Easter Holiday Homework

Book name: Who is J.K. Rowling?
Author:Pam Pollack and Meg Belvisom.

Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Rowling is now an award-winning british author, gaining a lot of recognition from her classic Harry Potter series. Joanne was born on the 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol. Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive. Because both of her parents work, Joanne went to school herself. Joanne’s mother Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Joanne was a teenager and Anne died in 1990. Joanne also has a younger sister named Dianne. Joanne’s childhood was generally happy, although she has stated that she used to be made fun of, because of her first name “Rowling”. Joanne studied at St Michael’s Primary School in Gloucestershire, before moving to Chepstow, South Wales at the age of nine. She grew up around books, from going to the nearby library to her room at home. From an early age, Joanne had the passion to be a writer. She often wrote little short stories on paper. At the age of six she wrote a book about a rabbit titled “Rabbits”. After her mother praised her efforts, Joanne replied ‘well get it published then.’ She still admits it was a bit of an odd thing for a child of six to think. Joanne would always go to the library nearby, causing her to have creative brainstorms and very familiar with writing fantasy stories. She soon fell in love with fantasy creatures and magic stories, which caused her to write fantasy short stories more often.

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Book name:Robert Downey Jr The Fall and Rise of the Comeback Kid Author:Ben Falk

‘When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to express his
love for me in the only way he knew how.’ (1988)

Sadly, perhaps the most infamous fact about Robert Downey Sr is not related to
his celebrated, cult filmography. Rather, it is that barely a year after Jr’s wrathful
deity experience, at the age of eight, Downey Sr gave Junior his first marijuana joint.
It was 1973, hippies were all around and he believed he was a hypocrite for not
sharing something he did readily. Little did he know how important that spliff
would turn out to be. It – and the addictions that followed – almost destroyed his
son.
There were always drugs in the Downey household. Robert Jr even called it a
‘staple in life’. Though he essentially loved his family, his father comes across as a
patriarch, a travelling showman, a man who stirred his tea with the handle of a
hammer and dominated the room, but at the same time was an addict, a self-
absorbed agitprop stoner more concerned with creative endeavours than being a
proper, responsible parent.
Nevertheless, while life in the Downey household was peculiar, it was enter-
taining. Writers, poets and painters, as well as people like counter-culture activist
Abbie Hoffman, floated through on a regular basis. Films were projected on a
white sheet in the sitting room. Downey Sr would pretend to be Sturges the family
dog and go into long monologues about what was inside his head. Junior remem-
bers wandering around Greenwich Village on his father’s shoulders, taking in the
life around them. They would go to the movies and often leave after the opening
credits, because Downey Sr didn’t think much of what he was seeing. The arts were
encouraged and by the age of seven Junior was already playing jazz tunes on the piano at home.
One thing the Downeys did do was travel. Robert Jr said that every time he came
home and told his father he had made a new friend, Dad would tell the family to
pack their bags. They flitted between New York, Woodstock, Connecticut and Cali-
fornia. It played havoc with Downey Jr’s schooling, moving between educational
establishments and missing chunks of term time. It led to feelings of inadequacy
on Junior’s part and a desire to cover up his perceived scholastic shortcomings by
being the centre of attention. There was even a brief sojourn in London just after
Putney Swope came out, picked apparently because Downey Sr thought they need-
ed to go somewhere more boring than New York. Robert Jr did find it dull, telling
interviewers he attended Perry House School in – as far as he remembers –
Chelsea, where he was encouraged to learn ballet. Further research does not un-
earth any school remotely resembling Perry House in the West London area, but
wherever it was, he does recall standing in the corner of the room for most of his
lessons. He told the Biography Channel, the teachers were to blame, criticising his
American accent and grammar and punishing him unnecessarily. ‘[They] would
say, ‘Robert?’ and I’d say, “What?”. Then they’d say, “Don’t say what, say excuse
me.” And I’d say, “Huh?” However brief, I didn’t enjoy England’s education sys-
tem. The teachers seemed awfully uptight.’
The family returned to America and older sister Allyson was sent to boarding
school while Robert remained at home. While in Connecticut in 1973, Robert made
friends with a young man called Richard Hall, who later became the musician
Moby. Hall described them as best friends, adding, ‘Parents used to smoke pot to-
gether. Haven’t seen him since.’ Downey Sr directed a live television production of
playwright David Rabe’s Sticks And Bones for CBS, for which the channel was un-
able to sell any advertising due to its anti-war leanings. Then in 1975 Moment to Moment was released – a scattergun effort, almost a series of sketches, written by
Elsie (credited as L. C. Downey) and her husband and starring Leonard Buschel.

‘Mediocrity is my biggest fear’ (1989)

Perhaps Robert’s attitude was a reaction to his home life, perhaps it was merely a
confidence instilled through artistic encouragement, though most amateur psy-
chologists would say acting up outside the home is a sure sign something’s going
wrong within it. His parents had been together for fifteen years when things fell
apart. They were fighting a lot. Robert remembers an incident in a hotel room when
his father threw a milkshake and it stuck to the ceiling. As the young man recalled
it, the globules of ice cream slowly dried to form what looked like a brown nipple
above his head. The fury with which the milkshake had been hurled, almost as if it
was some kind of weapon, stuck with him. He later admitted he used the image to
tap into feelings of anger and sadness when acting.
By his own admission, Downey Sr was struggling with drugs. ‘In the 1970s, I
was a mess . . . it was a disaster,’ he told Postscript. ‘Coke is such a waste of time. A
total waste of time.’ He was barely working. There were little bits here and there,
writing for The Gong Show Movie (1980) and developing an uncompleted film
called Jive. But something had given. ‘The first thing you gotta have if you are going
to make movies this way is a good old lady, or it’s impossible,’ he explained to
writer Joseph Gelmis. Elsie had got a lot out of the relationship, but put up with a
lot. They had often borrowed money, banking on the fact Downey Sr would get an-
other job and his salary would be able to pay off the debt. The electricity and tele-
phone were cut off a number of times. Both parents were increasingly hands-off.
Downey Jr remembers visting his sister in Vermont by himself at the age of just
thirteen.

‘Robert Downey Jr is a genius.’ It’s a phrase I came across a lot during my research
for this book. Most people were referring to his acting across more than 50 films
and television shows. Others were talking about his singing, or his piano playing,
or his poetry. Some even mentioned it in conjunction with his intellect, though
while the following story will prove him to be an immensely intelligent individual, I
have found no official certification to that end.
Having lived and worked in Hollywood myself, I can attest to the fact the word
‘genius’ is one that’s bandied around a great deal in showbiz circles. Not just
about Kubrick or Brando, but about the guy who came up with the marketing cam-
paign for Transformers, or the Beverly Hills orthopaedist who does all the A-list
stars. In other words, its frequent usage often renders it meaningless. As a cynical
entertainment hack with more than a decade in the (posh hotel) trenches, the mere
mention of the term immediately sends my hackles rocketing skywards.
But you know, having spent more time than one man is supposed to spend
studying another man if he doesn’t plan to ask him out on a date, the whole genius
thing doesn’t seem so farfetched when you’re talking about Robert Downey Jr. To
watch his transformation into a vivacious yuppie-turned-pathetic addict in Less
Than Zero, his Oscar-nominated performance as Charlie Chaplin or more recently
his laconic, charismatic turn as an industrialist-cum-superhero in Iron Man, it’s no
surprise that he’s frequently tapped to play the more highly evolved on-screen char-
acters.
Robert chose not to participate in this book. He was scheduled to write his own
autobiography in 2006, even took the advance, but returned it two years later when
his comic book caper became an international blockbuster and set his career onto an even more stratospheric path.
It makes sense, considering a great many young viewers of Iron Man don’t know
Robert’s history – his peculiar upbringing, his struggle with drink and drugs, his
tabloid-friendly tussles with the law and his trail of great performances in not-so-
great films.

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George Washington, Known as the president of America, was born and raised on 22 of February, 1732 in Virginia.
He was the oldest son from his father’s second marriage, and grew up admiring his older brother, who taught him to become a great leader, this skill would be invaluable to him in the future. In total George Washington had 9 siblings, 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 3 half-brothers and 1 half sister.
When George was only 11 years old his father died and his 25 year old brother, Laurence stepped in, soon after a father- son relationship was formed with each other. Laurence had gone to a university in London, and George Washington was inspired by his intelligence and manners.
George had multiple tutors who taught him math, geography, Latin and english classics, He had also self taught himself to survey areas using his math skills.
In 1748, George was 16 years old and he was a skilled surveyor, he mapped out the land in western Virginia, He loved the wild lands and meeting the natives living there. Sometime in the next year, with some help from a noble. He was hired as an official surveyor for Virginia.
2 years later, Laurance, George’s father figure and brother died from a lung disease called tuberculosis and died while taking George with him to the island of Barbados where he hoped that the warm temperature would improve his health.( it didn’t work)On the way back George had caught smallpox and survived.
In the 1750s George Washington was sent to go to Fort Le Boeuf to deliver a letter of warning sent by Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Robert Dinwiddle.
The letter was for the french who were staying in forts in British territory, the french were not pleased and refused. George returned, only to be sent back days later with his troops to attack the french.
They killed the commander and nine other men and kept the others as prisoners. This event was marked as the beginning of the “French and Indian War”.
The french launched a counterattack and was forced to surrender when the native americans and french outnumbered them by over 100 men, and a quarter of his troops were killed or wounded. George had surrendered on the condition that he and his troops could leave back to they’re home.
When they returned, the military higher ups recognized Washington’s careful planning and tactics to attack the french. And promoted him to the rank of colonel, after 4 years, he was given the rank of Major then lieutenant colonel, and then held the rank of Major General of the continental forces in 1775.
He would participate in the revolutionary war as Chief commander of the continental army.
He would lead the army with is strategies and as a great leader, in the end he would team up with the french in 1780 and attack the British troops and their General Lord Charles Cornwallis, the american army had greatly outnumbered british troops, when they tried to flee by sea, the french came with ships prevented them to do so. On October 19, 1781. They won the battle and Cornwallis surrendered his forces.
On December 23, 1783 he would resign his post as commander in chief of the army and became the president.
And on December 14 of 1799 he had caught an illness, and his last words were “Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.”

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Book name: Thomas Edison:World Changing Inventor
Author:Katherine Krieg

Dear Miss Sandra,

Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847. He was the youngest of the seven children, his family called him AI. Edison was very curious from a young age, he always kept asking questions, he wanted to know how things work. When he was 7 years old, he went to public school a while, then his mother taught him at home. Edison loves reading about science, he found a subject that he likes.When he was 12 years old, he got a job at the train station. He sold candy, books and newspapers to the people on the train, sometimes he would read the books and newspapers that he sold.

When Edisons was 16 years old, he was working as a telegraph operator, he worked hard to learn everything he could about telegraph.In his free time, he experimented with old telegraph parts. He thought about ways he could make the telegraph better.

In fall 1878, Edison had set a new goal, he wanted to create electric light.At the time, it already had electric light called arc lights, they were used as street lights and in lighthouses.It was too bright so it couldn’t used in homes,people only used candle or kerosene lamp to light their home.
Edison’s light bulb was finally success in september 1882. It made Edison very famous at that time and also now. Edison tried very hard to invent the safe and lasting light bulb. Edison was passed on October 18, 1931.

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Steve Jobs

Book Name: Who Was Steve Jobs?
Author: Pam Pollack & Meg Belviso
Illustrator: John O’ Briein

Steve Jobs full name is Steve Paul Jobs. He was born on 24th February 1955. He lived in Silicon Valley, California. He loves to fix things. Especially work on his father’s car. His father even made a little workbench when he is 5, he also shows him how to use a hammer and saw. A neighborhood gave him his first Heathkit-Steve made radio transistors with it. In 1968, when he is 13, He discovers that a part was missing from one of his kits. He called the company– Hewlett-Packard. The Founders of the company–Bill Hewlett answer the phone. He said he will offer Steve a summer job and promise him a bagful of machine parts. Steve answer, “Yes!” He also joins the club of the company. This club is for students who are interested in electronics. In the first lesson, Steve saw a computer for the first time. At school, Steve will be friends with the one who loved electronics. He has a girlfriend who met in the computer club. One of his friend Steve Wozniak, he had an amazing talent for making things. He is going to a college and design computer. When Steve graduated from high school in 1972, he enrolled at Reed College in Oregon. The only problem was: He didn’t have enough money to go to college. He has to sleep in his friend’s room. He also has to work and collect coke bottles to earn money. For food, he depends on the charity. He stays at the reed for 18 months. From his work money, He had enough money to go to college and study. He wanted to go to India, so he work in the company call Atati. This company make computer game, his friend Woz work there already. After he got enough money, he go to India. After he came back, he works by at Atati.

At 1976, if you see a computer, it looks like seeing the cockpit of the airplane. There is a lot of buttons and switches. Woz had created a circuit board for an easy-to-use personal computer. A person could type on a command. Woz explains it to Steve, and the screen will follow the command in front of the person. Woz thought it was a neat project. Steve thought it could be more than that. He thought: We should leave Atari and start a new company. They start their company right away, their company’s ‘office’ is Steve’s parents garage. All the work done their. They planed to sell Woz’s circuit boards to people who wanted to build their own home computer. They build a first sample computer with Woz’s circuit board to show how it worked. They called it–Apple. Why did they pick that name? Well, Steve ate a lot of fruit. He thought apple was the best fruit of all. It was perfect, just like he wanted his computer could be. They show the computer to the computer shop manager. The manager said, “I can’t only sell the circuit board only, not many people know how to combine the circuit board and the computer, but if you sell the whole computer, I am sure people will buy it. The store manager gave them $25000 for 50 apple computers. Steve go to the electronic store and ask for the part they need. Steve can’t pay for it now, but he could when he sells the computers. Each computer needs to use $220 to make, but they sold to the electronics store at $500. After deducting the fee they have to give to the electronics store, they still got a big profit. They have change the design of the computer. They change from computer and the screen separate and turn into combined. They change it into a folded computer. Day by Day, Month by Month, Year by Year, They have so many changes in his company and product. In May 2001, the first Apple store was opened. Besides using the computer, people also listen to music. Apple invent CD player and MP3 player. The cell phone is also popular too, but they only have limited functions, so apple invents iPhone. The biggest changes are iPhone have a touch screen. iPhone completely changes our lifestyle. iPhone has many functions, they can take photos, listen to music, and even more……. iPhone increases a lot of money for apple. Unfortunately, Steve jobs’s body is worse and worse, he didn’t look good. He keeps losing weight and his cancer grows bigger.
He said, “ Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow! ” This is the last word he said. That day is October 5th, 2011, he dies.

iPhone makes Steve Jobs famous. The phone has invented a long time before the iPhone invented, but the only limited function and they use button instead of touch screen. The function of the old phone can only call others and some games. But iPhone can have many functions at the same time. Like taking pics, listening to music, see movie, play game etc. at the same time. The touch screen is even more convenience. This is important because it changes our life.

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Dear Ms .Yiu
book : J. K Rowling by:Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso.
J.K.Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling)is a England author, her best book is Harry Potter.it was very famous it had sold more then 500 million copies, and make to a movie.

Rowling born on July 31, 1965,in Yate England, and her childhood was generally happy, although she does remember getting teased because of her name, “Rowling” – She recalls often getting called “Rowling pin” by her less than ingenious school friends.From an early age, J.K. Rowling had the ambition to be a writer.
When Jo was fifteen, her mother Anne caught a disease named multiple sclerosis (MS). Jo was heartbroken, and her friend Sean Harris cheered her up all the time.He was the inspiration of Ron Weasley, Sean’s car was the inspiration of the flying car, and her teacher Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Nettleship were the inspiration of Professor Snape. Jo attended the University of Exeter in 1983. She studied different languages, and this was how she came up with some of her character names, such as Voldemort and Malfoy. In 1987, Jo graduated from university. She moved to another town, and unfortunately, her mother died.
The novel “Harry Potter” series has made author JK Rowling one of the few women in the Forbes Billionaires List for 25 years. She also knows her independent spirit in many ways and is a role model for many women.

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Book Name: Emma Watson

Author: Kathleen Tracy

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in Paris France. When she was little, she enjoyed performing in front of an audience. She studied singing, acting, and dancing at a local theatre school. At the age of eight, she attended the Dragon School, unlike Hogwarts, it is just a normal boarding school that was named after an old story. One year after she entered, casting agents showed up at her school, and they were casting for the first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. She loved the Harry Potter series, and her father used to read the books to her. She auditioned for the role of Hermione Granger eight different times, she was determined to get the role, and even made a wish to get that role with a wishbone. She did get the role, and the wishbone is still in her jewelry box.

She went to all-girls Headington School after graduating Dragon School. She attended normal classes when she wasn’t filming a movie, she was just a normal girl, she wasn’t bullied, didn’t want any special treatment or made a fuss of. She and her friends often forget that she is famous, people will stop her on the street and she will remember that she is. Apart from being an A student, she plays a lot of sports, including tennis, golf, rounders, and field hockey. She can be really competitive and her biggest sports dream is to play quidditch from Harry Potter. After filming the Harry Potter series, she admitted it was hard to leave the Potterworld behind, but the books will always be loved and it will always live in everyone’s imagination.

She became famous because of Harry Potter, she helped to bring the Harry Potter series to life and till this day, it is loved by many people across the world.

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Dear Ms.Yiu,

Book Name: Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Author: Roberts Edwards
Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and draftsman from Italy, he was born in 15 April 1452. He’s full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. He spent his first five years living in a farm house with his mother, when he was 5 he live with his father. Da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his worked. His drawings, paintings and other works have influenced countless artists and engineers over the centuries.

Around the age 15, Da Vinci began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea del Ver-rocchio in Florence. He learned a wide breadth of technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, drawing, painting and sculpting……His earliest known dated work is a pen and ink drawing of a landscape in the Arno valley that sketched in 1473.

He painted The Last Supper for three years which captures the drama of the moment when Jesus informs the Twelve Apostles for Passover dinner, and he also painted the Mona Lisa in 1503 that the masterpiece have enigmatic smile of the woman in half portrait, and the painting was consid-ered perfection in progress by Da Vinci. Also he invented a flying machine. Leonardo is still im-portant today because he is a exemplary Renaissance man, he did not allow himself to be boxed into one narrow field of study, so that’s why people admire him for the range of his ideas and ac-tivities.

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Book name: Orbit: Steve Jobs Author: CW cooke

Steve Jobs born in February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, Californa. He spent his childhood in Silicon Valley, and he was the type of children that who like to stick to himself. He only did competitive swimming, and no team sports. He was interested in electronics and gadgets, because he could spend a lot of time in his neighbor’s garage, who worked in a computer company, Hewlett-Packard Company. Then, he attend Crittenden Middle School, but this area in that school is a poor area that many kids get bullied. And of course, Steve Jobs also get bullied, the guys that bully Steve jobs must be too over, because one day Steve finish school and go back home, and he told his adoptive parents that he want to change a new school else he won’t attempt school anymore. The parents agreed and his family moved to another city, which was Los Altos, where he’s able to attend Cupertino Junior High.

After Steve Jobs graduating from high school in 1972, he attends Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for 2 years. He dropped out after one semester to visit India and study eastern religions in the summers of 1974, in 1975 Steve Jobs joined a group that called Homebrew Computer Club, one member, a technical which named Steve Woznaik was trying to build a small computer, Jobs became fascinated with the marketing potential of such a computer. In 1976 he and Woznaik formed their own company, they call it Apple Computer Company. They raised $1,300 at first by selling Steve Jobs’s microbus and Woznaik’s calculator. Then they sold circuit boards. Steve Jobs had realized there was a huge gap in the computer market. At that time almost all computers were mainframes, they were so large that one could fill a room. Advances in electronic means that computer components were being smaller and the power of the computer was increasing.

Steve Jobs was a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. With Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc. in 1976 and transformed the company into a world leader in telecommunications. Widely considered a visionary and a genius, he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone. And now why Steve Jobs still famous because that he is the one of making Apple this company, and this company is so famous for now, that’s why Steve Jobs still so famous for now.

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Book Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, By Scott Kelly

Scott Joseph Kelly was born on February 21, 1964. He and his twin brother Mark are always playing. They are naughty little kids. When they are little, they usually wake up very early, slip out of the house through the back door and play with whatever they find until someone stuck them back to their home and explain what happened to their mom. They are big risk takers, they never enjoy those boring stuff as a kid, some risks are real crazy, like the one when Scott crossed a road and got hit by a car, but they still take crazy risks! They were never listening. Little did he know, his risk taking personality is the first step to his extreme space exploration.

Scott was not interested in school, he barely graduated high school in New Jersey at the bottom half of the class. He spent most of his time partying in college. Then Scott read The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfes, inspiring him to go to space and explore! A few years later he became a test pilot and after the experience of being a pilot, he wanted to pilot a rocket or space shuttle. NASA accepted him to the astronaut class and within a few years he could go to Discovery the space shuttle, step in, and blast off to space.

He is most famous for the twin program, in the program he needs to stay at the ISS (International Space Station) for a year while his twin brother stays at earth for a year, they need to test the effect on space to earth. It made a very big impact on space exploration, the results show that long term space exploration like going to Mars is possible since human genes could adapt to their surroundings. Even though he retired now, his work i still affecting the space exploration in a positive way.

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Book:Albert Einstein’s Life Author:Mark Franklin

Dear Ms Kum,

Albert Einstein is a very important person to us until present,we still remembered his greatness.

Einstein was born in Ulm,Kingdom of Württemberg,Germany.That time was March 14,1879.His parents are Hermann Einstein,a salesman and engineer,and Pauline Koch.The Einsteins were non-observant Ashkenazi Jews,and Albert attended a catholic elementary school in Munich from the age of 5,and study for 3 years.At the age of 13,when he had become more seriously in philosophy. Einstein was introduced to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,and Kant became his favorite philosopher.
Einstein always excelled at math and physics from a young age,reaching a mathematical level years ahead of his peers.By 1908,he was recognized as a leading scientist and appointed lecturer at the university of Bern.The following year, after giving a lecture on electrodynamics and the relativity principle at the University of Zürich, Alfred Klenier recommended him to the faculty for a newly created professorship in theoretical physics. Einstein was appointed associate professor in 1909.On July 3, 1913, he was voted for membership in the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin.Max Planck and Walther Nernst visited him the next week in Zurich to persuade him to join the academy, additionally offering him the post of director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, which was soon to be established.Einstein visited New York City for the first time on April 2, 1921, where he received an official welcome by Mayor John Francis Hylan, followed by three weeks of lectures and receptions.
Einstein passed on April 18,1955,at the age of 76.He was still important because he told us that Energy equals Mass times light to the 2nd power.His greatness made us proud of him.

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Dear Mrs Pradhan,
Book Name: “George Washington, Hero of the American Revolution” And a few other sites for information on how many siblings did George Washington Have and his last words.
George Washington, Known as the president of America, was born and raised on 22 of February, 1732 in Virginia.
He was the oldest son from his father’s second marriage, and grew up admiring his older brother, who taught him to become a great leader, this skill would be invaluable to him in the future. In total George Washington had 9 siblings, 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 3 half-brothers and 1 half sister.
When George was only 11 years old his father died and his 25 year old brother, Laurence stepped in, soon after a father- son relationship was formed with each other. Laurence had gone to a university in London, and George Washington was inspired by his intelligence and manners.
George had multiple tutors who taught him math, geography, Latin and english classics, He had also self taught himself to survey areas using his math skills.
In 1748, George was 16 years old and he was a skilled surveyor, he mapped out the land in western Virginia, He loved the wild lands and meeting the natives living there. Sometime in the next year, with some help from a noble. He was hired as an official surveyor for Virginia.
2 years later, Laurance, George’s father figure and brother died from a lung disease called tuberculosis and died while taking George with him to the island of Barbados where he hoped that the warm temperature would improve his health.( it didn’t work)On the way back George had caught smallpox and survived.
In the 1750s George Washington was sent to go to Fort Le Boeuf to deliver a letter of warning sent by Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Robert Dinwiddle.
The letter was for the french who were staying in forts in British territory, the french were not pleased and refused. George returned, only to be sent back days later with his troops to attack the french.
They killed the commander and nine other men and kept the others as prisoners. This event was marked as the beginning of the “French and Indian War”.
The french launched a counterattack and was forced to surrender when the native americans and french outnumbered them by over 100 men, and a quarter of his troops were killed or wounded. George had surrendered on the condition that he and his troops could leave back to they’re home.
When they returned, the military higher ups recognized Washington’s careful planning and tactics to attack the french. And promoted him to the rank of colonel, after 4 years, he was given the rank of Major then lieutenant colonel, and then held the rank of Major General of the continental forces in 1775.
He would participate in the revolutionary war as Chief commander of the continental army.
He would lead the army with is strategies and as a great leader, in the end he would team up with the french in 1780 and attack the British troops and their General Lord Charles Cornwallis, the american army had greatly outnumbered british troops, when they tried to flee by sea, the french came with ships prevented them to do so. On October 19, 1781. They won the battle and Cornwallis surrendered his forces.
On December 23, 1783 he would resign his post as commander in chief of the army and became the president.
And on December 14 of 1799 he had caught an illness, and his last words were “Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.”

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Dear Ms.Yiu,
Book: National Geographic Readers Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison is a famous American inventor. He was born in Milan, Ohio on february 11,1847. When he was seven, his family and him moved to Port Huron, michigan. In school,Thomas daydreamed. His teacher said he could not learn. So, after only three months of school, his mother decided to teach him at home. Learning from his mother was fun. She taught Thomas to read. When he was ten, he got a book of science experiments. He tried every one of them in the lab he built in the family’s basement.

Thomas was only 12 when he started working his first job. He sold newspapers and snacks to people on a train. At the train station, Thomas liked to hangout with the telegraph operators. They sent messages to other train stations. Watching them, Thomas knew what he wanted to do next. He would learn to be a telephone operator.

Thomas began to work as a telegraph operator when he was 16. He liked to work all night. During the day, he worked on his inventions. He got his first patent in 1869. It was for a vote counting machine to be used by legislators in making law. But no one wanted to buy it. Thomas did not give up. He worked on other inventions, such as ways to make the telegraph work better. Thomas was so busy working, he did not have time to think about getting married. Then in 1871, when he was 24, he met an 16 year old Mary Stilwell. He liked her right away, and they were married a few months later on Christmas Day. Thomas and Mary had three children. Thomas loved his family, but he did not spend much time with them. He was always busy working. In 1871, he opened a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Then he often worked all day and into the night. When he got tired, he took a nap on a lab table. First, he made his phonograph. This invention made Thomas Edison famous. People called him “The wizard of Menlo park.” Next he made the light bulb. It took Thomas Edison four years to invent the lightbulb. He was granted a patent for his own improved lightbulb in 1879. He began to manufacture and market it for widespread use. In January 1880, Edison set out to develop a company that would deliver the electricity to power and light the cities of the world. Thomas Edison was not only an inventor. He had hearing problems. But, he still didn’t give up. He can cross through all those obstacles and successfully invented the best light bulb (in that time).He once said ,”Actually, deaf is a good thing. It can help me concentrate on my work!”
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Dear Ms.Sandra,

Book name : The Story Of The Presedent We Know Today.

Donald Trump as you all know is the President of America right now, and he is as well the 45th president of America, he was born and raised in Queens which is a part of New York City, he was born at June 14, 1946, and now he is age 73, and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family’s real-estate business in 1971 and named it the Trump organisation, and expanded its strategies from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan. The Trump organisation has built or renovated building.

And from 2003 – 2015, Trump has hosted and produced “The Apprentice”, a reality TV series. In 2016, Trump joined the 2016 presidential race, and defeated 16 other candidates in the primaries. His positions have been described as populist and a nationalist, And he was even elected over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, although he lost the popular vote. He became the oldest first-term U.S. president, and the first without prior military or government service.

During his presidency, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; after legal challenges, the Supreme Court upheld the policy’s third revision.He enacted a tax-cut package for individuals and businesses, rescinding the individual health insurance mandate. He appointed Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, Trump has pursued an America First agenda, withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal.

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Book name: The Biographies Of Great Men- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Publisher:168books

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. When he was born, his home burned down and the family suffered great financial difficulty Alfred was never in great health in his childhood which made his mother worried. Meanwhile, his father went to Russia to find work to support his family.

After his father went to Russia, he set up a munitions factory. The whole family moved to Russia and Alfred and his brothers grew up and studied there. They worked in their father’s factory after graduation.

One day, Alfred’s father had discovered a powerful explosive substance, nitroglycerine, which is ten times more powerful than the gunpowder invented by the Chinese. However, it was very dangerous and Alfred and his father worked hard in finding a way that the substance can be handled safely. Finally, Alfred invented a safe explosive for mining and railway construction.
Alfred became a very rich person and had established a fund to promote world peace. Five Nobel prizes are awarded annually in recognition in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace

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