Certain people in our lives have this special ability to inspire. They give us strength when things get tough, when we feel pessimistic due to some events in our lives, or they motivate us to do the things we want but are afraid of. They...
I have been fortunate enough to have both my parents in my life, but I believe my dad has been the most influential person in my life. I think that he has been able to guide me through my life in the best way he...
I have a friend named Vie. We’ve known each other for almost 4 years and I never really thought about what I felt about her until just recently when I started looking at things more objectively with a clear view and without prejudice. And I...
For many years tons of people have made a huge difference in this world and they have not gained the recognition they deserve. If you think about it everyone gets their knowledge from something or someone. Everything we discover has already been discovered by our...
Andrew Carnegie is the most outstanding entrepreneur and philanthropist in the American industrialization era, one of the most important leaders of the rapid rise of the steel industry in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and one of the most important...
Andrew was born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 25, 1835. He was not wealthy, his parents did sewing work. In 1848 his family moved to America. Carnegie went through many jobs. He was a messenger in a telegraph office, and secretary and telegraph operator of...
Have you ever known that when Elon Musk in 12 years old, he sold his first software (Blsatar) for about 500$. In 1992, after he studied at Queen’s University. He left Canada to study concurrently in business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania and...
Not many people know who he is, yet we use what he made almost every day: Google, one of the most used websites on the internet. Google is a search engine which, ‘organizes the world’s information and makes it universally accessible and useful for the...
Sir Timothy John ‘Tim’ Berners-Lee, also known as ‘TimBL,’ is a British computer scientist, the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989, he presented a suggestion for an information management system and successfully implemented the first communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)...
Have you ever wanted to learn about the guy who created Mickey Mouse himself? Well, Walter Elias Disney was his name the creator of Disney films. Walt Disney had a very hard childhood with his brother and his sister. Disney is famous for all of...
What is a hero? A hero is someone you look up to or admire. This could be a family member, teacher, friend, celebrity, or even a random stranger who did a kind deed. The acts of heroism are considered as an inspiration to others and...
What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘hero’? Now, when most people hear that word, a variety of different images and concepts come to mind. Superman, Optimus Prime, Wolverine; the list goes on. What if I told you there are a film and...
When I think of someone is inspiring I think of person who drives influences by both their words and their writing a lot of these qualities can be found in teachers and or people in power. There is one person always comes to my mind...
Cyril Ramaphosa In the year 1996 Cyril Ramaphosa began his exploits in the business field by trying to help underprivileged youth, by giving them bursaries to go to university. From there he got involved in other initiatives that helped uplift the community and eventually properly...
Introduction Rupert Murdoch is probably one of the most influential people in the last half-century, owning over fifty media companies all over the world organized in one big conglomerate called “News corporation”, but if it were just one word to call him, it would be...
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate who had coined the transformation of automobiles, shaping the 20th century as it continues to affect the 21st. Henry Ford allowed the field of commercial automobiles to flourish, as he continually revolutionized factory production with his...
Theodore Roosevelt held position as the president of the United States of America from 1901-1909. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family on October 27, 1858, in Manhattan, New York City, NY and was a very sickly child. He passed away on January 6, 1919,...
For a long time, America has been known for breaking barriers in history. Breaking barriers in history is natural, physical, or ideological that has a positive or negative created by people or societies. For example, figures like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman. Jackie Robinson, a professional...
The well-known linguist, activist and author Noam Chomsky is a person who I greatly admire. His work has influenced many people in many different fields, from linguistics to psychology to politics. Through all his many achievements he has still remained a humble and down to...
Introduction Our presentation topic was Henry Ford who is an American industrialist who revolutionized the automobile industry with his assembly-line and production methods while greatly impacting the society. My two group members were Ata and Timothee. I made general research about Henry Ford to able...
Temple Grandin, an extraordinary woman with autism described herself as different, but not less. In the 1950s and 60s, there was less tolerance for people with autism, than there is today. No one understood Grandin, or what she was feeling inside, some even doubted she...
What comes to mind when you hear the word, ‘hero’? Now, when most people hear that word, a variety of different images and concepts come to mind. Superman, Optimus Prime, Wolverine; the list goes on. What if I told you there are a film and...
Christopher McCandless should be recognized for living as he wanted and living by his ideas. Chris was a middle-class kid with supportive parents and a college education. He lived as he wanted and on the ways, he helped and inflicted pain into people. His purity...
Ten most important people or influential people are John Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Fredrick Douglas, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Hennery Schoolcraft, Noah Webster, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Brad sheet These are all important, influential people throughout the Colonial and Romantic period. how later on...
When jazz is mentioned, one of the first instruments that comes to mind is the trumpet. The trumpet is an iconic image of jazz. From Miles Davis’ mellow and laid back ‘cool jazz’ to Clifford Brown’s hard bop, the trumpet is a staple piece in...
One of the arts that transcends culture is the art of music. Louis Armstrong was an individual who took the art of music, specifically jazz, and transformed it. Louis Armstrong was born in August of 1901, to Maryann and Willie Armstrong. When Louis Armstrong was...
Helen Keller was an important and successful author, political activist, and lecturer in American history. Helen was born a healthy child, but at the age of two, she contracted an illness called “brain fever” which left her deaf and blind. As a result, Helen became...
Jane Addams was illustrated as a feminist and activist. Despite the fact that Social Work did not exist as such, she went with her instincts and learned from her experience of working with different people with desperate and complex needs. Jane was most recognised as...
Born on the 26th of May 1926 in Alton, Illinois, not far up the Mississippi river from East St. Louis, Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is regarded as one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in...