People define being influential as having someone or something looking up to you. Another way people define being influential is having control over something. Influence can be used in many ways, it can be used to make you buy something, or it can make you think different, it can also be used to help encourage people. Most of the time famous people are influential to the lower tier an example would be a professional baseball player would be a big influence to someone who is just starting out, or an popular actor influential too. Although some people say that having much influence is bad because it can make you become greedy with power but, Stan Lee proves that wrong by using his influence to help to other people in his life. He also worked …show more content…
He changed the way people looked at comics and how they were created. He built his personality into the comics he created so that he knows that whoever was reading them would get enjoyment from them. Although he faced a lot of hardships and criticisms in his life Stan Lee deserves to be in the top 100 influential people because he used his vision to see others and himself improve in their knowledge throughout life, while revolutionizing the comic industry giving the world an abundance of content to enjoy and giving back to the people in every way possible.
Throughout Stan Lee’s life he inspires others to work harder and get through their problems because in the end it will always be worth the hardships you had to deal with. Stan Lee was a great motivator; many people would refer to him as their reason for why they got into making comics. Stan Lee also showed dedication to kids by putting often using difficult vocab that would make a child grab a dictionary, Stan Lee said “If a kid has to go to a dictionary, that's not the worst thing that could happen” (Stan Lee Encyclopedia) Displaying his care for the younger generation and trying to help improve their vocabulary. He showed dedication to improving their learning and helping them to
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Lee’s life he uses his vision to see change throughout the world and used his success to benefit others and further people in the way of knowledge. He shows care to the people who help him and he uses dedication to build up his comic book company and use it to provide great content to everyone. Stan also used his fame to give back to the community in every way possible. He showed respect for people who do great things but aren’t always recognized for it. He also shows his hard work in everything he does and creates personal relationships with people to make sure that everyone around him continues to feel important throughout the whole process. Stan Lee shows time in and time out that there are good people out there to look forward too. Using his influence to benefit others and not just himself. He demonstrates that not being selfish and humbling yourself for others helps you out in the long run. Although his time is slowly coming to an end, he believes strongly in the new generations to carry on the torch just as he did throughout his life and will continue to work hard until the end. Stan Lee Deserves to be on the top 100 influential people list because he shows respect, love, perseverance, and hard work in everything he does and to everyone he works
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Stan Lee changed the world in many great ways. He was an iconic comic book writer that went on to change the characters in comic books, he made comics evolve from simple to intricate, and he made comic book personalities come to life when put on the television screen. Stan Lee had no doubts that comic books would still be popular even when other things are in the way. A few statistics that prove how Stan lee changed the world are first Marvel Comics took away the top spot from DC comics on the percentage of comics sold with Marvel at 39.06 percent sold and DC at 26.38 percent. Also another one is the first Marvel Comics number one was sold at 350,000 dollars (“Marvel Movies”). Stan Lee revolutionized comic books in many different ways. He will always be remembered by what he did in the entertainment world.
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Through all his family and education issues, he standup himself to become a well-known hip-hop artist according to his history background. From all his released a couple albums and then was offered to be some movies. He make some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. For example, in this movies and albums called, “Power respect Juice” (1992), “Bullet”(1996), “Gang Related” (1997), “ all eyez on me”(1996),”Greatest Hits”(1998), and “Until the end of time”(2001), according to all these released, he won prizes from music and artist industry, people can recognized him. Tupac was became rich and famous and he is not showing off his own style. This showed that this is him and who he really is. People following his beliefs because he treated people equally and judged people equally. This is a big difference from him and other hip-hop artists. He has a lot of self-values that people are influenced about
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Captain Hammer and Doctor Horrible from Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog are intriguing cases because of their inherent qualities. The character of Captain Hammer is quite easily identifiable as the superhero of the story. He is shown saving people by stopping Doctor Horrible from stealing a van that contained a special power core (Whedon). Through physical characteristics such as his costume and his strong physique, Captain Hammer matches the physical criteria of the role superhero. Also, through his reputation and influence, Captain Hammer repurposes...
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The rise from the poor boy in Scotland to the second richest man in America. He had plenty of initiative and persevered throughout his life to become what he wanted to be. He retired as one of the most respected men in the world, and he will be in the history books forever.
Bruce Lee was influential in many ways, as a martial arts instructor, philosopher, father and many more things. Bruce Lee was born November 27, 1940 and as a young child he began his acting career, he starred in countless movies and even worked on tv shows. At a young age he studied in martial arts in Hong Kong then returned to the U.S where he became the man admired by many even today.
Captain America is not like the average superhero. Captain America, or his alter ego Steve Rogers, was a frail young man who was chosen by scientist Abraham Erskine to be tested with his experimental serum. That experimental serum made Rogers from a weak, bony young man to being to the peak of human perfection. Right after that, a Nazi spy appeared and shot Erskine, killing him. “In order to keep Nazi spies from obtaining the serum, Erskine hadn't written down the serum's ingredients, along with much of the procedure, having instead committed it to memory.” (Comic Vine) Rogers was the only super soldier manifested. Given a patriotic costume and a shield that not only is nearly indestructable but is used as a weapon, Captain America was born.
webs to shoot. He will be the most powerful and the biggest superhero ever made.