Sundar Pichai Replies to A 7-Year-Old Girl Who Wants to Work At Google

Google CEO said, “Keep working hard and following your dreams you can accomplish everything you set your mind to.”

For many across the globe Google is a dream company where they want to work one day. Google is a dream company not just for its cool features and the perks and benefits that it has to offer to its employees but also because Google today has become synonymous to the Internet.

The kids today not only want to become doctors and engineers but there are many who have company like Google in their minds. One such innovative and ambitious d is a 7-year-old girl named Chloe Bridgewater from the United Kingdom. Chloe had written to the Google boss expressing her interest in joining the tech giant.

Chloe in her letter tells the Google boss that her dad told her that if she carries n being good and learning then one day she will be able to work for Google. Chloe Bridgewater, however, received a pleasant surprise when the Google CEO Pichai himself replied to her letter saying she can formally apply for a job in Google after she finishes her schooling.

Chloe Bridgewater sent a handwritten note to CEO Pichai after being encouraged by her father. According to reports, Chloe developed interest in Google after she asked her father, Andy Bridgewater, about the ideal work place. She learnt from her dad that Google would be the ideal place to work at because of its groundbreaking works and technologies and the many perks and benefits. She also got to know from her dad that there were beanbags, slides and go karts in the Google office thus adding to her intrigue.

After learning such fascinating things about Google, Chloe told her dad that she would like to work for Google one day, and her dad encouraged her to start early. He encouraged her to write a job application to the CEO of Google. Chloe Bridgewater in a carefree way sent a handwritten letter to Pichai saying she was a good student and like tablets, computers and robots. She also expressed her interest in working for a chocolate factory in future and swimming at the Olympics. She concluded her letter by writing that the only other letter that she ever wrote was to Father Christmas. Below is the letter that she wrote.

To Chloe’s surprise none other than the Google Boss himself, Sundar Pichai, replied to her letter. 

Pichai encouraged the little girl to keep working hard and to follow her dreams.  Andy Bridgewater shared on his LinkedIn profile the letter from saying that it was a confidence booster for little Chloe who had a car accident few years ago. He said this response from the Google Boss was a much needed by her, as it would encourage Chloe to develop her skills.

Was The Statue of Liberty Modeled On A Muslim Woman?

An Egyptian peasant woman was the first model of Lady Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States of America. It is a colossal neoclassical copper statue on Liberty Island that was designed by the French sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

With the new American President, Donald Trump vocally emphasizing Muslim ban in an crackdown on immigration, there could not be a better time to bring to light this little known irony. Very few people know that the Statue of Liberty that has welcomed immigrants for generations being the symbol of freedom and diversity in America was first sculpted as an Arab Muslim woman.

This may surprise many people who have come to know Lady Liberty as a structure sculpted by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi thus having a French origin. The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States by France to celebrate and acknowledge the alliance between the great powers during the French revolution. However, it is a little known fact that the inspiration behind the French designers creation was oddly enough – Egypt.

Inspiration Behind Lady Liberty

Bartholdi on his visit to the Nubian mountains that features colossal figures guarding tombs at Abu Simbel, was much fascinated by the ancient structures and giant public monuments. Bartholdi developed a passion for these ancient architecture and proposed Statue of Liberty for Suez Canal’s inauguration.

He proposed the Statue of Liberty at the Suez Canals entrance but failed to convince Egypt of this idea. So, he thought of proposing his idea of the statue to the United States and thus, changed the original design of the statue from a Muslim peasant woman to that of a Roman goddess.

According to Barry Moreno, author of many books on the Statue of Liberty, the statue was initially envisioned to be in the form of a peasant woman in veil standing 86 feet high and the pedestal rising to a height of up to 48 feet. The early models of Lady Liberty were called as “Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia.”

The Colossus “ Give Me Your Tired”

There was a fundraiser auction for statue’s pedestal. Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet “New Colossus” for the fundraiser that went as: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

The sonnet, however, failed to garner much popularity and recognition. It failed to make an impression on the public and was forgotten soon after the auction. However, in the 1900, one of the friends of Emma Lazarus started a campaign to honor and memorialize the writer and the sonnet that she wrote for the statue. The initiative garnered good response from the public and the authority. The sonnet is now engraved on a bronze plaque that is mounted inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Today, the Statue of Liberty continues to be the beacon of hope for many immigrants who have come to the USA and is a immovable fixture of the city of New York and symbol of the United States of America.