1. Choose someone that you find interesting. This could be an athlete, inventor, musician, writer, actor, politician, etc.
2. Find a source of information about this person that is not wikipedia.
3. In the comments, give a brief summary of this person's life and what makes them remarkable. At the top of your comment, include the website that the information came from.
4. Do not copy and paste! This should be in your own words.
5. Write using your best spelling and grammar.
http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/music/features/17915-mute-math-a-look-back
ReplyDeleteWhat I found on this article about Mute Math was that they were formed 2004. Their first album did not publish until 2006 because of dispute issues. In 2002, things fell apart for them. It got to the point where people would leave their shows. They eventually separated & went their own ways. Paul Meany, the lead singer of the band, kept working on his music to better himself. He held auditions for a drummer. The band got back together & made their hit album Armistice.
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Jose Bautista
Jose Bautista is one of the greatest hitters in the MLB. This year Jose Bautista just .180 with four homers, 12 RBIs and a .659 OPS. I don't think he's going to have the same numbers as last year .302 with 103 RBIs, and he led the majors with 43 homers and a 1.056 OPS. Jose Bautista is from DR born in october 19, 1980 his MLB debut was in April 4, 2004 for the baltimore orioles. Now he plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. Ever since he enter with the Blue Jays he as won 15 awards and he's a 1x all star as well. Jose Bautista when he first started in the MLB he was not known he was a bench type of guy until he sign a contract with toronto he has spark the world hitting 118 home runs,292 RBI,and hitting .262, with 414 hits.
Michael Jordan
ReplyDeleteMichael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York. His dad always wanted him to play baseball but MJ was all about basketball. In HS he was not a star, he was cut from the team but that never stop him from being the best. He went to college and won rookie of the year, a championship. He then went to the NBA Draft his junior year and was selected 3rd by the chicago bulls. During his long career in the NBA he won 6 championships, 5 MVP Award, 14 All Star Games, 6 NBA Finals MVP, 10 NBA Scoring Champion, 3 NBA Steals Champion, NBA Defensive Player Of The Year, 10 All-NBA First Team, All-NBA Second Team, 9 NBA All-Defensive First Team, NBA Rookie Of The Year, NBA All-Rookie First Team, 3 NBA All Star MVP, 2 NBA Slam Dunk Champion, that is why Michael Jordan is the BEST basketball player in the world.
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ReplyDeleteJim began performing at a very early age,10.He then started doing stand-up in his junior high class at the end of the day, given that he had good behavior before.
His family then moved to Toronto, to work in a factory.Jim had to work an 8 hour shift after-school, which greatly effected his grades.His family eventually left the factory, and lived in a Volkswagen camp van.After his family got back on their feet, Jim then began to make his way into the comedy scene.
He performed his first performance at Yuk-Yuk's, which trained him to perform.He then dropped out of high-school, worked on his celebrity impersonations, and left for Los Angeles.While in LA, he performed at The Comedy Store, and eventually made his way up to being the opening act there.He then was a novice cartoonist for the show "The Duck factory",which encouraged him to pursue acting.
He began to make his way into the movie scene, and got the role as Wiploc in "Earth Girls Are Easy", which got the attention of Damon Wayans.
Damon then proceeded to call his brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, who at the time was putting together a show called "In Living Color".
Jim became known through his hilarious roles in the shows(Fire Marshall Bill, Helga, and Juicy J the juice man).He then began to make a name for himself, and then began to be the lead in major movies.
Ace Ventura:Pet Detective,The Mask,and Dumb and Dumber were his major movies, and he still continues to make his mark on Hollywood, today.
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ReplyDeleteBio: Designer, entrepreneur. Louis Vuitton was born August 4, 1821 in Anchay, France. Raised with a working-class family, Vuitton's father, Xavier Vuitton, was a farmer and his mother, Coronne Gaillard, was a milliner. When he was 10 he lost his mother and his father soon remarried. At the age of 13 he left home alone in bound to Paris. When he was 16 he started to become interested in the fashion industry where he made a reputation amongst Paris's fashionable class as one of the city's premier practitioners of his new craft. For Vuitton, 1854 was a year of full change and transformation. It was in that year where Vuitton met a 17 year old beauty Clemence Emilie Parriaux. They got married April 22, 1854. A few months later after his marriage Vuitton open his own shop. As the years when by Vuitton made changes to his own design making new types of inventions like the modern luggage. For the next 20 years, Vuitton continued to operate out Rue Scribe, innovating high-quality, luxury luggage, until he died on February 27, 1892 at the age of 70. Till this day Louis Vuitton has been rated one of the top design brands from clothes, to accessories, to the modern luggage.
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ReplyDeleteMalcolm Little who is now known as Malcolm X was an African American civil rights leader. He was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was such a remarkable person because he was the most visible spokesman for the black Muslims. His debating against white and black opponents help deliver the movement's message. By 1959, racial tensions were reaching a boiling point and something was bound to happen. He was later assassinated on February 21, 1965 in a meeting. He always followed his motto by any means neccesary. He made a major impact for the future, and he is well remembered for what he did.
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John Christopher Depp, Jr. (Johnny Depp) was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. He is most famous for his career in acting and directing. The movie Depp is most known for acting in was Pirates of the Caribbean when he played Captain Jack Sparrow. What is remarkable about him is that he has been nominated 63 times for awards and won 46 of them. Other movies he starred in were; Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Rango, and Dark Shadows. He also starred in the show 21 Jump Street.
Will Smith
ReplyDeleteWill Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 25, 1968.His middle class upbringing saw him attend the strict and Catholic Overbrook High School, despite his family's observation of the Baptist faith.Smith was a good student whose charming personality and quick tongue were renowned for getting him out of trouble, a trait for which he soon gained the nickname Prince.Smith began rapping at age 12.At 16, Smith met a DJ at a party by the name of Jeff Townes The pair became friends, and the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince was born.Their debut album Rock the House 1990 hit the Billboard Top 200 and made Smith a millionaire before the age of 18.Early on it was reported that Smith had turned down a scholarship to Boston's elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air was a huge success that ran for six seasons.Smith has been married twice. His first marriage in 1992 lasted only three years but produced a son, Willard Smith III, who is also known as Trey. He has been married to actress Jada Pinkett Smith since 1997. The couple has a son, Jaden, who was born in 1998 and a daughter, Willow, born in 2000.The Smith family has homes in Florida, Sweden and Philadelphia.
Jim Carrey was born on January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. when Jim was little he had always loved the performance life. At 10, he even applied a job for "The Carol Brunett Show". Ever since then he has always been performing in middle his stand-up comedies which he took that talent into the movie life he is in today.
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Lil Wayne. He's One Of The Best Rappers Out There Right Now. Everybody Wants To Make A Song With Wayne Because His Lyrics Are Crazy And His Beats Are Very Well Made. Each One Of His Albums Or Mixtapes Go Platinum Within A Few Days Or Weeks. Latest Album Was The Carter IV It Went Platinum But It Took A While But It Got There Within A Month Maybe. 2 Of Wayne's Albums Went Multi-Platinum Both Rebirth & I Am Not A Human Being Went Multi-Platinum. And All At The Age Of 29.
ReplyDeleteI fing Edgar Allen Poe very interesting cause on many of his world fame books. Including his fame work of The Tell Tale Heart it's just a pity his death was never solved. Poe's life was never the bright in fact even his name brings mystery he is born of a family of writers. What makes Allen remarkable is on how his poems are very known in the U.S and how just like his characters his death is very gothic and mysterious. So I find Mr. Edgar Allen Poe my inspiration and his taste in books. ( I found this information on Edgar Allen Poe Museum website/ Poe's life)
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ReplyDeleteHe was born February 24,1955 in San Francisco,California.
his unwed parents put him up for adoption, he grew up in a neighborhood
were engineers constantly worked on electronics this sparked his interest in the subject.Years after he enrolled in college which he later dropped-out from,later in life he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer meanwhile he invented the "Macintosh" the first line of computers with advance software, he was also co-founder and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios,Apple inc. and neXT Inc., but his prominence came when he created the iPod touch and iPad soon before his death.Steve Jobs was also an interesting character he ate organic food,he was a Zen Buddhist, he mediated,he was a vegan and recurred to natural treatments for his illness such as herbal remedies,acupuncture and the Gerson Therapy.Eventually Steve Jobs died October 5,2011 due to health complications resulting in a respiratory arrest he had lost consciousness the day before while his family was by his side.
The person i choose to write about is Melissa de la Cruz. She is an author that writes novels, news papers articles and autobiographies too . This is my favorite author because she wrote my favorite books which are True Bloods. These are books that set your imagination to believe that its real and cant wait to read what happen next's. what make her an good author is, she majored in art history and english at Columbia University. She was a fashion writer for Marie Clarie it was an inspiration to become famous in two weeks or less which had co- author with Karen Robinovitz. Then from their she went sky high.
ReplyDeleteI pick an artist/rapper by the name of Kendrick Lamar. He likes to compare himself to Tupac Shakur. But Tupac wasn’t from Los Angeles. Lamar, on the other hand, was born and raised in Compton. His parents are still married. He is about 23 and so far he is doing what he always wanted to do. Kendrick has worked with few artist when he was just coming up in he game. His buzz has rocketed to such a star and so much that he’s considered for XXL magazine’s Freshman 2011 cover. In school he was a quiet, an alert kid who made good grades. He released an EP in 2009 titled The Kendrick Lamar EP, an mixtape in 2010 titled “Overly Dedicated” also known as OD. Maybe most people won’t like his music. But for those who go threw struggles may like it.
ReplyDeleteSomeone I find interesting is an artist by the name of Alicia Keys. Her real name Alicia Augello Cook. She was born on January 25, 1980 in New York City. When Alicia Keys was 7 years old she started taking piano lessons because her mom made her. Her mom insisted that she'd take piano lessons. Alicia Keys had talent with her music and had great grades that she ended up graduating by the age of 16 as valedictorian. In 1998 she started writing music and published her album. In 2005 she won 4 more Grammys due to her new album "Diary". Alicia Keys is one of my fans because I love a artist who write songs that actually make sense and things I can relate to myself.
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ReplyDeleteKevin Durant is a fourth year NBA star, currently playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder.He is from the Maryland D.C area, Kevin Durant went to college at the University of Texas in Austin. He was selected 2nd overall pic by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2007 NBA Draft.Kevin Durant was a member of the 2010 Men’s USA Basketball team that won the 2010 FIBA World Championship for the first time in 16 years.In the last three games of the tournament he scored 33,38and 28 points against Russia, Lithuania and Turkey.The 38 points in the semi-final game against Lithuania set a new USA Basketball record for most points scored in the FIBA World Championship tournament, while his seven three pointers in the gold medal game against Turkey set a new FIBA World Championship record. Kevin also finished the tournament with U.S. FIBA Worlds record 22.8 points in the event, breaking the 20.2 whitch was held by Luther Burden in 1974.
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ReplyDeleteAriana Grande was born June 26,1993 born and raised in Boca Ralton, Florida. she's actress, singer, and dancer. She made her debut on Broadway at age 15. Recently, she has gained attention for her role as Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon series Victorious. She released her first single "Put your hearts up" which was number 25 on the pop chart. Ariana has done many preformances.
Rick Ross is my Future Baby Father . What makes him remarkable to me is his talent . Hes a rapper i love his "swag" i love his music as well. For me he works hard and get a nigga hype up as you can say. His Birth name is Willam Roberts ,January 28 1976,Coahoma County, Mississippi. Back to his music his first album Port of Miami was released in August 2006, after that thats when MMG started . Well Telefon ,
ReplyDeletethe fax machine was invented by a Scottish mechanic and inventor Alexander bain in 1843 he recieve a patent for improvements in producing and regulating electric currents
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ReplyDeleteMichael Stevenson better known as Tyga. Born on November 19, 1989, birth place Compton, California, USA. He use to be a just a regular kid with a dream of wanting to become a famous rapper. Now he is Grammy nominated up and comer, he is also part of Lil Wayne crew YoungMoney.
Tyga stared his carrer when Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes sign him to his label he use to go on tours with them, Tyga had an incredible talent so At the MTV Awards 2007, Tyga also caught the eye of Fall Out Boys Bassits Pete Wentz and performed "Arms Race" with fall out boy and Lil Wayne. Even though Tyga was a newcomer He stepped up all right, him and lil wayne became friends right away.
Dan Thompson is an english teacher at Samuel Gompers High School in the South Bronx . He has a vast amount of knowledge that he shares on a day to day basis to his students and peers . This man is remarkable because his knowledge inspires his students to learn more or solve problems in their lives.
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Blake Griffin is an NBA player. He isn't like any other because his plays are jaw dropping. He does a lot of dunks while leading the league in dunks 2012. His dunks although are spectacular since most of his dunks were challenged but he finds a way to go through them rather than around them witch makes him remarkable.
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ReplyDeleteTaraji p. henson(born sept 11,1970)
She is a famous female actress.Also she has been in many tyler perry flims.But she began her career with apperances on homicide.
But before coming such a great famous actress,she originally studied electrical engineering.
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ReplyDeletethis is soulja boy his real name is deandre way he was born July 28, 1990 in the state of Chicago, Illinois. he started rapping at the age of 5 he was a straight A student until he started rapping fast forward into the future he made a website then he became internet famous he made a song called crank dat soulja boy and his fanbase grew world wide he soon made a group called SODMG (Stacks On Deck Money Gang) he is the CEO of interscope records soulja boy in the year of 2012 is worth over 25million dollars OblOck!
Demi Lovato Is a person I look up to. A source of information about her is demilovato.com. Demi Lovato is a teenage actor, singer and song. Demi has struggled with problems such as cutting and bulimia, I look up to her because she has come past her very tuff situations and was not afraid to let the world know she had to go to rehab in order to better herself. I look up to her because she has proved she's a very strong and independent lady.
ReplyDeletePlato was born in Athens in 428 BCE. He was in military service from 409 BCE to 404 BCE. Plato's most influencial work- The republic- discuses the virtues of justice, courage, wisdom, and moderation, of the individual and of society. In this publication, he worked with the central question on how to lead a good life and what defines a just individual. Plato lived the rest of his life writing and conversing in his academy. In his later years, he wrote his later dialogues including the Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Statesmas, Timaeus, Critias, Philebus, and Laws. Plato died in 347 BCE.
ReplyDeleteVincent Van Gogh
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Van Gogh was born in 1853. He was an artist who painted very famous paintings such as "The potato Eaters" and "Starry night". However Van Gogh faced a lot of mental issues and spend time in a mental center. In 1890 he shot himself in the heart and two months later he died. The interesting fact about this artist is that his paintings didn't become famous until well after his dead. He did not live to enjoy his fame.
Kevin Durant was born on September 29, 1988 in Washington DC. His height is 6'9. He weighs 235 lbs. He plays in the NBA for about 4 years. He is on The Oklahoma City Thunders play as a forward number 35. He averages 27.9 points a game, he averages 7.5 rebounds a game, and averages 4 assists a game. He wears number 35 to honor his childhood AAU coach, Charles Craig, who died when he was 35.
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1.Prince Royce
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3.My bro Prince Royce was born in 1988 . He is from washington hieghts . He is dominican .
4.Mr.thompson i did not copy and paste because im awesome.
5.I forgot to do this one lol
The person I find interest in is Drake. Drake is 25 years old. Drake first started as an actor in Degrassi as Jimmy Brooks. Drake is an Canadian actor and artist. In 2009 Drake was signed in young money.
ReplyDeleteRonaldihno Gaucho the internacional Brazilian soccer star. He started his soccer career in Brazil with the Brazilian soccer club Gremio and from there he showed of his amazing speed and dribbling. what i like about him the most is that he is skillful by nature, his tricks are unparalleled and he is wonderful with the ball at his feet. One of the coolest players in pressure situations.Then he got an offer of a french soccer club paris sain germain.Paris Saint Germain got his services and with them Ronaldinho made his debut in the European game. In the meantime, he was world champion with the national team in 2002, but with his French club he was unable to develop properly, and after several seasons he moved to Barcelona.
ReplyDeleteBut then thats when ronaldihno true skills showed off.Picking up two World Player of the Year awards in two years, 2004 and 2005 which not much soccer players can do he was very loved at barcelona. Then he unfortunetly got injured for a long period of time and His off-pitch problems hindered his development and he has lost the pace that made him most dangerous. His lost of game wouldn't allow him to keep up with barcelona's new coach and left barcelona to italy to play with an italian soccer club ac milan.
His exit from Barcelona and his difficult adaptation to Italian soccer was the worst moment of his career. But he lasted less than three years at the club before heading back to Brazil to play for Flamengo in Janury 2011. Ronaldihno now a days is 28 and is playing not at his best but gaining slowly his amazing game.
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Robert Stonehill my idol, i find him interesting.The movie Extraordinary Measures features Dr. Stonehill the man who found the cure for pompeye disease. He was dedicated to his study and accomplished his goal and helped save many lives. Also because i want to become a doctor, he inspires me.
ReplyDelete1.CP3
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3.Chris Paul other known as CP3 was the fourth overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft. CP3 was the NBA Rookie of the year in his rookie year. He participated in USA FIBA Team in his rookie year and they won bronze. CP3 has also been to the NBA All Star game 4 times in his career. Chris Paul was son of Basketball player and also brother of a basketball player so basketball was in his blood since he was born.
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ReplyDeleteDwayne Douglas Johnson was born in Hayward, California on May 2nd 1972. Dwayne traveled a lot with his parents and watched his father preform in the ring. In high school he played football and he received a full scholarship from the university of Miami where he became a successful football player but then he had a back injury so he perused on a wrestling career.Afte wrestling he started his movie acting career.
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ReplyDeleteThis is the life of Onika Miraj now known as the hit rapper Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj was born December 8 year 1984. She from Southside Jamaica, but grew up in Queens New York. Nicki Minaj is African American Trinidadian and Indo-Asian. Nicki may be a great and successful rapper now but she grew up in a troubled home with a father that took drugs and a single mother that struggled. But beside the bad parts at home Nicki Minaj graduated from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan. There she studied singing and acting. She worked as an administrative assistant, but she for all her free time she would dedicate her time to try to start her music career.
She started off by backup and then vocals and then further up. Nicki Minaj wanted to stand out! Soon Nicki stand out and listed on the myspace of the Dirty Money CEO Fendi who signed her. They set her on the front of his dirty money Label and also his The Come up DVD. Lil Wayne got a hold of Nicki Minaj rapping skills and thought that she had what it take to be in his group Young Money. Nicki published her first mixtape med titled “Play time is over” where she mad a Barbie Doll on the cover. A year later Nicki released her second mix CD titled “Sigh Free”. She really used the name Nicki Miraj but then started to call herself Minaj. Nicki Minaj calls herself the next Barbie and thinks that they probably have her own Barbie Doll named Nicki. Nicki Minaj raps her song with a lot of feeling and people like it because she changes her voice. In some of Nicki raps she uses different names for herself such as Nicki Lewinsky.
The reason why Nicki loves to use the name Lewinsky because she said it has a special meaning to it. The name Lewinsky came from intern Monica Lewinsky who was caught in a secret affair with President Bill Clinton. She said Monica had a chance to get a lot of power and control. So naming herself Lewinsky in some of her raps is to let all women to maintain there power and never risk losing it. Spring 2009 Nicki Minaj released her album “Beam Me up Scotty” a collection of music and freestyles. That album received so much attention from important music site and shows such as BET, MTV, and etc…. Now Nicki Minaj is still pursuing her Dream as a rapper in the Group Young Money with other famous rappers such as Lil Wayne. Nicki Minaj the Barbie is still blowing New York and other places away with her sense of rapping and style.
Chuck Norris was born on March 10, 1940. He started studying martial arts in Korea in the 1950s. He served in the U.S. Air Force at the time. When he returned home, he opened a karate studio. He then started to star in movies in the 1970s, one of his most famous appearances was with Bruce Lee in Return of the Dragon. Norris became a popular action-film star in the 1980s, and starred in his own television series in the 1990s. He is known as the one of the best martial arts experts.
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"Chuck Norris Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television. Web. 14 May 2012. .
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ReplyDeleteJet Li born in Hebei China on April 26, 1963 Li is the youngest of five children. At the age of eight he started his marital arts training because of his talent his parents sent him away to a special school. A quote from Li explaining his life style was "I was from a very poor family and we didn't have enough money for a good school, so sports-school was good it gave me good food and an opportunity out of China," Li said this to to Muscle & Fitness magazine.
Li at the age of eleven one his first national championship this allow him to travel to more then 45 countries as part of a team. When he was seventeen he stop spots and started working for a director. His first movie was Shaolin Temple in 1982 making him a star in his home country and the movie had many sequels. 1994 Li appear in his first american movie as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4. Li would then appear in movies like Romeo Must Die , Kiss of the Dragon and The One
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34 year old Kanye West was Born in Atlanta, Georgia June 8, 1977 began his career producing music for Jay-Z and other big names in the Music Industry. He later began to make his own music and made a name for himself. On October 23, 2002 Kanye suffered a near fatal injury from a head-on collision with another vehicle that resulted in a broken jaw. He now has a steel plate in his chin. Crimson Chin.
Sources : http://www.biography.com/people/kanye-west-362922