Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's biography

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Amazing Motivational Story.A short documentary on the early life and success philosophy of the great Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Barack Obama

A biography of Barack Obama - Documentary

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías

• Chávez was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.
• Born into a working-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas 
• He became a military officer.
• he founded the secretive Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s and worked to overthrowingthe Venezuelan political system
• He was imprisoned and released from prison after two years, he founded a social democratic political party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998.
• Allying himself strongly with the communist governments like:
  1. governments of Fidel and then Raúl Castro in Cuba.
  2. the socialist governments of Evo Morales in Bolivia.
  3. Rafael Correa in Ecuador.
  4. Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
• He supported Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and was instrumental in setting up the pan-regional Union of South American Nations, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, the Bank of the South, and the regional television network TeleSur.
• However, Chavez had extensive disputes with Colombia, and supported rebels in Colombia and Ecuador. 
• Chávez was a highly controversial and divisive figure both at home and abroad, having insulted other world leaders and compared U.S. president George W. Bush to a donkey, and called him the devil
• His presidency was seen as a part of the socialist "pink tide" sweeping Latin America. 
• Chávez described his policies as anti-imperialist, being a prominent adversary of the United States' foreign policy as well as a vocal critic of U.S.-supported neoliberalism and laissez-faire capitalism 
• He was the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
• Through his socialist reforms in the country which were based on the Bolivarian Revolution, He managed to achieve many objectives:
  1. He implemented a new constitution.
  2. He also started a participatory democratic councils.
  3. He nationalized several key industries.
  4. Hugo Chávez also increased government funding of health care and education,
  5. According  to government figures, Chávez managed to reduce poverty.
• Chávez  died in Caracas on 5 March 2013 at the age of 58 due to a cancer he had suffered from.

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was an excellent student and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old. He become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
As a civil rights activist, he was, very much like Mahathma Ghandhi, an advocate of  nonviolent methods to fight for the advancement of civil rights in the USA.
A Baptist minister, Martin Luther King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as direct consequent of  Rosa Parks refusal to leave her seat for a white passenger.
King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

I have a dream

Mini Biography of Rosa Parks

Video Biography of Rosa Parks

This a video biography of Rosa Parks, the emblematic figure of Civil Rights Movement in the USA

Who is Rosa Parks

Biography of Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.  She was an African-American civil rights activist. The U.S. Congress called Rosa Parks "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"

Act of defiance

When her parents divorced, she moved to Montgomery where she had to deal with segregation and laws she did not agree with. She married a barber, Raymond Parks and was very active in the NAACP and the Montgomery Voters League.  On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
This act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.
Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job as a seamstress in a local department store. Later, she moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she briefly found similar work. From 1965 to 1988 she served as secretary and receptionist to John Conyers, an African-American U.S. Representative. After retirement, Parks wrote her autobiography, and lived a largely private life in Detroit. In her final years, she suffered from dementia.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK)

DSK (25 April 1949)

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, often referred to in the media as DSK, is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the French Socialist Party (PS). Strauss-Kahn has been married for the third time to the French journalist Anne Sinclair since 1991. He has four daughters, one of whom is by his second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, whom he married in 1984.

Career

Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 28 September 2007, with the backing of his country's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and served in that role until his resignation on 18 May 2011.

He is a professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies. Strauss-Kahn was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government. He belongs to the right wing of the PS and sought the nomination in the primaries to the Socialist presidential candidacy for the 2007 election, but he was defeated by Ségolène Royal in November 2006.

Allegations of sexual assault

In May 2011, Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York City and charged with the sexual assault of a housekeeper who entered his Sofitel hotel suite, but all charges were later dismissed at the request of the prosecution. Strauss-Kahn entered a plea of not guilty, and denied all charges. The New York District Attorney moved to withdraw the charges on 22 August 2011, due to the unreliability of the complainant and inconclusive physical evidence, and the court agreed.

Mohamed Bouazizi

Mohamed Bouazizi was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December, 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides.
He was born  on 29 March, 1984. His act of self-immolation became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. The public's anger and violence intensified following Bouazizi's death, leading then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January, 2011, after 23 years in power.

The success of the Tunisian protests sparked protests in several other Arab countries, in adition to several non Arab countries, asking for democratic aspirations for the oppressed peoples. The protests included several men who emulated Bouazizi's act of self-immolation, in an attempt to bring an end to their own autocratic governments. Those men and Bouazizi were hailed by some Arab commentators as "heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution."

Who is Wael Ghonim?

Who is Wael Ghonim?

Wael Ghonim is an Internet activist and computer engineer. He had an important impact on the Egyptian revolution.

Egyptian revolution

Wael Ghonim had an important impact on the egyptian revolution. He inspired thousands of young Egyptians to stand up against the dictatorship of Hosni Mobarak's regime. He became an international figure in 2011. He was one of energized pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt after his emotional interview following 11 days of secret incarceration by Egyptian police. During this interview he was interrogated regarding his work as the administrator of the Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Saeed". Khaled Saeed's photos of his disfigured corpse spread throughout online communities and incited outrage over allegations that he was beaten to death by Egyptian security forces.This helped spark the revolution.The TIME magazine added Wael GHonim in its "Time 100" list of 100 most influential people of 2011.

Who is Bin Laden?

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda. Bin Laden was responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets around the world. Because Bin Laden was an advocate of violent extremist jihad, Osama bin Laden lost his Saudi citizenship and was disowned by his billionaire family.

His Beliefs

Osama Bin Laden beliefs were extremist and were based on distorted interpretations of Islamic texts.

• Osama believed that the restoration of Sharia law - the code of conduct or religious law of Islam - will set things right in the Muslim world.
• All other ideologies such as pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, democracy must be opposed. 
• He believed Afghanistan under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taliban was "the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. 
• Osama consistently dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believes are injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non-Muslim states.
• The need to eliminate the state of Israel, and the necessity of forcing the US to withdraw from the Middle East was one of his goals. 
• He also called on Americans to "reject the immoral acts of fornication (and) homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling, and usury," in an October 2002 letter.
• Probably the most infamous part of Osama's ideology was that civilians, including women and children, are legitimate targets of jihad.

These beliefs, along with violent expansive jihad, have sometimes been called Qutbism (the ideology of Sayyid Qutb)

The death of Bin Laden

Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists due to his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings. Since 2001, Osama bin Laden and his organization had been major targets of the U.S. War on Terror. Bin Laden and fellow al-Qaeda leaders were believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
On May 1, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on national television that bin Laden had been killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by American military forces and the Central Intelligence Agency and that his body was in U.S. custody

Who is Muammar Gaddafi?

Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi is commonly referred to as Colonel Gaddafi. He has been the leader of Libya since a military coup he led in 1969. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Gaddafi's government was considered a Pariah state by the West, denounced for many things:

• oppressing internal dissidence,
• acts of state-sponsored terrorism,
• assassination of expatriate opposition leaders,
• and crass nepotism which amassed a multi-billion fortune for himself and his family.

Gaddafi renamed the Libyan Arab Republic to Jamahiriya in 1977, based on his socialist and nationalist political philosophy published in Green Book.

Green Book

The green book consists of three parts:

• The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: 'The Authority of the People' (published in late 1975)
• The Solution of the Economic Problem: 'Socialism' (published in early 1977)
• The Social Basis of the Third International Theory (published in September 1981)

The Green Book rejects modern liberal democracy, "free press", and capitalism. Democracy in Libya is based on direct democracy in the form of popular committees. (However this system is limited by the fact that Gadaffi himself appoints a cabinet and departamental ministers, and the influence of unelected revolutionary committees throughout the government.) Freedom of speech is based on state ownership of all book publishers, newspapers, television and radio stations, on the grounds that private ownership would be undemocratic. (At least one observer has called the resulting media "dull" and lacking in a "clash" of ideas.) Libya's economic system is based on the premise that all employees must be "partners not wage-workers", and forbids paying employees a wage in return for labor

Dictatorship

In 1979, he relinquished the title of prime minister, and has since been called the "The Brother Leader" or "The Guide" in Libya's Socialist Revolution.He is the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders and he is one of the longest-serving rulers in history. Gaddafi was a firm supporter of OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) and led a Pan-African campaign for a United States of Africa. After the 1986 bombing of Libya and the 1993 imposition of UN sanctions, Gaddafi gradually sought more benign relations with the west, resulting in the lifting of UN sanctions in 2003.

Protests

In early February 2011, major political protests (inspired by recent similar events in Tunisia, Egypt and other parts of the Arab world), which quickly turned into a general uprising, broke out in Libya against Gaddafi's government. After losing much of his country to rebels and experiencing mass defections, Gaddafi defiantly vowed to "die a martyr" if necessary in his fight to maintain power.

Source: Wikipedia

Barack Hussein Obama

Early life

• Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr.
• They were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. 
• When his father left for Harvard, Barack Obama and his mother stayed behind
• His father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. 
• Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. 
• He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and poor.
• He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. 
• The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank.
• Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. 
• His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

University and Politics

• Obama attended Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and graduated with a B.A. in 1983.
• After four years in New York City, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland  on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988
• He spent these three years helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings.
• He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. 
• He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, and married Michelle Robinson, a fellow attorney. 
• Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District, which at that time spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park – Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn

President

• In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. 
• On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois The choice of the announcement site was viewed as symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "House Divided" speech in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence and providing universal health care.
• A large number of candidates entered the Democratic Party presidential primaries. The field narrowed to a duel between Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• On June 3, with all states counted, Obama was named the presumptive nominee and delivered a victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota. Clinton ended her campaign and endorsed him on June 7, 2008.
• Obama proceeded to focus on the general election campaign against Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
• Barack Obama won the race for presidency. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.