Leaning over to tie his shoe laces and put on his jersey to play another game. Willy Artiga runs out to the field to kick a black and white ball into a net to score the winning goal. Artiga’s family is originally from a small country in Central America known as El Salvador. They moved to Houston, Texas to start a better life for their family. His family lived in El Salvador when the country was in a civil war. The soldiers barged into Artiga’s grandparents house and shot his uncle with a machine
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago is one of the aspiring presidential candidates in the Philippine Election. Although she placed last in almost all of the nationwide surveys conducted by Pulse Asia, with ratings ranging from 2% to 4% only. According to ABS-CBN, she is tied with Senator Grace Poe at the third most talked about candidate in social media. It could be inferred that since majority of social media users are millennial, Miriam Defensor Santiago is popular in the youth demographic. She topped
Miriam Defensor-Santiago to our country if she would be elected as our next president? According to her speech in the previous PCCI presidential forum, her platforms mainly focus in public highways, infrastructures, agriculture, the campaign against illegal drugs, anti-corruption, cutting the red tape, lowering the pollution, and reducing the traffic.( “What Santiago, Binay, Roxas, Poe told PCCI presidential forum,” n.d.) Indeed, Change is
I think that anything we imagine for the upcoming 10 years is going to sound like straight out of a science fiction novel or movie. We now live in an era where you can order groceries, manage your bank account and send people gifts online, it’s nearly possible to exist only interacting through technology. New technologies encourage exponential shrinkage in personal interactions. Yes, those technologies make life easier, (as it is much more convenient to interact with an application then to deal
mind, his left hand from his own self, so that the hand is defeated, not him. Hemingway uses this device to help the reader understand that to reach success he/she must use their hardships to give them the strength to continue. The old man refuses to accept debacle and, “the thousand times he proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when doing it” (Hemingway 66). Santiago continues to fight the fish with integrity, pride, and determination
and his life was quite short. He won Mexico by defeating the Aztec Empire. Aztec Empire was an empire that had never been defeated before. Hernan also became mayor of Santiago De Cuba. After he defeated Aztec empire and after he won Mexico he got the crown of Mexico. These were huge accomplishments back in those days, especially defeating Aztec Empire and becoming mayor of Santiago De Cuba and becoming a leader of a military group. Hernan Cortes also had some kids with Maria Cortes had 2 kids named
Throughout the novel, Santiago embarks on a life changing fishing trip that changes how he views his losses; nor to let his losses stop him from trying again. Hemingway builds Santiago up as someone who remains neutral to his losses and does not show his wavered confidence in himself. Santiago can be destroyed and beat down, but he cannot be defeated. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway takes place in Cuba in the 1940’s. The novel follows the struggles of Santiago, the old man as he tries
battle with a big marlin. Santiago has failed to catch any fish for 84 days, while he still has a lot of courage. Finally, he goes far out into the sea. During the process, he eventually gets the chance to get a big marlin successfully. Santiago tries his best to kill the fish and gets it tied to his bout, only to find that on the way home he has to fight a more desperate struggle with some dangerous giant sharks, which eat up the marlin, leaving only a skeleton. Santiago brings it home. He almost
The old man then decides to sleep and has several dreams, one being of a school of porpoises, another of him being back at home, and the last of the lions. The marlin wakes the old man up by jumping out of the water, throwing Santiago into the side of the skiff. Santiago again wishes the boy was with him. He eats the second flying fish hoping it would give him strength. As the sun rose, the marlin began to circle. The old man fights off the circling marlin for hours. As the marlin passes under the
brought to my attention was whether our three protagonists, Santiago, Edmond, and Odysseus, were heroes or antiheroes. Given, there are many different definitions of the term “hero”, we will base my analyzation off my own definition of a hero, a respected individual who possesses admirable traits. Throughout this essay, I will explain and demonstrate why all three men, Santiago from The Alchemist, Edmond Dantes from