Ferdinand Marcos Thesis Statement About Death

OUTLINE

Marcos being buried at the LNMB

Thesis statement:

Ferdinand Marcos should not be buried at the LNMB.

Topic outline:

1. Introduction

1.1 Life of Ferdinand Marcos

1.2 Political Career

2. Background

2.1 Allowing Marcos’ burial

2.2 The Martial Law

3. Supporting evidence 1

3.1 Marcos’ fake achievements

3.2 Marcos as a soldier

3.3 Marcos’ guerilla unit

4. Supporting evidence 2

4.1 AFP’s disqualification rule

4.2 End of Martial Law

5. Counterargument

5.1 Marcos was a soldier

5.2 The Supreme Court’s decision

6. Conclusion “sum up”

6.1 Synopsis of the evidences

7. Conclusion “so what”

7.1 Social awareness of the youth INTRODUCTION

Friday, November 18th, at around noon time, the remains of the late President and dictator Ferdinand Marcos was silently buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani after the Supreme Court has decided to allow it on November 8. This

Marcos was a former senator and president of The Republic of the Philippines. His political career began with his claims of serving as a soldier during the WWII. Owing to this fabricated wartime record, Marcos’ successful entered the Philippines politics and continued to succeed in holding a position in public office until finally, the presidency in 1965. In 1969, after much conflict, he was reelected making him the first Filipino president to serve a second term (Biography, 2014).

In between the years of his first term, records show that peace and order had deteriorated. Several crimes shook the nation- the massacre of peasants in Tarlac and the Jabidah massacre were among the famous examples of this. Furthermore, many conflicts arose which include the Huk repression, graft and corruption and unresolved crimes of the agents of law. In the following years of 1965 – 1972, these continued to persist and increase. The nation experienced massive and numerous student rallies, protest marches, transport strikes and public demonstrations from Filipinos of all classes (Agoncillo & Alfonso,