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Achieving One’s Dreams! A Celebrity Profile

Achieving One’s Dreams! A Celebrity Profile. Mr. Ham Greenwood High School. Achieving One’s Dreams!. What determines one’s ability to achieve success? Money Fame Position Looks Intelligence Strength. It All Comes Down to Matters of the Heart!.

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Achieving One’s Dreams! A Celebrity Profile

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  1. Achieving One’s Dreams!A Celebrity Profile Mr. Ham Greenwood High School

  2. Achieving One’s Dreams! • What determines one’s ability to achieve success? • Money • Fame • Position • Looks • Intelligence • Strength

  3. It All Comes Down to Matters of the Heart!

  4. “Anyone can become angry- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way- this is not easy.” Aristotle

  5. Famous People with Learning Disabilities • Albert Einstein • He did not speak until age 3. • He was thought to be simple minded, until it was realized that he was able to achieve by visualizing rather than by the use of language. • His work on relativity, which revolutionized modern physics, was created in his spare time. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

  6. Thomas Alva Edison • He was unable to read until he was twelve years old and his writing skills were poor throughout his life.

  7. George Washington • He was unable to spell throughout his life and his grammar usage was very poor. • His brother suggested that perhaps surveying in the backwoods might be an appropriate career for young George.

  8. Woodrow Wilson • President of the USA and Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President of USA, were both severely dyslexic.

  9. Tom Cruise • Is unable to read due to severe dyslexia. • He is able to memorize lines and perform on stage and screen.

  10. Harriet Tubman • As a child he was struck on the head by an overseer. • The blow fractured her skull and resulted in narcolepsy for the rest of her life. • At the age of 29 she escaped from slavery and lead others to freedom throughout the course of her life.

  11. Abraham Lincoln • At the age of twelve he fell off a horse while visiting a farm several hours from his Kentucky home. • From that point forward he experienced periods of “dazing off” and completely being unaware of his surroundings.

  12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt • U.S. President (1882-1945) • Due to polio, he was mostly confined to a wheelchair throughout most of his life.

  13. Albert Einstein Henry Ford Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Leonardo da Vinci Charles Schwab Walt Disney George Burns Cher Jay Leno Whoopi Goldberg Danny Glover Greg Louganis General George Patton Winston Churchill Woodrow Wilson Nelson Rockefeller People with Dyslexia

  14. Mel Tillis, 1976 Country Music Entertainer of the Year James Earl Jones, over came stuttering by reading Shakespeare alone in a field Bruce Willis Charles 1, King from 1625-1649 Charles Darwin Bob Love, 3x NBA All-Star and led Chicago Bulls in scoring for 7 consecutive seasons Walter Annenberg, founder of TV Guide & Seventeen Clara Barton, founder of American Red Cross Marilyn Monroe Stutters

  15. Lord Byron Charles Dickens Agatha Christie Alexander the Great Julius Caesar Socrates Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Famous People with Epilepsy

  16. Buzz Aldrin, astronaut Ned Beatty, actor C.E. Chaffin, writer & poet John Daly, golf pro Gordon Summer (Sting), top 25 performers in 2001 Jean-Claude Van Damme Barbara Bush, former 1st Lady Drew Carey Jim Carey Dick Clark Sheryl Crow Queen Elizabeth Anthony Hopkins Janet Jackson Ozzy Osbourne Boris Yeltsin, former President, Russia George Stephenopoulos Famous People who have Battled Depression

  17. John F. Kennedy George C. Scott Tom Smothers “Magic” Johnson Carl Lewis Sylvester Stallone John Lennon Robert Kennedy Wright Brothers Thomas Thoreau George Bernard Shaw Beethoven Galileo Mozart Henry Winkler F. Scott Fitzgerald Robin Williams Dwight D. Eisenhower Dustin Hoffman Werner Von Braun, brains behind 1st generation of rocketry Other Famous People with Learning Disabilities

  18. Everyone has misfortunes.Life is defined by how we handle this misfortunes. “10% of the problem we can’t control. However, it is the 90% that we can control that determines the outcome.” • Lack confidence • Worry • Become angry • Blame others

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