National Medal of Arts

Maxine Hong Kingston is one of the first-generation Chinese-American citizens because she was born in California at October 27, 1940 as the eldest child to a poor Chinese family who were wishing for better life, so they decides to immigrate and reside in the United States because of starvation in China, in 1924. Kingston father works as a teacher in China, while her mother works as a midwife there. Chen Lok Chua
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incompetence in officiating the game. The undue pressure from the French delegation could have been overcome by declining to officiate the game through written document to the higher management of the skating federation. The decision by IOC to award gold medals to both the winners and losers was a poor decision since the sport was never competed for. This also shows that the higher management also fell prey to the pressure from the French…

The country of Cuba has a lot of great features. The leader of Cuba is Raúl Castro. The official currency is the Cuban peso. It is divided into 100 centavos. Pesos are divided into 1, 3,5,1,20,50,100. The Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) was founded by the Cuban financial authorities to take out all foreign currencies from circulation, and offer an alternative that is equal to US dollars. It replaces the dollar as currency where previous dollars were quoted in places such as hotels, restaurants and…

Darin Leroy Garner Jr. was very athletically talented. He was born with the ambition to be the best athlete the world could have imagined. He took part in two sports; swimming, and baseball. Both of which he was awarded well in. There were multiple medals for swimming, and even more trophies and records in baseball. He ended up letting go of swimming and began to focus more on baseball. He began to play for travel teams, and everything was going fantastic. All untill the devastating news of his…

that are bestsellers and prints that has raised thousands of dollars. He has won several awards throughout his career, which included most reputed ones like Magazine Photographer of the Year awarded by the National Press Photographers-Association and he was presented the Robert Capa Gold-Medal by the O.P.C (Overseas Press Club) for best published photographic reporting from abroad for encompassing courage and enterprise. He is the man behind the “Afghan Girl”,…

at its peak for competing nations. These games were the last major international sporting competition before the deadliest war of the twentieth century. As a battleground to test Aryan Supremacy, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler built the most state of-the-art facilities ever seen at the time. Thousands of people gathered to see some of the best athletes from all around the world compete in Berlin, and taking center stage was the biggest African - American track and field team ever established. Led by…

He won numerous awards and medals for the great things he has done for humanity. Elie was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his testimony and being “a messenger for mankind” (The Nobel Peace Prize for 1986). He was also awarded many other prestigious awards such as the Ingram Merrill award, the Medal of Liberty, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Star of Romania, National Humanities Medal, the Nadav award, Jewish Heritage award, the Congressional Gold medal, and many more. He even…

Lalo Guerrero was born on Christmas Eve in 1916 in Tucson, Arizona from a humble home.Guerrero’s mother was Concepcion Guerrero who was a traditional singer and as well a guitarist. Guerrero’s mother then taught his son how to play the guitar and taught him Mexican songs. He later learned to play the families piano and was strongly encouraged to write songs from his relatives in Mexico. As a child he went to participate in a competition that took place in his town. All schools in his town were…

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George Balanchine Russia's contribution to the great effervescence of ballet in the United States is complete and comprehensive. The master of this long alliance was undoubtedly George Balanchine, one of the greatest if not the greatest choreographer of the twentieth century. Born in St. Petersburg in 1904 in a family of artists from Georgia, Balanchine met ballet and music from the cradle. Trained at the School of Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in the best classical tradition, Balanchine…