small to big effects on everyone’s lives today. Ranging from athletes‚ to politicians‚ to civil rights leaders‚ some very well-known famous black icons are Barack Obama‚ the 44th president of the United States‚ and Jackie Robinson‚ an American Major League baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there is one famous celebrity who stands out from the crowd‚ and his name is Muhammad Ali‚ one of the greatest boxers of all time. Although Ali is remembered as a great boxer‚ people should see other
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wife who has left him. Pat is a man with bipolar disorder who used to work as a school teacher but due to his stay at a mental institution‚ he now has to move back to his parent’s house. His wife Nikki has left him because he beat the man (history teacher was sleeping with Pat’s wife) almost to the point of death. Yet he cannot help believing she will come back to him and that they are meant to be together. Continuing his life in the real world proves quite difficult for Pat as he is incredibly disoriented
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MONEY Sometimes beauty is just business. BY MALCOLM GLADWELL H elena Rubinstein was born in 1872 in Krakow’s Jewish ghetto‚ the eldest of eight daughters of a kerosene dealer. By her late teens‚ she had abandoned Poland for Australia‚ where she began cooking up vats of face cream. She called it Valaze‚ and claimed that it was the creation of an eminent European skin specialist named Dr. Lykuski and had been “compounded from rare herbs which only grow in the Carpathian mountains.” She rented
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Muhammad Ali is a role model for me because he led the nation of Islam with Malcolm X for African American equality .He also was a role model because of his immense strength and footwork. Muhammad was also a great choice because of his giant struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He has been diagnosed at age 42. Ali hasn’t had a large impact on my life but he is definitely someone I look up to. Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17‚ 1942. He was born in Louisville‚ Kentucky
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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On November 2nd‚ which was a Monday night‚ I went to the Musical Art Center for Pat Harrison’s jazz ensemble’s performance‚ which started at 8pm. Since this is a big bang group‚ there are many different instrumentation. For the horn section‚ there are two alto saxophones‚ two tenor saxophones‚ and one baritone saxophone; trumpets and flugelhorns; trombones and bass trombone. For the rhythm section‚ there are piano‚ guitar‚ double bass‚ drums and vibraphone. Personally‚ among all those different
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the days count." Muhammad Ali can be an inspiration for everyone; even though he is not with us now‚ we can still learn from his actions. He was humble and always kind. In his life he did a lot of good things. In fact‚ he refused to participate in the Vietnam War. Muhammad Ali’s real name is Cassius Clay and was born in Louisville‚ Kentucky. He is called Muhammad Ali because in 1964‚ he became an Islam believer‚ so he changed his name from Cassius Clay‚ to Muhammad Ali. He began training as an amateur
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An interesting theory can be inferred from the novel is that the reason for the suicides of the women Sa’eed seduced was from the social pressures that these women faced from having a relationship with a non-white man. The social pressures women face from indulging in a relationship with a non-white man‚ can be seen in the film Ali Fear Eats the Soul‚ where the main character Ali‚ who is a Muslim worker from a foreign country‚ seduces a German woman named Emmi Kurowski and she is continuously scrutinized
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This photo shows Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston after knocking him out in the first round of their heavyweight title match. It was taken by Neil Leifer on May 6‚ 1965. Leifer was a young photographer‚ 22 to be exact‚ so he didn’t get to pick where he sat that night. A higher up photographer chose a spot by the judges’ table‚ and Leifer sat on the opposite side. To get the color‚ Leifer set up flash units over the ring. To add to the complexity‚ he only had one chance to get the shot he wanted
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To begin‚ the book I read was Muhammad Ali The Greatest by: Walter Dean Myers. I have read several books that Myers wrote and I really enjoyed them. The last time I was able to read one was last year for a project. Some of the books I read by him were Kick and Hoops. From researching‚ I have learned that he has wrote a plethora of books. Since this year I know I will be reading a lot of books‚ I decided to pick up one of his when I was choosing in the library. Next‚ there was a main reason why
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