Keeping Still by Pablo Neruda is a thought provoking work of poetry. The poem was probably applicable to humanity of the time when it was authored‚ but it eerily fits so well into this moment of time and space. The notion of slowing the pace of life down for just a moment to realize that every living thing could use a moment of peace and reflection is so applicable to our lives in the Silicon Valley. With our hectic ways of trying to survive financially‚ complete our education‚ live and raise a family
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Pablo Escobar Born into a modest middle class family‚ a father who was a farmer and a mother who was an elementary school teacher‚ Pablo was the third born of nine children. Pablo strived and was driven to succeed by all costs. As a young child Pablo hoped to one day become President of Columbia. However‚ Pablo fell in with the wrong crowd where his drive and determination to achieve great success was exploited and turned into money driven criminal acts. Soon the Pablo Escobar of humble beginnings
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Reflection A Few Good Men 1. What led Lt. Dan Kaffee to plead not guilty for the two accused marines? Even though Lt. Dan Kaffee has no experience in trial court and always plea his cases out‚ he was convince that there is something not right about the case of two marines that was accused of murder. With the help of other co-lawyer‚ Lt. Commander Jo Galloway and Lt. j.g. Sam Weinberg‚ they find proof about their suspicion. They believe that the two accused marines did not intentionally killed Pfc
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Pablo Picasso’s Surrealism Surrealism was a movement that began in the early part of 1920s. Surrealism‚ unlike other art forms‚ can be characterized by “fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In a sense‚ it wouldn’t make much sense to the naked eye‚ as the paintings do not appear like a normal object that we see in our day to day life. Rather it creates strange and illogical creatures out of everyday objects. Picasso was a great artist
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Factory‚ Horta de Ebbo (oil on canvas‚ 1909) Philadelphia Museum of Art Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. In the four decades from 1870-1910‚ western society witnessed more technological progress than in the previous four centuries. Picasso and Braque
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One of the most famous paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas titled Guernica. The painting is Picasso’s horrified reaction to the aerial bombing of civilians populating the Spanish city of Guernica. The work is a contemporary depiction of overwhelming anguish suffered by innocents at the devastating hand of war. The piece was commissioned in 1937 by the Spanish Republican government for the Spanish Pavilion at the upcoming World’s Fair in Paris‚ and was
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Once upon a time there was a man named Pablo Davis. Pablo Davis is a strong‚ tall and intelligent man. He plays professional basketball for a living and graduated from the University of Kentucky. He also makes a lot of money in his profession of basketball and has received the MVP award twice and won the dunk contest three times. One day Pablo wakes up to the sun’s light in Cleveland‚ Ohio. He then decides to take a vacation after the playoffs‚ but sadly his team did not win. So he decided to go
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PABLO ESCOBAR “Power like-love is a double edge sword.” With that sword‚ Pablo Escobar‚ Colombia’s powerful drug capo‚ held tight to. On one edge‚ Pablo Escobar was a man who was infatuated with power‚ and used it to his advantage to corrupt Colombia’s political force for his own good. Because of his power status‚ Escobar was feared by many people because of what he can have done to them. And on the other edge‚ Pablo Escobar used his power to help those who were less fortunate‚ and he would be
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Pablo Vicario‚ twin brother of Pedro Vicario‚ plays a key role in “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”‚ for he is one of the murderers of Santiago Nasar. His sister‚ Angela Vicario‚ told Pablo and Pedro‚ on the night of her wedding‚ that Santiago Nasar had taken her virginity. The twins were now enraged and they both agreed that the honorable thing to do was to kill Santiago‚ as a woman losing her virginity before marriage was considered a disgrace. Pedro had originally concocted the idea of murdering
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A few words of counsel I frequently question myself-’Have I become the scriptwriter of my destiny?’. Many a time ‚the answer to this question is never in the affirmative. I dreamt and still dream of a lucrative career (well‚ not at all a distant utopian dream). I couldn’t crack the MBA examination -Common Admission Test. I always had a longing for excellence but no idea of where to go next and how? Nevertheless‚ I had a longing for glory. As I couldn’t crack CAT‚ the undoing of my
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