FAMOUS PERSON BIOGRAPHY
- Select a famous person that is very successful in an occupation or career you are also interested in or strive for (possible examples are provided and do some research on this person.
- Answer the questions based on your research in a separate Word document titled ‘Famous Person Biography’.
- Post the answers here in the comment section.
Successful Famous People:
Jane Goodall
Leonard Cohen
Margaret Atwood
Glen Gould
Wayne Gretzky
Lester Pearson
Pierre Trudeau
Norman Bethune
Helen Keller
Bill Gates
Louis Pasteur
Henry Ford
Amelia Earhart
Teddy Roosevelt
Ella Fitzgerald
Walt Disney
Nikola Tesla
Neil Armstrong
Abigail Adams
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Jules Verne
Wright Brothers
Katherine Dunham
Louisa May Alcott
Dr. Seuss
Thomas Alva Edison
Susan B. Anthony
Eleanor Roosevelt
Martha Graham
Marie Curie
Rosa Parks
Research Questions:
- What was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she grow up? Stories about his/her family?
- Were there any events in his/her childhood that they needed to overcome? What did he/she learn about themselves through this event?
- What education did he/she have?
- What steps did he/she take towards his/her occupation?
- Why is he/she so successful in this occupation?
- What personal characteristics/traits does he/she have that connect to this occupation?
- What part of his/her process was luck and what part was earned?
- What is his/her life philosophy based on the life choices he/she has made?
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1.What was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she grow up? Stories about his/her family?
Xiaoping, the father of Bruce Lee, is one of the four famous uglLi ies of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong. His mother, He Aiyu, is the daughter of He Gang, the brother of Hong Kong’s wealthy businessman. Li Xiaolong has two Li Yuyuan, Li Qiufeng, brother Li Zhongyu (Lin Yanni, Zhang Mali’s former husband) and brother Li Zhenhui. His wife, Linda Emily, gave birth to his son Li Guohao and his daughter Li Xiangning.
2.Were there any events in his/her childhood that they needed to overcome? What did he/she learn about themselves through this event?
When he was 16 years old in 1955, Bruce Lee returned to the school. He was frustrated in a gang clash.
However, Bruce Lee once gave up because of the monotony of Hunchun. After the fight with the street hooligans, he made a trick to smash the boxing of the Japanese characters and return to the Hunchun Gate. During the study of Wu Wen under the Ye Wenmen, Bruce Lee had encountered numerous obstacles, but Bruce Lee continued to learn.
3.What education did he/she have?
He studied in Casanova St. Mary’s Col leg indexation School and St. Francis College.
4.What steps did he/she take towards his/her occupation?
1.In 1941, Bruce Lee appeared in the Cantonese film “Golden Gate Girl” only 3 months old.
2.During the period from 1953 to 1955, Bruce Lee participated in seven films of Mongolian Film Co., Ltd.
3.The “People in the Sea” released in 1960 is the last Cantonese film before Bruce Lee went to the United States to study.
5.Why is he/she so successful in this occupation?
All of Bruce lee’s achievements in life were earned through hard work.
Because he is very good at kung fu. He himself was a master of martial arts and created jeet kune do.
6.What personal characteristics/traits does he/she have that connect to this occupation?
he is very good at kung fu. He himself was a master of martial arts and created jeet kune do.
7.What part of his/her process was luck and what part was earned?
Because he is very good at kung fu. He himself was a master of martial arts and created jeet kune do.
8.What is his/her life philosophy based on the life choices he/she has made?
His life philosophy is:Knowing is not enough: it must be used. Hope is not enough: it must be done.
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1.What was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she grow up? Stories about his/her family?
Amauchi was born in Kyoto and his grandfather always helped him to made decisions so that he didn’t has chance to did something that he wanted to do.
2.Were there any events in his/her childhood that they needed to overcome? What did he/she learn about themselves through this event?
His father abandoned him when he was five years old,so he learn how to be individual. He needed to lived without father.
3.What education did he/she have?
He went to Waseda University to study law.
4.What steps did he/she take towards his/her occupation?
He inherited his grandpa’s company.Although there were lots of people wanted to against him, he still worked very well and then he bought out all the people who against him.
5.Why is he/she so successful in this occupation?
He is sharp and know what the society need and decide very quickly without did things irresolute.
6.What personal characteristics/traits does he/she have that connect to this occupation?
He knew that the poker was not the only way that Nintendo could do when he went to the America and visited the biggest poker company in the world. He needed to be the blazers.
7.What part of his/her process was luck and what part was earned?
he found two young people called Yokoi Gunpei and Miyamoto Shigeru. They are very smart and have different ideas with other people. They made Nintendo became the giant of video games.
8.What is his/her life philosophy based on the life choices he/she has made?
Hiroshi knew what Nintendo need and decide very quickly without did things irresolute. That is why he can be successful.
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1.What was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she grow up? Stories about his/her family?
The wright brothers were two of seven brothers, they were born in Germany.
Their father was a united Christian.
Since childhood, they like to make things by themselves, but they were expelled from school for naughty several times.
2.What education did he/she have?
They all received a good education, but Orville dropped out in his third year.
3.What steps did he/she take towards his/her occupation?
At first, they saw a birds in the sky, and they thought why do birds hover in the sky.
And then, they began to study airplane wings with the theme of birds.
4.Were there any events in his/her childhood that they needed to overcome? What did he/she learn about themselves through this event?
They were naughty when they were young, they will make some toy by themselves.
5.Why is he/she so successful in this occupation?
Because they not work hard to learn from their predecessors, they are also learn about birds.
And then they watched eagles fly to study the mechanics of their take-off, landing and hovering.
6.What personal characteristics/traits does he/she have that connect to this occupation?
They are hard, careful, and real.
7.What part of his/her process was luck and what part was earned?
They discovered by accident that the wings of a bird were similar to those of an airplane. but they made a lot of money by working on it.
8.What is his/her life philosophy based on the life choices he/she has made?
To realize your dream, you need to keep practicing.
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1.What was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she grow up? Stories about his/her family?Were there any events in his/her childhood that they needed to overcome? What did he/she learn about themselves through this event?
Walt Disney had a difficult childhood, with his father elias often asking him to work with his older brothers. 1918 the United States entered world war I. The 25-year-old was immediately drafted into the army and sent overseas to fight. In July of that year, after graduating from high school, walter went to visit Roy, who was training at the large naval base just outside Chicago. That day he decided to enlist. Because recruiters questioned walter’s age, he was asked to produce a birth certificate. Unable to find accurate proof, Walt Disney became a volunteer for the international committee of the Red Cross, mimicking his parents’ signatures.
2.What education did he/she have?
Walt Disney turned out to be just a newspaper salesman whose greatest wish was to become a famous artist.
When world war I broke out, walter, 17, interrupted his high school education to join the army and become a field ambulance driver.
3.What steps did he/she take towards his/her occupation?
In July 1923, Walt Disney moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career in Hollywood. Although he had no money at that time.
4.Why is he/she so successful in this occupation?
Disney’s life is full of achievements and honors, but his success is no accident. From an early age, walter conceived the idea that old people could relive the good old days, young people could look to the future and young people could have a wonderful childhood. His success also lies in the fact that he has a unique business philosophy – management lost childlike innocence.
Rich media knowledge — discover the childlike innocence of the public
Advanced business acumen – targeted the children’s market with unlimited potential
Excellent decision-making ability — let people find their lost childlike innocence
5.What personal characteristics/traits does he/she have that connect to this occupation?
Walt Disney is a born leader, with extra-ordinary drive and determination. Insisting on his right to make up his own mind, he demands freedom of thought and action, and does not let anything or anyone stand in his way once he is committed to his goal. This is also the reason why he can over come his life difficults, when his company nearly bankrupt.
6.What part of his/her process was luck and what part was earned?What is his/her life philosophy based on the life choices he/she has made?
In July 1923, Walt Disney moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career in Hollywood. Although he had no money at that time.This made him catch a big opportunity for his career life.
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