1.Biography of leader whom you choose Jack Ma (a.k.a. Ma Yun) was born on October 15‚ 1964‚ in Hangzhou‚ located in the southeastern part of China. He has an older brother and a younger sister. He and his siblings grew up at a time when communist China was increasingly isolated from the West‚ and his family didn’t have much money when they were young. Ma was scrawny and often got into fights with classmates. "I was never afraid of opponents who were bigger than I‚" he recalls in "Alibaba‚" a book
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Biography Since Roja hit movie screens in South India in 1992‚ A.R. Rahman has been redefining the country’s widely popular film music. Generally regarded as the finest Indian film composer of his time (and certainly the most commercially successful)‚ Rahman produced music for nearly 35 widescreen releases during his first five years in the industry. He has worked with many of his country’s brightest music stars and a growing list of international luminaries like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan‚ Zakir Hussain
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Annotated Bibliography McCarthy‚ Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf‚ 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere. It is after apocalypse world where all signs of life are extinct. People and animals are starving‚ and predatory groups of savages wander around with pieces of human bodies stuck in their teeth. It is both oppressive and disheartening. McCarthy sets an atmosphere like one mediately after the world wars. It is not far-fetched to imagine the possibility of such a sad environment
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Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘Psycho’ is a work of classic cinema but still impresses and enthralls modern audiences in suspense‚ unlike other older thrillers. Alfred achieved popularity in the film‚ even after 50 years because of the distinctiveness and greatness of the film. Psycho is a perfectly balanced psychological thriller due to its equal parts of horror‚ thrills‚ suspense‚ blood and plot twists. The thriller doesn’t include cheap thrills‚ instead relies exclusively on story‚ script‚ direction
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Biography Raphael portrays two of Greece ’s great philosophers as the focal point of his masterpiece The School of Athens. Aristotle has his hand pointing straight out as if he is declaring to Plato that truth is found right here around us. Aristotle was an excellent teacher who is considered to be the prince of philosophy and one of the world ’s most influential thinkers of all time. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C at Stragyra in Thrace‚ on the north coast of the Aegean Sea. This was fifteen
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Entrepreneur Biography: Stephen Fung & Louis Leung. ENT526 - 011 Background Stephen Fung is a software architect and developer who was born in Toronto along side his best friend and eventual co-founder of Archon Systems‚ Louis Leung. Louis has had experience working for major companies such as Sun Microsystems‚ Research In Motion and various other consulting agencies as well experience in Canada‚ Hong Kong and India. On the other
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a mystery and thriller that leaves audiences in a constant state of suspense. Rear Window opens by showing photographs of high risk environments hanging on a wall of an apartment. This leads one to believe that whoever owns the apartment lives a high risk and adventurous life. However‚ once the broken camera is shown‚ it is understood that the main character‚ L.B Jefferies‚ is a photographer before it is stated through dialogue in the film. Early into the film we
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The poem “Holocaust” by Alfred Hutchison is one of the more well-known piece of literature about living through the horrendous event and witnessing people die right in front of his eyes. To fully understand the overall theme and message behind this art‚ we must seek for other historical events that were happening doing the time this poem was published and the state in which society was currently living in. Acknowledging these key puzzle pieces will surely help the reader have a complete understanding
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Michelangelo was born on March 6‚ 1475‚ in Caprese‚ Italy. Born to a family of moderate means in the banking business‚ Michelangelo became an apprentice to a painter before studying in the sculpture gardens of the powerful Medici family. What followed was a remarkable career as an artist in the Italian Renaissance‚ recognized in his own time for his artistic virtuosity. His works include the David and Pieta statues and the ceiling paintings of Rome’s Sistine Chapel‚ including the Last Judgment. Although
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The Similarities of Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper Alfred Hitchcock‚ also known as‚ “The Master of Suspense”‚ was a director to a variety of award winning films. Many Hitchcock movies will be noticeably inspired by numerous paintings‚ including the work of iconic artist Edward Hopper. Hopper‚ born in New York‚ was well known for his realist paintings. Comparing the paintings and films‚ one will see the similarities displayed between the two. Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper are linked by creating
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