By: Evan McDonald Teacher: Mitchell Rough Draft Wayne Rooney Wayne Mark Rooney was born on October 24th 1985 in Liverpool. He is the star striker for the national soccer team of England‚ and he also plays for the club Manchester United. He scores goals quite often and is well known for his power‚ pace and agility. He is also very passionate and puts his all in everything that he does. With these tools Wayne Rooney has the potential to become one of the greatest soccer players of
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Joseph Louis Proust was born on September 26‚ 1754 in Angers‚ France. Though there is not much information about his family‚ his father and Joachim‚ his brother‚ were pharmicists. Other than being a chemist‚ Joseph was a teacher at the Chemistry School in Segovia and at the University of Salamanca which were both in Spain. Joseph was also director of the Royal Laboratory. Throughout his life‚ Joseph worked in many different places within France and Europe. In 1776‚ he was given the opportunity
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Abstract Steve Jobs’ success story began in 1976 when he and a friend built the first personal computer. He founded Apple in April 1‚ 1976; he was the Chairman and CEO of Apple Computers Inc. until he walked out due to a power struggle. He did not let this obstacle stop him. He went and started other businesses and developments. In 1984‚ he developed the Macintosh‚ which was the first small computer with a graphic user interface. In 1985‚ he started NeXT‚ a year later he bought Pixar Animated
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Yayoi Kusama is 82 years old. But when she is wheeled in‚ on her blue polka-dotted wheelchair‚ she looks more like a baby‚ the sort you might see played by an adult in a British pantomime. Her face is large for a Japanese woman and at odds with her smallish frame. Apart from her intense‚ saucer-shaped eyes and the arc of deep red lipstick across her mouth‚ there is something masculine about her features. She wears a lurid red wig and a dress covered in engorged polka dots. Coiled around her neck
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Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi‚ Ghana – in what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast. He is a twin‚ which has a respected status in Ghanaian culture. His twin sister Efua Atta‚ who died in 1991‚ shares the middle name Atta‚ which in Fante and Akan means ’twin’. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country’s aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.[2] In the Akan names tradition‚ some children are named according
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Jose Feliciano born in September 10‚ 1945‚ is a famous Puerto Rican singer. He is a virtuoso guitarist and composer known for many international hits including the 1970 holiday single “Feliz Navidad”. Feliciano was born in Lares‚ Puerto Rico‚ one of eleven sons. When he was five‚ his family moved to Spanish Harlem‚ New York City. At the age of nine he played at the Teatro Puerto Rico in the Bronx. He started his musical life with the accordion until his father and family friend‚ Benjamin
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Leonardo Fibonacci was born around 1170 A.D.‚ and died around 1250 A.D. He was born in Pisa‚ Italy and died there too. Leonardo’s mom was Alessandra‚ and she died when he was nine. His father was Guglielmo Bonacci‚ who directed a trading post Bugia‚ Barbary. As a young boy‚ Leonardo traveled there to help him‚ and that’s where he learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. He recognized that arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals is simpler and more efficient that with Roman numerals and so he
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Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta‚ near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan‚ he continued at the University of Leeds‚ where‚ later‚ in 1973‚ he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England‚ he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960‚ he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time‚ he taught drama and literature at
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Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein has been recognized as one of the most talented and successful authors for poetry of his time. Shel grew up learning more talents than most of the other children. His career was full of success; many believe he was born with the natural ability to write. He had a strong sense of humor that greatly influenced his writing. Sheldon Allan Silverstein‚ usually known as Shel‚ was born in Chicago on September 25‚ 1930. Shel was not like the other children. “When I was
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Early life and marriage Aquino was born on January 6‚ 1812‚ in Balintawak.[1] Aquino‚ daughter of a peasant couple‚ Juan and Valentina Aquino‚ never attended school. However‚ she was apparently literate at an early age and talented as a singer and performed at local events as well as at Mass for her Church. She was also often chosen for the role of Reyna Elena during the "Santacruzan" in May.[1] Later in life‚ she married to Fulgencio Ramos‚[1] a cabeza de barrio (village chief)‚ and bore six
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