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A Historical Person

If you had the chance to meet one historical person who would you want to meet, and why would you want to meet him/her? What questions would you ask this person? What advice do you think they would give you?


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    Me gustaría conocer Abraham Lincoln, el presidente de EEUU durante la guerra entre los estados (1861-1865). La guerra entre los estados me interesa. Había visitado la tierra donde la lucha era y tenía un sentimiento que muchos hombres mueraron por niguna razón. Por supuesto era el pecado de esclavitud, pero creo que lo resolvamos sin el muerto de 600.000 hombres. No creo que el presidente Lincoln era una persona mala, pero me gustaría hablar con él sobre otras posibles soluciones sin guerra.  

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    Me gustaría que para cumplir con Walt Disney porque él era un genio en su trabajo. Es increíble que su empresa sea todavía tan magnífico como lo fue hace muchos años. Es el mismo éxito que otras empresas, sin muchos cambios o malas influencias. Yo le preguntaría como ser exitoso y otras preguntas sobre los personajes originales como Mickey Mouse. Creo que Walt Disney me deciría que seuir mis sueños y ser yo mismo.

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    Without a doubt, he would be Christopher Columbus, because there are still a significative lacks about the discover of the new world i'd like to find out, for example which flag is waving on their ship when arrived to America. Besides, we still don't know where Columbus was born, the main theory tell us that he was born in Genoa, but many People says that in reality he is from Catalonian. Nonetheless I'd spend much of time just speaking to him, asking about how was that terrible travel to America, and how the survived to starving, tiredness and so on

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     If I had the chance to meet one historical person he would be Dai Vernon. His real name was David Frederick Wingfield Verner, but one mistake in a newspaper talking about him named him as Dai Vernon. After that, David began to use Dai Vernon as his artistic name.

    He was a magician, for me the best magician, so I love his works in this field.

    Dai Vernon was known as the "man who fooled Houdin" after he did a magic trick to Houdini and he couldn't find out the secret.

    Dai was known as "The Professor" for all magicians in the world. 

    He died twenty years ago, but nowadays almost all magicians in the world study or have studied his books. 

    I wish I can know him and to see his magic  tricks on live, ask him for some advices about magic.

     

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    If I had chosen a historical person to talking, I would have chosen Miguel de Unamuno. He was a teacher in the University of Salamanca. I think He is the most important teacher in this university. He was a teacher during the civil war in 1936 and he wrote a lot of books, articles and so on. He fought by the freedom of the university community. I look up to him about it. He will problably tell me a lot of interesting things. I would like to take a coffe with him. He liked very much chatting in the pubs of Salamanca.

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    "Tiene 105 años y aún sale a vender paletas"

    El Universal - 30 de octubre de 2011
     

    Manuel Pérez García nació en Veracruz, cuatro años antes del principio de la revolución mexicana. Hace 40 años que trabajo como vendedor de paletas en Chetumal, Quintana Roo. Cada día madruga a las 05:30, camina casi 5 km para llegar al centro de la ciudad y vende las paletas hasta las 18:00. Necesita vender 120 paletas para recibir un sueldo neto de 50 pesos. Su trabajo en la calle ha sido peligroso. Hace dos años le robaron el reloj y le golpearon en la cabeza. Antes de 1960 en sus primeros años desyerbaba terrenos y criaba a 4 hijos. Pero hoy no sabe nada de sus hijos desde que fue a vivir a Chetumal y perder todo contacto con ellos. Todavía tiene las mismas herramientas de limpiar terrenos que había usado anteriormente, y hoy en día espera que alguien le contrate para desyerbar o hacer otras "chambitas" (trabajillos). Además de su escaso sueldo, el programa "Abuelito Estoy Contigo" le proporciona 800 pesos mensuales. Pero aparte de ellos Manuel sobrevive sin vacaciones, seguridad social, o seguro de enfermedad. No puede ir al médico por falta de dinero. En vez de eso, emplea el conocimiento de los yerbateros que le fueron transmitiendos por sus abuelos para curarse cuando tuviera alguna dolencia. Es posible que Manuel viva gratis en un asilo de ancianos en Quintana Roo, pero siempre se resiste esta idea cuando las autoridades se lo proponen.

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     Si yo pudiera eligir una persona histórica, querría conversar con Frida Kahlo.  He visto algunas películas sobre su vida y arte y hay mucho que querría preguntarle.  Me parece que Frida era una de las mujeres más apasionada y vibrante del mundo.  Es claro que ella sufría mucha. Ella tenía problemas medicos, pero también sufría a causa de su relación turbulenta con Diego Riverez.  Creo que una mezcla de los dos había causado mucho pena mental y física y por tanto ella usaba el arte como una forma de terapia.  Yo querría conversar con Frida y espero aprender el significado profundo que está reflejado a través de sus obras.  Las pinturas son intricadas y maravillosas y quiero entender la locura que las ha dado vida.

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    if i had the chance of meeting someone i would like to meet  madonna because she is a fantastic woman, her music are good and she is a beautiful person.

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    I would like know to Thomas Davenport. He is a scientist of information and knowledgement area and he had written many books about to. If I found him, I will be able to ask for his experience and work with groups and teams in academic and research environments.

    For me, he is the best, his texts are very clairs and have a succesfull explain of each subject. I had the opportunity of know him when I was studying my postgraduate course in the University of Antioquia, in that time my favorite book was "Information Ecology" whose main topic is about of the know workers revolution, it there is explain how the internet technologies are become in the main resource but is emphatic in the importance of people to accomplish this.

    I recommend this autor, is a genius.

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    If I were given with this change i would like to get to know Mahatma Gandhi because I love the peace between humans and who better to talk about this than him.Now a days we live in a world surrounded of violence, hate and a lot of bad feelings, would be great if people make sense and see that we have to change to love each other, and try to make a beautiful world to live in.


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