Walt Disney Bio

Walter Elias Disney

 

 

 He was born on December 5^th, 1902 on Chicago, Illinois.

He died on December 15^th, 1966 from lung cancer on Burbank, California.

He has been one of the most recognized and successful artists of all times.

When he was a child, his family moved to Missouri. At those days, he began to love nature and wildlife. He had early interest in arts. For that time he used to draw a lot, and he sold often drawings to neighbors to make some extra money.

When he was 16 he was rejected from army, for that reason he joined de Red cross and he was sent to France where he was driving an ambulance while he continued his drawing labor. When he came back, he pursues a career in commercial art. He started a small company, but he felt in bankrupt.

After that, he moved to Hollywood and started to work. In 1932 he won his first studio´s Academy award with the production “Flowers and Trees”. The first mouse he created wasn´t Mickey Mouse: It was Mortimer, and he did it with a co-worker, but this character wasn´t good enough. “Snow white and the seven dwarfs “was the first full animated musical in history, and it´s still considerate one of the great feats of motion picture industry.

 

Disney has a record: he is the person who has won more prizes in arts till now, about 22 Academy awards and 7 Emmy awards among others. He was not only cartoonist, but also, director, animator, screenwriter, and of course entrepreneur. He didn´t think only about motion pictures, also about attraction parks for the American family. He also was a philanthropist and a wild life defender.

In 1955 his dream of a organized and unique thematic park: the first Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Since that time it is open and it have been visited for more than 200 million people, including presidents and kings from all over the world. Walter with his brother Roy co-founded Walt Disney productions, which became later one of the best-known production companies in the globe.

The industry of Walt Disney it´s still growing and has annual revenues of

more than USD$45 billion in the year. And like he said, it is:

“the happiest place on earth... the place where dreams come true"

 

 

 

Posted By Harold Sánchez Castaño, 14th course student.

 

Images and information taken from Internet

 

George R.R. Martin

Name: Jorge Iván Ortiz Tangarife

BIOGRAPHY

GEORGE R.R MARTIN

George Raymond Richard Martin best known as George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, as well as a screenwriter and television producer.

Martin was born on September 20, 1948, in New Jersey. He is son of Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. The young Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children. In 1970 he earned a degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.

Martin began selling science fiction short stories professionally in 1970, at age 21. His first sale was "The Hero". After that, he won several Hugo and Nebula awards. These awards granted by the American Association of Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In 1977, Martin published “Dying of the Light”. This novel had a big success and Martin could devote himself exclusively to literature.

He married with Gale Burnick in 1975 but this marriage just lasted for four years. By the time he was forty he had begun to work as screenwriter for several television series but he did it just for a few years.

In 1996, Martin published “A Game of Thrones”, the first book of his best seller “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Nowadays Martin has written five of the seven parts of the saga and he has sold more than 24 million copies worldwide. His best seller has been translated into more than 20 languages. The fourth and fifth volumes reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller lists upon their releases. Martin’s fans hope that he will have finished the sixth book before 2015.

With the popularity of the series growing, HBO optioned “A Song of Ice and Fire” for a television adaptation in 2007. The series, titled “Game of Thrones”, premiered in April 2011 to great acclaim and ratings. Shortly after the conclusion of the first season, the show received 13 Emmy Award nominations.

In 2011 Martin married with his former mistress Parris McBride. Today Martin is 65 years old and he wants to write more and more books.

Madonna - Jairo Tabares Velez

MADONNA

Her full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. She was born on August 16 in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. She was the third child of six in a Catholic family. His father, Silvio Anthony Ciccone was a design engineer for Chrysler/General Dynamics and He was first-generation Italian American while her mother, Madonna Louise was of French Canadian descent, and She died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old.

Professionally Madonna is an actress, pop singer and song writer. She is considered by many, the queen of popular music. She began studying dance at 14, and after graduating from high school in 1976. She continued her dance studies at the University of Michigan and after that she moved to New York City to make her career. 

Her debut album was released in 1983 with the name Madonna, and although it sold 3 million copies on her first debut; she got more popularity from her next album, Like a Virgin. Her music continued to be a critical and commercial success in the past 20 years. Some people argue that Madonna was not active in the early part of the 2000s but there was no disputing that 2005 was the resurgence of Madonna how to singer.

Madonna has been a hugely successful singer, but she is a woman of many talents. Her photo-book, Sex was a great commercial success although panned by many critics. Madonna has also appeared in a variety of films including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), In Bed with Madonna (1991) and Evita (1996).

Up until recently, Madonna ran the record company Maverick, which after a dispute, she sold to Warner Music. 

Madonna is a mother of two beautiful kids, Lourdes, whose biological father is Carlos Leon, and Rocco, whose biological father is Guy Ritche. 

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Madonna is the most successful female recording artist of all times and She has sold over 250 million records (75 million singles and 175 million albums), more than any other female recording artist.

Madonna has 12 # 1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart. She has 6 # 2 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart.

Every album that Madonna has released has gone Top 10 in the UK and her self-titled debut is the only one to miss the Top 5.

In the UK, Madonna's The Immaculate Collection is the highest selling album ever by a female artist at 12x Platinum for shipments of over 3.6 million copies. Overall it is the 7th highest selling album ever in the UK.

Madonna is the richest female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of over $600million.

 

An angel of God on Earth – Fredy Vargas

The person that I admire is a nun. Her name is Sandra. She is the director of a retirement house where twenty elderly women live. Around 10 women don’t have a family and the other 10 had been forgotten. They don’t have support from the government or their families.

This institution is a charity eldership. Sister Sandra has knocked on a lot of doors: companies, churches, and people with a good heart. She has been supporting the eldership by 5 years.

I admire her because she is the nicest person that I know. She has done for those women lots of things that their real families haven´t done. Even their families never visit them.

Sister Sandra lives with them 24 hours a day. She lives to take care of them. Her usual activities are batting, cooking, cleaning, feeding, dressing, spoiling and 1,000 more things.

She takes care of 20 women their range from 60 to 90 it isn´t on easy work! The majority of women have serious illnesses that require a lot of care. The most incredible thing is that Sandra earns a little money. She doesn’t make this for money. She makes it for the love of god and other people.

She is the noblest person that I have known. She is happy whit the happiness of others. She is a happy when she helps and I really think that Sandra is an Angel on earth. An angel who wants to teach us the power of service and the power of charity. I think that if the people were like Sister Sandra, this world would be a paradise.

NELSON MANDELA -Ana María Restrepo V

NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA

Born: 07/18/1918

Died: 12/05/2013

Birthplace: Transkei, South Africa

He was the son of one of South Africa's leading dignitaries, Chief Henry Mandela, and He was as a young law student that he became involved in political opposition to the white minority regime. Joining the African National Congress (ANC) in 1942, he co-founded his more dynamic Youth League two years later.

He had been committed to non-violent mass struggle. In 1961 he became the commander of the ANC's armed wing. In August of the following year, he was arrested and jailed for five years. In June 1964, he was sentenced again, this time to life imprisonment, for his involvement in planning armed action.

He started his prison years in the Robben Island Prison.  In April 1984, he was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison and in December 1988 he was moved to the Victor Verster Prison from where he was eventually released.

Mandela remained in prison until February 1990, when he sustained ANC campaigning and international pressure led to his release. Few years later He won Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

After his release, Mandela returned to the leadership of the ANC and, between 1990 and 1994. As the first black president of South Africa (1994 - 1999) he presided over the transition from minority rule and apartheid.

Following his retirement as president in 1999, Mandela went on to become an advocate for a variety of social and human-rights organizations.

Because his health was declining, Mandela chose to retire from public life in 2004. Although in November 2009, Mandela's contributions to world freedom were rewarded with a unique gesture by the United Nations General Assembly. 18 July, would be known as Mandela Day.

His last public outing was during the closing ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg.

Mandela was married three times, his first daughter Zenani was born in 1958. The second daughter Zindzi was born in 1960. His youngest daughter was just 18 months old when he was sent to prison.

He passed away on 5 December 2013 of a lung infection at his home in Johannesburg. He was 95 years old.

Andrea Biography

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 at Brookline (Massachusetts). Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald were his parents. John F. was their second son. During World War II, their oldest son lost his life, when an airplane exploded above the Canal.

Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he also had to serve in the war, but he survived and because of his heroism he saved the lives of his crew.

He was elected as a president in November 1960, after a less than easy election contest. He defeated Richard Nixon and became the youngest (43) to be elected to the White House in American history 'till then. In contrast to Al Smith in 1928 (first Catholic presidential candidate) Kennedy was elected despite of being Catholic.

The 35th, first Catholic, president ended his inaugural address on January 20th in 1961 with the following words: "My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man". During his presidency he passed two crises which had to do with Cuba caused by placing of intermediate range missiles in Cuba by the Russians. Other one was in 1961 about the Berlin Crisis, the problem of West and East Berlin was not solved and it became even worse in August 1961 because of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

On November 22^nd 1963 Kennedy visited Dallas with his wife Jackie. He was shot during a riding tour in an open limousine and died after about half an hour. According to the official Warren-report, Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president, but there is serious doubt about this because of many strange things. For example the dying of many witnesses, the killing of Oswald and the problem of how one bullet could have killed the president and also hit the Governor of Texas: the problem of the miracle bullet.

The sad fact is that John F. Kennedy was just forty six years old and left a wife and two children. Camelot had fallen again.

John Davinson Rockefeller by David Villegas Castaño

BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERTO GOMEZ BOLAÑOS by Gabriel Jaime Franco Saldarriaga

BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERTO GOMEZ BOLAÑOS

by

Gabriel Jaime Franco Saldarriaga

  

Roberto Gómez Bolaños is a Mexican writer and actor, known around the world as Chavo del 8 and Chespirito, among others.

He was born in 1929 into a middle-class family in Mexico City.  Son of bilingual secretary Elsa Bolaños Cacho and painter, cartoonist and illustrator Francisco Gómez Linares.  He studied engineering at the National Autonoma University of Mexico, but he has never graduated.

He has been married for almost twenty years with Florinda Mesa who worked with him at the program called Chespirito as Doña Florinda.

He started his career as an advertising creative and a few days later started on radio and television as a writer.  He has been involved in Mexican television for over forty years, and generations of children all over the Spanish-speaking world have grown up watching his programs.

His professional name Chespirito was inspired by William Shakespeare because his stories had something of similar to Shakespeare´s stories. He could write very easy and he had a very fast thinking to write his imaginations.

At the final of the sixties, Chespirito signed a contract with Mexican television.  Among the terms of his contract was a half hour slot on Saturday afternoons where he had completely autonomy of this time.  The first characters in the program were “El Chavo del 8” and “El Chapulin Colorado” and were so successful that the program was extended for an hour with a separating of the characters in half-hour each. These two shows were immensely popular, and during the 1970´s were being transmitted to all of Latin America.

Chespirto had kept the Monday night time slot, and for twenty five years, every Monday night most of Mexico had watched his show.  Although the show ended in the 1990s, it is still shown in all Latin America.

Chespirito has received several awards.  In 2003 he was awarded the keys to the city of Cicero, Illinois.  Mexico has also released a series of postage stamps in his honor and there are many awards in these years of life.

Chespirito will always known as a pioneer of Latin American television and one of the most creative writers at the field.  His legacy continues today.  His movies, plays and books have greatly succeeded, but it is for his work in television Chespirito will be remembered.

The shows continue being aired around the world, with a new generation of young Latin Americans.

RODRIGUEZ BIOGRAPHY

By: Diana Betancur

Sixto Rodriguez is an american songwriter who has been recently recognized by the documentary film “Searching for Sugar Man”; a film that puts on the screen his life and the singular way in that his career has developed. Rodríguez was born in 1942, in Detroit, Michigan; his parents were Mexican immigrants who worked in the american industries that, by the first half of the 20th century, were starting to employ an increased mexican workforce. During his childhood and adolescence, he faced hard periods of discrimination that happened against mexican people in that region of the United States. This marginalization would be reflected later in his songs.

In 1967, was released his first single “I’ll slip away”; a beautiful and melodious song that went unnoticed that time. In 1970, was released his first album “Cold Fact” on the label Sussex. As his first single, Cold Fact was unsuccessful; it couldn’t obtain the sales that the label and the artist expected in the United States. However, in other countries like Australia and South Africa the album would become very popular later. In 1971, his second album “Coming from reality” was released, but it neither achieved commercial success. Because of these failures, the label decided not to continue working with him.

Rodríguez wasn’t signed to another record label and, as a result, he disappeared from the musical scene. He stayed in Detroit, working in construction industries and earning a low income. By that time, he got married and had three daughters. In 1979 and 1981, he was invited to Australia to offer two concert tours; but, when the tours were finished, he returned to his country and kept his modest life. He always proved a special interest for the politics; he wanted to help his people and, in an attempt to do it, in 1989 he registered for the council in his city; however, he wasn’t successful and didn’t help him the fact that his name was misspelled in the ballot.

While he lived anonymously in The United States, in South Africa, millions of people listened to his albums, and his songs became generational anthems in the hard times of Apartheid. South African people, considered Rodríguez an exceptional artist and they compared him with others remarkable artists like Bob Dylan or John Lennon. His fame was even higher, because it was rumored that he had committed suicide during a concert in the 1970s. The Rodriguez’s life was completely unknown in that country so, people didn’t have any hope to see him playing in a concert.

In 1998, one of his daughters discovered on the internet, a website dedicated to her father. He realized that some people in South Africa was looking for his father, who had become a hero in that country. Soon, Rodríguez was approached for the creators of the website and he traveled to Africa with his daughters. He was received there, like a hero, like the legend that a complete generation had been waiting for many years. He played six concerts that marked a successful return to the musical scene. Since then, Sixto Rodríguez began to get all the recognition that hadn’t had in the beginnings of his career as a musician. He returned to Australia and started a new tour of concerts.

In 2012, was released “Searching for Sugar Man”, an awarded documentary film that tells the story of the Rodríguez’s success in South Africa, the anonymous life that he lived in The United States, the legend that he represents for South African people, and the particular way in that his fans found him after years to think that he was dead. The film showed the world “the greatest 1970's music icon that never was" how has been usually called Sixto Rodríguez, he got the attention of The United States, Europe and many countries around the world that today know his work.

One of the most interest features that attract the attention of the audiences, is the modest way in that he still live. He hasn’t left his modest house, he doesn’t have a car or a cellphone, and the money that he has made with the concert tours, he has gifted to his family and friends. He doesn’t regret not having had success in The United States in the early years of his career; when he is asked about that, he answers with his warm and calm voice "I felt I was ready for the world, but the world wasn't ready for me".

Kurk Cobain By Jose Alejandro Hincapie

Kurt Cobain ( February 20-1967 Abril 5,94)

 During the 1990 in USA was formed a new rock band called Nirvana. At that time, the former and vocalist (Kurt Cobain ) created a new kind of music called grunge.

The most popular thing about Nirvana was the lyric and the introspective thematic of the music; Nirvana its considered the flagship band of generation X,this band is an icon of grounge culture.

When Nirvana reachest the peack of its popularity Kurt Cobain had to struggle with heroin adiction, illnes and depression, and decided to kill himself and he left a note that has been known by everyone on internet publication or magazines.

Nowadays Nirvana continues been a phenomenon into a rock culture becouse its music and life style were eccentric, since its debut, the band has sold over 25 millon albuns in the US, and over 75 million worldwide, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important rock bands of the modern era.

Currently its music inspires young people to listen rock music and create their own songs

Hollman Felipe Morris by Catalina Jaramillo Villada

Hollman Felipe Morris, He was born on 17th august, 1969 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is known for his long career as a journalist and communicator, he also is producer and television director. He is known to treat the armed conflict, defend human rights, peace agreements and press freedom. He has been nominated and won several awards for his journalism. Among the most important recognitions, it stands out with Human Rights Annual Defender of Human Rights Watch in New York in 2007.

He was born in Bogotá. He lived with his parents, siblings, aunts and uncles. He wasn’t the best student however he was recognized for his communication skill. He also lived at San Andres Island, there, he made ninth grade, that year he had an accident. Since then, he recognized his family like the most important in his life. He finished his college in Barranquilla.

His taste for journalism woke up when he saw the work of journalist Germán Castro Caicedo, the story lost in the Amazon. He studied at Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and he worked as a waiter in a bar called 'Siecha'. He also washed dishes in the “Cuchara de Palo” restaurant, and he taught radio to pay for his studies. In 2000 he graduated as a social communicator.

His first work was in radio at age 23, beginning in the news thanks to the award Krypton Radio Santa Fe which won in third semester of his career. After that, he worked at the radio in a program called “Contacto”. He also worked by Javerian stereo, Radio santa fe, and Todelar. Since young he has shown his interest for the social journalism.

In his role as producer and director of television, he has made programs as “Bitácora” and Contravía”. He is director and founder of Morris Productions, a production company that  he has with his younger brother Juan Pablo Morris.

 

Currently, He is director of Channel Capital. The slogan for the channel is more humane TV.

Since beginning his career, he has always been concerned about human rights, to have a view of all the views of the Colombian conflict in the country, to be where other journalists haven’t had the opportunity to be for fear. He defends freedom press, so his articles and reports have been great emphasis to rescue the human rights.

He has always sought the truth and therefore he has received threats against his life and family, for that reason he left the country for a time with his family, he lived in Spain and there along with his wife had to Daniela her first child.