Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar was born on December 1‚ 1949 in Rionegro‚ Columbia. His parents were Abel de Jesus Dari Escobar‚ a farmer‚ and Hemilda Garvine‚ a teacher.1 His family was poor and because of this‚ Pablo‚ at the age of five‚ promised his mother that he would give her everything. This was his childhood ambition‚ along with being rich by the time he was 22.1 The fact that he was poor motivated him and made him strive for power and money. He later became the most notorious and richest
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Landslide Southwest China‚ Yiliang County References: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/china-landslide-school/index.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/05/china-landslide.html The southwest part of China is surrounded by hills and mountains. The area is also surrounded by many plate boundaries so it is a common place for many earthquakes and landslides to occur. The area is often in long periods of droughts followed by heavy showers. The area is covered with basin
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Chile Chile is located in South America‚ its neighboring countries are Argentina‚ Bolivia‚ and Peru. And its capital is Santiago de Chile. Chile’s most representative historical site is the Memory and Human Rights Museum‚ which was made to conmemorate all the victims of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Here you can look at different types of things such as: letters of love‚ letters asking for help‚ torture artefacts‚ and many other things. Pinochet`s dictatorship a horrible and desastrous
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Overview Pablo Picasso was the greatest and most significant artist in the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known as the father of Cubism‚ Picasso also made important contributions to Surrealism and Symbolism and he was the inventor of collage. Although he primarily saw himself as a painter‚ Picasso ’s sculpture work was highly significant‚ in addition he explored printmaking and ceramics. Pablo had a charismatic personality and was involved in many relationships with women which directed
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. Pablo was the son of a respected art teacher‚ and due to his father’s influence‚ young Pablo entered the Academy at Barcelona at age 14. This was where he painted his first great work‚ "Girl with Bare Feet". After two years of schooling‚ Picasso transferred for even for advanced tutelage. This did not hold Picasso’s interest‚ so instead he spent much of his time in cafes and in brothels. Three years later
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illuminates a valuable reality in the world. When considering Pablo Neruda’s body of work‚ a clear thematic focus on nature is visible. Many of his poems reference the natural‚ untouched world. This is a thematic juxtaposition to the over-structured‚ artificial nature of human culture. Using nature symbolically within these poems allows for a clear distinction to be drawn between the real and the artificial‚ and speaks to the flaws that Neruda sees within society. He brings to the reader’s attention the
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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Columbian drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. During the height of his power in the 1980’s‚ he controlled a vast empire of drugs and murder that covered the globe. He made billions of dollars‚ ordered the murder of hundreds if not thousands of people‚ and ruled over a personal empire of mansions‚ airplanes‚ a private zoo and even his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals. Born on December 1‚ 1949 into
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Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga‚ Spain on October 25‚ 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers’ occupation‚ Picasso’s talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose‚ an art teacher‚ moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona where he was Picasso’s instructor at the fine
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2012 “Green Chile” Poem Analysis Food plays an intricate part in any given culture; it is a medium that is used to express love‚ and to pass down tradition from generation to generation. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem “Green Chile”‚ Baca explores the value of chile peppers in his family and it’s heritage. Baca states that he “prefer[s] red chile” (1) with his morning eggs‚ while his grandmother loves the green chiles. Although they both love chile peppers‚ the two kinds of chiles are very different
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Chile had been engulfed in an authoritarian period for years. This came to a halt in the 1960s‚ when social movements began to emerge prompting many to question existing social and political policies. The US had previously been involved in funding political campaigns‚ but relations turned sour in 1970. Salvador Allende won the presidency under the platform that more would be given to the citizens of Chile‚ as opposed to foreign investors. After becoming a socialist state‚ many of the reforms under
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