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HILLARY DIANE RODHAM (b.October 26, 1947)

first lady of United States of America from 1993 to 2001

U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009

appointed secretary of state under Pres. Barack Obamas Administration (January 2009
and served until 2013)

Fought for children and families for 40 years and counting.

After law school, Hillary could have gone to work for a prestigious law firm, but took a
job at the Childrens Defense Fund. She worked with teenagers incarcerated in adult
prisons in South Carolina and families with disabled children in Massachusetts. It
sparked a lifelong passion for helping children live up to their potential.
Helped provide millions of children with health care.

She fought to help pass health care reform. When that effort failed, she didnt give up:
She worked with Republicans and Democrats to help create the Childrens Health
Insurance Program. CHIP cut the uninsured rate of American children by half, and today
it provides health care to more than 8 million kids.

Helped get 9/11 first responders the health care they needed.
When terrorists attacked just months after Hillary became U.S. senator from New York,
she worked to make sure the 9/11 first responders who suffered lasting health effects
from their time at Ground Zero got the care they needed.
Told the world that womens rights are human rights.
Standing in front of a U.N. conference and declaring that womens rights are human
rights was more controversial than it sounds today. Many within the U.S. government
didnt want Hillary to go to Beijing. Others wanted her to pick a less polarizing topic
(you say polarizing, we say half the population). But Hillary was determined to speak
out about human rights abuses, and her message became a rallying cry for a generation.
Stood up for LGBT rights at home and abroad.
She made LGBT rights a focus of U.S. foreign policy. She lobbied for the first-ever U.N.
Human Rights Council resolution on human rights and declared that gay rights are
human rights. And here at home, she made the State Department a better, fairer place
for LGBT employees to work.
Helped expand health care and family leave for military families.
She worked across the aisle to expand health care access for members of the National
Guard and reservistsmaking sure those who served and their families had access to
health care when they returned home. And she worked to expand the Family Medical
Leave Act, allowing families of those wounded in service to their country to take leave
in order to care for their loved ones.
Negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
She didnt back down when the stakes were high. As Hamas rockets rained down on
Israel, she went to the region immediately. Twenty-four hours after she landed, a
ceasefire went into effectand that year became Israels quietest in a decade.

BARACK OBAMA (b. August 4, 1961)

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991.

Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first
African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he
won a second term in 2012.

Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create
universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32
million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental
measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of Americas long-term
fiscal problems.

Repealed Dont Ask, Dont Tell: Ended 1990s-era restriction and formalized new
policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time.

Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As
part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old
practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students
began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government.

Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world economy out of

recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations more than $500 billion for
the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to emerging market countries, which
kept them liquid and avoided crises with their currencies.

MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO (b. 1945)

She graduated cum laude from University of the Philippines 1969

In December 2011, she was elected by States Parties to Rome Statute as judge of the
International Criminal Court for nine-year term. First Filipino and first Southeast
Asian from a developing state to be thus elected.
But she waived the ICC privilege, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer, stage 4
(last stage). After six weeks on new medication, doctors found her cancer has regressed.
She returned to work in the Philippine Senate.

Senator, Republic of the Philippines 1995 2016

Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1989)

Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation (1988 1989)

Legal Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva, Switzerland
(1979 1980)

The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, The Australian magazine, 1996

CONCHITA CARPIO MORALES (b. June 19, 1941)

She graduated from University of the Philippines 1968

She was appointed as Ombudsman of the Republic of the Philippines July 2011. She
holds the distinction of being the first woman magistrate to administer the oath of office
of a Philippine President.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines

In 1971, she joined the Department of Justice as Special Assistant to then Justice
Secretary Vicente Abad Santos.

She joined the Judiciary in 1983 when President Ferdinand Marcos appointed her as
Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge in Pili, Camarines Sur.

In 1994, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed her to the Court of Appeals where she
eventually headed its 7th Division.

A Bar Examiner in Legal Ethics in 2000, she was the Chairperson of the 2010 Bar
Examinations Committee.

During the Centenary of UP in 2008, the UP Alumni Association conferred on Justice

Carpio Morales the Outstanding Award in Championing Justice/Judiciary for delivering
justice with courage and untrammeled integrity a shining paragon to all magistrates,
worthy of emulation and respect.

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. (September 11, 1917 September 28, 1989)

President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Placed the Philippines under Martial
Law (1972 to 1981)

Earned the moniker brilliant lawyer having topped the bar exams while serving a
prison term; defended himself before the Supreme Court on his first trial and won.

Awarded 33 medals as combat intelligence officer in WWII the most decorated soldier
in Philippine history.

Elected thrice as Congressman; elected as Senator with the highest number of votes;
became Senate President in spite of being in the minority party.

Caused the most conclusive development of the countrys physical economy, more than
any Filipino leader, past and present.

Caused the Philippines to experience, even shortly so, self-sufficiency in rice and corn
production resulting to the first ever Philippine rice exportation in the 70s.

First to pushed land reform on a national scale abolishing tenancy and emancipating the
tenants from the bondage of the soil by transferring to them the ownership of the land
they till in 1972.

Initiated the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to

combat the communist threat in the region.

Created the Department of Tourism in 1973 to intensify the tourism industry in the
country.

He wrote too many laws still used by succeeding administrations, and very few were
repealed

Projects finished that were not promised to the Filipinos

-Manila International Airport
-LRT-1 (1st in Southeast Asia)
-Heart Center of the Philippines
-Kidney Center
-Nayong Filipino
-Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
-Coconut Palace
-PICC
-Philippines Lung Center
-Film Center
-Golden Mosque for Muslim
-Folks Arts Theatre
-SLEX at NLEX (1st in Southeast Asia)
-San Juanico Bridge
-Mactan Mandaue Bridge

B. Skills or Competencies needed to be globally competitive. Especially in light of ASEAN

integration

D. Give your Expectations from this subject, Legal Profession.

This Subject will give me a clearer view of law profession. Seeing a lawyer wearing
formal outfit with appealing persona is just a tip of iceberg. There are responsibilities and
Etiquette that a law practitioner should uphold and I believe that this subject will help me to
learn all of it so I can be a good litigator of the future.
E. Give your Expectation from USC College of Law
This Institution is known for providing competitive professionals, so I believe that my
decision to pursue my legal studies here is right. This institution will help me to be a globally
competitive legal professional since they are exemplary in providing quality education and
relevant trainings.
F. Short-Term (1 Year) and Long-Term (4 years) goals in law school. How will you achieve
the goals.
SHORT-TERM:
Pass all my first year subjects and remain as carolinian law student.

LONG-TERM:
to have no flunk grades from non-bar to bar subjects and pass the Bar
exam same year after my graduation.
G. Skill and Qualities are needed to success in law school?
I need to develop my communication skill, both writing and oral. A law student must
learn to manage his time, know his priorities, and persistent to his desire to become a lawyer. He
needs to be patient since the road to success in this field is not certain so patience, perseverance,
able to impose disciplinary to oneself by eliminating the vices that can deter from achieving the
golden prize, become a lawyer.
H. Summarize your learning from Chap. 1 of this textbook.
I. Summarize your learning from Chap. 2 of this textbook