Isabel Allende

ISABEL ALLENDE

Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer, who was born in Lima in 1942. Daughter of a Chilean diplomat was the one who instilled the passion for literature, Isabel Allende studied journalism. While she started writing plays and children's stories, she worked as an editor and columnist in newspapers and television. In 1960 Isabel Allende joined of FAO, the United Nations organization, which deals with the improvement of living standards of the population.

In 1962 she married with Miguel Frias, with whom he had two children, in 1987 they divorced. In 1973 he was exiled to Caracas a result of a Pinochet coup, is here where Isabel start their library production.

The first great novel of Isabel Allende was The House of the Spirits, definitely established her as one of the great Spanish American writers of all time and their work it became immediately into a best – seller in United Estates, Europe and Spain.

Eleven years later, for putting them on sale they made the film adaptation, fact which involved an international success, “The house of the spirits, 1993”.  The author collaborated in preparing the script and various international actors for example; Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas y Vanessa Redgrave.

Two years later the author wrote “The house of the spirits” he wrote “De Amor y de sombra” this book made ​​clear to international critical I hadn’t just by chance the success of his first book.

But throughout his life Isabel Allende, to written more great works for example; Eva Luna (1987), The Infinite Plan (1991), Paula (1994), Aphrodite (1998), Daughter of Fortune (1999), Portrait in Sepia (2000) and the book of memoirs My invented country (2003).  Allende translated their works to over 25 languages and are found in the lists of not only American but rather international sales.

In 2010 she won the national prize for literature of Chile and today is 71 years old. 

Neymar

Neymar JR

 

Neymar  da Silva Santos Junior, is nowadays my favourite football player, currently he is in F.C.Barcelona, but before he was playing in Santos F.C., a team located in Brazil. 

Also called Neymar Jr, was born on 5 February 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, near Sao Paulo.

Is toller than me, he is 1,75m high. He has short brown hair, and I like his hairstyle becouse it's very cool.

His style  is very trendy and cool, he combines elegancy with sport clothings. I like Neymar, because he has a lot of technic with the ball, and this is so funny for the viewers.

When someone speak about Neymar, I remember a goal, who he scored in 2010 in Puskas Cup, was really amazing!.

Nowadays as I said, is in F.C.Barcelona and i I want that Neymar win a lot of titles and cups with Barcelona team.

Peter Hayden Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage is a famous actor who has appeared in films and he has played Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He was born on 11th of June of 1969 in Morristown, New Jersey.

He is very softly as he suffers dwarfism. He has curly brown hair, his eyes are blue and very small. Today, has a beard and long hair but due to the series constantly changing its appearance. His normal appearance can be described elegant and quiet, but in the series he changes constantly.

Peter Hayden Dinklage became a vegetarian at age 16 and later became a vegan, he always defended animals.

He is my favourite actor for his role in Game of Thrones, I love his performances, and he won many awards for the role of Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf Game of Thrones.

Cecilia Freire

Her name is Cecilia Freire  and she is an actress who performs the cheerful and reliable Rita in the TV show Velvet. She's a celebrity of the country. She was born in Madrid, but she's now living in Barcelona. Her fame is due to the TV show Física o Química, where she performed Blanca, a mad English teacher. Cecilia is in her middle-twenties and she's now living one of the greatest times of her career as an actress.

She is nearly as tall as me, she's thin, but not as thin as a rake, of course. She has got medium-length, curly, blond hair; sparkling, big blue eyes with large eyelashes. Her nose is slightly pointed, although it's nothing exaggerated. Her mouth has slim lips and huge white teeth. As she smiles a lot, she's most of the time showing them.

I don't know Cecilia personally, but she seems indeed to have a heart of gold. Her mates say that she is confident and very sensible. That's because she thinks twice before acting, not only in the TV world but in the real life. She is a very cold-headed person and very hard-working.

She's  very optimistic and calm, both qualities that I admire a lot, so, it would be a huge pleasure to meet her.

ALEXANDER FLEMING

Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner, best known for his discovery of penicillin.

Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire on 6th August 1881, the son of a farmer. He moved to London at the age of 13 and later trained as a doctor. He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St Mary's Hospital Medical School at the University of London under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy. In World War One, Fleming served in the Army Medical Corps and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war, he returned to St Mary's.

In 1928, while studying influenza, Fleming noticed that mould had developed accidentally on a set of culture dishes being used to grow the staphylococci germ. The mould had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. Fleming experimented further and named the active substance "penicillin". 

It was two other scientists, however, Australian Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, a refugee from Nazi Germany, who developed penicillin further so that it could be produced as a drug. At first supplies of penicillin were very limited, but by the 1940s it was being mass-produced by the American drugs industry.

Fleming wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. He was elected professor of the medical school in 1928 and emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of London in 1948. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1943 and knighted in 1944. In 1945 Fleming, Florey and Chain shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine. 

Fleming died on 11(*) March 1955.

MARTA GALLEGO 

Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher is a British singer and composer, born 21 September 1972, known for his time singing Oasis group. Oasis was a group founded with his brother Noel Gallagher, Paul Arthus Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , in 1991.

His career within the group Oasis was always characterized by the repeated discussions with his brother, however, the band classified as a Britpop band, begun being famous. Although Liam was the singer most songs were written by Noel, his brother, and there are only two songs written by Liam, "songbird" and "I'm outta time". Oasis shared this fame with other British groups of the Britpop movement, one great example was the band Blur.

One of the great successes of Oasis was the album "What's the Story, ¿Morning Glory?" This album sold over 4 million copies only in Britain, ranking in fourth place as a British band that sold more albums in Britain. Oasis disbanded in 2009 after another scandal between Liam and Noel in a concert in Barcelona. Then Liam started another band with the members who had formed Oasis called "Beady Eye " this band haven’t had so much fame as Oasis did at his time.

Tina Maze

Tina Maze, who is the most successful female ski race in Slovenia history, was born in a town called Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia in 1983. When Tina Maze was a child loved skiing and music, and now is one of the best skiers.

Tina Maze loved skiing and she decided to be the best female skier while she was 13 years old. She made her World Cup debut at age of 15 in January 1999 and she made her Winter Olympics debut in 2002, finishing 12^th in giant slalom. Now Tina Maze is one of just six sportswomen who has won all the five World Cup events and won the overall World Cup in the 2013 season. In this season, she listed 11 victories and won a record number of World cup points. In Sochi Olympic Games she won 2 gold medals in two disciplines, downhill and giant slalom.

Tina Maze continues skiing and win races. In my opinion, she is the best woman skier in the world because she won a lot of races, has a mental strength and trains all the time.  

John Lennon

John Lennon is one of the most famous English musicians.He was born on 9th of  October of 1940 in Liverpool.His mother decided to give him to his aunt at the age of four.During his childhood he showed love to the music but his aunt refused to buy him a guittar because she thought that it wasn't necessary,and he used to draw sketches,drawings.....

His biggest succes came between  1960-1970,years in which he formed part of the famous band Beatles.They made lots of famous songs like:All you need is love,Hey jude,Let it be.....etc.They made a huge succes around the globe and still nowadays Beatles are considered as one of the greatest groups of all time.

After the break up of the group he decided to start a solo carreer and meanwhile he got married with the Japaneese Yoko Ono,during this period he participated in lots of protests and activities mostly against the war in Vietnam.

In 1980 he was assassinated  by a mentally retarded fan named Mark David Champman,although he is dead now he still continues to be an inspiration for millions.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32^nd President of the United States of America, he was the president of the United States for more than ten years and he is one of the most remembered presidents of the history of this country.

Franklin Roosevelt was born the 30 of January of 1882, in a village called Hyde Park located in the east cost of the United States. He grew up in a traditional American upper class family. The Roosevelt family had always been related with politics; in fact another President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s family. While he was a child he used to travel to Europe, there he learnt French and Germany. He was a very good student and he got graduated in law for Harvard University. He got married in 1905 with Eleanor Roosevelt, just a year before he got graduated, and they got six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Eliot, Franklin Delano Junior and John.

In 1908 he began working with Ledyard and Milburn, a prestigious Wall Street company, where he exercised mainly corporate law. His political career started in 1910 when he was elected as a member of New York senate for the Democratic Party. From 1910 to 1933 he advanced in the politics world, during this period he was Assistant secretary of the navy and the 44^th governor of the state of New York. The 4^th of March of 1933 he was elected the President of the United States for the first time. During his presidency he introduced the “New Deal”, which turned USA in a Welfare State, the first one in the history, and helped the United States to overcome the crisis. He also worked closely to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the URSS leader Joseph Stalin, in order to fight against the fascism in the Second World War.  He had been re-elected four times, and he governed for twelve years until he died the 12 of April of 1945.

He died because of the polio, an illness which he contracted while he was on vacation in 1921. Although he couldn’t walk, hi fight over his illness and succeed in politics, being one of the most important persons in the last century. In my opinion Franklin Roosevelt was an excellent person, who should be remembered for many facts, but mainly for his fight against polio and because he was the person who introduced the New Deal, which was a relief for the unemployed and poor people and the recovery of the economy. In conclusion, Franklin Roosevelt is one of my role models.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis was the son of a dentist, Dr. Miles Dewey Davis and a music teacher, Cleota Mae Davis. He became interested in music during his childhood and at the age of twelve he started to get trumpet lessons. Still in school, he began to get jobs playing in local bars and when he was 17, he joined a regional band from San Louis.

His first musical success came in 1944 when, after graduating, he played with Billy Eckstine’s band, which was making a tour in his city.
During the summer of 1948, Davis formed a group of nine musicians and achieved a contract with Capitol Records. Then, the group entered in a study to record the first of three sessions.
In the early fifties Davis's musical career was affected by his addiction to heroin, but in January 1951 he began new series of recordings for the Prestige label, which became his most relevant work for many years.

The lack of new ideas, his drug addiction and a serious accident, moved Miles from the music for a long period. However, he returned to the music scene in the early 80s with recordings in which he got carried away by new trends.

JAMES DEAN

James Dean was born February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton and Mildred Dean. His father, a dental technician, moved the family to Los Angeles when Jimmy was five. He returned to the Midwest after his mother passed away and was raised by his aunt and uncle on their Indiana farm.

After graduating from high school, he returned to California where he attended Santa Monica Junior College and UCLA. James Dean began acting with James Whitmore's acting workshop, appeared in occasional television commercials, and played several roles in films and on stage. 

In the winter of 1951, he took Whitmore's advice and moved to New York to pursue a serious acting career. He appeared in seven television shows, in addition to earning his living as a busboy in the theater district, before he won a small part in a Broadway play entitled See the Jaguar.

James Dean had one of the most spectacularly brief careers of any screen star. In just more than a year, and in only three films, Dean became a widely admired screen personality, a personification of the restless American youth of the mid-50's, and an embodiment of the title of one of his film "Rebel Without A Cause." En route to compete in a race in Salinas, James Dean was killed in a highway accident on September 30, 1955. James Dean was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his performances in "East of Eden" and "Giant." Although he only made three films, they were made in just over one year's time. Joe Hyams, in the James Dean biography "Little Boy Lost," sums up his career.

John Lennon.

John Lennon was born in 9th of October of 1940. His father was a poor sailor who left him with his mother at the age of 5. Julia, his mother, left John in charge of his sister. She visited him quite often but when John was 17, Julia died in a car accident when she crashed with a policeman who was under the alcohol influence. By that time, John started performing with his first band, “The Quarrymen”. Also, during that time he met Paul McCartney and George with whom he decided to start “The Beatles”

A part from his musical career, Lennon also worked as an activist, drawer, actor and writer. He first married Cynthia Powell and had his first son, Julian Lennon. After that, he found his true love with a famous Japanese artist, Yoko Ono, with her, he had his second son, Sean Lennon. With them, he shared his last days until the day of his death. It happened in New York in 1960 when a fan with mental problems killed him.

STEPHEN HAWKING

Stephen Hawking, who is one of the most important physics in the world, was born in London in 1942.  Few years later, Hawking’s parents decided to move to Oxford for avoid the air attack of the Second World War when it started.

When he had eight, they move to St Albans. Stephen went to the university collage on Oxford. It was then when he was diagnosed the Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He would like to study mathematics, but in her collage, we couldn’t curse it and for this reason he decided to study physics. After three years he received the qualification with honors in science.

Afterwards, he went to the Cambridge University for the cosmology investigation. After he obtained the doctorate, he began to investigate and few months later, he became a teacher at the Gonville and Caius Collage. Then, he quitted the collage of cosmology in 1973, and he  entered  the Department of mathematics and theoretical physics, where he is still working.

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is a famous writter who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 4th, 1965. His father was an Afghan diplomat who worked at the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother, a high school teacher taught Farsi and History in a large Kabul school. The family  sought political asylum in the United States due to the terrible conditions in Afghanistan after the invasion of the Soviet army in 1980. Khaled graduated with Bachelors in Biology and he attended the University of California-San Diego’s School of Medicine where he completed his M.D. in 1993.

In March 2001, while practicing medicine, Hosseini began writing his first novel, The Kite Runner. Published by Riverhead Books in 2003, that debut went on to become an international bestseller and beloved classic, spending more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In May 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Together, the two books have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. The Kite Runner was adapted into a graphic novel of the same name in 2011. Hosseini’s much-awaited third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, has been published on May 21, 2013.

Hosseini’s devotion to his homeland extends beyond his writings. His activism for a better Afghanistan is proof of his love for the country. Since 2006, Hosseini has served as a goodwill ambassador to the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR. In addition, he created The Khaled Hosseini Foundation which provides humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.

I have chosen this writter because I have read all his books and they all are amazing, but specially The Kite Runner which is my favorite book, I must say that it made me cry. It was one of the very few books that actually kept me gripped until the end. It opened up my eyes to the harsh realities of what life can be in Afghanistan. I believe this book is a must-sead, regardless of age, gender, or nationality. It delivers a univeral message that would move even the coldest heart. It is also a perfect example of father-son relationships and friendships.

Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Edison was born on February the 11^th of 1847 in Ohio, Milan. His father had just stablished there because he had to escape from Canada due to a rebellion between English people and Canadians. Edison was the smallest of the four brothers. 

Suddenly, as a consequence of the crisis, the family moved to a better place in order to find an employment: Port Huron, in Michigan. At the age of seven, Thomas assisted for the first time at school, but actually misbehaved and didn’t pay enough attention. Three month later, he left school and he was thought by his mother, Nancy Elliot, who was an old teacher. The woman put such an interest on his son that he got more and more interested and curious about learning. Furthermore, he was developing a huge virtue.

At the age of 10, Edison placed his first lab on the basement of his house. As he was very imaginative and enterprising, he decided to sell newspapers on the train. With the money he earned, he bought scientific books and magazines. One of his most valuable books was Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity, whose reading influenced him a lot.

From that moment, at the age of 21 he became a self-employed inventor. Although he was talented, he had no money, and he spent most of his youngness working city by city in different telegraph companies. One day a friend offered him a place to live in the storehouse his company, because he was slightly poor. Once there, a necessary machine broke and no one was able to repair it, so in a few seconds, the company had his machine repaired by Edison.

Thanks of that, a well-known telegraph company bet for him and requested him the invention of a printer. It was his first popular invent. He was paid with 40 000 $ and he invest the money in settle down. He got married and had a child in 1871.

Sooner, he thought of the construction of an investigation center full of books, studios and labs. He had many collaborators and eventually, invented the phonograph.

In that period, he married again and became a social man. He turned his lab in a thec-centre called “The Edison lab”, with 5000 employees.

His last gadget was the kinetograph, also related with electricity, and was used for watching films individually. Although he was the inventor, the big success was sooner for the Lumière Brother, who invented the cinematograph.

Edison invented till the end of his life, at the age of 84 years old.

(It is a bit long because it will be my oral presentation) 
It is a wonderful piece of writing, my dear.

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming, who had been famous for his discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin, was born on August 6th, 1881 in the Scottish city of Lochfield, near Darvel. He studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington because his elder brother suggested him to study it.

So, after being working at St Mary’s Hospital of London until the World War I, where he worked in the microbiology and the vaccines and showed interest about new treatments about it, he was a doctor during the war and he stayed impressed about the huge number of soldiers who died because of infections. At that point, he started to investigate about the bacteria and ten years later of the finish of the war, Fleming discovered accidentally the Penicillin.

Fleming reported his discovery of penicillin in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929. Unfortunately, until the World War II, the Penicillin hadn’t caught the recognition and the importance that it really had. What is more, Fleming could improve the antibiotic with the help of two chemicals, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey. His discovery of penicillin had changed the world of modern medicine by introducing the age of useful antibiotics; penicillin has saved, and is still saving, millions of people around the world. 

THOMAS EDISON

Thomas Edison was born in the state of Ohio U.S. in 1847. Early in his life, he moved with his family to Michigan. When he was 13, he became deaf and because of this he started to read about physics, chemistry, electricity... In 1862, he saves the son of a telegrapher which teaches him about the Morse code. Learning about the telegraph was the beginning of his career as an inventor and businessman.

Later, in 1869 he moved to New York and he rented a room in the Wall Street. One day he helped an engineer to repair a machine and he became the engineer helper. Afterwards, he creates the «Edison Universal Stock Printer». Society that sells some time later for 40.000$, and with this big amount of money he creates his industrial empire “Menlo Park” in which worked 60 Scientifics and they developed to 400 patents. The most famous inventions he developed with his company are: the phonograph in 1877 which recorded and re-played the 2 last minutes of use. In 1879 he developed the electric bulb with a strand of bamboo inside. But later in 1881 he patented with Joseph V. Nicols the bulb with a strand o carbon inside. In 1882 he founded the first power producer. Finally, he developed the first alkaline battery.

Maybe Edison didn’t invent all the things he patented, but it’s clear that his intelligence of science and business were the key to discover all this incredible things. He finally died in 1931 in Nova Jersey with 1093 patents. I think that he is an example to follow and do the same as him: Help to the development of our society.


Thomas Alva Edison: “I will give electricity so cheap that only the rich will be able to afford the luxury of using candles.”

Who is this Drake?

In comparison to other rappers, this one seems not to be so popular. Nevertheless, he has been my favorite singer for years. Aubrey Drake Graham is the world's only black Jewish Canadian actor and rap singer. He was born on October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Canada. His father is an African-American Catholic who was a drummer for the legendary rock star Jerry Lee Lewis, and his mother is a white Canadian Jew.


By the age of 5 his parents were divorced and he was raised by his mother. Despite his Jewish education, he felt isolated in the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute because nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish. However, being different from everyone else just made him stronger. In 2001, while starring a role in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation he began attempting his transition into the world of music. He released his first mixtape, Room for Improvement and by 2006 it achieved big sales around 6,000 copies. Most of his lyricism is in regard to his riches, fame and past relationships. After touring and recording with the rap star Lil Wayne in 2008, Drake released his third mixtape, So Far Gone, in February 2009. It featured a single called "Best I Ever Had", which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

Nowadays Drake continues his career as a rapper and by the moment, he is on an Europe tour. Unfortunately he is not coming to Spain so I will not have the opportunity to go to a concert. For me, he is not only a singer but also an inspirational icon. I know it may sound fanatic but his dramatic and nostalgic music is also tender and warm and sometimes it motivates me to go on and try to enjoy more my everyday.

Steve Jobs.

Steve Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He was famous for being one of the most successful entrepreneur and an influent businessman in the technology field. He was also the cofounder of Apple and the executive president of this enterprise. Furthermore, he was the maximal individual actionist of the Walt Disney Company.

In 1976, he founded Apple with his partner Steve Wozniak when they created together the primitive Apple I computer in the garage of his house. Later, he created the Apple II and after this he became a really influent person.  Then, he started creating new devices with Apple and he also worked with Disney and Pixar.

Finally, he died in October 5^th of 2011 due to medical problems that started in 2004, his fortune had a value of 8,300 million dollars and he was the top 110 of the biggest fortunes in the world said the Forbes magazine.