...On October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali delivered an eighth round knockout to heavyweight champion George Foreman in Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo). The fight, known as the Rumble in the Jungle, is a monument in sports history and a moment of equally potent social and political significance. Leon Gast’s colossal collection of archival footage leading up to the fight in Zaire was assembled and released twenty years later in the form of a documentary entitled When We Were Kings. The film focuses on Ali’s preparation for the fight in the context of his controversial role in American society at the time. An overwhelming presence in American popular culture, Ali reaffirmed his athletic and cultural dominance...
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...was overturned. Due to this hiatus, he had not fought again for nearly four years—losing a time of peak performance as an athlete. Ali's actions as a conscientious objector to the war made him an icon for the larger counterculture generation. Ali remains the only three-time lineal world heavyweight champion; he won the title in 1964, 1974, and 1978. Between February 25, 1964, and September 19, 1964, Ali reigned as the heavyweight boxing champion. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were the first Liston fight, three with rival Joe Frazier, and "The Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman, in which he regained titles he had been stripped of seven years earlier. At a time when most fighters let their managers do the talking, Ali, inspired by professional wrestler "Gorgeous George"...
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...Helping the poor, Determined, Civil Rights Activist are three words that people think of in connection to Muhammad Ali. Many people know that Muhammad Ali was a boxer, but he was so much more. As a boxer, Muhammad Ali showed America that through commitment and determination anyone can make a big difference, and he left a legacy as a helpful individual that speaks up for his opinion and others. Ali’s context to change all started is when he got into boxing. He got into boxing when he was twelve when he got his bike stolen. In addition, Ali came from not a rich family where they can buy whatever they want, when they want (Chaliapin, Time). Furthermore, Ali was very mad about his bike getting stolen, so he wanted to beat up the thief. Ali found someone he could practice his fighting skills with. Strangely enough, He started working with a police officer, that tried to find the thief of his bike, to learn how to fight so he could beat up the thief. After Muhammad Ali grew up, he was an amazing boxer. Some even call him the greatest boxer to ever live. According to Bio.com, Ali had 37 knockouts and only 5 losses in his whole 21 year career, which are amazing stats for a boxer. He also won 56 times in his whole professional career. Ali beat one of his biggest opponents, Joe Frazier, in the Philippines after a 14 round match. Ali was able to beat anyone, and he became known by many people of all races. Boxing was another thing that caused him to be able to change. Ali had many injuries...
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...A name that has definitely transcended the world is, Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is known to the world as an Olympian, activist and professional boxer. It is very apparent that he was one of the most well-known and respected sports figures of the 20th century. He was born in raised in a town called Louisville, Kentucky. He became fascinated with the sport of boxing and decided to pursue at the age of 12. His amateur began in the year of 1954. He fought another town local by the name of Ronnie O’Keefe. Once his first win was declared, he won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles, an Amateur Athletic Union national title, which all lead his to win then Lightweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Muhammad Ali was faced with one of the biggest years of his life during the year 1960. At the age of only 18 years old, Ali competed in the Olympics in Rome. His first four competitions came with great ease with a win for each that happened. Yet, within his final match Ali was able to crush a three-time European champion named Zbigniew Pietrzykowski for the gold medal. Yet, it seemed as if he was not only to present to receive the medal. Ali, then known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, had an innocent mission to a political difference. Training was his time to excel, which captivated others from various backgrounds such as Africa, Asia, Austria and etc. The Olympics does not differentiate anyone based on race, religion nor class. Therefore, Ali...
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...When you hear the name Ali most people only think of a great boxer, but Muhammad Ali was much more then a boxer he was an inspiration to many americans living in poverty. American soldiers fighting over seas were given strength by this amazing fighter. Muhammad Ali is an unsung heroes in american history. Muhammad Ali was born January 17,1942 (may have been conceived in May 1941) under the name Cassius Marcellus Clay jr. in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali was born to Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and Odessa Grady Clay. Ali changed his name after he converted to Muslim in 1975. Ali's road to greatness started when he was 12 years old. When a red and white Schwinn bicycle was stolen, a distraught Ali went to a police station to report the theft. Young Ali reported the theft to police officer Joe Martin, while Ali was telling the officer what happened he said the phrase that would start his career " when I find the person that stole my bike Im going to pummel them". Officer martin ( boxing trainer) told the young man that he needed to train before he started to challenge any one. Officer Martin took Ali under his wing and began to train him. This was the first step on the long road to being a world heavy weight champion and Olympic gold medal.Young Ali trained hard and dedicated all his time to learning as much as he could about the art of boxing. Four weeks later (1954) Ali won his first match by a split...
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...The Story of my role model Mohammad Ali Mohammad Ali AKA Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was one of the most talented boxer’s in the world “float like a butterfly sting like a bee” quoted from millions of his fans he was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky The success story of Muhammad Ali began with a simple incident. In 1954, when Ali was only 12 years old, his bike was stolen when he was with a friend at the Columbia auditorium. Boiling with rage, young Cassius encountered Joe Martin, a police officer. It was Martin who first advised him to learn boxing before he thought about fighting with anybody for revenge! This was the time when Clay began training with Fred Stoner. With Stoner’s training, Clay then won six Kentucky Golden Gloves title and many more medals. Young Cassius thus began dreaming about being a heavyweight champion at an early age. As a teenager, this boy completely dedicated himself to boxing. He practiced with unmatched fervor. His constant practice set him off from other boys. The talent and hard work is what helped him to bag all the medals even before he turned 18 years of age. With 100 wins in his amateur career, Cassius returned home to Louisville only to be shocked with unfair treatment. Cassius was refused service at a local restaurant despite all the extraordinary feats. Muhammad Ali’s childhood was thus not an ordinary life. It was the beginning that laid the foundation of a success story to inspire many others that choose this...
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...Failure can be experienced in many different ways. It’s the decisions you make after you have that experience which determines how you handle the same situation in the future. I’ve experienced failure in many different forms during my high school soccer career. Freshman year i broke my leg winter break and had to re build muscle strength and almost learn how to run again. This showed me that in life things can set you back, it may be crippling physically or mentally but once you overcome those challenges you develope a sense of perseverance and break through challenges! Like Winston Churchill says “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” I also believe that failure is the greatest teacher because you learn from act that didn't work and you learn to adjust and challenge the lack of success you once had. You almost start to develop an algorithm to break through those challenges to avoid failure. You can work on your shooting so you never miss a shot, you can develop new foot placement to change the angle of your shot. You can adjust the way your foot strikes the ball, but in the end its who is stronger mentally and wants the drive who wins! If you remember the fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, it was more than just a boxing match it was a mental game! It went 11 rounds and Joe Frazier won defeating Ali for the first time out of 31 fights! It easy ali had a strategy that was a little out of the norm, it was an acting stunt...
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...On the night of the suit, Madison sq. Garden had a circus-like atmosphere, with immeasurable policemen to keep watch over the group, atrociously dressed fans, and unnumerable celebrities, from creator and movie maker to crooner, who, when being unable to acquire a seating, took pix for maintains journal rather. Creator LeRoy Neiman painted Ali and Frazier as they fought. Burt Lancaster served as a color commentator for the electrical circuit broadcast. Despite the fact that Lancaster had ne'er performed as a announcer before, he was employed by way of the combat's promoter, Boche Perenchio, WHO was once additionally an exponent. The opposite commentators had been play-through-play announcer Don Dunphy and boxing champion Archie Moore.[citation needed] The referee for the battle used to be Arthur Mercante, Sr. The fight itself surpassed even its promotional plug and went the entire 15-round championship distance. Ali dominated the important 3 rounds, peppering the shorter Frazier with rapier-like jabs that raised welts on the champion's face. Within the closing seconds of spherical three, Frazier connected with an remarkable hook to Ali's jaw, snapping his head again. Frazier brutally attacked Ali's physique due to the fact that the certainly hurt former champion lined up for the primary time. Frazier started out to dominate within the fourth spherical, catching Ali with a lot of his high-quality left hooks and promise him towards the ropes to provide huge body blows. Ali used...
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...Creativity Structure: 1. Definition and use. 2. The 7 stage process PITIIVI 3. Types of ideas A, B and C. 4. Barriers 5. How to encourage 6. Idea Generation techniques, evaluate and choose the best. Creativity can be defined as the ability to develop news ideas and a new way of looking at problems and seeing them as opportunities. Innovation is then applying these creative solutions to enhance the lives of people. These concepts are important to businesses as firms that are classified as being innovation, show 7.4% higher profits. The 7-stage process is as follows; 1. Preparation: Involves essentially gaining knowledge of different fields, cultures, and countries. Reading, travelling, studying and listening, can do all this. “Creativity favours the prepared mind” 2. Investigation: this involves getting an in depth understanding of a particular field. For example if you are developing apps and games, you would want to have an extensive knowledge of programming in order to develop an idea which brings something new and innovative to the table. 3. Transformation: Involves spotting differences and similarities between certain things. Convergent thinking involves spotting the similarities and these combined can often make a better product/ service. A middle ground between concepts may be the most effective. 4. Incubation: this involves walking away from the problem or task and allowing your mind to subconsciously soak in everything...
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...are familiar. Characterization: Given data that shares similarities of characteristics and/or other requested specific information. (Example: Data from Amazon.com customers buying superhero books, can then be used to determine what age group buys superhero books. Then can suggest other types of similar books) Discrimination: Compares or contrasts data information. (Example: Amazon could find out what customers types buy more superhero book compared to biographies) Association and correlation analysis: How certain types of data can be associated with each other. Patterns, relationships, or correlations. (Example: Amazon could also find out what types of items sell together like people who buy cooking with the George Forman grill also buy a George Foreman grill. Classification: Data that is can be used to create certain labels for certain classes with certain distinctions or that maybe unknown. (Example: Amazon could create classes of customer of...
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...psychologist) did a study with rats in the 1960s. These rats were to be timed running through a maze and the fastest time recorded. Rosenthal had two groups of rats and a person timing and keeping scores. He told the person keeping scores that group 1 were probably the fastest rats. He said nothing about group 2. Guess which rats were the fastest. Rosenthal argued that the score-keeper’s belief that group 1 would be fastest meant that they expected them to be fast and this perception affected the results. My favourite example to demonstrate the above is the world renowned boxer, Mohammed Ali. Throughout his career, he chanted “I am the greatest”. Even when he was over 30 years old, when most boxers are at the end of their career, he fought George Forman. Forman was bigger, stronger, younger and previously unbeaten. After hard punches that would leave most boxers reeling, Ali asked Forman “Is that all you got?” Forman’s self belief faltered and Ali went on to win the...
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...Muhammad Ali was one of the most influential people of all time. He had many influential aspects about him. A few things that influenced people around him the most were his background story, his career, and his religion. People knew him for who he was and who he became with his career and his religion. His religion was especially a benefactor to his influence on people. First, Muhammad Ali impacted society by where he came from, or his background story. In the biography “Muhammad Ali” it said “Born Cassius Clay Jr., Ali changed his name in 1964 after joining the Nation of Islam. Citing his religious beliefs, he refused military induction and was stripped of his heavyweight championship and banned from boxing for three years during the prime of his career.” This shows how he came from a slave family and he wasn't treated too well because of it, it also shows he was treated poorly because of his religion, affecting how people viewed him. In another text, "Muhammad Ali: 4 Ways He Changed America." , it said “At the height of the Civil Rights era, his embrace of the Nation of Islam's rejection of racial integration was seen by many as just another form of bigotry — the NOI was considerably feared at the time and targeted by the FBI — and throughout the rest of his life he was called on to act as an ambassador for his religion as probably the most famous Muslim American in history, other than perhaps his mentor Malcolm X”. He was influential because he was a representative of where...
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...picture. The next day, her parents file a restraining order against Lutfi. A world without Britney, where she is set aside in rehab or a psychiatric center, is hard to contemplate: She's the canary in the coal mine of our culture, the most vivid representation of the excess of the past decade. She didn't think there was a tomorrow worth saving for, and neither did we. After blaming everyone else for her problems, Britney's finally starting to realize the degree to which she's messed up, but her sense of entitlement keeps her from admitting it to herself, or to anyone who is trying to help her. We want her to survive and thrive, to evolve into someone who can make us proud again. Or maybe, we just don't want the show to end. "Look at George Foreman: He's the oldest heavyweight champion ever," says Ghalib. "That's what Britney's going to be. She said it best to me: She refuses to live her life anymore reflected in the eyes of others." Then he gets very quiet. "Be gentle to her," he says. "That's a personal request."...
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...Future officers in the United States should strive to be the best leaders that they can possibly become. In this development what should be analyzed is what type of leader you are presently and what type of leader you want to someday become. By recognizing your strengths and weakness as a cadet you can improve upon them while you have time before you become an Air Force officer. It is essential that cadets strive to be successful leaders to continue the greatness of our Air Force. In order to better yourself as a leader you need a goal or ideal leader you want to model yourself after. My example of an ideal leader is Mohammed Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live. Mohammed Ali is a man of morals and the definition of a great leader. Early in his career in 1964, Ali converted his religion from Christianity to Islam; the same time changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali (“The Official1”). Two years later after his conversion and name change, he got drafted into the military service even after he failed the draft aptitude test. Ali refused to serve because of his Muslim beliefs. In 1967 he was found guilty of refusing to be inducted into the military services (“The Official1”). Although after a few years he was cleared of the charges, the damage was already done. The boxing association had already taken away his World Heavy Weight title and suspended him from boxing for three and a half years. Ali gave up some of his prime boxing years to fight for social...
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...I desired to have an original approach for my work and wanted to create something out of the ordinary. I knew that I wanted to create an assemblage because personally, three-dimensional works are extremely interesting. When I first saw the instructions mention using a box for this assignment, I spent a week thinking “outside of the box” to ensure that my work would capture a story that had significance and originality. For the background, I used a 27x47 cm George Foreman grill that was black in color. I placed representational silver and gold items on the background, which enhanced the contrast of the elements. The items I included were: two watches, two earrings, two rings, two cross-pendants, two necklaces, a one hundred dollar bill, and thirty quarters. My goal as an artist was to create visual harmony, which I achieved by using variety to unify. Even though all of the items I used were different in shape and color from one another (besides the quarters), I was able to use many different shapes in the work hold together as a unified whole. This was also accomplished by using symmetrical balance to make the assemblage feel more natural to the viewer so that they are able to make natural connections my piece. Emphasis and focal point are the principles of art that were my primary concerns so that I would draw attention to a specific location in my work. I used directional line, implied line and enhanced contrast to draw the viewer to the focal point, which are similar techniques...
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