Politics: One in a Million

When you here the word "Politician" what comes first into your mind? 

I know that most of you will answer... Corrupt, greedy, selfish, liar and dishonest because those were the most common and usual characteristics of most Politicians especially here in the Philippines. They often promise everything and anything under the sun for the benifits of their constituents during the time of their campaign but when they win in the election and they finally proclaimed as a legit politician and when they are exercising their power they forget everything and anthing that they've said during their campaign that's why people will be dismayed and they will regret all their lives because they trusted and voted that Politician. 

But not all country has that kind of Politicians because there is one country who gives most of his salary to charity, who refuse to have a motorcade, who chose to live in a one-bedroom house on his wife’s farm, who prefer to drive an old Volkswagen Beetle over a classy and expensive car and his only security detail is two guards parked on the approach road, and his three-legged dog, Manuela.

Upper photo: Mr. Mujica riding in his old
Volkswagen Beetle. Lower photo:
Mr. Mujica outside his wife's farmhouse
with his dog, Manuela.

He is no other than José Alberto Mujica Cordano or also known as Jose Mujica, the current President of Uruguay. At a young age, he was already active in the National Party, a right wing conservative party and he even got close to Enrique Erro. However, his beliefs shifted from conservative to extreme left in the early 1960′s when he joined the MLN-T, or Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional – Tupamaros (Tupamaros National Liberation Movement). With his association with the Tupamaros which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, he was released from prison and the Tupamaros was reorganized as a political party. He is also a member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and he became a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as President on 1 March 2010.

Mr. Mujica doing his obligation as a President of Uruguay

Aside form living a simple life and rejecting the perks of the presidency, Mujica is also doing extraordinary things for his country. He supported the nation’s groundbreaking legalization of marijuana. In August 2013, Mujica signed the bill making Uruguay the second nation in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. He supported the legalization of abortion in Uruguay but it's only for the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy and requires women to meet with a panel of doctors and social workers on the risks and possible effects of an abortion. He is opposed to war and militarism.  He is also an environmentalist trying to limit needless consumption, and lastly he focuses on redistributing his nation’s wealth,  it includes setting prices for essential commodities such as milk and providing free computers and education for every child claiming that his administration has reduced poverty from 37% to 11%, it includes setting prices for essential commodities such as milk and providing free computers and education for every child.

Though many people are bashing and judging his way of running Uruguay, I still admire and salute him for his simplicity, humility and honesty. The fact that he is a President, he has all the wealth, power, and possessions in his country but he refuse all those things because he preferred to live a simple and happy life with his wife and his dog, Manuela. If all politicians will be as humble, simple and honest like him, I think all countries in the world will live in peace and harmony for there are no more greedy, corrupt, dishonest and selfish politicians, who will serve their country wholeheartedly.

Mr. Jose Mukica doing the "Okay" sign 

"I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more," - Jose Mujica

I would write

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If you were a writer, WOULD you write or COULD you write?

If a person is a "writer" it is given that he "could" write because it's innate and he has the ability and talent to write stories, poems, novels, articles or anything that interests him. However the big question is on the "WILLINGNESS" of that person on writing.... are you willing to write all the ideas inside your mind?, are you willing to write about the things that you see on your surroundings?, are you willing to write for you to voice out young feelings?, are you willing to write about the issues in the government and your country?, are you willing to write to voice out the plea's of your countrymen so that they will be heard by the government officials?, are you willing to write to expose the different anomalies in the government?, and lastly, are you willing to write to be an eye opener to those people who are blinded by the things that they've only heard and never been see?, Because at the end of the day, it is all up to you if you are going to be a catalyst of change and if you will be an eye opener to your country. 

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Assignment

QUATRAIN - a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Here is an example:

  Today I Had a Rotten Day

      by Kenn Nesbitt  

   

Today I had a rotten day     (A)

as I was coming in from play.     (A)

I accidentally stubbed my toes     (B)

and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.     (B)

I chipped a tooth. I cut my lip.

I scraped my knee. I hurt my hip.

I pulled my shoulder, tweaked my ear,

and got a bruise upon my rear.

I banged my elbow, barked my shin.

A welt is forming on my chin.

My pencil poked me in the thigh.

I got an eyelash in my eye.

I sprained my back. I wrenched my neck.

I’m feeling like a total wreck.

So that’s the last time I refuse

when teacher says to tie my shoes.

Here is my own poem:

Lost

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Why am I feeling this?

Why am I thinking like this?

Those are the questions in my mind

and still the answers I can't find.

Do I deserved to feel this?

Do I deserved to think like this?

Please answer me my friend

So that my agony will end.

It bothers me all the time,

And I know it's a waste of time.

I can't help on being affected

because my heart is so infected.

I don't want this feelings to last

'coz I think my mind will going to blast

With all the thoughts and baggage's 

That I've been keeping for ages.

LIMERICK - a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming AABBA, popularized by Edward Lear.

Here is an example:

Selina

“There once was a girl Selina,     (A)

  who wants to be a ballerina.        (A)

   She went on her toes,                  (B) 

and she broke her nose.              (B)

 Then she became a gorilla .”        (A)

Here is my own poem:

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Epic Limerick

There was a girl named Ella,

Who married a Gorilla,

Who loves to eat banana

Given by her friend Sheila;

Wife of DJ Padilla.