1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar background helped him climb up because starting from a lower class as his father worked as a policeman‚ not as highly paid as they are now‚ and his mother as a department store worker‚ he did not have as much money. Also growing up in a housing project in a racially diverse neighborhood‚ most kids always have a choice to stay or get out of there. I think the community‚ and the society he grew up in helped him realize he wanted a change. He didn’t want to struggle like everyone
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thought the most meaningful lesson for a young person preparing for a professional life: "The trouble with Indians [was] not that they lacked educational opportunities or industrial infrastructure - the trouble was in their failure to discriminate between disciplines and to rationalise their
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A P J ABDUL KALAM India’s 11th President‚ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam assumed office on July 25‚ 2002. He was born on 15th October 1931 at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Kalam has been often referred to as the "Missile Man of India" and was the Project Director of India’s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III). Career. He graduated in aeronautical engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1958 and joined the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). In 1962‚ Kalam
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STUDYING DR. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM‚ THE MISSILE MAN AND PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT OF INDIA IN HIS POETIC ORBIT Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh M.A. (Eng)‚ B. Ed.‚ UGC NET (Eng)‚ Ph. D. Scholar (MU) Email- siddharthasankarghosh@hotmail.com Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) is better known as a scientist all over the world. He was a student of physics and aerospace engineering and dreamt to be a part of the Indian Air Force as a pilot of fighter jet. Unfortunately
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. on April 16‚ 1947‚ in New York‚ Harlem The 7 foot 2 center was named one of the greatest players in National Basketball history‚ and his talent was noticed in high school. Son of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr. a New York City policeman‚ and his wife Cora Alcindor was always the tallest kid in his class. At the age of 9 he was 5 foot 8 and by the time he was in eighth grade he was able to dunk a basketball. Kareem’s parents had him into school
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம்; born 15 October 1931 in Rameshwaram‚ Madras Presidency‚ British India)‚ usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ‚ was the 11th President of India‚ serving from 2002 to 2007‚[2] he was elected during the tenure of the National Democratic Alliance (India) coalition government‚ under prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[3] During his term as President‚ he was popularly known as the People’s President.[4][5]
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APJ Abdul Kalam: ’A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure’ Abdul kalam following qualities to be of utmost importance for a creative leader. Leaders cannot go back to a dictatorial style. Who is that creative leader? You have to ask yourself? What are the qualities of the creative leader? The creative leadership‚ I define‚ ‘The creative leadership isexercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach‚ manager to mentor‚ from director to delegator‚ and from one he demands
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Comparison between English legal system and Romanian legal system In Europe developed‚ for centuries‚ two systems of law which did not influenced each other: continental law and british island law‚ two legal conceited and strong personalized worlds. In nowadays in Great Britain do not exist a Constitution as an unique fundamental act‚ to regulate its political organization. The Constitution is made of lots of categories of legal rules which we found them in common law‚ statuary law and equity:
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this power‚ to help achieve your goals and realise your dreams. I have used the word ‘flow’ at many places without really elaborating its meaning. What is this flow? And what are these joys? I could call them moments of magic. I see an anology between these moments and the high that you experience when you play badminton or go jogging. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow‚ action follows action according to an internal logic that seems to need no conscious
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Sir‚ you always say that we must dream big and follow our dreams. What makes one follow one’s own dreams? Parents‚ access or commitment? A. Dreams are finally nothing but goals or mission in life. In my case I had great teachers in various phases of life. And also my parents‚ my father and mother were very useful teachers to me throughout their lives. I was the only fellow in the family studying‚ and their ommitment to me was absolute. The spiritual environment at home shaped me. You should convert
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