Many people see today's life as easy and no problem. They know where their next meal will be and lots don't face adversary. Back during the 1920’s Nobody had this luxury but the rich and powerful. There were a handful of people that brought back hope to this dreadful time and all off them are remembered as hero. Duke Kahanamoku Is one of those people that brought peace and joy to the hopeful people.
Duke Kahanamoku was born on August 24, 1890 in a was then small island named Waikiki.(Duke Kahanamoku.com)He had eight siblings those were Samuel,David,Sargent,Louis,Bill,Maria,Bernice, and Kapiolani. As most kids did Duke spent his whole childhood playing on the beach and as they say “running in the sun”.(Wikipedia.com) Duke spent lots of his time in the water as other children noticed how well off a swimmer he was they offered him a chance to ride a surfboard and that's when a
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He was in 19 movies in total and had little roles not really key ones. He almost never got credited for them so many never knew it was indeed Duke. He was credited for some key roles he played in like Isle of escape,The black camel and many more. As later in life when Surfing became more popular people wanted to know more about him. So they did just that and made over 4 documentaries talking about his life as a island boy and what it is like in the Olympics and other big sporting events.
Duke died on January 22,1968 of a heart attack in his home. He lived a wonderful life full of excitement and living far above what anybody thought. He faced opponents far better than him and beat them why? Because he had heart and soul that nobody else had. His brothers and sisters all had passed before him and he remembers them as his best friends and true role models he told a reporter. Duke Kahanamoku will be missed for all his Olympic fame and his fortune but near as much for his kindness and his grace to the
Duke Ellington, named Edward Kennedy Ellington at birth, was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington D.C. to James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. Both of Ellington’s parents were talented, musical individuals. Edward Kennedy was later nicknamed Duke by his childhood friend, Edgar McEntire and this name has stuck with him throughout his life and career. Duke Ellington was one of Jazz and Big Band’s most influential icons. He was known for famous recordings such as “Sophisticated Lady”, "Take the A Train," "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing," and "Satin Doll," Duke Ellington started taking piano lessons at age seven and became more serious about his piano lessons after hearing a pianist who worked at Frank Holiday’s poolroom. He was fourteen and had started sneaking into the poolroom. After listening to the poolroom’s pianist, something was ignited within and he fell in love with the piano. Ellington was known for his ability to choose members for his band who possessed very unusual talents while playing their instruments. These talents included Bubber Miley, who used a plunger to make the "wa-wa" sound, and Joe Nanton, who was known for his trombone "growl." It was for this quality to find such unusual players and his ingenious ability to compose beautiful music that lead to Ellington’s huge success. Duke Ellington composed over 1,000 compositions right up until the day he died, May 24, 1974. Although Ellington was known as a huge figure in Jazz, his music spanned beyond the Jazz genre; it stretched into blues, gospel, popular, classical and film scores. Through his efforts and achievements, he has made Jazz more accepted as an art form and genre. Ellington had received 12 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000...
‘'The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.'' (Eco). Some heroes wished that they might not be a hero, or some do, but don't know who, where, and when and why if/are heroes. The similarities between Sir Gawain and Westley are that they started their journey but got a little help on the way, they both start the journey by accepting that they have to go, they both know that they might end up dying but to go anywhere. The most superior is Westley because he had more help than Sir Gawain, Westley had two other people who tried to kill him but, Westley defended them and then they saved him and Westley help Inigo revenge his father's death from the six fingered man while saving the princess.
Arguably the most popular — and certainly the busiest — movie leading man in Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as a laborer on the Fox Studios lot during summer vacations from university, which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself in action films, comedies, and dramas. Wayne was cast in small roles in Ford's late-'20s films, occasionally under the name Duke Morrison. It was Ford who recommended Wayne to director Raoul Walsh for the male lead in the 1930 epic Western The Big Trail, it was a failure at the box office, but the movie showed Wayne's potential as a leading actor. During the next nine years, be busied himself in a multitude of B-Westerns and serials — most notably Shadow of the Eagle in between occasional bit parts in larger features such as Warner Bros.' Baby Face. But it was in action roles that Wayne excelled, exuding a warm and imposing manliness onscreen to which both men and women could respond.
Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin in Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate. The career biography of Jim Thorpe reads like an encyclopedia of sports, encompassing virtually every major athletic event available. In the 1912 Olympic Games at Stockholm, he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events. In the same year, he led his Carlisle Indian School team to the national collegiate championship, scoring 25 touchdowns and 198 points. Following the college football season, Thorpe went on to play 6 years of Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, he managed to lead the Canton Bulldogs football team to unofficial world championships in 1916, 1917, and 1919. When he eventually finished his playing days in 1928 with the Chicago Cardinals, Jim Thorpe had become an athletic attraction that crowds flocked to see. Thorpe died on March 28, 1953. In 1950, the nation's press selected Jim Thorpe as the most outstanding athlete of the first half of the 20th Century and in 2000, he was awarded ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Century. Then came that grand summer of 1912. As a child, Thorpe became his athletic father's protégé, at times running 20 miles home from school. "I never was content," he said, "unless I was trying my skill in some game against my fellow playmates or testing my endurance and wits against some member of the animal kingdom."
... which he received universal praise. Other films included The Long Kiss Goodnight, Deep Blue Sea, The Negotiator, Unbreakable, and Shaft. Despite his fame as a great Hollywood actor, Jackson has made time for stage work and independent films in order to stay close to his acting roots.
His parents had Indian heritage, but were part European and Native American. His mother’s name was Hiram Thorpe and his father’s name was Charlotte Vieux (Biography.com). Now, as a child, Jim would have had a total of ten siblings, but six of them died during childbirth, so that left him with four. One thing his family took great pride in is they were related to the great war chief named Black Hawk of the Sac and Fox tribe (“Jim Thorpe one of the greatest athletes of all time”). Now, the original tribe was from lands near and in Michigan.
When Ellington was seven years old, he took piano lessons. Ellington was a kind- hearted person growing up. Ellington childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner and his stylish clothing gave him a nice looks. He earned his nick name “Duke” because of his gentleman ways. Ellington went to Armstrong Technical High School in Washington, D.C. In 1914, Ellington wrote his first composition, “Soda Fountain Rag”. When he wrote that composition he worked as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Café. When he created that composition piece he didn’t really learned how to read and write music around that time.
...social suppression and attain dreams by just believing. I argue Kabnis should be the face of the south for all blacks because he took control himself and bypassed all social constructs and created his own dream and his own path.
At the Olympic Games at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, Jim Thorpe performed the dazzling accomplishment of winning both the five-event pentathlon and ten-event-decathlon, an achievement that had never ever been performed by an athlete. King Gustav of Sweden presented the winners their gold medals. When it was Thorpe’s turn, he draped the medal about his shoulders and said, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.
At this point in his life things started to change for the better for Duke,
The Duke takes his place in history. John Wayne, one of America’s greatest actors and directors of all time. His fame and superstardom led to many problems in his career. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit has overshadowed his career to such an extent that it is almost impossible for the fans and writers to separate Wayne the legend from Wayne the actor and Wayne the man.
What is a Hero? In the Novel Mythology by Edith Hamilton it speaks of many Greek Gods and Goddesses, you get a clear outlook on many of the characters in the novel. Many of these gods fit some criteria on what a hero is. An Epic Hero is a character who is brave and takes risks to accomplish tasks not only for themselves but for the goodness of others. A Hero is someone who doesn't only do things to benefit themselves but benefits the people around them and goes on quests to establish their greatness. Who is also glorified by their community. In the Novel two characters by the name Theseus and Perseus meet many of these characteristics. Perseus is very brave and goes on a quest to capture an item that is very dangerous
The book, Hamakua Hero by Patsy Iwasaki, and Berido is a book based on true stories, and depicts a man named Katsu Goto, a Japanese man who wanted to explore the world in the 1800’s. The base of the story is Katsu and his pursuit of the American Dream, and the Dream is exemplified in this through the sacrifices, and struggles Katsu goes through, and the outcome of his predicaments.
Through these extensive genres, Welles made a brand of himself. He was known for playing in theaters, receiving the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the D.W. Griffiths Award, and was named number sixteen on the Fifty Greatest Screen Legends List of the American Film Institute. In Welles films, famous actors like Everett Sloane and Joseph Cotton made constant appearances. His filmin...
starred in many of the war movies made at that time. By seeing so many