Great People sample presentation

VESL Project:They Have Had an Impact : 

VESL Project:They Have Had an Impact What do great people have in common? Presentation by Arnold Swarzenneger, Julia Roberts, and Kristi Reyes MiraCosta College

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Howard Hughes Amelia Earhart Charles Lindberg Great American Aviators

Howard Hughes : 

Howard Hughes Date of birth: 1905 Place of birth: Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Date and cause of death: 1976, sickness Many accidents and mental instability

Occupation : 

Occupation Inherited family business, money Hollywood playboy Daredevil Entrepreneur

Accomplishments : 

Accomplishments Fastest flight around the world Many other flying records Pushed forward aviation industry by investing own money Won Congressional Gold Medal Have you seen the movie about his life? The Aviator Movie Trailer

Other information about Howard Hughes : 

Other information about Howard Hughes Good looks, charming, successful, very rich, powerful, but not happy Mental instability, eccentric, strange behavior, germaphobe (obsessive / compulsive) 14 plane and car crashes No close relationships: father and mother died when he was a teenager, marriage ended in divorce

Why admire Howard Hughes : 

Why admire Howard Hughes Can-do attitude: didn’t listen when other people said “Impossible” Set foundation for airplane travel for 21st Century

Amelia Earhart : 

Amelia Earhart Date of birth: July 24, 1897 Place of birth: Atchison, Kansas, USA Date and cause of death: Plane disappeared mysteriously when she was flying it in an attempt to be first woman to fly around the world. Plane never found.

Occupation : 

Occupation Nurse’s aide, social worker Feminist Aviator

Achievements : 

Achievements Many speed records First woman to fly solo across Atlantic; First woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast; First woman to fly U.S. to Mexico nonstop (1932) Gold medal from the National Geographic Society; Distinguished Flying Cross-the first ever given to a woman First person to fly solo across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, California (1935)

Other information : 

Other information “Tomboy” -- always liked to do activities that were not considered feminine for her time (hunting, climbing trees) Very intelligent and independent Married, but called her marriage “partnership with dual control” Courageous: "Please know I am quite aware of the hazards," she said. "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

Amelia Earhart: An Admirable Aviatrix : 

Amelia Earhart: An Admirable Aviatrix Did what other women and men did not dare to do Followed her passion Lost her life pursuing her dream

Charles Lindbergh : 

Charles Lindbergh Date of birth: February 4, 1902 Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA Date and cause of death: August 26, 1974, of cancer

Occupation : 

Occupation Flying cadet in the United States Air Reserve Mail pilot Inventor: artificial heart and lung, with the help of Dr. Alexis Carrel. Photographer / Explorer / Geographer: flyby photographs of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula Conservationist (worked to save animals) Aviator

Accomplishments : 

Accomplishments Won contest and $25,000 for first nonstop flight New York to Paris (transAtlantic); practiced by flying San Diego to New York in “Spirit of Saint Louis,” airplane he helped build San Diego Airport now named for him (Lindbergh Field) Won Pulitzer Prize for autobiographical book The Spirit of St. Louis (1954) Video of Lindbergh Receiving Medal of Honor from President Calvin Coolidge

Other important / interesting biographical information : 

Other important / interesting biographical information Dropped out of college to become a pilot Married to Anne Marrow, the daughter of the US ambassador to Mexico; she was co-pilot. They shared love of adventure and discovery. Famous and wealthy Tragedy: baby kidnapped, held for ransom, and later found murdered Charles Junior: The Lindbergh Baby

Charles Lindbergh: Why he is admirable : 

Charles Lindbergh: Why he is admirable Explorer, adventurer Used his intelligence, wealth, and fame for good purposes Accomplished what others did not (flying across the Atlantic)

Conclusion:What do these Great American Aviators have in common? : 

Conclusion:What do these Great American Aviators have in common? Wealthy Courageous Showed initiative Determination Outgoing Actions made a difference Passion Leadership Risk taker Adventurous

Questions? : 

Questions?