this stadium comes alive when Real Madrid plays. The Santiago Bernabeu stadium is Real Madrid’s most important trophy. Santiago Bernabeu‚ who started playing for Real Madrid at a young age‚ later became president of Real Madrid. He was known for being a charismatic and caring person. Bernabeu wanted to build the best soccer stadium of all times. In 1944‚ his dream started to shape up; the construction of Real Madrid’s stadium began. Santiago Bernabeu named the stadium after his name. After its
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Is Santiago Heroic? What is a hero? A hero is defined as‚ “a person who is admired or idealized” (Google). When thinking of the word “hero” mostly to everyone‚ a superhero comes to mind. Not all heroes are superheros. To me‚ a hero is someone who is courageous and never gives up no matter the circumstances. Speaking of someone heroic‚ Santiago is an old fisherman in The Old Man and The Sea written by Ernest Hemingway. Although Hemingway did not exactly state that Santiago is a hero‚ he displays
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The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952 and was acclaimed by many as Hemingway’s greatest literary triumph. The story of the novel is lead by an old fisherman named Santiago. He spends most of his life by being a respected‚ skillful fisherman; working the gulf off Havana‚ Cuba. Santiago is described as being "thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck". His face is marked with brown blotches of skin cancer‚ and his aged hands are scarred from innumerable fishing-cord burns uncured
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Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist tells the story of a young shepherd named Santiago who sets out on a journey after leaving his sheep and country behind to find a treasure following a recurrent dream he experiences. While on his journey‚ Santiago meets some interesting characters that help him realize his true potential and what it means to truly follow your dreams. Throughout the book‚ Santiago learns that if you have a goal in life‚ the world will come together to help you achieve it. He also learns
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of the best authors at using symbolism in his books. Santiago is an old fisherman who fishes out of a small Cuban village in the 1940’s. Santiago has fished for a living his whole life and the past 84 days he has not caught a thing. 85 is his lucky number‚ so on the 85th day he thinks he will catch something. Sure enough he hooks up with a massive marlin and spends 3 long days fighting it. Hemingway portrays interesting symbolism between Santiago‚ the old fisherman‚ and the marlin that he catches.
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than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella‚ an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago‚ our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh‚ lonely‚ poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience‚ especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments which proposed that Santiago is in fact very successful in terms of achieving admirable qualities through his journey thus don’t
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really show how perseverance can change the situation? Could giving up mean life or death? In The Old Man and the Sea‚ the old man‚ Santiago shows just that. From battling hunger and sleep‚ Santiago keeps striving on. Even though many made fun of the old man‚ he was determined and showed perseverance. He did not give up‚ even not knowing what would happen to him next. Santiago was not a rich man. He did not have a lot of material possessions‚ but he seemed content. He had the boy with him and he loved
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My parents said that Santiago was an unlucky fisherman and from then on I sailed with a crew on a different boat. The old man was unlucky for a while‚ eighty-four days to be exact. Before my parents objected‚ Santiago and I would fish together and he would teach me all I needed to know be a good fisherman. We always had great fun chatting about fish and about baseball. For‚ we both had a love for baseball. Santiago mostly enjoyed talking about the great DiMaggio of the Yankees. Even though the remarkable
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He was just one year younger than me and his name was Santiago. Santiago expressed himself which I got jealous of because I was still shy on talking to people and getting to know them better. He really didn’t care what other people think and talked about things he knew or what talents he got. Till this day I still
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Santiago Sierra Santiago Sierra (Madrid‚ 1966) is one of the most controversial artists in the international art scene. He has become famous for his critique of the contractual economy through a series of remunerated actions where people – typically immigrants‚ casual workers‚ or even homeless wanderers – are paid to perform some pointless task which is then documented on video and through black-and-white photographs. Poor people and minorities are Sierra’s art supplies. He has them perform some
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