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This word is widely used in our language to refer to various everyday questions.

Place images in our mind

To that rather mental action of placing in our mind images, words, among others, it is designated by the word represent. “ Your account of the party was so vivid that I was able to represent every moment in my head, thank you.”

An actor's performance of a play, television show, or movie

On the other hand, in the field of performance, the word represent turns out to be a term in common use, since through it the performance or interpretation of a play by professional actors. “Performing a play by William Shakespeare is a huge responsibility as an artist.”

That is, this sense of the term can be used as a synonym for acting artistically, at the request of a play, from a movie, or from a television series.

The representation of the actor, basically, consists of developing a character in scene that responds to a script written by the author of the work in question; he can interact with other characters or not, and his representation takes place within the framework of a scenography that contextualizes the story.

The actors and actresses are the professionals who develop the activity of representing, being many of them celebrities after successively succeeding in various interpretations that consecrated.

Person acting on behalf of another in formal events or administrative or judicial procedures

Likewise, the word represent is used regularly at the request of the judicial field , or the holding of meetings or special meetings of some organizations or companies, to indicate to that individual who will act as a representative of some person, of a company, or an entity, on a matter to be discussed.

Generally, to provide a more formal framework to the act of representing, the individual who will represent another has an authorization pertinent for this purpose, which will even allow him to voice his voice for or against the issues that will be discussed at the meeting relevant.

It is a document popularly known as a power of attorney that someone grants in favor of another, who is the one who will represent him in those matters and issues that are precisely indicated in said can.

These powers must be signed and validated before a notary public, which is the authority pertinent when doing this practice.

Validated in a document written by a competent professional

Without the due validation of a competent professional the power of attorney will not be valid.

It is precisely the clerk who gives the framework of formality and veracity to that power, because implies that those involved in the document met in front of him and he signed and accepted that representation.

Elite athletes, relevant artists, and businessmen, among others, often use the representation of someone, a person of confidence, qua he assumes that role of representing them in front of various activities or actions.

The enormous responsibilities and the large number of tasks that they usually develop, makes them demand the use of a representative.

He who assumes to be the voice and face of a cause or brand

We also use the word for express when someone is the symbol or image of something. “As the best student in the class, Laura was chosen to represent the school in the mathematics Olympics.”

This sense of the word is also widely used in organisms that have solidarity purposes and that as such have the help of some personality recognized of the society in question that assumes the action of representing the same in messages or campaigns that are disseminated through the media.

We must say that those people who are chosen as representatives of a solidarity association, or of a brand, for example, have before the corresponding society of an impeccable image and behavior that supports them to morally assume that representation.

And on the other hand, beyond someone's good repute, to represent some charities, famous personalities who have a long history helping in this cause, that is, they know the subject deeply and that is why they are used as representatives, because they know what to talk about and what defend.

And other common uses that we give in everyday language to represent allow us to express that a person does not appear the age that she really is (“Laura represents many less years than she is") Y how much or little we are interested in someone or something (“your mistreatment represents a hard blow for me)”.

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