Ben Johnson‚ a Canadian sprinter was once considered the fastest man on earth. He had an Olympic gold medal and held the 100 metre world record of 9.79 seconds to prove it. However‚ after being found using illegal performance-enhancing drugs‚ he was stripped of all his sporting successes and suspended from competing. In Rome of 1987‚ Ben Johnson set four indoor world records and won the outdoor World Championships. Johnson was expected to win gold in the 100 metres at the Seoul Olympics in Korea
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Ben Cousins – “Such is Life” 1) Recount the major issues that are presented in the documentary “Such is Life”. Such is Life is a documentary on Ben Cousins life with drugs and how it affected his life and his career. Ben started in playing for West Coast Eagles in 1996 when he was 17 and that was around the same time his early drug taking days began‚ and later became captain for West Coast Eagles at 22 in 2001. In 2005 after they lost their grand final by 4 to Sydney Swans Ben went on a 6 day
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Ben Hogan Ben Hogan had more dedication than any athlete today. Throughout his life Mr.Hogan overcame a very traumatic childhood‚ recovered from a nearly fatal head-on collision with a bus and built a golf equipment empire. Ben Hogan was born in a small town in Texas called Dublin. He was one of three children. When Ben was only six years old he witnessed his father commit suicide while playing in the same room. " At age nine
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BEN QUILTY Ben Quilty is an Australian artist producing rich visual images which have earned him a national reputation. Acclaimed as a portraitist‚ Quilty creates thickly impastoed canvases using vibrant coloursand broad brush strokes that build up layers of paint. He works in a wide range of genres‚ including portraits and still lifes‚ but also landscapes that reflect his fascination with Australianness‚ a passion which has its origins in Arthur Streeton’s edict that Australian artists should
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Celia‚ A Slave: A True Story Celia‚ A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin is the story of Celia a fourteen year old slave that is purchased and abused by her master‚ until one day she kills him. The relationship that Celia and Robert Newsome had was very interesting and the book touches on race and gender hierarchies‚ power in the relationship‚ and the involvement of others who supported or contested the power structure. Was Celia forced by society to commit this crime‚ did gender‚ race and power struggle
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Celia Behind Me By Isabel Huggan – 1989 The pressure to be perfect‚ to fit in‚ to be part of the group and accepted. These are things the majority of teenagers go through in their early years. At the time it will seem like the most important thing in life and an insecure teenager or child will do whatever it takes to accomplish it. The persistence to achieve the desired social status and acceptance from fellow classmates will often lead to the horror of bullying. Upgrading yourself by downgrading
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Released in 1993‚ Celia‚ A Slave was written as a true story of a young slaved girl who broke some of the most unbreakable of the rules that applied to slaves which took more abuse than most of her peers. The work as a whole provides an accurate historical perspective of the time leading up to the civil war and some of the attitudes being held by the characters paint a picture that was eerily very similar to the portrait that reflects pre-war history in the Deep South. Celia was the name of a young
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Rosalind‚ his daughter‚ is kept uneasily at court as a companion to her cousin Celia‚ Frederick’s daughter. Orlando de Boys‚ the youngest son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys‚ has been kept in poverty by his brother Oliver since his father’s death. Orlando decides to wrestle for his fortune at Frederick’s court‚ where he sees Rosalind and they fall in love. The Duke banishes Rosalind‚ fearing that she is a threat to his rule. Celia‚ refusing to be parted from her cousin‚ goes with Rosalind to seek Duke
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attend because‚ “At the age of not quite six‚ he was not allowed to visit the circus.” (Morgenstern 61) But that was not the case for Marco and Celia. Celia was born into the magician life. Her father a famous in the circus and her mother committing suicide when she was 5. Marco on the other hand was “forced” into it at the ripe age of just 9. When Celia accidentally exposes her talent‚ her father beckons his friend starting the competition. Throughout the story the two of them begin to get
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Ben Carson By: Cory Kieta 6-8-09 Did you know that Dr. Ben Carson performs over five hundred operations per year? (www.answers.com)That is more than three times the amount of an average neurosurgeon. Ben Carson has showed that any black doctor can become one of the greatest neurosurgeons of our time. All that you have to do is work hard and never give up on your dream. Ben Carson was at the bottom of his class in elementary school until he found a love for reading. (www.achievement.org)
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