africana Studies as well as the David and
Marianna Fisher University professor.
Chinua Achebe won several awards over the course of his writing career, including the Man
Booker International Prize (2007) and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2010). He also
received honorary degrees from more than 30 universities around the world.
Chinua Achebe died on March 21, 2013, at the age of 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.