García Márquez, Gabriel

García Márquez, Gabriel (1928- ), Colombian short-story writer and novelist. García Márquez was born in Aracataca, and initially trained as a journalist. He was a newspaper editor in Cartegena in 1946, in Barranquilla from 1948 to 1952, and in Bogotá in 1952. From 1959 to 1961 he worked for the Cuban news agency, La Prensa, in Colombia; Havana, Cuba; and New York. García Márquez was a liberal thinker whose left-wing politics angered conservative Colombian dictators Laureano Gómez and his successor, General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. To escape persecution, García Márquez spent the 1960s and 1970s in voluntary exile in Mexico and Spain.

His best-known novels are Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1970), the epic story of a Colombian family, which shows the stylistic influence of the American novelist William Faulkner; and El otoño del patriarca (1975; The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1976), about political power and corruption. Crónica de una muerte anunciada (1981; Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1983) is the story of murder in a Latin American town. His Collected Stories was published in English translation in 1984. El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985; Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988), a story of romantic love, also takes place in Latin America. El general en su laberinto (1989; The General in His Labyrinth, 1990) is a fictional account of the last days of South American revolutionary and statesman Simón Bolívar. His 1994 novel Del amor y otros demonios was published in English as Of Love And Other Demons (1995). García Márquez is admired for his weaving of realism with fantasy in a number of novels and short stories set in Macondo, a fictional Colombian village of his own invention.

García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He was formally invited back to Colombia, where he mediated between the Colombian government and leftist rebels in the early 1980s. His most recent works are the non-fiction Noticia de un secuestro (1996; News of a Kidnapping, 1997), about the real-life story of ten prominent Colombians taken hostage by the Pablo Escobar drug cartel, and the novel Memoria de mis putas tristes (2004; Memories of My Melancholy Whores), in which an old man looks back nostalgically on past love affairs. The first volume of his autobiography is Vivir para contarla (2002; Living to Tell the Tale, 2003).

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1. I look forward to going to work almost every day.

 Strongly agree

 Agree

 Disagree

 Strongly disagree

 

2. When it comes to future goals, you like to:

 Carefully plan them all out

 Keep my options open

 

3. When I'm working on a new idea with a group of people:

 I just blurt out my ideas as fast as they come to me

 I end up doing a lot of talking

 I'll speak up when I have an especially good idea

 I give my input only when asked

 

4. Most of the time, your workspace is:

 Immaculate. Everything is in its proper place

 Pretty neat. I can find everything I need quickly

 Somewhat messy, but I know which piles to look in when I need to find things

 Messy. I keep a lot of clutter around me

 

5. If I have a problem or conflict with someone at work:

 I speak up right away

 I wait for an appropriate time, then bring it up

 I wait to see if the problem persists, then eventually say something about it

 I probably wouldn't say anything

 

 

6. When reading about something new, do you prefer to:

 Become an expert on one aspect of it

 Learn a little bit about everything related to it

 

7. If you got to choose any desk in the office, you'd sit:

 Where I could see everyone, and be in the middle of the action

 Where I could get some people traffic and still be close to my work friends

 Where I could get some privacy, but still be close to my work friends

 In the quietest spot

 

8. When making decisions, it's better to:

 Go with my gut

 Go with the facts

 Mistletoe

 

9. When I receive good news at work:

 I immediately share the news with everyone I can

 I immediately let my close colleagues know about it

 I eventually tell a close colleague about it

 I keep the good news to myself

 

10. How would you feel if you were the center of attention getting praised by colleagues for your work?

 I'd feel great! I'd stand up and give everyone on my team a high-five or a thumbs-up

 I'd be really pleased and flash a wide smile

 I'd be embarrassed but would manage a quick and modest smile

 I'd be pretty embarrassed and would probably bow my head until it was over

 

11. I think it's important to explore and learn more about myself.

 Strongly agree

 Agree

 Disagree

 Strongly disagree

 

 

12. I'm content with my current career path.

 Strongly agree

 Agree

 Disagree

 Strongly disagree

 

13. If you could go to one of the following seminars for free, which would you attend?

 "A step-by-step practical guide to planning your career"

 "Exploring new possibilities and directions with your career"

 

14. How closely do you track your finances?

 I always know my exact account balance

 I usually have a fairly good idea of what my account balance is

 I don't really pay much attention to my balance outside my monthly statements

 I don't really know my account balance

 

15. When solving a problem, you focus most on:

 The short-term results

 The long-term results

 

16. When a colleague criticizes certain aspects of my work:

 I am hurt and take their comments personally

 I am slightly hurt and tell myself not to take it personally

 I am a little surprised, but tell myself that it is only business

 I don't mind; we both know it's only business

 

17. Your friend has invited you to a weekend getaway but you have a huge deadline on Monday. You:

 Go anyway. You'll somehow get your work done in time

 Go, but come home early so you can work on Sunday to meet your deadline

 Pass on the trip. I need to stay home to make sure I get my work done

 

18. I'm happier when:

 I'm starting a new project

 I'm finishing up a project

 

19. When making a tough decision that will hurt other co-workers, you:

 Make the decision that comes closest to pleasing everyone

 Focus on minimizing the negative impact on my colleagues

 Make the best decision for the company, but talk to those I impacted negatively

 Make my decision based only on the facts presented to me

 

20. After an exhausting week at work, you'd rather relax by:

 Staying at home, watching some TV, or reading a book

 Going out with friends and family

 

21. Imagine that you are the head of a small company. You have to lay-off either Sandy, a 15-year employee, or Joanne, who just joined your team last year. They're equally valuable, though Sandy costs the company a bit more. Who do you let go?

 Sandy. She's more expensive and I need to think about the bottom line

 Joanne. Sandy deserves loyalty from the company

 

22. You have to tell a loved one something that is good for them, but that will hurt their feelings. What do you do?

 I tell them the whole truth, even though it may hurt

 I tell the truth, but let them know how hard it was for me to do so

 I basically tell the truth, but try to soften some of the harsher aspects of it

 I pad the truth and try to hint at the main points

 

23. You'd rather be described as:

 Realistic

 Imaginative

 

24. One of your valuable employees is dealing with a difficult personal crisis beyond their control. They ask to take the week off with pay. How do you respond?

 I'd give it to them. Life can be complicated sometimes

 I'd ask them to take personal days, but give them a chance to make it up in overtime

 I'd ask them to use their personal days and submit documentation proving where they were

 

25. When do you allow your feelings to help guide decisions?

 Only when they are logical

 Only when they help me achieve my goals

 Always. Feelings are always valid guides

 

26. If you're trying to research something at the library, do you sit:

 In a public room with many people around me

 In a private area with very few people around me

 

27. When you're driving somewhere you've only been once before, you:

 Pull out the map and get the exact directions

 Glance at a map, but wing it from there

 Rely on my gut. I can always ask for help if I get lost

 

28. After you attend a meeting, how do you share what you've learned with friends or co-workers?

 I describe every detail of the day from beginning to end

 I list off, in detail, the practical information I learned

 I tell them how inspiring the key points were

 I tell them about the fresh, general approaches we can look forward to in the future

 

29. When someone comes up with a "new" plan or procedure, you usually think:

 Irritated. Things run more smoothly with the established procedures

 Slightly apprehensive. I might not be comfortable with the new routine

 Interested. I like changing things up so that I don't get bored

 Excited. I like staying on the cutting edge and experimenting

 

30. Which of the following faults are you guilty of?

 I'm too forgiving and a pushover

 I'm too critical and unyielding

 

31. Imagine your company just instituted a new policy regarding travel expenses — no reimbursements without a receipt. You're in charge of enforcing it, but an employee forgot the new rule and threw out a $100 receipt. Would you reimburse them?

 No. Rules are rules

 Probably not. It's unfair to make exceptions to the rule

 I might, but I'd remind them of the rule change

 Yes. This is a new rule so it's natural for people to need some adjustment time

 

32. When faced with difficult choices, what helps guide your decision?

 Logic

 Justice

 Harmony

 Empathy

 

33. When you receive a special offer in the mail you:

 Read the letter immediately, then either throw out the offer, or order the product

 Read the letter immediately, but throw out the offer or order the product in a few days

 Put the letter in a pile, and look at it in a few days

 Put the letter in a pile until I open it and realize the deadline has passed

 

34. What comes first for you, work or play?

 Work comes before play

 Work comes first, but I schedule in play time

 Play time comes first, but I get my work done around it

 Play comes before work. You only live so long

 

35. I feel like I'm in a rut with my job.

 Strongly agree

 Agree

 Disagree

 Strongly disagree

 

36. When you're at a standstill in a meeting without a clear solution in sight, you suggest:

 We continue to work on it immediately until we come up with a final solution

 We work on it until we come up with a temporary solution

 We break and set up a meeting in a week once we've had some time to think about it

 We break and take some time to think about the issues before coming back to it a later date

 

37. When you're assigned a new project, you first think about:

 Establishing firm dates and deadlines

 The way I'll approach the work

 

38. I look for ways to improve myself.

 Strongly agree

 Agree

 Disagree

 Strongly disagree

 

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Some great quotes, complete then and understand the theme!!!

1. "To be great is to be..................

2. "A woman without a man is like a fish without ...............

3. "Genius is one percent inspiration and............

4. "And you, .........

5. "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and ......

 

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1. … misunderstood."

The complete quote is "To be great is to be misunderstood." It comes from American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," published in 1841.

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." -- W. C. Fields

 

2.… a bicycle."

The complete quote, from American writer and feminist Gloria Steinem, is "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

3.… ninety-nine percent perspiration."

The complete quote is "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." The person who said it would know; it was American inventor Thomas Edison.

4.… Brutus?"

The complete quote is "And you, Brutus?" ("Et tu, Brute?"). These are rumored to be the final words spoken by Roman statesman Julius Caesar after being stabbed by a group of Roman senators led by his former ally Brutus.

5. … fifty cents for your soul."

The complete quote, said by American actor Marilyn Monroe, is "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

 

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Phrasal Life!

Phrasal Life :: Life that's paraphrenal

As Shakespeare went in his “Seven ages of man”-‘All the world’s a stage; and all the men and women merely players. They have their entrance and exit.’ It is the time rightly to be practiced absolutely... to sun the path of hatred, jealousy and misunderstanding and to resume the journey of love and peace; he needs to follow wishes for the nation to build it up and the vision of others, a missionary vision.

 

Chronological paths, some parallel paths, convergent paths, undefined paths, the paths that these long stands lead to a journey just not a journey: a sphere of life, love and liberty (the three Ls), absolute madness exhibited by all and an old man is twice a child. Innumerous instances of these burnt brutalities are not only by worried world peace boundaries but also the rich ambition of leaders. Only the youths have immune power to present the nation with its shining glory of its zenith. As Bacon ‘Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed and some to be chewed and digested’, one should be able to know and experience, treat or react but with others. ‘A revolution is not a dinner party’, Mao Tse Tung was better of people to awake them with free thinkings and creativeness; and the removal of bigotry and prejudice or nepotism. Besides great achievements, victim of its own success can’t lead the nation to the path of progress. Let the journey of ultimate world peace keep on and prey the invisible father for the purpose… Let the night be not so dark as if all the stars seem dead. Down is on, get up quick.

 

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The Intelligent Blonde

An intelligent blonde was opening her morning paper, when she noticed a page filled from top to bottom with blonde jokes. Needless to say, this put her in a very bad mood, which continued as she drove to work. On her way there, she happened to glance out the driver's side window, where there was a vast field of tall grass.

In the middle of the field sat another blonde in a rowboat, pulling away at the oars as fast as she could go, even though the boat, naturally, wasn't moving. The intelligent blonde pulled over, jumped out of her car, and shouted to the blonde in the rowboat, "It's blondes like you who give us all a bad name!"

The blonde in the rowboat paused in her rowing and shouted back, "Yeah? Well if I could swim, I'd come out there and kick your butt!"

It's A Monk's Life

In an ancient monastery, a new monk arrived to dedicate his life to God and to join the others copying ancient records. The first thing he noticed was that they were copying by hand books that had already been copied by hand.

He had to speak up. "Forgive me, Father Justinian, but copying other copies by hand allows many chances for error. How do we know we aren't copying someone else's mistakes? Are they ever checked against the originals?"

Father Justinian was startled. No one had ever suggested that before. "Well, that is a good point, my son. I will take one of these latest books down to the vault and study it against its original document."

He went deep into the vault where no one else was allowed to enter and started to study. The day passed, and it was getting late in the evening.

The monks were getting worried about Father Justinian. Finally one monk started making his way through the old vault, and as he began to think he might get lost, he heard sobbing. "Father Justinian," he called.

The sobbing grew louder as he came closer. He finally found the old priest sitting at a table with the new copy and the original ancient book in front of him. It was obvious that Father Justinian had been crying for a long time.

"Oh, my Lord," sobbed Father Justinian, "the word is 'celebrate'!"