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		<title>Rizal and José Martí: Two Writers Who Died for Their Nations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They never met. One died in the Philippines, one in Cuba. In 1895 and 1896, the Spanish Empire killed them both.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who Was José Rizal?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 03:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jose Rizal was a 19th-century Filipino doctor, novelist, and polymath who spoke 22 languages, wrote two novels that collapsed a colonial empire, and was executed at 35. Here's everything you need to know — and why you should care.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Noli Me Tangere vs. El Filibusterismo: What Changed Between the Two Novels — and Why It Matters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rizal wrote two novels. The first exposed a colonial society to itself. The second asked what happens when it refuses to change. They are not a story and its sequel — they are a before and after.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rizal in Dapitan: Four Years the Spanish Government Meant as Punishment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spain exiled Rizal to Dapitan to silence him. In four years, he built a water system, opened a school, performed surgeries, discovered new species, and fell in love. Spain, instead, gave him a laboratory.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rizal&#8217;s Trial and Execution</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Spanish colonial government needed three things from the trial of José Rizal: speed, the appearance of legality, and a guilty verdict. They got all three. What they did not anticipate was what the execution would do to the country they were trying to pacify.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poems and Literary Works of Jose Rizal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore the poems and literary works of Jose Rizal and discover how his writing shaped Filipino identity and the nation’s awakening.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Propaganda Movement: How Filipinos Tried to Reform an Empire With Words</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the late 1880s, Filipino intellectuals in Spain tried to persuade a colonial empire to treat their country fairly. They had newspapers, essays, and the belief that reason could move institutions. They were wrong. But what they built changed everything.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rizal in Europe: The Years That Made the Novelist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He left the Philippines in secret in 1882, twenty years old. He returned five years later carrying the manuscript of Noli Me Tangere. What happened in between turned a gifted student into a writer who toppled an empire.]]></description>
		
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		<title>El Filibusterismo: Summary Per Chapter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noli Me Tangere Sequel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A highly detailed chapter-by-chapter summary of José Rizal’s El Filibusterismo, covering all major events and storylines without analysis.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jose Rizal’s Last Words</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Del Castillo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Explore José Rizal’s last words through his final poem, letters, and reported statements before his execution, revealing his courage and love for the Philippines.]]></description>
		
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