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    Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17 , 1942 In Louisville , Kentucky. Known all over the world for being a professional boxer and an activist. Muhammad started training amaturally at the age of 12. At the age of 18 he won his first gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and then later that year started boxing professionally. He then went on to win the WBA, WBC, and Lineal Heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston. Mahammad then changed…

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    “I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.” - Muhammad Ali Biography Professional Boxer (1961-80), political activist, lecture, entrepreneur, actor, a philanthropist, winner of six Golden Gloves titles in Kentucky, 2-time National Golden Gloves titles, 1 Olympic Gold Medalist, and 3-time Heavyweight Championship, his name is Muhammad Ali also known as “The Greatest.” Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky in January 17, 1942. Clay was the…

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    Shawn Johnson is an influential person because she is a hard-working athlete who earned two Olympic gold medals in gymnastics. Early life Her birthday is January 19, 1992(Source #3).Shawn Johnson is 26 years old.Shawn Johnson was born in Des Moines , Iowa United states (Source #2). Shawn Johnson's full name is Shawn Machel Johnson (Source #1). Her nickname was SJ to represent her because she didn't like her name at first (Source #4). When Shawn was little , she was signed up for ballet and…

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    Actor. Musician. Humanitarian. Entrepreneur. These are merely a few words used to describe, Yosiah Johnson (born January 23,1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio). Yosiah's love for entertainment began at a young age and was heavily influenced by greats like Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur and Martin Lawrence. Yosiah grew up in a single parent household which resulted in multiple relocations which forced him to grow up very quickly. Yosiah believes these circumstances helped him develop a very diverse,…

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    Google Analysis Paper

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    This paper will analyze Google, a company that was founded in 1996 by Larry and Sergery Brin, while they were Ph. D students at the Stanford University in California. Google specializes in in internet related services such as online advertising, cloud computing, software and hardware. Besides the superior services google offers to the public, the company is successful due to leadership, innovation that allow a diverse group of people to share and discover new business opportunities. As an…

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    Amigo Brothers Antonio and Felix both want to be lightweight champions in boxing,but they each have different boxing styles and body structures. In this essay, i’m going to tell you all about their similarities and differences. They are very similar as they are different. They are best friends that act like they are brothers. They both are similar because they are Puerto Rican boxers. They both enjoy collecting fighting magazines and read and look at them. They are both seventeen years…

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    Hip hop artist and basketball players are both performers, who have a rich connection and similar persona, showcasing style, swagger, urbanism, bravado, and coolness. This rich bond was established in 1979; from 1984 to 2009, a new era was conceived, known as “The Dunkadelic Era.” In 1979, the first mainstream explicit connection between hip-hop and basketball was established. The Sugarhill Gang’s hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” which is commonly referred to as the first mainstream hip-hop song,…

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    An Astronomical Athlete Every success story ever chronicled started with a dream, a huge gargantuan dream that seemed entirely unobtainable. The 1996 bronze medal Olympian, Floyd “Money” Mayweather, sought the title of the greatest professional boxer of all time. He achieved his goal by keeping an unblemished record of forty-nine fights with forty-nine wins, twenty-six by way of knockout, and zero losses (“Floyd Mayweather Jr..”). My own dreams are of no less stature in fact, I intend to…

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    With the help of two other enigmatic Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, the juggernaut that became Google, was born. Starting out as an incubator idea in the minds of a former Soviet Union boy with big ambitions, and an American, Larry Page, these two later combined with another American Eric Schmidt—the current CEO of Alphabet (Google’s new name)—to fuse their love of computer science and the internet together. The result was the launch of what has become today the world’s largest…

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    In the story “Amigo Brothers” Antonio and Felix are best friends. Like most friends, they have their similarities and their differences. Here are a few. Both of them are 17 years old, live in the same building, and are best friends with each other. One of the biggest things that Antonio and Felix have in common is their huge love for boxing. Both have a scrapbook all about it, and have all the Fight Magazines. Each has the dream of winning The Light Weight Championship of the World. To prepare…

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