General education 2

Readings in Philippine History

Activity 1
(Essay)

Instruction: Think of a group, a leader, an organization or company who has

done something great to our country. Discuss their contributions to our
country in relation to the relevance of the study of history discussed above.
Your essay must contain 300-500 words only. Write your brief answer on the
space provide below.

- The leader that I think who has done something great to our country is
our very own President, Rodrigo R. Duterte. He has such huge
contribution in every country in the Philippines not just in a particular
country. First, he implemented the “war on drugs” which we all know
turned out to be progressed because the population of the drug addict in
the Philippines have dropped. Not just the population of drug addicts
have dropped but also the lists of accidents that is happening because
our President really worked hard to implement some rules that could
help reduce these common problems. under Duterte, crime went down
but extrajudicial killings became rampant. Now, the President faces the
grim prospect of being tried before the International Criminal Court in
The Hague for crimes against humanity. Our Supreme Court has told
Duterte to cooperate with the ICC. On June 20, 2018, President Rodrigo
Duterte approved the Armed Forces modernization program's shopping
list for Horizon 2. The list of projects will be implemented from 2018 to
2022, with a budget of about ₱300 billion, or about US$5.6 billion. He
also builds some buildings, houses and establishments that could help
poor people to rise up. The President also valued every island in the
Philippines that he didn’t even dare to sell any of our precious islands
and he also didn’t allow the China to seize the West Philippine Sea. I
know there are so many contributions that President Rodrigo Duterte
have done to the Philippines and not all of that are announced publicly.
But whatever the President is doing, I know it is for the good of every
country.