Monday, November 4, 2013

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!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Charles Darwin

Life of Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was born in the town of Shrewsbury, England on February 12th 1809. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side. Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. On November the 15th, 1809, when Charles was only nine months old, he was baptized in Saint Chad's Anglican Church, where his father was a member.

Presentation about Charles Darwin



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Barack Obama

A biography of Barack Obama - Documentary


The Real Marilyn Monroe | Biography Documentary

The Real Marilyn Monroe | Biography Documentary

Marilyn Monroe behind the glamour

Saturday, March 9, 2013

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.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Martin Luther King

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

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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 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.