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Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub commonly known as Saladin in the western world was born in Tikrit, Iraq in 1138. The name of Saladin has gone down in medieval history as one of the greatest military leaders in the world who significantly influenced the Third Crusade. In the Muslim, Arab and Kurdish culture, Saladin is a prominent and respected historic figure.    

The Nigerian star's height is 1. 73 meters, which is considered perfect for athletes. The body mass of the footballer is 62 kgs that perfectly suit a soccer player of such a figure. He is a right-footed player but his left foot should not be underestimated. He mainly plays as a striker at forwarding or left-wing positions.

Frederick Sanger was born, the second of three children, on 13 August 1918 into a Quaker family in Gloucestershire. He is a British biochemist who has twice been the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, a so-far unique achievement in chemistry, although other people have also received two Nobel prizes, these were in other fields of work.

By October 2017, he had an estimated net worth of 20.8 billion US dollars and was ranked 21st wealthiest person in American. He has a great vision of changing the world for the better. He has been involved in various activities that are meant to change the world for the better and that is through engaging in activities that are likely to transform the world.

Yates began his career as a church minister at the first African American church in Houston, as the pioneer pastor of Antioch Missionary Church in 1866. His evangelical ministry and leadership of freed African American congregation set the foundation of the new one and half-century-old Antioch Baptist Church.

The contribution to education was also seen in his book publications that helped in the curriculum developments. The editions, of the books, The Process of Education and another book, Towards a theory of Instructions. Have been recognized as classics. In the course of his works and practice, he was influenced by many people, and also changed various colleagues.

She had been put in a detention centre due to her delinquency. Her father rescued her from the detention centre and took her to live in Nashville. He was a strict disciplinarian and sought to change her life. He also loved books, magazines and learning, which later inspired Oprah to participate as an entrepreneur in the publishing industry.

Jackie Robinson is a legend because he was the first African American Major League Baseball player. He was the youngest of five children and was born near the city of Cairo in Georgia. He grew up in poverty and during his childhood days, he had even joined a gang but was later persuaded by his friend Carl Anderson to leave the gang, from where on he turned his attention to school. 

Indeed, an important and growing subset of celebrities includes celebrities who have taken advantage of such privilege to promote policy and public attention on a range of political, social, cultural, economic, and environmental issues. Yet, different scholars have used divergent viewpoints to examine the roles of a celebrity.

George Carver was a botanist, chemist, and inventor who helped transform farming in America with the proper application of his knowledge in botany and crop pathology to ensure increased crop yields. He used his knowledge in soil chemistry to reduce nitrogen loss in soil by introducing crop rotation.

We entered the train by around 8 pm. Even though my friend and I have enjoyed the natural sceneries' beauty through the train's windows for around two hours. The blistering sound produced by the train engine was a pleasant one for me. The engine sound's rhythm and the occasional whistle from the driver’s cabin attracted me very much.

At a very young age, he began exploring North America under the guidance of his teacher De Pont in 1603. In the same year, he also participated in the settlement of Acadia. He became the first European person who has explored the Great Lakes. He also published the maps of all his journeys; he also published the accounts of what he has learned from his journeys and from the Natives. 

Karl Lagerfeld is a fashion designer from Germany but based in Paris. Apart from the fact that he is a fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld is also a photographer and an artist. Currently, Karl Lagerfeld heads Chanel, a fashion house, where he is holding the position of a creative director.

Wayne Douglas Gretzky is a retired Canadian icy hockey player and a part-owner, head of hockey operations, and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "the great one", he is thought by many to be the best ice hockey player of all times (Falla, n.d; Falla, n.d; Huber, 1999).

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), one of the most influential twentieth-century fiction writers, has left an indelible impression on twentieth-century fiction with his distinct writing style. He won Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for his classical novel, The Old Man and the Sea. ‘Grace under pressure’ characterizes most of the heroes in his books.

Malcolm X is well remembered for his struggle to overcome racial segregation and discrimination. He was one of the most influential public figures in America in the early 1960s. Malcolm’s voice had a fresh, distinct, and credible characteristic, and his rhetoric had a quality that disturbed many white Americans.

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More people have criticized his media portrayal as erroneous and that as a young senator he lacks enough experience to perform adequately. On the other hand, there is evidence that Ted Cruz is a popular leader in Texas and that he stands a good position to become a presidential candidate in the future.

Together with a member of the band, Justin weaver, Aldean started writing songs. As he was playing one of his original written songs in 1998 at The Buckboard in Atlanta, Michael Knox from Warner Chappell Song Publishing Company recognized his talent and approached him. He moved to Nashville, the music city, in November 1998.

Mary Harris Jones, “the most dangerous woman in America” according to a turn of the 20th Century district attorney, was an outspoken advocate of worker’s rights in a time when little attention was given to their circumstances. Usually wearing a plain black dress and hat, Jones was small in stature but was a courageous working-class warrior.

Casey Lam, a village boy from Hong Kong started facing and countering challenges from his very childhood. He suffered a strong sense of inferiority complex for not being able to earn good grades in school. Casey’s below-expectation results earned the rebuke of his family; teachers and friends making him feel darkness all around. 

People are born with innate talents and gifts, attain earthly knowledge through progressive years in school, and eventually, die with all these attainments. In this case, John Lennon’s life is no exception. He grew up to become one of the most celebrated pop stars, an ardent composer of all time, a meticulous songwriter of old, and a purposeful recording artist.

One of the most famous Socratic teaching methods was a dialogue, during which knowledge was uncovered by logical thinking of a student and reasonable guidance by a teacher. Thesis, Socrates’ input in Athens's development is in his Method of Inquiry, excellent oratorical skills, beliefs, and teachings about eternal virtues.

It is interesting to note that the popularity of Shakespeare's text is second only to the Bible. His work and writing style have been studied since the publication of his work, and they continued to be reviewed by people from different walks of life. No other writer, to date, has been able to surpass his fame. His works are the most widely read and debated upon.

Unanimously known as the king of pop music and the inventor of breakdance movements, Michael Joseph Jackson MJ, has been the heart throb of the music world the time he was active, which spans around four decades of high fame. Even now when he is not alive, his legacy is being appreciated and highly praised all over the world.

With this being said, it should not be misunderstood that personal experience is a free determinant for the way in which behavior will take place. The case of my own life exhibits many less than pleasant experiences; however, regardless of this, I have focused on fulfilling my own interests and focusing upon self-betterment at each and every opportunity.

This Boy’s Life is an autobiography of Tobias Wolff. Tobias, or Jack, as he prefers to be called as when he was young, practically spent his youth moving from one place to another with his mom, Rosemary. Tagging along with his mom when looking for something to do for a living gets exposed to the realities of life at an early age.

One day, one of the workers, Ashley, was serving an elderly customer.  After being given the change for his purchase, the old man refused to go and insisted that Ashley had to pay him more money than he deserved.  Ashley and the man started having a heated argument with each other.

Born in 1898 to a family of artists, Alexander Calder demonstrated that the serious world of art did not necessarily need to leave out the element of fun.  In his highly diversified life, he became known as an engineer, a maker of toys and a serious artist working with a variety of new and strange media to produce his trademark art form, the mobile.

He almost died on the day of his birth as he did not breathe during delivery and the midwife declared him stillborn. Dr Salvador Ruiz, his uncle, blew the smoke of a cigar into Picasso’s nose, and he was revived. His parents were from minor aristocratic families, and Jose Ruiz Blasco, Picasso’s father, was an art professor at the School of Crafts.

With the blessing of the Fuhrer of Germany (and her boss), she married Waffen-SS officer Hans Hermann Junger, killed in Dreux, France, by an Allied fighter-bomber 13, 1944 while on his way to the Normandy front. From December 1942 until Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, 1944, she was one of his secretaries. She was playing with Joseph Goebbels' children.

While “much of his philanthropy is anonymous” (Barkan 173), he helped his beloved ancestral homeland, the Republic of Armenia, through financial aid for various reasons. Kerkorian is also the single most crucial donor to Armenian-American causes globally in the history of the community.

Nelson Mandela is undoubtedly one of the Titans of the twentieth century, and a living legend, whose reputation and ideology transcends geographical and political dispensations. He may be considered a truly global phenomenon and his remarkable legacy belongs to all mankind. A study of his life and times is a lesson in integrity, endurance, and tolerance, and is inextricably linked to the birth and evolution of present-day South Africa.

As a young boy of six, Johann Gottfried Schadow would watch as his father, a tailor, put chalk marks on material he was going to cut out. He would then join the marks with lines to show the outline of the front or back of a garment. Young Schadow would then draw dots and lines on the slate and create an unmistakable image of his father.

Serra who is not only older now but much wiser, has witnessed a sea change that has taken place in the attitude of the critics and the public. He alludes to the change to the ‘curves’ he made use of in his series of ‘Torqued Ellipses’ which fetched him appreciation because people had not witnessed before.   

Miller was justifiably recognized not only for his ability to capture the spirit of the ‘little man’ in America in characters such as Willy Loman but also for his ability to really examine the deep moral conscience of the country.  His plays asked if various concepts in our society that seemed contradictory were really something we believe in.

So enduring is her magic that many people fall in love with jazz listening to Fitzgerald even today. Her childhood and adolescence were fraught with poverty and deprivation. Ella Fitzgerald also battled the circumstances arising from the separation of her parents. She spent some time with her aunt Virginia and was put in a reformatory as well.

Born Frederick Carlton Lewis, this famous American athlete is famous for two reasons. The first is for his achievements on the field and the second is due to his single-minded attitude that performance is based upon physical and mental attributes rather than on performance inducing drugs that is the biggest bane in commercial sports in the world today.

Johnson’s views on slaves were clearly in opposition to Lincoln’s stance as was his insistence that Ex-Confederates must be punished.  Lincoln was calling for reconciliation prior to his death but the new President was calling for Confederate heads on a platter.  According to Johnson, “Robbery is a crime; rape is a crime; treason is a crime;

Therefore, Euripides is viewed as belonging to all regions as well as the dramatist of all ages and all times without discrimination. Though Euripides’ works won unabated applause and he had a highly respectable place in the list of all-time playwrights.

The raft of short stories was in fact the foundation upon which her masterpiece is built and. James et al (334) claim that her first story, At Fault, was a mediocre novel, pointing towards the foundation upon which the masterpiece novel benefitted from. This does not happen in isolation as this is the usual metamorphosis of most writers.

Ronnie Coleman in the year 2012, launched the Ronnie Coleman Signature Series where he concentrated on making people achieve better results from their various workout routines. Similarly, he worked in many nutrition companies, which inspired him to do much in his bodybuilding career. He also wanted to make people feel good and like his brand about nutrition.

On the same album, Carlin discusses his experiences as a child attending a Catholic school in New York.  Far from the comforting and supportive purpose religion is generally believed to bring to our lives, Carlin openly discusses, through his jokes, the harshly punitive nature of the Catholic religion and its failure to win his adherence.

Written works including fiction will be constructed by the authors using the society and culture of his/her times, as the subject matter. When the author does that, he/she will be able to bring the real societal happenings into fiction. Normally, human’s lives are composed of situations and incidents which sounds interesting, ‘injuring’ etc, etc.

The final canvas was nearly 2,400 square feet (220 sq. meters) and required 440 pounds of paint. It had five sections which were glued to polyester panels and hoisted up to the 70-foot ceiling. The images Chagall painted on the canvas paid tribute to the composers Mozart, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Berlioz and Ravel and to famous actors and dancers.

In the literary world, several works have been made which portray the surroundings and environment of this world. Some are based on true events while some are based on the imagination of the writer. Tennessee Williams has taken up portions of his life and amalgamated them in plays that have become quite successful.

Confucius came from a poor family, born in 551 B.C near the city of Qufu, the northeastern part of China at the time when the country was being portioned into feudal states. There was a belief that Confucius's father divorced his first wife at an advanced age because of giving born daughters only and one handicapped son.

Bundy's story was on every radio and television station, on every newspaper and magazine and today the story is still being studied by law enforcement agencies and others. The question on everyone's mind was "Why?" Although the answer to that question was never found, many people have had their own theories.

Nixon’s trip to China came at a time (1972) when this country was supplying arms and troops to the North Vietnamese.  These talks reduced tensions, served to open trade, and increased communication lines between the two countries.  They also helped ease tensions between China and Taiwan as well (Robinson, 2007).

Albert Einstein is one of the most celebrated brains of our time. He wrote on quite a number of fields ranging from science to philosophy. He was born in Germany in 1879 a place by the name Wurttemberg. The family moved to Italy and later to Switzerland where he studied.  He became a professor later on and he changed his citizenship in 1914.