Sally Ride

One of the greatest things that Sally Ride is known for is being the first American woman in space. "The event also led to people seeing women as more equal to men than they ever had before". NASA had previously put a woman through the training to go into space, but her mission was canceled and she never got the opportunity to go on another. With determination and hard work she helped lead the way for other great females to enter the science and technological fields. She never let being a female get in her way of doing what her passion was, which was showing that women are just as knowledgeable in the science and technologically fields as men.

http://www.biography.com/people/sally-ride-9458284

Maya Angelou: An Inspiration

http://mayaangelou.com/

Maya Angelou is an inspiring poet, actress, writer, activist, educator, and so much more. Today she is idolized for her fights against racial discrimination and abuse. She fought hard for the rights of African Americans and she stood beside Malcolm X and Martin Lurther King Jr. Maya Angelou is inspiring because despite all the racial discrimination and abuse that she dealt with as a child, she still continued to fight hard to change the way of the world. Maya Angelou wanted to change the world "we all have our own dreams and our own ways to achieve them. Some of us want to change the life of others, some of us want to make an impact on society, and others, well, they just want to make a difference in the world." Maya Angelou wanted to do all three. She wanted to change the lives of African Americans, she she wanted to change the way her society dealt with racial discrimination and she wanted to leave an imprint on the world to see. If we can learn one thing from Maya Angelou, it is that fight your heart out and rise about the impacts of society.

Louie Simmons

Louie Simmons is an innovator in the field of athletic training. In my opinion his greatest contributions to the field are his theories on rehabilitation of injuries. I have personally used his theories on shoulder rehabilitation to great benefit. One of the most effective exercises which Louie has pioneered for rehabing shoulders is the use of a semi rigid bar (typically bamboo) while bench pressing. This involves attaching weighted kettle bells to the end of the bar with elastic bands. The swinging of the kettle bells creates a "chaotic" movement. "This chaotic movement makes it an excellent prehab/rehab exercise for the shoulders (Bell, "Q&A with Westside Barbell's Louie Simmons)".

Due to the fact that Louie Simmons is considered the go to source for information on athletic training I got a lot of my information directly from his website, http://westside-barbell.com/

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is the person I looked at as a visionary and a dreamer. One of the most inspirational act that I think Oprah Winfrey has done are the schools she has built in South Africa for 152 South African girls. One quote that Oprah tells people is why she built the school it was because she wanted to give to girls who were like her. Girls who were poor, who had come from disadvantaged circumstances, but girls who had a light so bright that not even poverty, disease, and life circumstances could dim that light. What I learned from that quote was that you can help people that are just like you, you don't need to be rich but you can find a person that you know has that light and help them get there. Its kind of falls back to helping better your community even if its in a small way, you are the one making the change. Another quote that helps sum up what Oprah does with this school is by saying, "when you help save a life, you save a generation." That's is what makes her a visionary and a dreamer in my mind.

http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Oprah_Academy07

Steve Jobs

http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537

My paper was about Steve Jobs and how he impacted the world. His company he co-founded has made many products that made people have a faster way to be connected with people on the go and to download the latest music and many other things. He was a visionary and he thought he could change the world for the better and I believe he did. In my paper I wrote, "Steve did not create the first MP3 player or the first computer or the first tablet but he did know how to make things better, easier to use, and more useful," because if you bought a MP3 Player it was difficult to first put music on it but Apple and Steve Jobs come up with iTunes so it was easier to put music on your iPod. He always had an idea to make things better.

Steve Jobs

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/short/short.html

The man i wrote my paper is Steve jobs, late CEO of Apple. Its common knowledge that Steve Jobs helped to change the world in the views of technology. He helped to improve the PC, the MP3, the phone and he even came out with a new toy, the tablet PC. The most inspiring thing i can think that this man did was a speech to Stanford college. In this speech he challenged his listeners to do what the believe in a work for it, "your time is limited so dont waste it being someone else". This was truly inspiring coming from a man who dropped out of college and became one of the most successful men in the modern world. Steve Challenged his listeners to work for what they believe in and become the next great visionary of our time.

Visionary essay blog

I wrote my essay on Benjamin Franklin. We all know him as the person who discovered electricity but the most inspirational thing about him is his passion for writing. "His love for writing showed us that he was a creative visionary. He went from writing secrete letters for his brothers newspaper as a child to owning his own newspaper and writing a very successful almanack as an adult." (my essay quote)
i got most of my information about Benjamin Franklin from the website http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/ . This is a very useful source that helped me write my paper about Benjamin Franklin. There are autobiographies, biographies, and other helpful information about him.
-Hannah Potter-