1. Franklin Roosevelt: Paralytic illness
a. adversity b. hard work c. self-satisfaction
2. William Shakespeare:
great British playwright（剧作家）
1564 Duirng Renaissance
a. adversity :
born rich -Father : John Shakespeare engage in business
after his father went into bankruptcy, he dropped school and
begin making a living by himself.
Apprentice in Butcher’s shop;
b. creativity :”Better a witty fool than a foolish wit”
“Don’t glid the lily”
“The empty vessels make the greatest sound”
1. Romeo AND Juliet:
Capulet Juliet: courageous.
2. KING LEAR
Freedom :
3. HAMLET: to be or not to be
a.HIGH morality
b. Courage
c.choices
3.Oscar Claude Monet: impressionist painter- Born in Paris
Grocery store:
5
1923: two operations (cataract白内障)
Color & shadow ;detail
“spatterdock”（睡莲）; “sunrise”
a. hard work can change fate.
b. Focus on detail/ subject
c. Stick to one’s own idea
d. Identity
4. Abraham Lincoln:
1809：born into a poor family, do a lot of farm work.
9-mother died;
22-business fail;
23-fail in Senator election;
1860-US President
American Civil War: 1861,4: by peace the Emancipation
Proclamation
51- US 16thpresident
a. Adversity
b.perseverance
c.self-satisfaction d.leadership
e. deception
5. William Henry Bill Gates III
4-5 page essay
check encyclopedia,wrote more than 30 pages essay.
a.Pursue perfection
b. focus on detail
c.courage
d.self-satisfaction
philanthropist n.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2008.6.27
1,3 million
e. grasp opportunity
f. choices
6. Mitsubishi Electrical Industrial Co. ltd./ Steven jobs
Focus on detail
6. Warren Edward Buffett:
Famous invetor/ a langendary figure in the stock marlet.
a. focus on one subject: full of investment conciousness
1. 5 years old selling gum
2. in high school- act as newsboy; act with partners to lease billiard ball game machine to a barber to earn extra cash
3. 11 years old- buy his first stock.
b.self-satisfaction:
2006/6/25: 37.5 billion US $ to charity –the biggest one in the
world. 88% of his whole asset.
2009/6/30: Lunch with wealth people, auction to collect money for
charity –ebay 1,68 million
99%
8.Gabrielle Bonheur Coco Channel:
one of the premier fashion designers in Paris, France
1883 born in France
12 : mother died ; deserted by father
Live in orphanage for 7 years
a. personal gain: use immoral method: First a mistress of a wealthy
military officer then of an English industrialist, Coco Chanel drew on the
resources of these patrons in setting up a millinery shop in Paris in 1910,
expanding to Deauville and Biarritz. The two men also helped her find
customers among women of society, and her simple hats became popular.
b. creativity:originality/fashion designer :Coco Chanel's designs
helped set the fashion tone for the 20th century
9.Jane Austen:
British Novelist and Realist. Pride and Prejudice
It is universally acknowledged that a man with great fortune must be
in want of a wife.
Protagonist n. snobbish a.
a. change
b. self-satifaction:
Darcy:sacrifice money for seek of true love.
c. courage ,
Elizabeth:self-satisfaction is more important than money or fame.
10.Benjamin Franklin-
the drafter of the Declaration of Independence(1757-1775), US
Constitution
inventor- lighting conductor ; the first inventor and scientists who
enjoys an international reputation.
a.creativity
b.adversity
born poor, Two years schooling
c.hard work
12: apprentice
During 10 years work as a printer,
he read store.
Self-study : four language: Spanish, Italian, French, Latin 11.Charles Robert Darwin
Natural Selection; Origin of Species
1831 graduated from Combridge University ,giving up well-paid
occupation –priest, participated in British government-orginzed world
voyage.
a.fight authority
Fight Aristotle on natural selection
b.adversity:
Low IQ. Mocked by neighbour
c.stick to truth
d.focus on detail
study theology in Cambridge
Careful observation for different speices
e. self-satisfaction
f. pursue own dream
12.Henry Patrick: give me freedom or give me death.
Thomas Jefferson: All man are created equal. The Declaration of
Independence
13. Helen Adamas Keller
Educator / writer/ philanthropist
1880, 6 Alabama
1882, 19- month Scarlet Fever
