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Academic: Three bullet points, turn them into a paragraph starting with a topic sentence and a conclusion. Honors: Four to six sentences as a paragraph. Posts with links and author photos are the first two on this page. Due Friday at 8:50 a.m. Enjoy!
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Mason St.Onge
9/19/2019 02:57:24 pm
I choose Alexandre Dumas because he was a french writer an a lot of his work has translated into many english writing. He is most famous for a lot of writing but he is most famous for 4 writings The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne. He first started by writing in movies and he got very successful from that.
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Jad Mardini
9/19/2019 05:16:55 pm
David Mitchell is a talented British author. He was born in Southport in Lancashire. He went to Hanley Castle High School and then shortly after that, he went to the University of Kent. ‘I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid,’ said Mitchell in an interview. His very first book was called Ghostwritten, a novel with nine different narrators with connecting stories. His next book, Cloud Atlas, was turned into a film in 2012. In addition, Cloud Atlas was also nominated for the Booker Prize. It also won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. While he continued to write books and short stories, Mitchell also wrote operas for the English National Opera. In conclusion, he continues to impress the world with his writing talents.
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Catie Cabral
9/19/2019 05:19:32 pm
This week I chose to write about another story from Great Big Story. I choose the video about Braille Trails. When Evan bernard was 11, he visited a braille trail (a nature trail for the visually impaired) that had been vandalized. He started to fix the trail, and when Evan got older, he built his own Braille trail. There is a website called Nature for All that shows there is currently 200 Braille trails in 35 countries.
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Ebad Uddin
9/19/2019 05:29:46 pm
Milan Kundera was born on April 1 in 1929. Who was a czech writer who went into exile in france 1975, and became a naturalized french citizen in 1981. He sees himself as a french writer and insist his work should be studied a french litturate and classified as such in book stories. Kundera's best-known work isThe unreliable lightness of being. Prior to the Velvet revolution in 1989 the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He lives virtually incognito and rarely speaks to the media. A perpetual contender for the Nobel prize in literature, he is believed to have been nominated on several occasions.
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Roya M. Aboubakr
9/19/2019 07:14:11 pm
Joseph Stalin´s Bunker-42. What and where is it? Bunker-42 was made very discreetly from the civilians and potential spies in Moscow, Russia. Its purpose was to act as a nuclear fallout safe zone. It was built after the Soviet Union took a series of nuclear tests, which concluded that the bunkerś silo must be at least 165 feet underground. Its correct purpose was never used instead it was used as an air strike command base.
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Aakanksha Bhuvanapalli
9/19/2019 07:15:05 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in New York to two parents of Puerto Rican origin. He grew up in Manhattan and saw his first Musical (Les Miserables) at age 7. He loved Hip-hop and Rap music. He was very involved in his High School Drama program. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a few musicals before he wrote the musical which he is arguably most famous for: Hamilton. He was inspired by Hamilton's real life story and how it was similar to rappers' humble beginnings. He won 11 Tony awards from this show, one short of the all time record, and has moved on to star in movies and TV shows other than Hamilton.
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9/19/2019 07:56:22 pm
Weird Al(Yankovic) started professional recording with appearance on the Dr. Demento radio show. At a young age Weird Als parents gave him an accordian to play as an instrument. Meanwhile after getting an accordion Weird Al was skipping second grade, he was super smart for a young kid. Weird al was asked many time to sign to a record label but refused, because he wanted to be unique in his own music career. This is Yankovic, Weird Al, this is his story as a music producer.
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Ella McMann
9/19/2019 08:04:55 pm
I chose read about a two-toned lobster. Lobsters can be many different colors depending on the proteins that bind to astaxanthin. Gynandromorph occurs early in the crustacean’s embryonic development.Itś when the embryo consists of just a few cells, about the time bilateral symmetry is determined, sex chromosomes may not divide properly, leading to an imbalance of chromosomes that leads further cell divisions down divergent paths of sex determination on the two sides of the body.
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Lola O.George
9/20/2019 04:25:39 am
For my research this week, I went to the site Great Big Story, and watched called Remember When: School Lunch April 1996. So basically I was taken into 90's, and it is time for lunch. Bill Clinton is president, Celine Dion's album is still number one and Tremos two is currently in theaters. We begin to look at what went into a lucky 90's kid school lunch. The meal, we talk Bob Drane a lead on the team of Luchables, he explains effort it took to come up with a name Such express, mini meals until they landed on Lucnhables. The drink,90's drinks were all squeezable. we next talk to Ken Wagner the president at Jel Sert, he talks about how there product may have been legendary. The dessert, quick side note Dunkaroos are no longer in stock. This snack dominated the average 90's lunchroom. And that's all I will say about that.
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R.J Palacio wrote the book wonder. Wonder is about a young boy names Auggie who has many disabilities. He has been home schooled all his life and is starting 5th grade in a real school for the first time. He battles bullies and tough times and even the loss of his dog, but auggie remains strong and even makes new friends.
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CHristopher Nigh
9/20/2019 08:51:13 am
Alexandre Dumas is a famous French authors. Almost 200 films have been adapted into movie over the years. He was born July 24 1802 in Dumas Davy and died at 68 years old. He was educated in a military academy. Alexandre Dumas was accomplished and generous.
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9/20/2019 10:43:02 am
Gene Sharp is an incredible author who motivated people to fight back, without violence. His award winning book "From Dictatorship to Democracy" helped inspire millions, including the Siberian Student Movement in 2000. Sharp was smuggled into Burma to assist in an nonviolent resistance against the military regime. He has also traveled to Israel and Palestine to help spread his idea. As a young man he was imprisoned for two years due to civil disobedience during the Korean war. Later in his life he created an organization called "The Albert Einstein Institution to help promote his work, which has now been translated into 27 different languages. Gene Sharp has created a motion that will last forever.
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9/20/2019 12:16:55 pm
This week I decided to research a boss battle from Destiny. I personally have never done this boss battle so I wanted to research this and learn about it.
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Dominic K.
9/20/2019 02:09:19 pm
The great big story video was about a special type of chalk. The chalk is called Hagoromo and it is from Japan. All the best mathematician professors from all the top schools use it. It is the densest, It erases the best and leaves the nicest lines. The myth is that you can't write a false theorem with it. The company announced that they were going out of business so people started to horde it. Professors started to become chalk dealers for their colleagues.
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Joshua Moon
9/20/2019 07:46:02 pm
I am doing someone named Agatha Christie. She was a famous writer. She made several famous stories that many people probably know. One of them is the "Five little pigs".
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Monet S.
9/22/2019 10:06:50 am
A dying art, traditional paper making in Japan is disappearing because of the new technologies in the 21st century. Washi, the traditional paper, used to be made by hand out of plant fibers, but there is an increasing demand for cheaper, lower quality papers now. This paper is typically made of three different plant fibers depending on the type: mulberry, mitsumata, or ganpi. Despite the different uses of each of the resulting papers, they all share the fact that they are more durable and stronger than average manufactured paper. These papers still serve many purposes despite their dwindling demand. The heavier papers, like heavy kozuke paper, can serve any purpose from engraving to printmaking, and the lighter ones, such as kozo paper, are transparent and light, yet very strong, which makes them able to help conserve paintings or act as extremely expensive tissue paper, if you’re into that. Also, in many traditional Japanese homes, some types of washi are used in sliding doors. Washi is something becoming increasingly notorious worldwide, in washi tape, for one, and it should not be allowed to perish.
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Dunnia Naderpoor
9/22/2019 10:53:33 am
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian novelist that was born in the United States by two Nigerian immagrant parents.She has been the winner of many more awards for her short stories and young adult books. She writes British science fiction. She wrote Akata Witch and got amazon book of the year. She is an inspiration and is a great novelist.
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9/22/2019 02:01:28 pm
John Schaffner is the most famous new york city apartment designer. He designed the apartment for the show Friends. He has also worked on many shows like the big bang theory. He presented a model of the apartment and producer of friends and he loved it. John had also the idea of the coffee house just like today.
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9/22/2019 02:05:46 pm
I found an interesting article on Atlas Obscura about a wall of lava lamps in San Francisco. These lava lamps are encrypting 10% of the internet internationally. Cloudflare is in charge of this groovy internet protection. Their headquarters in San Francisco includes a wall with over 100 lava lamps varying in colors is generating a code to keep people safe while on the internet. The way it works is that there is a video monitor looking for frequent changes in the swirling of the lamps which is then transferred to a computer which converts the randomness of the lava lamps into a code impossible to hack. I feel a lot safer knowing that lava lamps are protecting me on the internet! :)
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9/22/2019 03:13:49 pm
I want to give you some fun facts about an author. The author's name is Gabriel García Márquez, and he has had a very interesting life. He fell in love with his wife when she was nine years old. He then married his wife when she was 26 years old. They were more of political friendship than a normal friendship. He met his mother when he was seven years old. His mother was prouder of her sister when she became a nun then him getting a nobel peace prize. It amazing how much you can do in a long life as an author.
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Ms. Henry
9/23/2019 08:58:01 am
Focus on the accomplishments/works of the author. Why is this author remembered or important?
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Francis Berina
9/22/2019 04:11:58 pm
One of my favorite authors is a man named Eoin Colfer. Eoin Colfer is an author that made the hit series Artemis Fowl. One of my favorite books of his is a book named Airman that is one of his standalone novels. He was born in May 14, 1965 and worked as a teacher for children before becoming an author. He also made a contract with Marvel comics, which produced a novel titled "Iron Man: The Gauntlet".
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Isha Shah
9/22/2019 04:40:01 pm
My favorite author is Alan Gratz, because of his books are interesting, and thrilling. He has written 14 novels for young adults, and each of them are exiting and incredible. He has written award winning books such as, Prisoner B-3087, Refugee (which we read in english last year), Projekt 1065, Grenade, Code of Honor and many more. His books are amazing and they will leave you at the edge of your seat wanting more!
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Elizabeth Goodson
9/22/2019 05:21:50 pm
I chose to research the author James Patterson (72). He is one of the best selling American Authors. He is one of the highest paid authors and is most known for his impeccable romance, thriller and crime novels. Patterson regularly donates money to schools, students and individual libraries. He has written some well known novels such as Unsolved, The First Lady, The Inn and many more.
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9/22/2019 08:25:35 pm
This week I chose to write about Arundhati Roy. Arundhati Roy is a successful Author who was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. She is best known for her novel The God Of Small Things which was published in 1997 and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Arundhati Roy is also a political activist for human rights and environmental causes. Some other awards Arundhati Roy has won are the Sydney Peace Prize, the Norman Mailer Prize, and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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9/23/2019 07:16:48 am
Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe. He was the most popular French authors of the 19th century. Dumas’s plays, when judged from a modern viewpoint, are crude, brash, and melodramatic, but they were received with rapture in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
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Aiswarya Jacob
9/23/2019 07:48:57 am
Isabel Allende is a famous author and journalist who has written over 15 books in many different languages. She was born on August 2, 1943 in Lima, Peru and is the daughter to Tomás and Francisca Allende. Unfortunately, her father, a diplomat, had left her family when she was at the age of 2. Some of her best novels include The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts. A few works such as Of Love and Shadows (1987), Eva Luna (1987), and Two Words (1989), were written during the time of Pinochet's Regime, a dangerous time to live in Chile, when she fled the country in 1975. In 1981, she had written a letter to her dying grandfather in Chile, which became the foundation of her first novel, The House of Spirits.
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9/23/2019 03:09:54 pm
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author, and was mainly know for her fiction works. Such as her Earthsea fantasy series. She abandoned her other careers in 1953 after her marriage and started writing. In 1959 Ursula was published for the very first time. Her literary career was nearly about sixty years. She had won Hugo and Nebula awards for best novels.
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Corina Sawyers
9/23/2019 07:37:17 pm
Turning 73 years-old this August, Isabel Allende is one of the last active members of a talented generation of Latin American writers. Born in Chile in 1942, she now resides in California. She worked as a journalist, fiction writer, and has founded her own charitable foundation. Isabel Allende, a writer whose kindness and humane sensitivity make an inspiring example of who the modern artist can be.
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Toni Ikhile
9/23/2019 08:32:08 pm
The Troubles
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Chloe Schoenly
9/24/2019 06:42:06 am
Lin Manuel Miranda, the creator of the play Hamilton, and 21 Chump Street. He starred in both of them, as Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton, and The Narrator in 21 Chump Street. He also sang along in a Moana song by Disney. His songs and broadways aren't all, he also won three Grammy Awards, an Emmy, and a Pulitzer prize. Some side jobs he did was teaching, a restaurant reviewer, and writing music for commercials. Honestly, I listen to his music religiously, so I advise you to listen to his works.
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Ryan Baz
9/24/2019 07:47:47 am
Kendrick Lamar is an author, artist, and actor. He was won many grammy awards.¨Storytelling has been Lamar’s greatest skill and most primary mission, to put into (lots of) words what it's like to grow up as he did¨ - Pulitzer prize.
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Jayden Baldonado
9/24/2019 08:25:15 am
Hideo Kojima was born August 24, 1963, he is a japanese video game designer, director and producer. During his childhood, he developed a strong passion for action and adventure cinema and literature. He designed and wrote metal gear, a game that laid foundations for stealth games. He is one of the most acclaimed video game designers. Hideo Kojima is an acclaimed video game designers, well known for his Metal Gear series.
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Gabe Cobean
9/24/2019 11:29:28 am
Octavia E. Butler was born on June 22 1947 in Pasadena, California, and died on February 24, 2006. Octavia was shy as a child, and found comfort at the library reading fantasy, and writing. As a teen she would write her own science fiction books and went to community college during the Black Power Movement. Her first book was successful enough that she could pursue her career in writing. Her books and short stories drew attention from the public and she has won many awards. Octavia died of a stroke at the age of 58, her books are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library.
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9/25/2019 08:49:54 am
Neil Gaiman is author, writer, and an amazing story teller. Neil Gaiman was born on November 9 1969 and was born and raised at Porchester, England Neil Gaiman wanted to write comic books at first because hen he was little he was in loved with them but then Neil realized that its not his cup of tea even though he loved reading them.He instead wrote the books he enjoyed writing about and thought was more interesting to him. He wrote short stories and novels. If you love the movie Coraline or the book Neil Gaiman wrote it! He wrote many books for an example American Gods, Good Omens, Coraline, Stardust, Never where, and more but these are the most popular books he wrote.
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9/26/2019 12:16:20 pm
The person is picked was Shigeru Miyamoto, a very talented game designer. He was born on November 16, 1952, and he is now retired. He is a game creator who works at one of the most popular gaming companies ever, Nintendo. He made successful franchise like Super Mario Bro, Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, and Pikmin.
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Emily Fuentes
9/26/2019 12:37:51 pm
Amous Klausner ,also known as, Amos Oz was born on May 4, 1939. Amos Oz’s works described israeli society as unapologetically scrutinized. He attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford. Amos Oz participated in Israeli peace movement. Oz’s novels show the split and strains in the Israeli culture. He felt that we couldn't share his own perspective about Israel’s founding generation. Oz has been given over 50 awards, Prize, and honors. Unfortunately, Amos Oz passed away on December 28, 2018.
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The author I chose this week is Samuel R. Delany, Samuel R. Delany was born in April 1, 1942, New York. He known for his works as a Americain science fiction novelist and a critic who addressed sexual, racial, and social issues. Samuel also was known for pondering on the nature of language.
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Jonathan Cedeno-Lopez
9/27/2019 10:55:47 am
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He once said "A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.", this quotes has so much meaning to it, if you think about it.
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John Benner
10/1/2019 06:58:42 am
Kendrick Duckworth was born on June 17, 1987. He is an American songwriter and rapper. He is regarded as one of the most successful rappers of our generation. He was raised in Compton, California and started his musical career under the name K-Dot.
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10/1/2019 07:06:38 am
Since 1994, Dylan has published eight books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. He has sold more than 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has also received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ten Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.
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Brianna Conley
10/1/2019 09:29:18 am
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe born, 16 November 1930, was a Nigerian author who wrote books such as, Things Fall Apart, An Image of Africa and There was a country. When His country inured a revolution in 1967, Achebe became a supporter of The movement an became what was like an ambassador for the members of the revolution by appealing to Europe and the America for aid in this civil war.
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Mohammd Abashr
10/2/2019 02:36:14 pm
Alexandre Dumas, otherwise called Alexandre Dumas père, was a French essayist. His works have been converted into numerous dialects, and he is one of the most generally read French writers. He was born in July 24, 1802 and died in December 5, 1870.
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10/2/2019 06:27:00 pm
Weird Al is a singer-songwriter, music video director, and comedian. He is known for his funny covers/ parody's of songs. His first song was made in 1976. He had sold more than 12 million albums by 2007 and preformed more than 1000 live shows.
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Trinity Galindo
10/3/2019 06:50:30 pm
kendrick lamar is an artist who preforms writes and records mucis dabbles in acting and ore he is somtimes refferd to as the "New King Of Hip Hop" and he is well known for pushing the boundries and limits of the rap industry
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Arianna Garcia-Rojas
10/4/2019 07:05:18 am
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Zach Suh
10/4/2019 10:57:33 am
Marie Lu wrote one of my favorite book series Legend. She has written a number of books including the Legend series , The Rose Society, War Cross and many more. She focuses mostly on Young adult fiction and Dystopian fiction. Marie Lu has won many awards like Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Goodreads Author and more. She usually writes by switching character perspectives. Marie Lu is a great author and writes good dystopian novels and more.
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Grayson Helms
10/4/2019 11:19:05 am
Marjorie Liu is an american author. She grew up i n seattle, Washington . She also went to law school. But aside from law school she is an amazing author. She was involved in the marvel universe too. She wrote a lot of the X-Men books. She even won the Eisener Award.
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Tyler Bollhorst
10/4/2019 11:54:07 am
James Harden is a very talented american basketball player. He was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California. James Harden is known as much for his beard and the way he plays. He was the number 3 pick in the 2009 NBA draft. He began his career with the Oklahoma City Thunder, and then he got traded to the Houston Rockets in 2012.
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Om Arya
10/7/2019 01:42:06 pm
David Mitchell is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter. He is part of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, along with Robert Webb. Before his career as a comedian, David Mitchell worked as an usher among other jobs. His first project with Robert Webb was in 1995, a show about a nuclear apocalypse. After university, he and Webb began two-man shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. They were then given the chance to write for Big Train. Their break into TV acting was in 2000 on a BBC sketch show called Bruiser. David Mitchell is a very talented person.
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Damarys
10/8/2019 11:57:16 am
Jenny Han wrote her first book, the children's novel Shug, while she was still in college.Shug is about Annemarie Wilcox, a twelve-year-old trying to navigate the perils of junior high school. Her next project was a young adult romance trilogy, about a girl's coming-of-age during her summer breaks. The three novels, The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, and We'll Always Have Summer, quickly became
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Alicia Cruz
10/10/2019 03:24:01 pm
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, was born in Compton California. He has released many albums, including one of his most famous, Good Kid and M.A.A.D City. In his early life he moved to chicago, gang activity was high and was highly influneced by it, but he remained a good student. He has come a long way and has achieved many grammys.
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10/11/2019 09:54:51 am
Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Queens, New York. He was a well known theoretical physicist, and he has won a Nobel Prize for his work in the field. He was a very important scientist of his contributions toward quantum physics, particle physics, and quantum electrodynamics. Richard Feynman was the best known scientist during his lifetime because of all of his accomplishments. Richard Feyman died on February 15, 1988, but he is still remembered today for his great contributions toward science.
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Yousif Rajeb
10/11/2019 10:42:03 am
Satoru Iwata is a man known for many amazing things but his most notable effect was on the video game industry. Satoru Iwata was the former president of Nintendo Of Japan, and he is a huge impact on games that we all play today. Growing up, Satoru Iwata adored technology and loved creating games for others to play. When he was hired to work at Nintendo after working at HAL laboratories, he was the reason many game franchises such as Pokemon, The Legend Of Zelda, Super Smash Bros, and Earthbound were able to be such huge hits and release on time. The president of Nintendo Of Japan at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, was so proud of his work that he made Iwata take his role as president. Iwata was the first president of Nintendo Of Japan that was not a part of the Yamauchi bloodline. Unfortunately, Satoru Iwata died on July 11, 2015 at the age of 55 years old.
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Emman
10/14/2019 08:51:05 am
Bob dylan is one of the best Songwriters/Singers in history.
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Cameron ward
10/17/2019 06:33:07 am
Kendrick lamar is a african american songwriter and a song producer, he started singing at a young age and had the name K-dot. He started to get recognized in 2010 because of snoop dogg. He has been a successful artist since then and has been one of the best artists since then. Kendrick Lamar has won 12 grammys and has been nominated for one 35 times.
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Trey Eden
10/18/2019 02:12:18 pm
This time I learned about lighting in Pixar movies and how it is so important. In animation things usually are coded without lighting first and with out it scenes can look messy, unfinished, and just downright unrealistic. plus lighting helps set the mood of the story, help focus the audience on something, and give a time of day. but lighting can also cause some problems take Wall-e for example, Wall-e has these binoculars for eyes made up of three lenses that ended up reflecting everything three times so they had to fix this by turning down the light in his eyes.
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Cammie Niehaus
10/21/2019 05:32:43 pm
One of my favorite authors is J.K. Rowling. Her real name is Joanne Rowling contrary to the common myth that her name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She wrote the Harry Potter series. The Harry Potter series has received numerous awards including the Carnegie medal (1997), and the Hugo's Award for Best Novel (2001).
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Melissa Rutledge
10/22/2019 08:26:36 pm
Neil Gaiman, he wrote short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. He was born on November 10th 1960 and is still alive to this day. He has written books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book. He currently lives in Minneapolis.
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austin whalen
10/23/2019 08:17:08 am
My dad worked for the Miami Dolphins for eight years, creating and running all their youth programs, and doing some “life skills” work at local high school. [Former assistant executive director of the NFLPA and former president of NFL Players, Inc.] Doug Allen came and spoke at one of my sessions with high school student athletes. That was my first exposure to the NFLPA. It continued through interacting with guys like Trace Armstrong, who was the Miami Dolphins union rep at the time.
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Sanaiya cunningham
10/23/2019 09:35:16 am
Angie Thomas is the author who wrote the young adult novel '' The hate U Give ''. Angie grew up in jackson mississippi. Angie was inspired by her writing from a shoot out that took place in her neighborhood. Her mother took her to the library to show her that there was more to the world. She was the first black student to graduate in creative writing.
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10/23/2019 03:03:07 pm
I chose the International Spy Museum that is located in Washington D.C. I visited this museum 5 years ago and the experience was cool. The museum educates visitors on the art of espionage. There are many cool activities to do in the museum but the whole museum is based off the iconic spy, James Bond. The museum used scenes and strategies from the James Bond movies and reveals them to the public. This is a very cool place to visit and I highly recommend it.
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Ishaan Khatri
10/23/2019 04:58:19 pm
This week, I am doing Richard Feynman. Richard Phillips Feynman was born on May 11, 1918, New York, New York. He is regarded as one of the most influential and smartest man in his field after WW2. Feynman remade the quantum electrodynamics , a theory which explains the interaction between light and matter, which opened scientists to another way of understanding waves and particles. He later won the Nobel Prize for physics for his new discovery. Richard Feynman was one of the most important people of the 20th century and helped scientists around the world understand waves and particles which led to many useful inventions.
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10/24/2019 09:20:34 am
Neil Gaiman, an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He was born November 10, 1960. He once said ´The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.´. That quote has more meaning than you think and to me it means that when you do something good or you see something or even someone that makes you happy, they can make your world brighter and happier.
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Caira Tidwell
10/24/2019 09:21:34 am
Arundhati Roy is an indian writer who is most famous for her book called The God of Small Things. This novel of hers won the Man Booker prize for fiction in 1997 and became the best selling book from a non-exapiarite indian author. She was born on November 24, 1961 and she still happens to be alive. During her lifetime she was also a political activist and involved herself in human rights and environmental causes.
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Ava Urben
10/24/2019 09:57:57 am
I chose Charles Dickens because he created one of the world's best-known fictional characters in the Victorian Era. Charles Dickens was born February 12th 1812 and died on June 9th 1870. I've read some of his novels. The one I want to talk about is Great Expectations. Great Expectations is about a young boy names Pip from his childhood and adult years. He then comes into a large fortune and leads him to his great expectations. This book gives you a roller coaster of emotions, and it shows you what it was like to live in the Victorian Era in the perspective of Pip.
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Cailyn Goodfriend
10/24/2019 09:28:58 pm
I watched a video on “Great Big Story” About a voice actor named Jim Cummings. He is the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, The Tasmanian Devil, and many more. He talks about how he was a class clown always making voices to make people smile and laugh. He continues to that by talking to special needs kids on the phone as Pooh or Tigger. It brings his so much happiness knowing he's making people smile with the characters he helps bring to life. In his words “it's just a blessing and a half.”
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Daniel E
10/25/2019 12:08:57 pm
Sergio Giavanni Kitchens was born June 14, 1993. He is known by his famous name Gunna. He is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Best known for his collaborations with rappers Lil Baby and Young Thug, he is well-known around the world.
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10/26/2019 09:27:34 am
A doctor Madan Kataria is the creator of laughter yoga. Laughter yoga is a groundbreaking concept that laughter can help you reduce stress. Laughter yoga was created because he was very stressful from being a health editor magazine. Laughter yoga is a combination of yoga exercises and laughing with those exercises. If we don't laugh we will feel sad and depressed. He believes in spreading laughter to make a person who is sad or depressed happy again. If you are laughing how could you possibly be sad? He wants this concept of yoga to world renowned he wants to spread his laughter throughout the world.
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Steven Jammes
10/30/2019 09:30:50 am
LeBron Raymone James Sr. (/ləˈbrɒn/; born December 30, 1984) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is often regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time, which has resulted in frequent comparisons to Michael Jordan.[1][2] His accomplishments include three NBA championships, four NBA Most Valuable Player Awards, three NBA Finals MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals. James has appeared in fifteen NBA All-Star Games and been named NBA All-Star MVP three times. He won the 2008 NBA scoring title, is the all-time NBA playoffs scoring leader, and is fourth in all-time career points scored. He has been voted onto the All-NBA First Team twelve times and the All-Defensive First Team five times.
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Joshua Moon
10/30/2019 09:43:30 am
Elon musk is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Is the the chief engineer in spacex and product architect of tesla. He has a net worth of 22.8 billion dollars. He is also co-founder of paypal. He also recently donated 1 million to plant trees.
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Ryan Baer
10/30/2019 09:45:20 am
Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr. born May 15, 1975 is a former American football linebacker who played all of his 17-year professional career for the Baltimore Ravens He is also considered to be the greatest Baltimore Raven of all time. Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with the stabbing deaths of two men in 2000. The following season, he won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year
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10/30/2019 09:54:43 am
Helen Keller was an american author/political activist. She was mostly known for her to be the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor's degree. Keller went on to become a world famous speaker and author. She traveled to twenty five countries giving motivational speeches about Deaf people and their conditions. She took speech therapy to try to improve her voice heard by the public. When Rockefeller owned press refused to print her articles, she protested until her work was finally published. And she was one of the twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.
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Reagan Speier
10/30/2019 10:57:27 am
Stephenie Meyer born December 24, 1973 is an American novelist and film producer. She is best known for her vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Her books and movies are loved by boys and girls all around the world including myself.
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Sydney Valentine
10/30/2019 03:23:07 pm
Shel Silverstein was an american author and childrens poet. He is best known for his children poetry books like A Light in The Attic, Falling Up and the Giving Tree. What made him stand out from other poets was that he would also add drawings to match the poetry he wrote. His books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is still very popular among children today. I used to read his books all the time when I was a little kid.
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Abdulaziz Sanuri
10/30/2019 04:06:27 pm
An author that has many successful projects, mainly books, and one of her most famous is Harry Potter. JK Rowling is a famous author, born July 31, 1965. I personally love the Harry Potter series because of the suspense that keeps building up throughout the story. Harry Potter is a book about an orphan that discovered that he is a wizard, and goes through many tough decisions to beat the evil wizard that killed many people including his parents. This book might be about wizards and magic but there are many morals throughout the series, some of which are never forget your friends, stop the urge to temptation, and much more. I loved this series so much, I read and watched, the movies, at least 5 times, each.
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Joey Mendez
10/31/2019 07:20:27 am
Max Scherzer was July 27, 1984. He is a 3 time Cy young award winner. He is a star pitcher for the Washington Nationals. He started out at the Diamondbacks, he then later moved to the Detroit tigers.
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Auvren Lightle
10/31/2019 04:42:05 pm
Week 2 - Toni Morrison
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Vanathi Jaikanth
10/31/2019 07:57:25 pm
I decided to write about Edgar Allen Poe. He had a sad life. His wife and mother died at 24 because of terburculosis. He had a huge alchol problem. He started to become famous after his work was loosely adapted. You will notice that after he died, Poe's fame starts to rise. Edgar Aller Poe's writing style was very grotesque. They borderline between love or hate, right or wrong, sane or insane. It's different than what most people wrote. They all are dark. They all strike fear in others. However, they all have themes. Themes that are portrayed in amazing ways. In Conclusion, if you want to read a good story on Haloween night, try a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Mairen Ruby
11/1/2019 09:54:34 am
I chose to write about the titan Nyx from Greek mythology. Nyx is a primordial deity and the personification of the night. She is the child of Chaos. She is married to Erebus, the primordial deity of Darkness and Shadow. Their union produced may children including, Aether, Hemeria, Nemesis, Hypnos, Thanatos, Geras, Eris, and Charon.
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Mairen Ruby
11/3/2019 12:24:44 pm
In a myth where a Hera convinces Nyx's son Hypnos, the titan of dreams, so that she could conspire to over throw Zeus. When Zeus found out that it was Hypnos was the one who made him fall asleep he was enraged. In some accounts Hypnos fled to the only safe place, when Zeus found out where Hypnos fled he decided to stop his pursuit to not invoke to anger of the goddess Nyx. In another accounts Nyx came to Zeus and convinced him to spot his pursuit of her son. In both accounts it shows that even Zeus was afraid of Nyx and did everything he could to remain in her good graces, which is a very rare thing to see. Many people say that they are afraid of the dark. However the same people will say its not the darkness that frightens them but what lies in the darkness. Perhaps it is the same for the goddess Nyx, the Greek gods and goddesses were not afraid of Nyx herself but rather what fallows her in the darkness.
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11/1/2019 09:55:53 am
Conan Gray is an American singer/songwriter that started out on youtube. He initially started his career on youtube with a channel he named Conan×Canon. He did not expect his channel to gain the popularity it did which led to him releasing songs and cover eventually leading to his album sunset season. He grew up in a small town but moved away to LA to start his career. Him being an asian American he underwent a lot of bullying when he he was younger, but now he claims to be almost grateful for it because it led to him getting to where he is now.
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Aryan R
11/1/2019 10:51:13 am
Weird Al ( Yankovic) is a American Songwriter, Singer, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, comedian, and author. He is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts;
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Daniel Enwiya
11/3/2019 11:04:08 am
I am writing about Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison was an american inventor and businessman. Thomas Edison held over 1000 patents! His first invention was the phonograph. His most famous invention was contributing ideas to the incandescent light bulb.
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11/5/2019 07:08:59 am
I am writing about Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United states of america. He was also a statesmen and lawyer. He was president from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln lead the nation through the American Civil War its bloodiest war.
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