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appointment as chief justice, but fell ignominiously, becoming the first chief magistrate to be removed by
impeachment.
• Renato Corona died early yesterday due to cardiac arrest. He was 67.
• His son Francis announced the death at 1:48 a.m. in The Medical City in Pasig.
• He died with the cases against him for graft and tax evasion still not resolved.
• He teaches literature, humanities and writing subjects at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, University
of Santo Tomas. He graduated magna cum laude with an AB English (major in Literature) degree from the
Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology.
• He was a fellow to all the national writers’ workshops (Silliman [1995], U.P. [1996] and Iligan[1997]),
as well as to the 2nd ASEAN Writers’ Workshop/ Conference on Poetry. His poems in English and Filipino
have won prizes from the Philippine Panorama (1993) and Home Life Magazine (1998) poetry contests.
Ralph has an M.A. in English Studies (major in Creative Writing) from the UP-Diliman.
• writes book reviews for the Lifestyle Section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
• His first chapbook of poetry The Southern Cross and Other Poems was launched last December
2005 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts as part of its UBOD New Authors Series.
Ø In December 2011
• Chief Justice Renato Corona was impeached by the Philippine Senate, with 16 senators voting to
impeach him and 3 senators voting for acquittal.
He did not declare 183 million pesos in his SALN, a public document required for all government
employees especially officials, and this was considered as ill-gotten wealth.
JUSTICE
VOCABULARY
Simile - A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually
formed with 'like' or 'as').
Metaphor - A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not
literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
Group Activity:
1. BLINDFOLD
3. DOUBLE-EDGE SWORD
4. THOTH’S FEATHER OF TRUTH
3. Why does the poem describe the Philippines as “my uncertain country”?
4. What does the simile, “right and wrong can be shuffled like cards” mean when it comes to politics,
politicians, the police, and the justice system?
6. Of all the objects that Justice owns, which one do you think is the most important, why?
8. Why was it important for the Chief Justice to be impeached? What is its message to the Filipino
government officials?
2. What can you say about the Justice system here in the Philippines?
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