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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Journal 3: i will never forget the day i will never forget the day I peed on myself. I had "show and tell‚" that friday. i wus really shy and scared of public speaking. I did not have to present until after lunch. Lunch time came and i was feeling really dehydrated after running in P.E.‚ so i decided to drink my apple juice and ask four other kids for theirs too. by the time my food and great conversations with my classmates was over‚ i completely forgot about my presentation. when we made it
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Catch Me If You Can written by Frank A. Abagnale and Stan Redding portray a remarkable tale of adventurous‚ deceitful crimes. A sixteen year old teenager impersonates different occupations and forges checks to live a luxurious life without any parental supervision even though his age characterizes him as a minor. His expenditures led the police in fifty states and twenty-six foreign countries on the search for him as one of the most wanted criminals. However‚ looking for the teenager was difficult
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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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A day I would like to forget It started out as a normal day‚ I went to school but‚ school got out at ten because of snow. As my little brother and I were walking off the bus‚ I saw a u-haul parked in our driveway. I thought I was going blind for a second‚ I didn’t know what was going on. My first thought was “Does my mother know about his move?” Before I saw anything else‚ my step-dad walked outside to greet my brother and I. All three of us plus his mother and sister came inside the house and
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Sit By and Watch The poems When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbil and Flash Cards both display the themes of responsibility and‚ they differ through the context of the speakers in each poem obtaining different feelings from their required tasks. The two poems are similar through the portrayed theme of responsibility. In When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbils‚ responsibility is shown throughout the poem‚ but is really given away in the last two lines. The speaker of the poem is a girl‚ and describes
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Someone that I will never forget is Clayton. Although Clayton is six years younger than I am‚ he is my best friend. I met Clayton on the school bus when I lived in Alabama. I just moved to a new town‚ so I was the new student in fifth grade. I never liked sitting in the back of the bus because it was occupied by high school students; I sure didn’t belong back there. I sat with a student who was sleeping. When we got to his school‚ I woke him up; he forgot his sweater and I put it away in my book
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The Day I Will Never Forget I will never forget the bright light in the sky. I saw this light in the sky years ago when I was just a boy; I still to this day can remember it vividly as if it was just yesterday. I’m not exactly sure what it was in the sky‚ but whatever it was had defied all physics and natures law. When I was about nine years old I went with my parents one Saturday evening. One of my dad’s friends were throwing a pool party out of town. It was a nice summer’s night in or
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kissed my mother on the forehead lightly‚ pulled the comforter tighter around her frail body then let my gaze linger on my father’s empty side of the bed. After a few moments‚ I headed to my younger sister’s room. Little Mia. She would probably hate me for leaving‚ but she needs to grow up and learn to be independent sooner or later; just sooner than she thought‚ much sooner. Quietly‚ I walked over to Mia’s study table‚ grabbed a piece of paper and took out my pen from my pocket. I turned on the
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In the video “How Do You Know When You’re A Grown-Up?” by The Atlantic‚ the novel Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy‚ and the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles shoe that coming of age can not be condensed into one single ceremony or experience‚ that it must be an individual experience apart from anyone else’s‚ and that it must all lead to an understanding of the responsibilities of adulthood‚ which may result in a loss of innocence. Contrary to many popular
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