Christopher Reeve, best known as superman, was born September 25, 1952 in New York City. He had various stage and television roles before becoming the star of Superman and it’s sequels. This was the first of four movies where he put on the cape and played the “Man of Steel.” He also starred in many other well known movies including: “Deathtrap”and “Noises Of”. Christopher displayed a wide range of acting skills from comedy to drama to action. Reeve and Dana Morosini (his wife) had two children, Matthew and Alexandra. In May 1995 Christopher suffered from a horse accident, being completely immobile off the neck down. In spite of struggling against his deficiency, he supported patients all over the world with the same “type” of problem. He wrote …show more content…
However, popularity truly stepped at his door, when interpreting Superman’s paper. After his accident, Reeve made campaign for the research with cell-trunk and he was also activist of Unicef. On October 10, 2004, due to a cardiac arrest, Christopher Reeve the unforgettable Superman’s died when he was 52 years in a hospital on New York.
Reeve was an actor, producer, director, author, and an activist. He was best known for playing the role of superman. Reeve found his passion for acting at the age of nine when he was cast in school play. After graduating school, Reeve first planned to find a career in theater in New York. Instead he applied for college and was accepted into Brown, Princeton, Cornell, and many other colleges. Reeve wanted to stay in New York and pursue his dreams of becoming an actor. Even though the commute to Cornell was three and a half hours away, he choose to go there because of this grandfather. Reeve convinced the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
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He soon felt like he had let everybody down, especially his family. He did not believe that his survival was possible, suicide too was an option for him at one point but the hope from his family made him carry further as his wife Dana Reeve stated,"I am only going to say this once: I will support whatever you want to do because this is your life, and your decision. But I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You're still you. And I love you.” Reeve knew that recreating his life would be difficult but he proceeded to persevere to get his life back on track. Reeve had operations to reattach his skull and spine and only had a fifty-fifty chance of survival. Soon after his recovery Reeve found that insurance companies refuses to support essential equipment and care required for patients that suffer from the same injury, he protested this statement in Washington to help other patients to recover from spinal cord injuries. There were many obstacles especially since he had to adjust to the life of being paralyzed and not being able to breath on his own, but Reeve proved to the doctors that said it was impossible, that he could breathe without the help of a ventilator by unhooking it one day and breathing a few minutes at a time. Over time, Reeve believe that if he kept his body as physically strong as possible, the nervous system could be
Sherman Alexis a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian who wrote “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and me”. In the short story explains how he learned to read and write even with limited resources on the reservation where he grew up. He starts his story by using popular culture describing how he learned how to read using a comic book about “Superman”. He also explained why Indian children were never supposed to amount to anything in life and that they were supposed to be dumb among Non-Indians. He wanted to let other Indian students that reading is what saved his life. It opened up his mind and made him a better person today.
Intro: Christopher Reeve is known for playing superman but, in 1995 he had an accident that led him paralyzed. Also at this time they were trying to pass the Americans With Disabilities Act. So in 1996 he went and spoke at the national Democratic Convention lets see what all he said.
In the essay, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie discusses about how a Superman comic book was the reason he learned to read. He believes that anyone can gain education and achieve their goals if they are willing to put effort, even if the world wants to see you fail. To begin with, Alexie opened up by saying that he learned how to read by reading a “Superman” comic book. Alexie grew up in a Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington. Even though his family was poor, alexie’s father would find his way to collect as many books as he could. His father influenced his love for books and reading. Furthermore, the first word he learned was “paragraphs” and he described it as a “fence that held words,” and began
...ptly stricken by an illness which landed him in the hospital. He died on April 9, only two months before his 92nd birthday.
Soon after, Ike’s health began to fail. In 1965, he suffered three more heart attacks, and spent his last few months in Walter Reed Army Hospital. Ike died on March 28, 1961.
After high school Williams began to attend college at Claremont Men's College where he majored in political science. It was while at Claremont he discovered acting. Williams began memorizing Jonathan Winter's (Williams' idol) records and taking lessons in improv. Soon Williams transferred to Marion College to study acting. He proved to be extremely gifted and was awarded a full scholarship to Julliard in New York City. At Julliard Williams studied under John Houseman and became best friends with Christopher Reeve. He started off in drama and was very promising. Williams worked as a mime and began practicing stand up to make extra money.
...69, Armstrong would go to the hospital with heart problems in 1959, Just ten years before that, he would be hospitalized for a heart attack.(Louis Armstrong) Louis Armstrong would die in 1971, one source however says he died in his sleep, another of of a heart attack.
An essay “Man and Superman: In athletic competitions, what qualifies as a sporting chance?” by Malcolm Gladwell is attempted to answer an issue “Do genetic advantages make sports unfair?” The essay contains two arguments: human biological diversity makes sports unfair, and, consequently, as human attempts to equalise all the players as considered a moral obligation, the sports industry has no problem with athletes’ self-transformation while doping athletes is prohibited which, in his opinion, they should be justified just like those self-transformations. Gladwell also criticises the sports industry who is actually a culprit of this fairness, they try to level the playing by measuring that no one has an advantage over others but the consequence is a catalyst of science intervention.
Superman experiences many stages on the Hero’s Journey cycle, like challenges and temptations and Abyss. He experiences these stages in his journey so that he can become complete and accept who he is. He experiences temptations and challenges when he meets Louis Lane which made him want to show off and make his true identity known. He also has trouble fitting in on Earth. He doesn’t feel comfortable hiding himself and trying to be two different people at the same time. He also feels the stage of abyss when he metaphorically dies and Louis Lane dies.
Even at a young age, those who knew him well knew that he would one day become an actor, just like his father. When he was 17, he made his first official acting debut in Baltimore with a role in the Shakespeare play Richard III. He was wildly popular and toured ar...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, into one of the wealthiest families in the United States. Universally called "JFK," he became a millionaire at the age of 21 when his father gave him one million dollars, but politics and sports were of much more importance to him. He loved touch football, tennis, golf, sailing, and swimming. JFK attended Princeton University and Harvard, graduating from there cum laude. He attended Stanford University business school before serving in the U.S. Navy. He was a naval hero during World War 11 when his PT boat was cut in half and he helped to save the lives of his crew. Returning after the war, he was elected to Congress in 1946 and to the Senate in 1948 and was popular, well-liked, and handsome. He had a fine sense of humor and was a good orator. On September 12, l953, JFK married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. They had three children, but one, Patrick, born during Kennedy's term of office, died in infancy.
Superman’s first appearance in an Action Comics was in 1938. He could leap over forty-story building with ease, lift cars overhead and couldn’t be hurt by bullets smaller than artillery shells. Scientists explained Superman’s abilities essentially as the strengths obtained from being born on Krypton. A planet 1,000 times larger than Earth, Krypton also had fifteen times the gravity. Generating energy directly from the sun, Superman, used his plant like ability to photosynthesize energy. Perhaps his heart pumps green chlorophyll rather than red blood, which would allow him to perform on Earth like an Earth astronaut can perform on our moon. He had extraordinary abilities, and although he was super, he was not omnipotent. Gaining energy from
Chris had a slow start to his acting career but he proved himself and that leads him from a supporting actor to leading star in blockbuster movies. The improvement does not only apply in his career but also on his weight. From “flabs” to “abs”, he now took the second spot as the 2014 Sexiest Man Alive in People’s Magazine.
George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Man and Superman in response to calls for him to write a play based off the Don Juan theme. Don Juan is a fictional character, said to be a womanizer, whose story has been told many times by various authors. George Bernard Shaw wrote for the Realism time period of theater, where the actions and speech of the characters were similar to that of everyday life. The plays and the actors themselves aimed to use the stage as an environment, rather than an acting platform. Social and political themes were popular and lower and middle class were often viewed as heroes. Plots and secrets known the audience, but not to certain characters, added to the suspense.