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dyslexia and his skin color. However, Louganis would always depend on sports as a way of escaping his problems. At first, Louganis like gymnastics but his interest for diving started to grow. At the age of 11 he earned a perfect score of 10 during the 1971 Junior Olympics. Gregory attended the University of Miami on a full diving scholarship but later transferred to UC Irvine also on a full diving scholarship. While in college he also took theater classes, and in 1983 graduated with a major in…

Lady Gaga covered John Lennon's 1971 classic "Imagine" at Azerbaijan's Baku Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies of the 2015 European Games. Gaga brought the massive crowd to a reverent silence with her rendition. The Mother Monster was sat comfortably behind a floral piano cascaded in a foliage of pink and purple pastel flowers. She took the giant stage by wowing the crowd with an impressive performance and gave audience a chill-inducing heights on the third verse, when her voice became…

Voting has been an important part of American elections for centuries. Despite how important voting is, suffrage had to be fought for. In today’s time, there aren’t nearly as many obstacles preventing people from voting as there were in the past. All eligible Americans have an important role as a voter and that role is more important than they realize. In the past, discrimination in voting was prevalent. Age, race, and gender were all things that could have determined whether or not you were…

Mckinley Morganfied (Muddy Waters) was born on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. He got the name Muddy Waters because as a child he played in the swampy puddles of the Mississippi River. Waters is best known for being a highly talented singer and guitarist. He made an impact on Chicago blues with songs like “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man.” At the young age of 3, Waters’ mother died and he was sent to live with his grandmother. By the age of 5 he had mastered how to play the harmonica…

Help MSF reach their goals to help people with they medical needs! Do you care for other people such as kids? Well MSF is a program that tries to help people around the world that have been hid with a disaster, disease, conflict, epidemics, and exclusion from healthcare. They try to help but they need support! I fell that people should donate to help them give medical support, they could save a lot of lives and maybe you or someone you know. I fell that it is a great decision to go ahead…

Phil Tollestrup (born October 21, 1949)[1] is a former Olympic basketball player as a member of the Canadian national men's basketball team during the 1970s. Six feet, six inches tall forward, Tollestrup attributes the development of his basketball ability to his being able to practice on a daily basis both at his school gym, where his father was janitor, and at the local cultural centre, which has an open gym.[2] The native of Raymond, Alberta was later a member of his local basketball team…

Furthermore, Friedan got involved in the women movement after suffering her own disappointed with the way women were treated in the workforce,” She took a one-year maternity leave for the birth of her first child but was fired when she asked for a second maternity leave in 1949. The couple had a third child together, while Friedan remained a housewife,” (Friedan, 2005). Her disparity and disappointment made her dissatisfied with just being a wife and a mother. Friedan is also one of the founders…

One of the greatest and most infamous success scandals of the modern art is “The Rite of Spring”. In Paris, on May 29, 1913, a hundred and three years ago, the Ballets Russes debuted “Le Sacre du Printemps” which its traduction to English is “The Rite of Spring”. With the opening notes of the musician and composer Igor Stravinsky, the main dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, with Marie Rambert helping him to assist the choreographies, and Nicholas Roerich the costume designer a…

Mencius was one of the most influential Confucian figures who mostly discussed the nature of humans. He claims that all people tend to lean towards goodness and attempts to prove this through examples. I believe that Mencius’s claim that all humans are naturally good is incorrect due to the suffering caused by humans and the overwhelming lust for power. Mencius’s makes the argument: “When left to follow its natural feelings human nature will do good…the sense of right and wrong is found in all…

Adaptation at elevated altitudes in human beings is a process of evolutionary adaptation in populations of Tibet, the Andes and Ethiopia. These people have attained the power of survival at extreme climate conditions (Beall et al., 2002). As life at high altitude is tough, this causes adaptational mechanisms among these inhabitants (Van Patot & Gassmann, 2011). While these severe conditions would have an abysmal negative effect on the health of human beings throughout the planet, the…