Pablo Lopez Research Paper

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Walking towards his house, Pablo Lopez was greeting everyone he saw. He injected some of his energy to everyone he spoke to. Even though his job was like a mile away, which usually took like 15 minutes by foot, eventually took about an hour for him. The energy and happiness that he carried was given to the people that were around him. Some people that looked like they were in a bad mood, looked very different after they had a conversation or even a quick contact with Pablo. "Your dad is always in a good mood and a very nice person", my uncle once told me.
My dad, Pablo Lopez, is a man that chose to live in the United States because of the economic benefits of it. He said, " If the United States and Mexico were equal in education and economics,
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He sees traveling as a way to get everyday stress off his shoulders and meet new types of people with different stories. This is something he does every time he has a chance to grow his knowledge of the different locations here in the U.S., and then there are all the other places he has visited in Mexico. All this traveling has made him into a very experienced person that knows all kinds of people and events. He said that some people he has met have personalities that are not common but that are very interesting, and that this has taught him to see things in different ways. "I can sometimes tell what part of Mexico a person comes from just by the way they speak." This is something that takes an astonishing amount of skill to achieve. He knows that some people feel frustrated with "road rage" every time they are behind the wheel, but traveling is something that Pablo is used to, something that he has learned to take advantage of. This is also something that he has learned to love and take advantage of.
`Pablo started traveling since a very young age. When he began his long journey to the United States, he was only a fourteen years old. Even though he was at the beginning of his youth, he felt like it was his task to leave his home country and help his mom economically, motivated by the stories he heard

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