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School of Arts & Science

Course: Academic Writing I 

Advisor: Lica. Flor de María Olivares

          Members: - Yancy Lourdes Reyes Aguirre

                                          -  Edgar Armando Parada Portillo

                                          -  Dany Efrain Reyes Sanchez

                                          -  Liz Haydee Osegueda 

                                          -  Edith del Carmen Flores Lazo 

          

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This blog was created with two particular reasons, the first to report on facts that are not mentioned some very prominent and globally recognized individuals recognized for their great achievements, passion for what they were dedicated and skills, but not all good at some point in their lives were beaten by a failure, the second reason is to motivate all those readers who feel discouraged by some failure and invite them to continue working and struggling to achieve their dreams, if you would like to know more about the issue we invite you to continue reading this blog.


Synonym of Basketball:Michael Jordan

Written by: Yancy Lourdes Reyes Aguirre.

Athletic figure

 Michael Jordan´s life was complicated since his childhood, studies, and failures, how he grew up as a famous person, and the most popular Michael Jordan´s achievements.

Michael Jordan’s childhood took place at Brooklyn, New York when he was born on February 17, 1963. After few years his family decided to move to Wilmington, North Carolina. His mother Deloris worked in the banking sector while his father James Jordan Sr. was an equipment supervisor. Michael is the third of five children, and he had four siblings; brothers Larry and James Jr., oldest sister Delois and younger sister Roslyn.

Michael Jordan’s completed his education at Ogden Elementary School and then he attended the Trask Junior High School. When he and his family moved to Wilmington, he studied at Emsley A. Laney High School, and his athletic skills were discovered from school where he played basketball, football and baseball. He won the Dixie Youth Baseball Association’s Mr. Baseball title and the Outstanding Athlete title when he studied at Trask Junior High School. At the age of 12 Michael was suspended of school said his mother during an interview on ESPN. At the age of 15, Michael Jordan was around 5’11”. His first attempt to be a part of the varsity basketball team failed as his height did not match the eligibility criteria for selection. As a child, the one thing he wanted in himself was to grow tall. And after his failed attempt at getting selected, he decided he would. He always told his mother what he wanted. His mother used to say he should put salt in his shoes and pray.

Michael Jordan’s tried to find his way to become a famous player. During the year following his failed attempt, he grew taller and earned a place in the varsity team. When he was a senior, he was selected as a member of the McDonald's All-American Team. Michael Jordan majored in cultural geography from the University of North Carolina. He continued to play basketball throughout education. He also won a couple of Player of the College Awards then. Deloris recalled the day when Michael's coach had declared that his skills had grown to a level where he was ready to enter the NBA. Deloris was worried about whether Michael would complete his degree after that. After two seasons though, Michael did it and made his mother proud. 

 

One of Michael Jordan’s most popular achievement was the moment when Michael Jordan won an Olympic Gold medal. Such a wonderful moment it must have been for everyone in the family. Deloris remembered Michael, aged 9, telling her that Russia had won the basketball gold that year and that he would be in the Olympics some day and win a gold for their country.

 

 

STEVEN JOBS (BIOGRAPHY) 

 Written by: Edgar Armando Parada Portillo

Historical Figure.

 

Steven Paul Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students who were Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali; his father was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, worked as a speech therapist, they were both unmarried at the time. But after when Steven was born her parents decided to give him in adoption because

Does not had choice that put the baby in adoption with another family because   they girlfriend´s family objected to their relationship.

 In the same year the baby was adopted by a working couple class; whom Clara Jobs worked as an accountant and Paul Reinhold Jobs was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist, unknowing to Steven his biological parents would subsequently married on December of 1955, in 1957, their had a second child, her name Mona Simpson but after their divorced in 1962.

When Steven Jobs was five years old the family Jobs moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, and grew up with them there; after the family adopted a daughter, Patti. As Paul was a machinist for a company that made lasers, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school adding all this values and abilities, Steven  learned easy all about electronics things, and he always have prowess in young jobs.

He started study At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, but Job’s youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling, and he was only has a intelligent and innovative thinker in that moment, however he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study, because never he put attention in class and do not like write anything, in change if the teacher talk about electronics equipment he always knew what to do.

Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling, seeing the administrators his capacity with object electronics their wanted to skip him ahead to high school a proposal his parents declined, because they want that he carry a normal course, Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs had dropped out of college being a big frustration and his life after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy, but he wanted to finish her courses and did everything as possible as. In addition he continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friend´s rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple,  During the following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid; Wozniak was attending the University of Michigan at the time and dropped out after only one semester; it was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.

Steven leaved his studies and started to work; He took a job with video game manufacturer Atari to raise enough money for a trip to India and returned from there a Buddhist, in 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents, in order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semiretired Intel product marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula. Having experiences about his later work, he back to Cupertino he returned to Atari where his old friend Steve Wozniak was still working. Wozniak was building his own computer and in 1976 Jobs sold 50 of the as yet unmade computers to a local store and managed to buy the components on credit solely on the strength of the order, enabling them to build the Apple I without any funding at all.

 

After that, Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Computer Corporation's new Macintosh February 6, 1984 in California. Jobs designed, built and introduced the Apple computer, a user-friendly alternative to IBM's personal computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976.

Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.

 

 

 

The newsboy responsible for a wonderful world of cartoons: Walt Disney.

Written by: Dany Efrain Reyes Sanchez 

Interesting figure.

(Chicago, 1901 - Los Angeles, 1966) The life of a great artist and a film producer, pioneer of animated films, the main creator of the classic era of animation and founder of the corporation that bears his name, company that currently generates revenue annual 30,000 million of dollars, and the main architect of a distinctive style of animated films.

To start Walter Elias Disney was a child adopted by the Disney family, although born in Chicago, spent the happiest years of his childhood on a farm near Marceline (Missouri), until in 1909 his father became ill and the family was moving to Kansas City. Start working there as a newsboy, he combined work with their studies, which did not stand out. Preferred drawing and cartoons; the first to appear in the newspaper drew his high school in Chicago, where the family had moved again.

 

 

To add, Walter Elias Disney didn't studied a long career because he worked as a newsboy that was the trouble, Walt and his brother Roy accounted helping his father in deal, which required to work really hard getting up every day to the twelve o'clock. Walt wasn't a good student. Because of his job delivering newspapers, he concentrated hard and often fell asleep. He was prone to daydreaming and drawing to spent the time but the studies realized by Walter are only elementary and high school on night.

To continue, not everything is about great things the failure in his life start when Walt determined to pursue a career, he moved to Kansas City in 1922 when he thought he had learned enough, Disney founded Laugh-O-Gram Films company, with which he made successful films based on children's stories. However, production costs outweighed the benefits, unfortunately, they failed too many clients, the following year and finally had to close. Discouraged, Disney moved to Hollywood with another idea to become director of "normal" film.

The figure that became famous to Walt in 1927 the Oswald series, the Lucky Rabbit, an order for the Universal Pictures, created by Ubbe Iwerks and Walt, but Universal Pictures, which had the rights to Oswald decided to dispense with his services, was about to ruin a growing business. The solution was to create another character and this was neither more nor less than the mouse that would eventually be called the emblem of the Disney Factory. Walt Disney Mortimer chose the name for his most famous cartoon mouse, but his wife Lillian convinced him to change him by Mickey. After two failed attempts, the mouse triumph in 1928, which was a great success, the shorts followed quickly, and in 1930 went to the comic character. The short starring Mickey Mouse alternated with a series of funny animation titled Silly Symphonies.

 

  

To finish, in the actuality walt Disney and his most important achievements; At present, the animation studio in 1923 by Walt and Roy Disney has become one of the largest companies in the field of entertainment, with annual revenues by millions of dollars. The Walt Disney Company manages eighteen parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight motion picture studios, eleven cable television channel and a terrestrial.

Walt Disney Pictures, the largest film studio owned by the company, continues to produce animated feature films, at an approximate rate of one per year. In addition, in May 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar Animation Studios, whose films distributed by Disney, had achieved in previous years more successful than those produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

 

 

 The nobody who became a symbol of science: Albert Einstein

written by: Edith del Carmen Flores Lazo.

Scentific Figure 

Albert Einstein was the most influential scientist of our time. Albert Einstein was a famous scientist, physicist and genius. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. In 1880 the Einstein family moved to Munich. In 1886 he started elementary school in a Catholic public school. In 1894, his family moved to Milan, leaving him in Munich to finish school. The next year, Albert left school without finishing to find his family in Italy. In 1895 he enrolled in high school in Aarau, Switzerland. The next year he meets his future wife, Mileva Maric, at Zurich technical institute. Albert applied for Swiss citizenship in 1899 and was granted that citizenship in 1901. 

Albert's life had several strong events in 1902. He moved to Bern to teach mathematics, his father died, and his first daughter was born. In 1909 Albert received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva and in 1911 he accepted a full professorship at the University of Prague. The Einstein family moved to Berlin in 1914, right before World War I started. In 1918, Albert went to visit his family in Zurich, where they moved prior to World War I. Albert and Mileva divorced the next February.

 

 

Even the most famous scientist  of our times has failed at some point of his life.  Albert Einstein is not the exception; he did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. Moreover, his teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams." He was expelled and refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School. The University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertation as being irrelevant and fanciful. 

Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities. During the 1920's he lectured in Europe, America and the Far East, and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all the leading scientific academies throughout the world. He gained numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935.

In sum, despite all the difficulties that Albert Einstein had in life, he cope the difficulties and succeeded in life.  Albert, however was always from early childhood very interesting in math and science. Einstein surpasses all the odds in life and helped revolutionize science today.

Beautiful Paintings: Pablo Picasso

 

Written by: Liz Haydee Osegueda

 Artist Figure

Pablo Picasso one of the most recognized figures of 20^th century  art who co-create such styles like Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential and prolific artists of all times.

Pablo Picasso was born on October 25th  1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was the first child of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was an artist and professor of art, at the school of Fine Arts, and also a curator  of museum in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso began studying art under his father´s tutelage, though he was a relatively poor student, Picasso displayed  a prodigious talent for drawing at a very young age. According to legend, his firt words were “piz” “piz”, his childish attempt  at saying “lapiz”, the Spanish word of pencil. Picasso´s father  began teaching him to draw and paint when he was a child, and by the ime he was 13 years old,his skill level had surpassed his father´s. But soon Picasso  lost all desire  to do any schoolwork choosing to spend the school days doodling in his notebook instead.

 

He used to say “For being a bad  student, I was banished to the “calaboose”, a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on”, he later remembered.. “I liked there ,because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly….. I could have stayed there forever, drawing without stopping.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years painting in a realistic manner. During the first decade of the 20^th century his style changes as he experimented  with different theories, techniques and ideas. Picasso´s full name was “Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de Los Remedios Crispiniano de La Santísima Trinidad” a series of names  honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother respectively.

In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita died of  diphtheria. After her dead the family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz took  a position at its school of fine arts. Picasso thrived in the city, regarding in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.

Ruiz persuade the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam to the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completed in a week, and the jury admitted him, at just 13.

During 1893 the juvenile quality of his early work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painted can be said to have begun. In 1897 his realism became  tinged with symbolism influence, in a series of landscape paintings rendered in non-naturalistic violet an green tones.

Picasso made his first trip to Paris in 1900, then the art capital of Europe. There he met his first Parisian friend , journalist and poet Max Jacob, who helped  Picasso learn the language and literature. These were times of severe poverty, cold and desperation.

Picasso is recognized as the world’s most prolific painter. His career spanned over a 78 year period, in which he created: 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings and 34,000 illustration which were used in books. He also produced 300 and sculptures and ceramics pieces during this expansive career. It is also estimated that over 350 pieces which he created during his career, have being stolen; this is a figure that is far higher than any other artist throughout history.

 

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