terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2011

6º FÓRUM

ESCREVA UMA PEQUENA BIOGRAFIA DE UM ÍDOLO SEU.

25 comentários:

  1. I was thinking about who I can talk about. I have to admit than my greatest idol is Ayrton Senna, the most important pilot of our country, idol of almost everyone than ever saw a F1 race, brazilian or not, of another great champions, like Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel...

    But I'll use this space to talk about an idol in another sport than is doing a very important job today: Romário.

    As a football player, Romário was one of the greatest. More than a thousand goals, a lot of titles, a World Cup at 1994, at the same year won the Fifa Player of the Year, top scorer of Brazilian Championship 3 times, of UEFA Champions League another 2. He have the respect of almost everyone like a player.
    But on last year, Romário was elected a congressman. A lot of people, even me, doubted about the seriousness of this. Romário as a congressman? What a joke! Another time, the brazilian people were relapse with their votes.
    And than came 2011, the World Cup projects being discussed and Fifa trying, in the middle of scandals about corruption, to tell how the things must be done. Romário showed himself like a great congressman, fighting against the Fifa interferences, even in our laws (Fifa wanna disrespect the Status of the Elderly, the states laws about students and alcohool, decide our cities projects...).
    This is a little tribute for this man than is surprising everyone in congress and being one of the few man than go against Seph Blatter, Ricardo Teixeira and their gangster. Congratulations.

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  2. Chico Xavier
    Francisco Candido Xavier, or Chico Xavier, was the medium most famous and respected in Brazil and abroad and greater uptime psychic. Born in the town of Pedro Leopoldo, Minas Gerais, on April 2, 1910, Spiritualism began in the 17 years, when her sister Mary Xavier Pena, sick and disillusioned by doctors, was taken to the home of a family spirit. After a prayer around the bedside of her sister, attended Chico, she was cured.
    From there he began to attend spiritualistic meetings. Aided by his brother Joseph Candido Xavier, founded the Spiritist Center Luiz Gonzaga, in May 1927. On July 8 of that year, psychographed the first time, receiving an 17 pages, a Spirit Friend, which was about Duties Spiritualists.
    But Joseph Xavier fell ill and died then and the medium, always harassed by multitudes pleading and suffering and surrounded by friends and admirers came to work alone for long, between persecution and prejudice, for absolute lack of companions.
    In late 1931, he met Emmanuel, his shining guide, and from there began what may be called the "sublime bridge" between Heaven and Earth. Under his spiritual guidance, Chico Xavier psychographed thousands of pages of instruction, education and comfort, dictated by numerous spirits, and compiled on four hundred and two books, the last of which, called "Life Steps" (Cornelius Pires, Editor CEU) was published in 1996.
    Many of them have been translated into other languages, where English, Spanish and Esperanto.
    Proceeds from the sale of books, a remarkable fortune, was from the beginning, fully donated on behalf of hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages and other charities, living Chico Xavier of his meager salary of humble public servant.
    The maximum of Jesus: "Give for free what you receive for free" was the motto of this great Christian worker in dealing with money of her mediumship been blessed.
    Even sick and elderly, attended, whenever possible, on Saturday night, the Spirit of Prayer Group for the hundreds of people crowding on site, eager for a word of affection, he always had for everyone, and by his gesture of love, a special feature: the tender kiss the hands that looked.
    Chico Xavier resided for many years in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, disembodied on 30/06/2002, around 19:30, at the age of 92 years

    Alexsandra

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  3. My idol since childhood, is Arthur Antunes Coimbra - Zico. It was a football player, manager and now a football coach (trains the selection of Iraq). Super charismatic, was the leading team of Flamengo in the 70 and 80. Its main titles: a Libertadores Cup, Intercontinental Cup (in Japan) and four national championships. For all that, is considered by many experts and the red-black nation the greatest player in club history. It is the leading scorer of the Maracana stadium, with 333 goals in 435 matches.

    He was elected as the third largest Brazilian Footballer of the twentieth century, the seventh largest in South America and the fourteenth among all the world, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). It is one of four Brazilian appearing on the FIFA Hall of Fame (the others being Pele, Garrincha and Didi). He was elected by his own International Federation of Football (FIFA), the greatest player in the eighth century, the greatest player in the ninth century by the magazine France Football, the Brazilian ninth century in the sport, according to a survey by the magazine this, and the tenth largest player of all time by British magazine World Soccer.

    I think he has made many fans of Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco suffer (rs!). But he's my idol!

    Once Flamengo, Flamengo always!

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  4. I not have exactly a idol, but people what I admire for their work and life story. One is our former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Also known as Lula, this Brazilian, born in the state of Pernambuco in 1945, had his life marked by the struggle of collective ideals, always ahead of trade unionists and political movements. Born in a very humble family, without access to education and other rights, was forced to move to Sao Paulo, still young man to try to better living conditions. After several experiments, learned the trade of lathe, which even lost a finger in an accident at work.
    At that time, came to represent the Brazilian workers, as a trade unionist, an occupation that earned him a political fututo. He was elected federal deputy in 1986. Then, he applied several times for President of Brazil, losing all. In 2002, he returned to the political scene, was elected president. He had a mandate marked by the advancement in the social area, with attention to the poor. He was reelected in 2006, again turned to the needs of the Brazilian people, preferring instead the social area. From 2011, ceased to be President and became a political reference to the world.
    Currently, he is a little sick and fight by cure.

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  5. My idol is Jesus Christ, the greatest icon of Christianity. For Christians Jesus Christ is the "Son of God," which foienviado to earth to save mankind. Was crucified, dead and buried, descended into hell and rose again the third day (Easter).

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  6. I think I don´t have an idol. I enjoy some singers and I admire somepeople that makes the difference in the world... People like Madre Tereza de Calcutá, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Irmã Dulce and others that fight for peace in the world or live their lifes for take care of other people, I think they deserve to be idols!
    kisses
    Andrea

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  7. My idol is Chico Xavier. Brazilian spirit medium, who was born in Pedro Leopoldo (MG) on April 2, 1910. His work has always involved the disclosure of spiritualism in social work and support people suffering. Spiritualists psychographed numerous works (about 412), targeting the copyright to charities. Even in poor health benefits of humanide worked. Died on June 30, 2002, leaving millions of orphans followers.
    Fonte: www.vivaluz.com.br

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  8. Hi good to write the biography of my idol. I have a single idol. My idol is very special. I admire him a lot. And I know I can learn a lot from him. I can feel your company all the time with me. My idol was born forever and will never cease to be what it always was. I feel very loved by my idol and I love him too. My idol is the Eternal God is my idol.

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  9. Edson Arantes do Nascimento - Pelé

    Edson was born in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 23, 1940.
    His name come Thomas Edison – the inventor.
    Growing up in poverty on the streets of Bauru (SP).
    He was given his first leather ball on his sixth birthday. At the age of eleven, Pelé was scouted by Brazilian legend Waldemar de Brito and was invited to join de Brito's amateur team, Clube Atlético Bauru.
    In 1956, Pele's mentor got to São Paulo with him, to try out for professional club Santos Futebol Clube. De Brito told the directors at Santos that the fifteen year old would be "the greatest football player in the world".
    Pelé was offered professional terms and scored four goals in his first league game. When the new season started, Pelé was given a starting place in the first team and, at the age of just sixteen, became the top scorer in the league.
    Just ten months after signing professionally, the teenager was called up to the Brazilian National Football Team.
    In Football World Cup 1958, Pelé became the youngest ever Football World Cup winner at 17. He played in three more Brazilian world cup teams in 1962, 1966 and 1970, two of which Brazil won (1962 and 1970).
    However his contribution was limited in the 1962 and 1966 FWC because of injuries, the 1970 tournament in Mexico was to be Pele's last.
    The 1970 team, featuring famous players like Rivelino, Jairzinho, and Tostão, is often considered to be the greatest team ever.
    Pele's sublime technique and deft touch combined with his phenomenal dribbling skills and incredible scoring ability cannot be overstated. His immense haul of over twelve hundred career goals in all competitions has not even come close to being matched by any other man in the history of the professional game. His unrivalled talent in by far the world's most popular sport has led many to consider him to have been the finest sportsman in the history of the world.
    After his retirement from Brazilian football on October 3, 1974, he joined the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League. He played his last game as a professional on October 1, 1977 in USA against his old club, Santos; he played the first half with the Cosmos and the second half with Santos.
    After living the professional soccer gloriously. He takes to the businesses the brand fame of "Pelé".

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  10. I have a music idol, Johann Sebastian Bach. He was a German Baroque composer. He is now generally regarded as one of the main composers of the Baroque style, and as one of the greatest composers of all time.
    He was born in March 1685, and died in July 1750. A composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.
    Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Partitas, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion, the Magnificat, the Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, the English and French Suites, the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the Cello Suites, more than 200 surviving cantatas, and a similar number of organ works, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, and the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes and Organ Mass. And he dedicated all his life and work to God.
    I'm trying to play his Partitas for keyboard, and I'm working very hard to achieve this. They are difficult and beutifull.

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  11. Francisco de Paula Candido Xavier was one of the most important medium of Spiritism in Brazil. Chico Xavier was born in 1910 in Pedro Leopoldo.
    He was the son of a poor family and only studied up to fourth grade. But he was a great reader and came to have a library of five hundred books of different authors in several languages.
    Her mediumship is first manifested at 4 years old, when he told the spirits, to see and hear and talk to them.
    At 17 years old he found the Spiritual Center Luiz Gonzaga and he began writing by psychographics. His psychic powers had always caused problems, and throughout his life he was accused of plagiarism and impostor. He wrote several literary works that were published and translated into several languages. He gave the copyright to the sale of all their books for spirit organizations and charities.
    In the spiritual center he attended the needy people with recipes, advice without accepting payment. He was responsible for campaigns to distribute food and clothing for the urban poor people and help with money from selling his books. He participated in television programs and on several occasions in the 80's and his fame has expanded abroad. In 1981 he was proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, who has not won. He psychographed about ten thousand letters from the dead to their families.
    Chico Xavier died at 92 years old in 2002 in Uberaba due to heart problems.
    “While no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start now and make a new order” (Chico Xavier)

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  12. I admire King David, a great man, warrior, musician, sensitive to the beautiful and the good. Above all, God-fearing. 
    David was the youngest of several sons. He was sensitive,thoughtful and a simple shepherd. But his heart was sincere and pure. Because it  he was chosen to be the king of Israel being one of the greatest kings of the time. Besides being brave killing the giant Goliah when they were all afraid.
    Even when he was wrong things, he always acknowledged and returned to God with broken hearts and obedient. His joy was contagious to everyone as he left the streets, singing in praise and thanksgiving to God for all things. 
    For me, King David was an example of fruitful life dedicated to please and glorify the name of the Lord.

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  13. My idols are my parents.

    My idol is my mother. She is 60 years old. He lives in a small town in the interior, Itaberaba, which has a simple life. It came from the countryside to the city and a number of difficulties struggled in life with her husband, my father, raising seven children. With a small income educated all their children for life. You are about to retire with a minimum wage and is already planning what to do when this happens.

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  14. Nelson Mandela

    He was bornin Qunu,in 1918, a small village in South Africa. His father was a important man in the village, but nhe died whwn Nelson was still young.Nelson worked hard and went to a university where he studied history and languages. At the university he became interested in politics in joined the African National Congress. Nelson studied law and became a lawyer in 1952. In 1958, he married Winnie Mandela. They had two daughters. Nelson became a leader in the African National Congress which fought against the all white South African government. In 1962 he went to prision. He finally left prision in 1990, and in 1993 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He became the first black president of South Africa in 1994. He retired from politcs in 1999 at the age of 80 and went back to Qunnu.

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  15. My idol is Gandhi, a history of life based for a pacific fight.
    On 2 October 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Kathiawar, Porbunder state, India, pacifist leader of the main character of humanity and independence of that country.
    The youngest of three sons of Karamchand Gandhi (Kaba Gandhi) and his wife Putlibai. In 1883, only thirteen years, he married Mrs. Kasturbai Makanji, who also had thirteen years too. He graduated in law in London and in 1891 returned to India to practice law. Two years later, went to South Africa, also a British colony, where it initiates the peace movement, fighting for the rights of Hindus. Back to India in 1914 and spread his movement, whose main method is passive resistance. The movement consists of non-cooperation with British rule and preaches non-violence as a form of struggle. In 1922 he organized a strike against the tax increase, in which a mob burned a police station. Arrested, pleads guilty and is sentenced. In 1930, leads march to the sea, when thousands of people walk more than 320 km on foot, to protest the tax on salt.
    The British colonial rule lasted more than two hundred years. The Indians were considered second-class citizens. In 1930, Gandhi traveled to London to ask Britain to grant independence to India. There, visiting workers' quarters. "I know that I will keep forever in my heart the memory of the welcome they received from the poor people of East London," says Gandhi. When he returning to India, received in triumph by thousands of people, though nothing very significant was the result of the trip. Gandhi spoke to the crowd that wants to continue in his campaign for civil disobedience to force Britain to grant independence to India. The British, again, send him to prison. In 1942 the British government sends him to New Delhi Sir Stafford Cripps, with a mission to negotiate with Gandhi. Sir Cripps proposals that are unacceptable to bring Gandhi, who want full independence. Gandhi returns to campaign for civil disobedience This time is arrested and sentenced to two years in jail. When Lord Louis Mountbatten became Viceroy, Gandhi approaches and born between between Hindus and Muslims reached the height of fanaticism. On the streets there are thousands of corpses. Muslims claim an independent state, Pakistan. Gandhi tries to restore peace and prevent fighting between Hindus and Muslims accepting the division of the country and starting a tenth to fifth hunger strike. The sacrifice of Gandhi and his firmness that neither can the politicians nor the army could: India achieved independence and created Muslim state of Pakistan. The division draws to him the hatred of Hindus nacioinalistas. Gandhi died on January 30, 1948, assassinated by a Hindu. She was 78 years. Lord and Lady Mountbatten, next to a million people in India, attend the funeral. Part of his ashes are released to the sacred waters of the Jumna River. In January 1996, part of the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi is thrown into the Ganges River in the city of Allahabad, sacred place for Hindus. The ceremony takes place on the 49th death anniversary of pacifist leader. Gandhi was a committed pacifist and always preached a doctrine of nonviolence. He wanted peace between Hindus and Muslims, between Indian and English and among all mankind, and so much more, "Mahatma Gandhi" will remain forever as a symbol of resistance for Nonviolence.

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  16. My big idol is Jesus Christ. He was incredible. He preached love, peace and respect for others. He taught us to have a true faith in God and yet the way to approach us the father. He suffered on the cross, was humiliated, but still was unable to wish evil those who were abusing him. On the contrary, at the time of greatest pain, he asked God to forgive their perpetrators. He was wonderful. He really lived what he preached!

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  17. Michael Jordan
    He was born in Brooklin, New York,
    February 17, 1963, is a forme American professional player. He is majority owner of the Charlotte Cobcats.
    MJ is the gratest basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes
    of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
    He has 1,98 m height and 98 kg weight. He has two brothers and two sisters.
    Jordan married Juanita Vanoy in September 1989, and they have two sons,
    Jordan won numerous awards and set many records during his career (1984-2003).
    Michael Jordan is my idol!

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  18. My idol is Priest Fábio of Melo.He was born in the city of Ants (Minas Gerais) in 1971.It is formed in Philosophy by the Fundação Eduacional of Brusque(SC) and in Theology for the Faculdade Dehoniana of Taubaté(SP),in whose diocese acts.It is postgraduate in education and master in Systematic Theology for the Instituto Santo Inácio, of Belo Horizonte(MG).Besides priest, he is university teacher, writer, composer and singer.He has a life dedicated entirely to the evangelização work by means of the art,and it follows it I begin that the Gospel is always a word that provides us the " adventure of the good ".He is a representative of God in the Earth.In the moments most difficult of my life,its words brought the comfort that I needed.

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  19. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. Georgia and other southern states of the United States had been slow to give equal rights to African-Americans as well as poor whites and King wanted a change.
    When he became a minister in 1954, he began a long road of leadership using nonviolent methods. Many people joined his movement, and in 1963 he had a huge gathering of people to Washington D. C., to protest unfair government. Because of his efforts many rights were assured to all races.
    Dr. King developed his ideas through his own experience, as well as through reading books by the American writer Henry David Thoreau and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. He especially admired the example of Mahatma Ghandi, who had successfully led a nonviolent revolution to free India of British rule.
    At 35 years of age, Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to ever receive a Nobel peace prize. He was awarded the prize in 1964 for helping Americans change unfair laws against African-American people. However, not everybody accepted his ideas. On April 4, 1968, at age 39, he was killed by an assassin's bullet.
    Today, Dr. King's birthday is a holiday in the United States and is celebrated in honor of his struggle for democracy

    I admire Mr Luter King!

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  20. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. Georgia and other southern states of the United States had been slow to give equal rights to African-Americans as well as poor whites and King wanted a change.
    When he became a minister in 1954, he began a long road of leadership using nonviolent methods. Many people joined his movement, and in 1963 he had a huge gathering of people to Washington D. C., to protest unfair government. Because of his efforts many rights were assured to all races.
    Dr. King developed his ideas through his own experience, as well as through reading books by the American writer Henry David Thoreau and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. He especially admired the example of Mahatma Ghandi, who had successfully led a nonviolent revolution to free India of British rule.
    At 35 years of age, Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to ever receive a Nobel peace prize. He was awarded the prize in 1964 for helping Americans change unfair laws against African-American people. However, not everybody accepted his ideas. On April 4, 1968, at age 39, he was killed by an assassin's bullet.
    Today, Dr. King's birthday is a holiday in the United States and is celebrated in honor of his struggle for democracy

    I admire Mr Luter King!

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  21. Yasser Arafat Biography

    Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini.
    Arafat was born in 1929 to a successful merchant father and a religiously devout mother. His birth name was Mohammed, but he was nicknamed Yasser, which means "easy". Arafat's mother died when he was four, and his father sent him to live with a married uncle in Jerusalem. After the war, Arafat studied civil engineering at the University of Cairo in Egypt. He headed the Palestinian Students League and, by the time he graduated, was committed to forming a group that would free Palestine from Israeli occupation.
    As a teenager in the 1940s, Arafat became involved in the Palestinian cause. Before the Arabs were defeated by Israel in 1948, Arafat was a leader in the Palestinian effort to smuggle arms into the territory.
    He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA),
    and leader of the Fatah political party, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat and his movement operated from several Arab countries. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fatah faced off with Jordan in a brief civil war. Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were major targets of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country.
    Arafat remains a highly controversial figure whose legacy has been widely disputed. He was "revered by many Arabs," and the majority of the Palestinian people, regardless of political ideology or faction, viewed him as a freedom fighter who symbolized their national aspirations. However he was "reviled by many Israelis" who viewed him as a terrorist. Israel has also accused him of mass corruption, secretly amassing a personal wealth estimated to be USD $1.3 billion in 2002 despite the degrading economic conditions of the Palestinians.
    Later in his career, Arafat engaged in a series of negotiations with the government of Israel to end the decades-long conflict between it and the PLO. These included the Madrid Conference of 1991, the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. His political rivals, including Islamists and several PLO leftists, often denounced him for being corrupt or too submissive in his concessions to the Israeli government. In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant organizations rose to power and shook the foundations of the authority that Fatah under Arafat had established in the Palestinian territories.
    In late 2004, after effectively being confined within his Ramallah compound for over two years by the Israeli army, Arafat became ill, fell into a coma and died on 11 November 2004 at the age of 75. While the exact cause of his death remains unknown and no autopsy was performed, his doctors spoke of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and cirrhosis.

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  22. Hard! I usually do not worship idols. Normally I admire the work of the people. But if I have to talk to someone, I chose the Portuguese writer Jose Saramago.

    José de Sousa Saramago lived from 1922 to 2010. He was a writer, screenwriter, journalist, playwright and poet Portuguese. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. It also won the Camões Prize, the most important literary prize of the Portuguese language.

    Saramago is known for using long phrases and sentences, using punctuation in an unconventional way. This language makes the reader confused whether a conversation was real or just a thought. This provomove different sensations during the reading. Many of his phrases occupy more than one page, using commas where most writers would end points. However, his style does not make reading difficult, your readers can easily get used to your own pace.

    Saramago wrote many works from theater pieces, short stories, poems, chronicles and romances. Were among these 17 novels and I recommend two in particular: "Baltasar and Blimunda” (Portuguese title: Memorial do Convento) and "Death with Interruptions” (Portuguese title: As intermitências da Morte).

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  23. Bob Marley

    He was a singer, guitarist and composer Jamaican, best known reggae musician of all time, famous for popularizing the genre. Much of his work deals with the problems of the poor and oppressed. He was called "Charles Wesley of the Rastafarians" by the way he spread the religion through their music.
    Bob was married to Rita Marley, one of the''''I Threes, who began singing with the Wailers after they have achieved international success. She was the mother of four of his twelve sons (two of whom are adopted), including David Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley, who continue the musical legacy of his father's band the Melody Makers. Another of his sons, Kymani Marley, Julian Marley and Damian Marley's musical career also followed.

    Gustavo Lima

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  24. I have no idols, but I admire quite a lady born in Salvador whose name is still present today in various social projects. My family is Catholic and since I was very young I hear her is considered that the angel of Bahia - Sister Dulce

    Born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1941, the second daughter of Augusto Lopes Pontes and Dulce Maria de Souza, as Maria Rita de Souza Lopes Pontes, she entered religious life when she was 18 years old. When she was thirteen years old, her aunt took her on a trip to the poor area of the city. The sight of misery and poverty made a deep impression on the young girl, who came from an upper middle class background.

    When she was 18 years old she began to care for the homeless and beggars on her neighborhood, giving them free haircuts and treating wounds.In 1949, she started caring for the poorest of the poor. poverty made a deep impression on the young girl, who came from an upper middle class background.

    Determined to house sick people who came to her for help, Sister Dulce started to shelter them in abandoned houses, in 1939, in Salvador's 'Ilha dos Ratos' (rats' island) district. Then, she would go in search of food, medicine and medical care. Later, when she and her patients were evicted from the neighborhood, she started housing them in an old fish market, but City Hall denied her the use of the space and told her to leave.

    Today, more than 3,000 people arrive every day at this same site (where the Santo Antônio Hospital now stands) to receive free medical treatment. Sister Dulce also established CESA, a school for the poor in Simões Filho, one of the most impoverished cities in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador and in the State of Bahia.

    At the time of her death in 1992, Sister Dulce had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, she had received two personal audiences with Pope John Paul II, and she had, almost single-handedly, created one of the largest and most respected philanthropic organizations in Brazil.

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  25. Albert Einstein was born in Germany, in 1879. 
    He was a theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.
    100 renowned physicists elected him, in 2009, the most memorable of all time physical.

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