Joan of Arc once said, “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it.” Though over 500 years have passed since these words have been said, they still ring true in our hectic lives. My grandfather, Pablo Borau, lived by those simple words and taught us to do the same. He was thirsty for knowledge and lived each day as if it were his last. Pablo handed down family stories, recipes, and traditions that taught us to be proud of our ancestry, and appreciate our ethnicity. He taught me to enjoy life and savor every second.
Pablo grew up in a 3 story townhouse, which had been in the family for generations, with his two sisters, Pilar and Rosario, and his brother, Victorian. At a young age, Pablo was sent to a seminary to become a priest and graduated, but decided that he wanted more out of life. After moving to the US, Pablo went to school in New York City and later
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He taught history and kept a large collection of history books at home, from Egyptian history to Babylonian history. Later, he taught his children and grandchildren the traditions, language, and culture of Spain.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer. Also he was a governor. He’s widely known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean and was the one to claim the Pacific Ocean for Spain. He became the first European to lead an expedition to reach the Pacific Ocean from the “New Word.” He opened a way for later on explorations from Spain along the South America western coast. I chose this man because he could possibly a fellow ancestor of mine and if so, I would like to know a lot about him and his works.
Although José had two children with a previous wife, Felipe was the first of six with Virginia. Later on in his life, his siblings, María, Mateo, Jesús, Juan, and Virginia, came about. José worked as a carpenter and blacksmith. With the skills of his job, he built the Alou four-room household. On top of that, he also built many of the other houses in the neighborhood. To suit his family’s desperation for money, he became a fisherman to provide for his family. He did this, so his family could be less dependant on his neighbor’s to pay for their bills. He had always been an avid fisherman because he
Ruben Salazar was born on March 3, 1928, in Ciudad Juarez, and moved to El Paso, Texas where he grew up. Ruben Salazar was a well-known journalist and activist who brought together Chicanos and Americans. He was one of the first non-white journalists in an all-white male profession and proved that he was just as capable of journalism as all of them. Salazar brought together Americans and Chicanos in many ways, he reported on Chicano events and put himself in between a very tense boundary. Salazar began as a journalist for The Los Angeles Times and became a foreign correspondent until a new more powerful Chicano movement brought him back. Salazar was the Times’ best choice to report on the movement and brought him back to Los Angeles to report
The Los Banos Unified School District enrolls about 11000 students in Kindergarten through the 12th grade. The School District supports nine elementary schools, two junior highs, two high schools and one alternative high school. The School District is led by seven members of the Board or education. The School district employs five hundred and seventy-five certificated employees and four hundred and twenty-five classified employees. The schools are all currently full, with many residential divisions currently being built in Los Banos. More schools will need to be built and many new jobs will be created, bolstering the population and local economy. I currently work in the Human Resources Department as a HR
Frank Boucher was some Ranger player in my opinion. He was an “Original Ranger”. Among all of the “Original Rangers”, not even Lester Patrick, stayed a Ranger for as long as he did. He contributed 31 years to hockey. He was a club player from 1926 to 1938, was a coach from 1939 to 1948, and was a general manager from 1946 to 1955.
Many people have greatly influenced the states by bring work and more jobs to an area or
On 24 April 1965 the youthful military officers ascended in the Dominican Republic. After four days the United State troops ambushed the nation. It was the essential US military intercession in Latin America in over 30 years. These occasions went on to the main point of everyone's thought somewhat, in reverse Caribbean republic where until 1916 ordinary war and had been the standard, vote based system and honest to government the brief uncommon case. By then the United States attacked, and the eight-year United States occupation orchestrated the one party of Rafael Trujillo, which went from 1930 until his going in May 1961. The nation climbed out of the harm of Trujillo in the midst of a period when the United States was so worried about a
We only know him as Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviría( historychannel.com). The life of Pablo Escobar starts in rionegro, Columbia. He was 1 of 7 kids. Pablo grew up in life telling friends and family member he wanted to be president of Columbia one day. This was a major dream of Pablo's.
Pablo Escobar was born in 1949. His father was a peasant farmer and his mother was a school teacher. Pablo grew up in Envigado. Envigado was a suburb of the second largest city in Colombia, Medellin. Escobar’s childhood was in a very violent atmosphere. It was a
Born in December 1949, Escobar was a son of a teacher and peasant of Columbia, Pablo’s wrong choice of path started at a premature age. Details about Escobar’s life start at the age of 6. During Escobar’s childhood, his entire family struggled to survive, the fourth of six children to Abel de Jesus Escobar (father), a peasant, and Hemilda Gaviria (mother), an elementary school teacher. Pablo’s family lived in a hut that had no electricity, but did have running water. By the type of lifestyle Pablo lived it would put him in the middle class status part of Columbia at that time. For instance, one day Roberto Escobar (brother) and Pablo would always walk to school due to the fact that they had no money to receive transportation from a bus. The distance from Pablo’s home and the school is equivalent to an hour walk. Pablo and his brother walked to school so often, Pablo decided to go to school with no shoes and upon arriving to class Pablo’s teacher told him to go back home. Feeling humiliated, once Pablo got
Pablo lay on his bed in San Diego, California listening to his favorite music and looking at bmx videos on Youtube.
Frank Bourassa (“Frank”) is an easygoing man of forty-four. As a young man, in his twenties, without support from his family, he opened a small factory that specialized in the making of brake pads and shoes. He worked tirelessly twenty hours a day without sleep, which eventually affected his health drastically. Frank was diagnosed with an acute stress disorder and was placed on anti-anxiety pills. Despite all the odds, Frank made his factory a success, although he had to sell it to maintain his health.
When Doris told the gang to leave to the park the whole gang was walking around and people looked at them weirdly like if they were crazy.When Bill and Weird Harold saw people play basketball they wanted to try it out.The kids thought that they were trash at ball.While they were playing basketball Mushmouth made a new friend a little baby girl.The little girl taught him how to say balloon,then he acts crazy because he said balloon and now can talk normal like other people and not say “Baba balu”.
Fresco painting is one of the oldest art techniques that was used in the world. The word fresco came from the Greek word: fresko meaning “fresh”. Moreover, this fresco painting is a technique where in the artist uses fresh plaster as medium to paint ; This painting technique has three types , these are : Mezzo-fresco , fresco secco and Buon fresco. The main technique that I’ll be focusing on is the Buon Fresco.
Augusto Pinto Boal the inventor of a theatrical school called 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. He was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 17th of March 1931, when his country was ruled by a dictatorial military regime. Since his youth, Boal felt a great passion for theatre, and despite his degree in engineering, in 1952 he attended a drama school in New York, where he encountered also Constantin Stanislavski and learned new theatrical methods.