english final project by Raphael Pupo Duarte https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t Made with a curious mind en-us 2018-05-08 18:07:46 UTC 2026-02-14 04:49:22 UTC hello@padlet.com personal statement rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259035144 I am Raphael Pupo i was born in Bogota Colombia, i did not like my name until i became obsessed with the ninja turtles since then i accepted my name and i actually liked it. about my native land i just have some abstract memories because i moved just at five years old to Juarez Mexico;I bet you have heard the ¨cliché¨ that mexico is dangerous.., well at least in this part of mexico it is no cliché; at least 3 friends of mine in 1st grade had lose their mothers in the femicide wave of Juarez. by luck me and my family never experienced any kind of violence but we were aware of it. my dad was a pastor so we were always moving, we have never been in a house more than 2 years. we never see any house as a home because home  was consisted by 5 persons;mother,father,old brother,young brother and me the middle.
to summarize everything we moved inside Mexico a lot and we ended up here in sweet Caroline
I usually just talk when i have to. sometimes people ask me that if something is wrong and I just explained them that i´m just thinking, i don´t see nothing wrong with that. I just cannot help myself to analyze what i see

 ]]> 2018-05-08 18:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259035144 writing portfolio rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259399781 Where I Stand
Research Essay
Graduation Speech
The Things I Carry]]> 2018-05-09 18:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259399781 ¨snow¨ Red Hot Chili peppers rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259413310 Come to decide that the things that I tried
Were in my life just to get high on
When I sit alone
Come get a little known
But I need more than myself this time
Step from the road to the sea to the sky
And I do believe that we rely on
When I lay it on
Come get to play it on
All my life to sacrifice
Hey oh
Listen what I say, oh
I got your hey oh
Now listen what I say, oh

full lyrics- https://goo.gl/XgA3kU
]]> 2018-05-09 18:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259413310 epigraph rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259415549 And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. 
-Friedrich Nietzsche.]]> 2018-05-09 18:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259415549 song explanation rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259661996 as a little boy i would replay this song over and over again, i sang it in the school, in the shower. even in the church i used to whistle at the point that my dad would gave a look that he always uses when me or my brothers are not behaving correctly, it was a unique look;his nasal cavities would swell up and he´d had his eyes wide open looking right at me, a cold sensation would travel all over my body every time he did it. it was a matter of seconds for me and my brothers to react at this look . in just a blink of eyes we would be in our designated chair, worshiping God as if we were about to witness the second coming and like we still have a chance to redeemed ourselves. it´s a look that i will never forget.
sometimes, when  Dad,Mom Brothers and me share dinner we talk about this and we laugh remembering and trying to imitate  this look.
that is one of the biggest things that this song  makes me remember ...well that and the first girl i liked.]]> 2018-05-10 15:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/259661996 picture 1 rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260043716 this picture of my two brothers and me was taken not so long ago, every time i see it i feel amazed by how different me and my brothers are, even when we were raised the same way. our perceptions toward senses are so different and far away from each other. but even though we are going in different directions. we are never indifferent to each other and at the end of the day i know i can count on them and vice versa.]]> 2018-05-11 18:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260043716 adjective rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260053786 quiet: absence of noise or bustle; silence; calm.: I have always been a quiet person since i was a little kid
minimalist: When you call a person a minimalist, you're describing their interest in keeping things very simple. A minimalist prefers the minimal amount or degree of something.
I have always said; I don't pretend too much, I ask to walk light I don't talk, I just listen and I just follow the way.

]]> 2018-05-11 18:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260053786 future plans rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260590366 All i want for my future is freedom. and sadly in the society in which we live, freedom is nothing but a whore and just those with money can afford it.(the analogy was necessary to state my point  

¯\_(ツ)_/¯) i want to be able to afford freedom. i am planning on  working one year in a factory saving all the money i can. maybe doing some cheap wholesale real estate  while i´m working. and after this i will start my real estate career full time, I will do this for some years,until i see that is the appropriate time to retire and then i will find somebody to take care and to manage what i have made.

and i will enjoy the freedom i´m looking for.

]]> 2018-05-14 18:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260590366 what made me rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260599341 I would say that you are not the car you drive, the clothes you wear or the money you have in the bank  by the way defining who you are it´s a very complicated; I just read in a book called fight club by Chuck Palahniuk that ¨you just are¨ and that´s it. there is no need to lose yourself in existentialism to find an answer to who you are, but anyway if i have to explain who i am and what made me i would say that every time that we moved i changed a little, every time i met new friends at each place I went, their personality forged me a little. for each culture i lived in I took the traditions i liked the most, I mixed them with the others i got and made them my own.I learned to study people unconsciously, and that helped me to take the traits of the people´s personalities that i admired the most and I follow them, I got no doubt that some bad traits were took to be my own. it was an automatic process that was happening in my brain.
of course my family played a big role in the making of my personality, they have always been there.]]> 2018-05-14 18:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260599341 picture 2 rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260619557 my dad always had a  tradition as a pastor to give a family photo to each congregation that we left behind, this photo was the most recent one my dad gave to the last church he ministered .]]> 2018-05-14 19:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260619557 picture rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260623557 this one was the last time me and my family went to a vacation, it was in NY,I really enjoyed the family time even though it was pretty cold]]> 2018-05-14 19:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260623557 image rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260972950 one of the cities of mexico that i lived was Cuernavaca, it´s a city that in each corner there is a history, it has some kind of romantic-colonial vibe that would get into the tougher heart, i used to go to the top of the palace of Cortés (is the one in the picture below) hiding from my parents and I would lit up a cigarette , i felt like i was the in total control of the world.. so free.. after the cigarette became in ashes i would run to the store and buy some mint and hand sanitizer. I must have been good at it because I never got caught.

]]> 2018-05-15 18:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260972950 cuernavaca streets rpupo2573 https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260979456 2018-05-15 18:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rpupo2573/9jm7g4t3jn1t/wish/260979456