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    1. The document summarizes a speech given by former Philippine President Corazon Aquino to the U.S. Congress in 1986 appealing for assistance after the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. 2. In her speech, Aquino thanked the U.S. for its support and promised to restore democracy and serve the Filipino people. She noted the dire economic straits left by Marcos. 3. Aquino recounted the struggle to regain democracy in the Philippines following the assassination of her husband, opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. She pledged to pursue peaceful means but retained force as a last option.

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    1. The document summarizes a speech given by former Philippine President Corazon Aquino to the U.S. Congress in 1986 appealing for assistance after the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. 2. In her speech, Aquino thanked the U.S. for its support and promised to restore democracy and serve the Filipino people. She noted the dire economic straits left by Marcos. 3. Aquino recounted the struggle to regain democracy in the Philippines following the assassination of her husband, opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. She pledged to pursue peaceful means but retained force as a last option.

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    Content Analysis-Cory Aquino

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    1. The document summarizes a speech given by former Philippine President Corazon Aquino to the U.S. Congress in 1986 appealing for assistance after the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos. 2. In her speech, Aquino thanked the U.S. for its support and promised to restore democracy and serve the Filipino people. She noted the dire economic straits left by Marcos. 3. Aquino recounted the struggle to regain democracy in the Philippines following the assassination of her husband, opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. She pledged to pursue peaceful means but retained force as a last option.

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    The Republic of the Philippines

    Cebu Technological University- Argao Campus


    Isidro Kintanar St., Argao, 6021, Cebu

    Content Analysis
    GEC-RPH Readings in Philippine History
    BEED 2A

    Caroline Dione Caliso


    Dara Rose Filosofo
    Rose Antonette Puzon
    Ginezel Rollon
    John Arnel Sereño

    Ms. April Jane Geralde


    SUBJECT COURSE PROFESSOR
    Content Analysis on Her former Presidency
    Maria Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco Aquino’s Speech
    During the Joint Session of the 1986 United State
    Congress
    “Join us America as we build a new home for democracy, another haven for the oppressed, so it may stand as a
    shining testament of our two nation’s commitment to freedom.”, her excellency, the former President of the
    Republic of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino during the 1986 joint session of the United States Congress.

    Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino better known as Cory Aquino was born on January 25, 1933 in Paniqui,
    Tarlac and was the sixth of eight children of José Cojuangco, a former congressman, and Demetria Sumulong, a
    pharmacist. Both Aquino's parents came from prominent clans. In her early schools, she was top of her class and
    graduated her college education in the U.S. graduating from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in 1953 in New York,
    with a major in French and minor in mathematics. After graduating from college, she returned to the Philippines and
    studied law at Far Eastern University in 1953. She later met Benigno "Ninoy" S. Aquino Jr.—son of the late Speaker
    Benigno S. Aquino Sr. and a grandson of General Servillano Aquino. She discontinued her law education and married
    Ninoy in Our Lady of Sorrows church in Pasay on 11 October 1954. And had five children.
    We came across a primary source of the late President of the Philippines, Maria Corazon C. Aquino during
    the Joint Session of the U.S. Congress on September 18, 1986 delivered at Washington, D.C. The Congress of the
    United States is defined in the Constitution as the power to lay and collect taxes, borrow money on the credit of the
    United States, regulate commerce, coin money, declare war, raise and support armies, and make all laws necessary
    for the execution of its powers. Her former presidency, Corazon Aquino of the Republic of the Philippines spoke to
    appeal for help as the Philippines is reckoning with everything the deposed dictator, Ferdinand Marcos’s
    administration had inflicted to the country with 26 billion dollars total foreign debt, stating her gratitude to the U.S.
    Congress, and her pure promising action towards the restoration of the real democracy and the heartful service to
    the Filipino people. During her speech, the evidences shows that the information is logical and based from truth. She
    proclaimed freedom, democracy, justice and liberty.

    As she entered the congress, enthusiastic rounding applause from various leaders and members of the
    congress were given to her as she was accompanied by the House of Representatives, some leaders and members of
    the Senate. She started by expressing the dire straits of Philippine democracy under President Marcos, in detail she
    expressed the crimes committed with the help of military force and supported it by the expression of defiance,
    committed by her husband in his cause to restore democracy to his beloved country.

    The regaining of the beloved democracy started when his husband was shot dead, as he was a fierce critic
    and enemy of the tyranny brought by Marcos. With this great tragedy was not extinguished but instead beamed
    brighter as the hope of democracy was lit ablaze, and the fight to regain it inherited by Ninoy’s wife and now widow
    Cory. Continuing on the struggle to regain it, the people held fervently as women watchers wept with tears of horror
    when men came crashing at polling stations to remove the ballots. But yet again Cory enhances the people’s thirst
    for constitutional democracy, and drives them to believe in her cause that as the results were announced, they took
    to the streets and peacefully protested the cause of democracy under threat at arms. And when central military
    leaders capitulated, the entire regime came crashing down, a bloodless revolution with God as witness has blessed
    her country and her cause to regain their beloved democracy.

    But the challenge continues for the casus belli for the entire implementation of martial law was still at large,
    groups of communist insurgents plagued the country. In keeping democracy, she referred to one of America’s great
    leaders Abraham Lincoln, who viewed the use of force necessary and like Lincoln she pointed out that she does not
    cherish it. For she would use everything in her power, as long as that option is still available, in the attempt to regain
    maintain and preserve democracy with no bloodshed. Whilst keeping the option of brute force as a choice she
    would not like to make as if to say “I will try peaceful means as long as you do the same”.

    The main idea in Cory’s speech revolved around democracy, how to regain it and how to maintain it. During
    that period, her speech was like an empowerment to all Filipinos seeking for freedom and new democracy. She
    spoke in English language to influence the setting and the meaning of her words is so powerful that she managed to
    sway the house with her historic speech and asked for financial aid towards rebuilding the Philippine economy.

    Indeed, her speech is heart-warming. She expressed her intentions with conviction and resolve. She received
    a standing ovation and applause from various dignified leaders in the congress and receive amazing compliments
    that entitled her speech as one of the finest speeches of the former presidents that will flow down to every roots of
    our history.

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