Your biographies

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The Lion of the desert - Aissa and Khaled

He is among the most popular personality who has impressed the Libyan history against Italian colonization. Omar Al Mokhtar was born in a small village in BARGA city in 1862. He was holy Quran teacher also he led the native resistance against the occupation.

In his fight, the “lion of the desert” follow a wonderful strategy adapted to the desert environment which surprise the enemy and confuse his reaction. It was based on the cutting of the enemy supplies and communication. After 22 years of struggle and fighting he managed to defeat the occupation of Mussolini army.

After a long fight, he was captured in 11, September 1931. He was hanged five days after that in 16 September 1931 after he had been jugged in Slog court in front of his population. His last words before he was died were “We are Allah’s, properties and to Allah we will return”.

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was born on 29th of Agoust 1958 and he died on 25th of June 2009. He was an American singer, Songwritter, Dancer, Actor, Choreographer and Record producer. He is consider the KING OF THE POP as he is a global figure in popular culture for over 40 years.

He started his career with his brothers and they created a group called "Jackson 5", where he was the vocalist. In 1971 he began his solo career and he produced 10 studio albums. His most famous album is THRILLER (1982), it remains the best-selling album all time. He made duet with Lionel Ritchie, Ray Charles, Tina Turner and Bruce Springsten.

Michael Jackson is also famous for his private life. in 1970s he changed his nose and his skin colour because he had a skim problems, but everyone thinks that he made it because he didn't like his skin colour. In 1993 he was accused of child sexual abuse, but till now this abuse doesn't have proved.

Jackson died on the 25th of June 2009 for a drug overdose while he was prepairing his concert "THIS IS IT". There are some doubts about his death, like it was a homicide but at the moment there aren't any proofs of that. Nowadays, it has been extimated that a billion people have watched his public memorial service on television.

Nathaly A. Gomez
Angela De Carlo

Michael Jackson, the "king of pop", by Valeria and Joanna

The "king of pop" was born in Gary (Indiana) on August 29, 1958. His carreer started when he was a child: his father created a boyband: The Jackson Five. Michael, at that time, started singing whit his brothers and sisters: Tito, Jermaine, Jackie and Marlon. His father forced them to sing and dance.

In 1982, Michael's solo carreer started with his first album "Thriller". With this song, the king of pop won 8 Grammy Awards and Thriller's video, directed by John Landis, is the most elaborate video in the history of music.

Michael Jackon is famous also because he invented a dance move, the "moonwalk". This singer seemed to be affected by a "Peter Pan syndrome", so he created his personal amusement park, "Neverland", with exotic pets and amusement rides; he also opened the runch for children's events.
There were a lot of rumours about Michael Jackson: people said that he was lightening the color of his skin to appear more white and he was accused to molestate children but the police didn't found any evidence in his house and Michael maintained his innocence.

In 1994 he married Lisa Marie Presley, but they divorced after two years: people said that their wedding was a publicity stunt. In 1996 he married Debbie Rowe and he had two children with her. Jackson became the most famous pop singer in the world: his mos famous songs are: Billie Jean, Thriller, Black or White and Heal the world. Succes was very stressful for him because he was a very sensitive man, so he started taking a lot of drugs and maybe that's the raison why he died on June 25, 2009 of cardiac arrest. His death was a real shock for his fans, because he was supposed to play a concert in London in July.

The Lions of the Atlas - Ahmed and Gasem

The Morocco national football team which nicknamed (Lions of the Atlas ) , is the national team and is controled by.

Morocco is a country of north west Africa which is famous in football game, they were the first team to win a group at the world cup , which they did in 1986 , finishing ahead of Portaugal , Poland and England .

They were also the first African team to make it to second round barely losing eventual runner-ups west Germany 1-0 in 1986 .

The lions scored the place number 10 in April 1998 in FIFA ranking and the lowest rank was the place number 67 in November 2009 .

in the world cup they were there 1966,1970,1986,1994,1998 and in African cup also they werethe strong rival and did the best in 1962 ,1972 , 1976 (they wre the champions), 1978 ,1980 (third place), 1986,1988,1992,1998,2000,2002,2004(the second place),2006,2008.

the lions made good results and nice history in the football game in both of the world cup and African cup.

Park ji Sung - Seohee & Abdulrahman

Park ji sung is a Korean football player. He was born on 25th February 1981, Seoul in South Korea but he grew up in Suwon. he was playing football very well when he was primary school student but his body was weaker & weaker so he couldn't train very hard. Just slightly training after his high school he entered Myongji university due to his high school football coach. he begun Korean football player as 19 years old he appeared on 2000 sydney olympics. Also he was Korean national team in 2002 world cup in Korea and Japan. He was hero of quarter final of world cup.

In 2005, he joined Manchester United and became a key member in Alex Ferguson squad and contribute in wining 3 Premier League, 3 Carling Cup, 1 FIFA world cup & 1 FA Cup. He was named as a captian for many matches he played for Man utd. and he is the first asian and Korean player to gain this hounor.

Simone de Beauvoir - Ceren and Christal

Simone de Beauvoir was born in 1908 on Boulavard Raspail. She was a French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, Marxist, Maoist and social theorist. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography in several volumes. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.


When Simone was 21 she lived with her granny and studied philosophy at Sorbonne. She joined a group of students, who, at that time, had a bad reputation. They were Paul Nizan, Andre Hermaid, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre became her best friend and intellectual equal. Their relationship became famous for the two commitments that they made to each other and the public. The first was a promise to remain free to love other people. The second was to preserve their unity by practicing perfect honesty and total openness about everything. Together, they decided that nothing would ever be covert between them. She may have had too high of expectations, but she maintained the courage to break concrete patterns and social taboos. She went to study German philosophy in Berlin. She was dedicated to the feminist movement and spoke out against the way the French institutionalized poor unmarried mothers. She was also a committed atheist who felt strongly that religion supplied a reason to evade truth.

Simone de Beauvoir played an important role in the development of existentialism and feminism in the 20th century. existentialist ethics that were founded upon the Satrean notion of radical human freedom that was on the one hand open to all the possibilities the future held, and on the other hand was committed to taking responsibility for all of one’s chosen actions. For de Beauvoir, part of the problem with this is the fact that human life is characterized by an ambiguity created by the combination of both an inner and an outer life.


At the time of her death she was honoured as a crucial figure in the struggle for women’s rights, and as eminent writer having won the Prix Goncourt, the prestigious French literary award, for her novel The Mandarins.



Bibliography

• She Came to Stay, (1943)
• Pyrrhus et Cinéas, (1944)
• The Blood of Others, (1945)
• Who Shall Die?, (1945)
• All Men are Mortal, (1946)
• The Ethics of Ambiguity, (1947)
• The Second Sex, (1949)
• America Day by Day, (1954)
• The Mandarins, (1954)
• Must We Burn Sade?, (1955)
• The Long March, (1957)
• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, (1958)
• The Prime of Life, (1960)
• Force of Circumstance, (1963)
• A Very Easy Death, (1964)
• Les Belles Images, (1966)
• The Woman Destroyed, (1967)
• The Coming of Age, (1970)
• All Said and Done, (1972)
• When Things of the Spirit Come First, (1979)
• Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, (1981)
• Letters to Sartre, (1990)
• A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren, (1998)

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