1. K. If all of the world´s cultural heritage (sports, music, fashion,
architecture, literature, painting, etc..) was contained in a time capsule,
what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?
PowerPoint Essay
São Paulo – Brazil
Felipe Natal Abdo
MBA applicant
April 2014 intake
2. September, 2013
Felipe Natal Abdo
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My land has palm trees
Where the thrush sings.
The birds that sing in here
Do not sing as they do there.
Our skies have more stars,
Our valleys have more flowers.
Our forests have more life,
Our lives have more love.
In dreaming, alone, at night,
I find more pleasure in there.
My land has palm trees
Where the thrush sings.
My land has beauties
Who cannot be found in here;
In dreaming — alone, at night —
I find more pleasure in there.
My land has palm trees,
Where the thrush sings.
May God never allow
That I die before I return;
That I do not see the beauties
That I cannot find in here;
That I do not see the palm trees
Where the thrush sings.
Gonçalves Dias, 1843, Coimbra,
Portugal
Brazil
3. Sports
September, 2013
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“The Rhythm of Pele and Tostão confirms the
existence of God”.
Armando Nogueira
“Born to play football” .
Phrase recorded on the shirt
“Brazil is empty on a Sunday afternoon, right?
Look here at this samba and the country of football
The background of this country along the avenues
Either land and grass, Brazil is only football
Ninety minutes of excitement and joy
Forget the home and work
Life is outside
And everything? Is outside
Hell? Is outside
The pains? They are outside”.
Milton Nascimento
4. Sports
September, 2013
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“I have no idols.
I admire work, dedication
and competence.”
“And so you touch
this limit,
something
happens and you
suddenly can go a
little bit further.
With your mind
power, your
determination,
your instinct, and
the experience as
well, you can fly
very high.”
“Wealthy men
can't live in an
island that is
encircled by
poverty. We all
breathe the same
air. We must give a
chance to
everyone, at least
a basic chance.”
5. Architecture
September, 2013
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“Curves are the essence of my work because they are
the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.”
“Form follows beauty.”
“I search for surprise in my
architecture. A work of art
should cause the emotion of
newness.”
“I am a Brazilian
before I am an
architect. I
cannot separate
the two.”
“Right angles
don't attract
me. Nor
straight, hard
and inflexible
lines created
by man.”
6. September, 2013
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“I invent everything in my paintings. And
what I saw or felt, I stylize”
“Every screen is born blank. The decision
to color is all yours”
Arts
7. September, 2013
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Arts
“For the roses, someone said,
gardeners are eternal.”
“I did not have children. I didn't
cooperate in the expansion of
human misery.”
“Life... is an
enormous
lottery: the
prizes are few,
the failures
innumerable..”
“Madness is an island lost in
the ocean of rationality.”
8. In the Middle of the Road
In the middle of the road there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road
there was a stone
in the middle of the road there was a stone.
Never should I forget this event
in the life of my fatigued retinas.
Never should I forget that in the middle of
the road
there was a stone
there was a stone in the middle of the road
in the middle of the road there was a stone.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Arts
September, 2013
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10. September, 2013
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“Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-
a-ah!"
When she walks she's like a samba that
Swings so cool and sways so gentle,
That when she passes, each one she passes goes "a-
a-ah!"
Oh, but I watch her so sadly
How can I tell her I love her?
Yes, I would give my heart gladly
But each day when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead not at me
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes I smile, but she doesn't see
She just doesn't see
No she doesn't see”
Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes
Music
11. September, 2013
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Key
Brazilian
Inventions “On the way to the Eiffel Tower, not even
once I looked out over the rooftops of
Paris: I was floating on a sea of white and
blue, seeing nothing but my goal."
“Inventions are above all the result of a stubborn work”
12. September, 2013
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Do not put the cart
before the horse.
Proverbs
Never put off till
tomorrow what you
can do today.
A wise man learns
at the fool's
expense.
Love is blind, so you
have to feel your
way.
God writes straight
even on wavy lines.
Haste is the mother
of imperfection.
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