Wednesday 10 February 2010

Biographies of important people

Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history.

Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

After the arrest of Rosa Parks, black people of Montgomery and sympathizers of other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line that lasted 381 days. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was appointed the spokesperson for the Bus Boycott and taught nonviolence to all participants. Contingent with the protest in Montgomery, others took shape throughout the south and the country. They took form as sit-ins, eat-ins, swim-ins, and similar causes. Thousands of courageous people joined the "protest" to demand equal rights for all people.


She was voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most Influential people of the 20th century.

13 comments:

  1. FERNANDO ALONSO

    Fernando Alonso Diaz (Oviedo, 29 July of 1981) is a Formula 1 driver who now runs with the Scudery Ferrari. He has twice won the world championship of Formula 1. He is one of the most famous and admired drivers today, and a lot of people consider him the best active driver in Formula 1. He started his career when he was 3 years old. He also works with Renault and McLaren Mercedes.
    He is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
    He also practiced cycling, tennis, swimming and soccer. Her favorite teams are Real Madrid and Real Oviedo. His sport idol is the cyclist Lance Armstrong.
    He has two nicknames “El Nano” and “Magic”.

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  2. CLARA CAMPOAMOR


    Clara Campoamor was born in Madrid in 1888. She was considerer like a suffrage masculin mother and sufrager in Spain.
    Being one to three deputy of the constituent courts of the second republic .
    She was a defender of the equality of women's rights, she was one of the promoters of the allowance of the feminine suffrage, achieving the feminine vote in the first republic elections. She Also created the first law of divorce.

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  3. Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and film producer. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and as Matt Eversmann in the 2001 film Black Hawk
    Hartnett has since developed a steady film career, having appeared in several Hollywood films, including The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin and Pearl Harbor. He was originally set to play the role of Tino in Deuces Wild, but dropped out to star in Pearl Harbor. In 2002, he starred in O, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello set in an American high school, as Hugo, the film's version of Iago.
    He’s my favorite actor, and he acts very well.

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  4. RAFAEL NADAL

    Rafael Nadal was born in the 3th of June in 1986, is the last number one in the tennis world. It’s the first time that he isn’t into the three best players in the world. He started playing tennis and other sports when he was a child, but he prefered playing tennis and he specialize in this sport. His first competition was when he was 9 and that competition was the first competition that he won.
    At his 15 years old he was the younger player, who won a match in the history. Two years later he was in the international competition tour, he started to play with the first class of tennis.
    Now are the 3th in the classificatory, Djokovic and Murray are before Rafael Nadal.

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  5. Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s.Mendes was born in Miami, Florida from Cuban parents and was raised in Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother after her parents' divorce;[1] Mendes has said that her mother "suffered so much to make my life OK" during her early years.

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  6. nick jonas was born in dallas (texas) in september. he is an American singer-songwriter and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers originally started as an attempted solo singing career for Nick, but the record producer liked the sound when his brothers sang backup for him. He currently stars in the Disney Channel original series JONAS as Nick Lucas, alongside his brothers. Currently he has formed the band Nick Jonas and the Administration, which will release its first album in 2010.He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 13 and wears an OmniPod insulin pump to help him manage his diabetes. He has developed the Change for the Children Foundation.In January 2010, Nick Jonas & The Administration began touring in support of their debut album, Who I Am.[51] Apart from guest appearances at specific events, it marks the first time Nick has toured without his brothers, Kevin and Joe.

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  7. Rubén David Morodo Ruiz, artistically known as "Morodo", is a reggae singer from Madrid, born on 1 December 1979. His style, ragga, is very personal for their influences from hip-hop and reggae, the latter genre has had great influence on his musical career. Adopt from a young age as a lifestyle, Hip Hop culture and Jamaican music, especially the one made in Spanish, born in the early eighties in Panama, specifically in the city of Columbus and beginning to reach Spain a decade later. It was fourteen years is usual crowd of hip-hop jams throughout the national territory, alongside other members of the Posse OZM, where highlights from the first moment its crude style rap-ragga "and where measured at the microphone in endless sessions, recording demos with multip singers and producers, is becoming a mode where they form the singjay / singer who is currently.

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  8. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on February 5, 1985, in Madeira, Portugal to Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Diniz Aveiro. Cristiano has an elder brother, Hugo and two elder sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His name was inspired by the former US-president, Ronald Reagan, whom his father was influenced by.

    The island of Madeira was also the place where Cristiano first learned to master his skills as a soccer player. He spent his early years playing for his local team, Nacional, and by the time he turned 12 years old, he already made his name for himself as one of Madeira's top soccer player. It wasn't long before he started to catch the attention of other big Portuguese clubs. Among them were Porto and Boavista, however he eventually chose to play for Sporting which was a team he followed while growing up.

    He was then spotted by former Liverpool manager, Gerard Houllier at the age of sixteen but Liverpool had no intentions to sign him at that time because they thought he was too young and he needed more time to develop his skills. However, in the summer of 2003, when Sporting played against Manchester United and defeated them, Cristiano caught the attention of Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson.

    Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese player. Initially, he requested for the number 28 as his jersey number because he didn't feel that he could live up to the pressure of previous players such as George Best and David Beckham who wore the number 7 jersey.

    The year 2006 to 2008 proved to be a rather controversial year for the star. In the 2006 World Cup, Cristiano faced accusations regarding his sportsmanship. In a quarter-final match against England, he was heavily criticized for sending of his club team mate, Wayne Rooney who was playing for the England team. It wasn't too long until fans started accepting Cristiano again. In 2007, he won PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Player of the Year, PFA Fans' Player of the Year, Portuguese Footballer of the Year, FWA Footballer of the Year, Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year and Manchester United's Players' Player of the Year. The year 2008 also saw him taking back the PFA Player Of The Year Award for the second time running. That same year, Ronaldo also had to deal with controversies regarding his club transfer to Spanish giants, Real Madrid. He eventually chose to stay with Manchester United and stressed to the public that he had no intentions of leaving the club.

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  9. American superstar Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father, Joe Jackson, had been a guitarist but was forced to give up his musical ambitions following his marriage to Katherine (Scruse). Together they prodded their growing family's musical interests at home. By the early 1960s, the older boys Jackie, Tito and Jermaine had begun performing around the city; by 1964, Michael and Marlon had joined in.

    A musical prodigy, Michael's singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature, and he soon became the dominant voice and focus of The Jackson 5. An opening act for such soul groups as the O-Jays and James Brown, it was Gladys Knight (not Diana Ross) who officially brought the group to Berry Gordy's attention, and by 1969, the boys were producing back-to-back chart-busting hits as Motown artists ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Got to Be There," etc.). As a product of the 1970s, the boys emerged as one of the most accomplished black pop/soul vocal groups in music history, successfully evolving from a group like The Temptations to a disco phenomenon.

    Solo success for Michael was inevitable, and by the 1980s, he had become infinitely more popular than his brotherly group. Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, "Thriller" in 1982. A TV natural, he ventured rather uneasily into films, such as playing the Scarecrow in The Wiz (1978), but had much better luck with elaborate music videos.

    In the 1990s, the downside as an 1980s pop phenomenon began to rear itself. Michael grew terribly child-like and introverted by his peerless celebrity. A rather timorous, androgynous figure to begin with, his physical appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew alarmingly bizarre, making him a consistent target for scandal-making, despite his numerous charitable acts. Two brief marriages -- one to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley -- were forged and two children produced by his second wife during that time, but the purposes behind them appeared image-oriented. Despite it all, Michael Jackson's passion and artistry as a singer, dancer, writer and businessman are unparalleled, and it is these prodigious talents that will ultimately prevail over the extremely negative aspects of his seriously troubled adult life.

    For it all to end on June 25, 2009, with his sudden death at age 50 of a drug-induced cardiac arrest, just as he was coming out of a four-year reclusive period and rehearsing for a sold-out London concert "comeback" in July, seems uncommonly cruel and tragic. Millions upon millions of dedicated fans will remember where they were "the day Michael died".

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  10. Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28th, 1987, in Houston, Texas, to Bob and Susan Duff. When Hilary was six, she had been traveling in the Cechetti Ballet with her sister Haylie Duff but decided she wanted to fulfill her dream of acting. Her first part was in the mini-series True Women (1997) (TV), but her first starring role was as "Ellie" in The Soul Collector (1999) (TV), for which she won a Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress) Young Artist Award. Hilary also starred in Casper Meets Wendy (1998) (TV) in 1998, in which she played the young witch "Wendy".
    Success came again as she took the role of the starring title character "Lizzie McGuire" in the #1 hit Disney Channel series "Lizzie McGuire" (2001). "Lizzie" was extremely successful and spawned The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). In 2002, she made the Disney Channel movie Cadet Kelly (2002) (TV). Hilary continues her upward spiral, guest-starring on TV shows, filming movies, recording albums and doing television concerts.
    Additionally, Hilary is storming the music charts, with singles "So Yesterday" and "Come Clean" settling nicely into the top 40. Hilary's first album, "Metamorphosis", debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, and eventually ascended to #1 in the following weeks. To date, it has sold more than 2 million copies.
    Although she is currently touring the USA in support of "Metamorphosis", Hilary hasn't discarded her film career. A Cinderella Story (2004), co-starring Chad Michael Murray, hit theaters on July 19th. The Perfect Man (2005) and Raise Your Voice (2004) opened in 2005.
    Hilary is the 2004 international spokesperson of "Kids With A Cause", a charity organization that specializes in poverty-stricken children. Her other film credits include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Human Nature (2001), Cadet Kelly (2002) (TV) and True Women (1997) (TV).

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  11. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born September 4, 1981,often referred professionally under the mononym Beyoncé, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model.
    Her maternal grandparents, Lumis Albert Beyincé and Agnéz Deréon, were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles.She is the elder sister of Solange, a singer-songwriter and actress.
    Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Mathew Knowles, a professional record manager, and Tina Knowles, a costume designer and hair stylist.
    Knowles was schooled at St. Mary's Elementary School in Texas, where she enrolled in dance classes, including ballet and jazz.
    To manage the group, Knowles' father (who was at that time a medical-equipment salesman) resigned in 1995 from his job.He dedicated his time and established a "boot camp" for their training.
    Not long after the inclusion of Rowland, Mathew cut the original lineup to four,[11] with LeToya Luckett joining in 1993.[19] Rehearsing in Tina's Headliners Salon and their backyards, the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R&B girl groups of the time;[19] Tina contributed to the cause by designing their costumes, which she continued to do throughout the Destiny's Child era. With the continued support of Mathew, they auditioned before record labels and were finally signed to Elektra Records, only to be dropped months later before they could release an album.

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  12. Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope records upon its establishment in 2007 During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
    Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number-one in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart.
    At age 17, Germanotta gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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  13. Hello, I didn't know it. It's amazing how old cultures and believes can influenciate us today, isn't it? It is very interesting. My class and me have a blog, too. It is called: www.englishinbutarque.blogspot.com I hope you visit it!

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