My Top Ten Most Influential People

This is my list of people I think should be on the Times 2010 list of most influential people. 1) Pope Benedict : Current Pope, Inspires Christiains to do the right things with their lives, born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany, Founder of the Ratzinger Foundation, on April 19 2005 Cardinal Ratzinger was elected the successor of Pope John Paul II by becoming Pope Benedict the XVI. www.popebenedictthe16th.com 2) Bill Gates Born in Seatle, Washington 28 October 1955. Has 2 sisters. Dropped out of Harvard freshmen year create microsoft in 1975. Donates $1 billion to charity every year and founded the Bill and Melinda foundaProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 on. Recieved an honorary knighthood by the queen of england in 2005 for improving health condition and reducing poverty in developing countries. http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Default.aspx

Nick Vujicic Born limbless without any medical condition and inspires disabled people to not lose hope, Born 4 December 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, Started the Life without Limbs Foundation. http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ 4) Warren Buffet Born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. Interested in money and busniess at a very early age. When kids his age were playing around, Warren was making money. At 11 he was purchasing stocks. İn 1947 he made what $5,000, which is equivalent of $42,610 today, from delievering news papers. He went onto the University of Pennsylvania but transfered to University of Nebraska. Donated over $37.4 billion to charity. http://beginnersinvest.about.com/cs/warrenbuffett/a/aawarrenbio.htm 5) JK Rowling Writer of Harry Potter and inspires people to read, born 31 July 1965, Supports such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Societry of Great Britain, and the Children’s High Level Group, was a runner-up for the Times Person of the Year 2007, Writen the Harry Potter Series showing how good prospers over evil with courage and determination, http://www.jkrowling.com/ 6) Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont Woods or Tiger Woods is a professional golfer with more career major wins than any other competitive golfer. Woods has recently been disgraced when more than a dozen women admitted to having relationships with him. Tiger Woods took a hiatus from golf lasting 20 weeks and returned to golf on April 8, 2010. Tiger Woods inspires people to be the best at whatever they do. do http://web.tigerwoods.com/aboutTiger/bio 7) Mark Zuckerberg Creater of Facebook, inspires people to stay connected with old friends, Went to Harvard, Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, USA, Founded Facebook in 2004. http://www.biography.com/articles/Mark-Zuckerberg-507402 8) Steven Hawking Born 8 January 9142 in Oxford, England. Showed brilliance at an early age. Went to a high school for girls at age 8. At 20 Hawking went to Cambridge to study Cosmology. That was when he was diagnosed with ALS. (Amyotrophic Lateral Clerosis). At the time he didn’t have any reason to live, then he found the women that would become his wife. (Jane Wilde). Studied mostly about Black Holes. Got pneumonia and lost his voice forever but they instaled a voice sythesizer into his wheelchair but they made the mistake of giving him an American accent. inspires people to not lose hope. http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/advance/biography.html 9) David Beckham Most famous soccer player, currenty working on bringing soccer to America. Donated $15 million for malaria nets, Victoria and David Beckham’s Children charity has donatd over a million pounds since they started in 2005. He is also the ambassador of UNICEF. http://www.beckhamwatch.com/beckham.html 10) Dali Lama The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist leader whose name means “chief” or “high priest”. All Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be a reincarnated form of their spiritual leaders who choose to enlighten others instead of passing on. The current Dalai Lama’s name is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, birth name being Lhamo Döndrub. He inspires buddhist to be the best they can be and to not break the rules of their religion. http://www.dalailama.com/biography/a-brief-biography Image URL: http://nationalspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/time_100_most_influential_people.jpg

Haiti In Need

As of 2006 Haiti was plagued by extreme poverty causing children to be denied their rights. Factors that keep Haiti in poverty are the lack of medical attention, education, access to clean water and sanitation. In Haiti only 34% have access to adequate sanitation. In … 60,000 people live in 1square kilometer with no toilet and a clean source of water at all. Getting clean water in Haiti is a challenge as well. Many children are sent away from home walking miles to collect water at the expense of their schooling. Even after they collect the water it is not safe to drink until it is boiled with wood or coal but with only 3% of the forest in Haiti left, materials need are scarce. Without water many children die from diarrhea. Since most hospitals are hard to reach many children are dying from HIV/Aids without medical attention. However even inside hospitals it is overcrowded, understaffed and under supplied. With children dying in the hospitals they can’t go to school. The schools in Haiti however are understaffed and the facilities are rundown. If children do go to school their education is very poor. Many families can’t send their children to school so they send them away with other families with the promise of a better life. Instead children are exploited. A new president was was elected and was promising change and help was on its way to Haiti.

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