Lately, our professor provided us to watch a movie about the president who ruled our country, Philippines. It’s so meaningful and full of information that the student like like us will gain knowledge about the history of the Philippines. Presidents Presidents are the one who has the responsibility to take care of the country what he/she ruling. But some of them have their own characteristics and behaviours in which one of them will also have their own ways and techniues on how they will rule the country. !erdinand "arcos, #ory $uino, !idel %amos and &oseph 'strada are the e(ample for this. )he term of of !erdinand !erdinand "arcos "arcos was the most controversial controversial regime regime in the Philippines history. history. "arcos was an intellectual, capable of initiating unimaginable ideals for himself and for his country. *e served in the military and assembled medals of prestige and honour. $ccording to the movie we’ve watched, "arcos was then imprisoned but lately released. *e studied while he was in prison and even topped the bar e(ams. In accordance, he defends himself to the court and he was successfully released in prison. Because of his intelligence and all of his political achievements, government government appoint him to become the president and people don’t complain but instead to trust and agree about what happened. Before he declares martial law, he gave a lot of contributions. +ome are infrastructure programs, programs, electricity generator, and development of roads, buildings, bridges and others. ith "arcos autocratic style of ruling Philippines, he was able to do these developments without hesitation and also with the help of his wife, Imelda "arcos, the widow and -rst lady of him. *e can do all what he wanted to do. d o. *is wife, Imelda, was accused that she ordered to shoot inoy $uino while he is landing on the Philippines. But base on the -lm in personal interview of her, she said that it’s not true that she do that. )his theory of her is not yet proven until now. $nd this is the huge factor why "arcos declares "artial Law. People tend to protest and march along '+$ because of his undeniable works like heavy demonstrations and spend a large amount of money. *e e(tended his term, closed the mass media and even the freedom of people was lost. )hen #ory $uino 0Ina ng Bayan1 takes o2. !or us students, based on this, even we doesn’t encounter this, there is positive and negative e2ect on how "arcos ruled the Philippines. Positive is the huge development of the properties and the negative is the disappearance of the freedom of every individual. It’s great that he gave us a good contributions but it should be balance between the power of him and the people around him. *e must listen on what people wanted and unwanted based on what they 3ust can do and not. *e’s trying to steal everyone’s privilege to do something they like to do. "artial Law is not in favour for everyone4 it should be disclosed and pops o2.
