有关贾斯汀比伯（Justin Bieber）的演讲稿。
7 Famous People Who Found Success Starting in Their 30’s1. Sylvester Stallone – He was a struggling actor in every definition. He was so broke he sold his wife’s jewelry! (She wasn’t happy about that of course).His lowest point came when he tried to sell his dog at the liquor store to any stranger. He didn’t have money to feed him anymore. He sold his dog for $25 after a guy bargained from $50. He said he walked away crying.Two weeks later he saw a boxing match between the world champion Muhammed Ali and Chuck Wepner. Stallone had his idea for his movie. He sat down and wrote the screenplay for Rocky in 20 hours.He tried to sell it. He got an offer for $125,000 for his script! That money would have changed his life. He had one request. He wanted to star in the movie. The studio said no way. They wanted a real star. Not a guy who looked funny and talked funny. He left.A few weeks later, they offered $250,000 then $325,000. They wanted his movie but not him. He said no. He was an actor first.The studio agreed on giving him $35,000 for the screenplay and let him star in it.The rest is movie history. It won Best Picture at the Oscars and took him to stardom.He was 30 years old when Rocky was released.You might be wondering what was the first thing he bought with the $35,000? He said he stood at the liquor store for three days hoping to see the man he sold his dog to.Finally on the third day he sees the man and his dog. He explained why he sold him, but begged for him back. He offered $100. The man said no. $500. $1000. The guy said no amount of money would make him sell the dog. Stallone was determined. He had to get his dog back.He offered the man $15,000 and a part in Rocky! The guy said yes and Stallone got his dog back.2. Martha Stewart – Before she wasn’t the Martha Stewart we’re used to now, but instead a stockbroker. In her 30’s she and her husband bought and began restoration on an 1805 farmhouse. That’s where the love of restoring and decorating became apparent.She started a catering business in her basement with a friend. That eventually led to her creating cookbooks, which led to decorating tips and appearances on Oprah.She became a billionaire when her company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public. It all started with a career change in her 30’s.3. Harrison Ford – The actor we know as Han Solo and Indiana Jones used to be another struggling actor. He had small roles but not enough to take care of his wife and two kids. So he became a self taught carpenter in his 30’s.It was cause he was tired of acting in bad TV shows. He never gave up his dream of being an actor but being a carpenter provided income so he wouldn’t have to take crappy roles.At 29, he got a supporting role in George Lucas’ American Graffiti. How did he get the part? He was hired to build cabinets in George’s house. That didn’t turn him into a bonafide movie star. That would happen six years later.At the age of 35, he starred as Hans Solo in Star Wars, created by the same George Lucas.He had his big break at that at an age when many of us think it’s too late to do anything with our lives.4. Julia Child – After college, she worked as a copywriter, writing for local publications, and in advertising until the age of 29.She then worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). She dealt with a lot of highly classified information.After the war and at the age of 36, she and her husband moved to Paris. He introduced her to fine cuisine. That’s where she attended the famous Le Cordon Bleu cooking school and studied with other master chefs.That started her love of food and spent the rest of her life sharing it with audiences in America as a famous television personality and author.For her, she found her real passion in her mid thirties.5. Brenden Gleeson – You might be wonder who is Brenden Gleeson. I did too until I saw his picture. He’s one of those actors you’ve seen many times before but don’t remember which movie.Brendan Gleeson was 34 when he kicked the day job to become a full-time actor (he had been acting since his late teens). Behind him was a brief two-year stint in the health service and a decade as a teacher, where he taught Irish and English.He started in small roles but worked his way into many movies including some notable ones such asBraveheart, Mission:Impossible 2, Artificial Intelligence: A.I., Gangs of NY, and Troy.Harry Potter fans will know him as Alastor “Mad Eye” Moody.He’s won awards for his acting. He is considered Ireland’s greatest living actor.He took a chance on his dream, even at the age of 34.6. Andrea Bocelli – He grew up loving music. At the age of six he started piano lessons, and later also learned to play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harp, guitar, and drums. He also spent time singing.So what did he do? He went to law school. In the evenings he performed in a piano bar to make money. After graduating law school, at the age of 30 he spent a year as an attorney.After that year, he gave it up to pursue music full time.He didn’t get his break until he was 34. Italian rock star Zucchero held auditions for tenors to make a demo tape with of the song Miserere from his album of the same name, to send to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. After hearing Bocelli on tape, Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Bocelli instead of him.Zucchero eventually persuaded Pavarotti to record the song with him and it became a hit throughout Europe.7. Jon Hamm – Before he was Don Draper in the hit series Mad Men, Jon was a struggling actor approaching his self imposed deadline on his dream.In school he played sports as much as he acted, but he got drawn back into acting. In college, he did some theater. After graduating from college with an English degree, he taught eight grade acting.In 1995, he decided to move out to Los Angeles with his car and $150. He didn’t want to have a “normal career”.He had an agent with the famous William Morris Agency. Success right? Wrong. In three years, he didn’t get a single acting job. That time many 25 year olds were getting jobs playing high school students. He didn’t cause he looked too old.So his agency dropped him.He worked as a set dresser for soft core porn films. He became a waiter.He had given himself five years to make it as a working actor. He was now 29. Time was running out. He could make a living as a waiter. But he knew a lot of 40-year-old waiters and he didn’t want to be one of those. He had taught school and he knew that he could always go back to teaching.He gave himself a deadline of 30 years old to succeed and said:You either suck that up and find another agent, or you go home and say you gave it a shot, but that’s the end of that. The last thing I wanted to be out here was one of those actors who’s 45 years old, with a tenuous grasp of their own reality, and not really working much. So I gave myself five years. I said, if I can’t get it going by the time I’m 30, I’m in the wrong place. And as soon as I said that, it’s like I started working right away.At the age of 29, he got cast in a television show, Providence. That led him to quit waiting tables. When he turned 30, he was on the set of his first big movie, We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson.After many small roles the next years, in 2007 at the age of 36, he beat out 80 actors for the role of Don Draper on Mad Men.
求一篇赞美母亲的英语演讲稿
Columbine parents praise essay by mom of shooterDENVER — Parents and survivors of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School are saying good things about an essay released Tuesday by the mother of shooter Dylan Klebold.Susan Klebold made the most detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers in an essay published in O, The Oprah Magazine. She said in the essay she had “no inkling” her son was suicidal or depressed.The essay sparked strong emotions for Connie Michalik, whose son, Richard Castaldo, was shot and partially paralyzed in the rampage. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 others before killing themselves.The shooters’ parents have said little in public since the massacre. They gave depositions in a lawsuit filed by victims’ families, but a judge in 2007 ordered those depositions sealed for 20 years after the case was settled out of court.Survivors and their families have been left wondering about the boys’ parents in the decade since the shootings.“You know, I always wondered how she felt and what she went through. ‘Cause I know I went through a living hell, and I was always sure she did, too,” Michalik told The Associated Press.Michalik, who has never met Susan Klebold, said reading the essay answered some of her questions about the Klebold family.“I applaud her for the courage to talk about this,” Michalik said Tuesday.In the essay, Susan Klebold described the day of the shooting. She at first feared Dylan had been shot at school, not that he was one of the perpetrators.Susan Klebold said the family was evacuated from their home the afternoon of the massacre because authorities feared even Dylan’s residence may have been rigged to explode. Still, she said, it took months for relatives to accept that the quiet boy who loved origami and Legos was to blame for the violence.“We didn’t know that he and Eric had assembled an arsenal of explosives and guns,” Susan Klebold wrote. “We believed his participation in the massacre was accidental or that he had been coerced. We believed that he did not intend to hurt anyone.”The magazine released excerpts from the essay last week and published the full text Tuesday.A magazine spokeswoman said Susan Klebold has turned down several interview requests over the years but agreed several months ago to share an essay. There were no plans for her to appear on the show.In an introduction to the essay, Oprah Winfrey told readers, “Since the day her son participated in the most devastating high school shooting America has ever seen, I have wanted to sit down with Susan Klebold to ask her the questions we’ve all wanted to ask — starting with, ‘How did you not see it coming?’ and ending with ‘How did you survive?’”A spokeswoman for Susan Klebold has said there would be no further comment.One of the shooting’s survivors, Krystal Miller, said Tuesday she has long had questions for the Klebolds but understood their silence.“Over the years I would’ve loved to hear something,” said Miller, whose maiden name was Krystal Woodman. “But it sounds like she is still just reeling from it and processing it. So how is someone supposed to come out and give answers when they’re still trying to figure it out themselves?”
求Oprah Winfrey（奥普拉·温弗瑞）的英文资料，最好在六分钟左右，最好能分出层次感来
人权领袖—Al Sharpton在MJ追思会的演讲全文下面是他演讲全文：今天全世界的人们在爱中聚集庆祝这个人的一生他教会了世界如何去爱All over the world today people are gathered in love viduals to celebrate the life of a man that taught the world how to love.人们也许会问为什么会有这样大的情感爆发
我们必须明白Michael人生旅程才能明白他对我们所有人来说意味着什么对于今天坐在这里的人，如Jackson家族来说—— 一个父亲，一个母亲，和他们的九个儿女，从印第安那州加里市的一个工人家庭起家——他们只有一个梦想People may be wondering why there's such an emotional outburst. But you would have to understand the journey of Michael to understand what he meant to all of us. For these that sit here as the Jackson family - a mother and father with nine children that rose from a working class family in Gary, Indiana - they had nothing but a dream.没有人相信在那个年代这样的梦想能够实现但他们坚持相信着Michael从不肯让世界把他们从追梦之路上折返No one believed in those days that this kind of dream could come true, but they kept on believing and Michael never let the world turn him around from his dreams. 我第一次见到Michael大约是在1970年在伊利诺斯州芝加哥市的黑人展会上那时Jess Jackson就和这家人站在一起，直到现在从他还是一个可爱的孩子起直到现在他从未放弃梦想正是这个梦想改变了全世界的文化当Michael起步时，那个世界完全不同但是因为Michael继续前行因为他从来不接受限制因为他拒绝让别人决定他的边界他打开了全世界I first met Michael around the 1970 Black Expo, Chicago, Illinois. Rev. Jesse Jackson, who stood by this family till now, and from that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming. It was that dream that changed culture all over the world. When Michael started, it was a different world. But because Michael kept going, because he didn't accept limitations, because he refused to let people decide his boundaries, he opened up the whole world.在音乐的世界里他戴上了一只手套提起他的裤脚打破了肤色界限所以现在，我们才会看到我们的视频可以播放看到我们也能上杂志封面正是Michael Jackson把黑人、白人、亚洲人和拉丁人聚集到一起正是Michael Jackson让我们高唱《天下一家》并在Live Aid慈善演出很早之前就开始赈济饥民In the music world, he put on one glove, pulled his pants up and broke down the color curtain where now our videos are shown and magazines put us on the cover. It was Michael Jackson that brought Blacks and Whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing, We are the World and feed the hungry long before Live Aid.因为Michael Jackson继续前行他给人们创造了一种舒适感让分隔开的人们通过他的音乐变得互相关联正是这种舒适感让来自日本、加纳、法国还有宾夕法尼亚的孩子们能够接受彼此到后来我们能在电视上看到奥普拉也不再奇怪看到老虎伍兹打高尔夫也不再奇怪那些孩子们，从年轻而舒适的Michael歌迷成长为40岁的成年人，并能舒适地为一个有色人种投票把他选为美利坚合众国的总统Because Michael Jackson kept going, he created a comfort level where people that felt they were separate became interconnected with his music. And it was that comfort level that kids from Japan and Ghana and France and Iowa and Pennsylvania got comfortable enough with each other until later it wasn’t strange to us to watch Oprah on television. It wasn't strange to watch Tiger Woods golf. Those young kids grew up from being teenage, comfortable fans of Michael to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the President of the United States of America.Michael做到了Michael让我们相爱Michael让我们团结一致总有那些喜欢无事生非的人但世界上数以百万计的人们，将高举他的讯息不是满天飞的谣言而是他的爱之讯息就像你翻越高山的时候有时候膝盖会受伤有时候皮肤会划破但我们在意的不是那些伤疤而是旅程Michael打败了他们Michael登上了顶峰他用歌声打败了他的批评者他用舞蹈打败了他的怀疑者他用表演打败了那些悲观主义者每次他被打倒又会重新站起来每次他被驱逐他都会再杀回来Michael永不止步Michael永不止步Michael永不止步Michael did that. Michael made us love each other. Michael taught us to stand with each other. There are those that like to dig around mess. But millions around the world, we're going to uphold his message. It's not about mess, but it's about his love message. As you climb up steep mountains, sometimes you scar your knee; sometimes you break your skin. But don't focus on the scars, focus on the journey. Michael beat 'em, Michael rose to the top. He out-sang his cynics, he out-danced his doubters; he out-performed the pessimists. Every time he got knocked down, he got back up. Every time you counted him out, he came back in. Michael never stopped. Michael never stopped. Michael never stopped.我想对Jackson夫人和Joe Jackson以及他的兄弟姐妹们说：我们谢谢你们带给我们一个教会我们去爱的人一个教会我们去希望的人我们要感谢你们因为我们知道这也是你们的梦想I want to say to Mrs. Jackson and Joe Jackson, his sisters and brothers: We thank you for giving us someone that taught us love; someone who taught us hope. We want to thank you because we know it was your dream too.我们知道你们的心已破碎我知道你们从美国总统和曼德拉的吊唁中得到一些抚慰但他是你们的孩子是你们的兄弟是你们的表兄弟什么都无法弥补你们心中的损失但我希望人们表现出的爱能让你们知道他没有虚度此生我想要他的三个孩子知道：你们的父亲并不古怪古怪的是他必须面对的一切但是他去面对了，无论如何去面对了他为了我们去面对了We know that your heart is broken. I know you have some comfort from the letter from the President of the United States and Nelson Mandela. But this was your child. This was your brother. This was your cousin. Nothing will fill your hearts' lost. But I hope the love that people are showing will make you know he didn't live in vain. I want his three children to know: Wasn't nothing strange about your Daddy. It was strange what your Daddy had to deal with. But he dealt with it...He dealt with it anyway. He dealt with it for us.所以，Jackson夫人，今天有些人来是向Michael告别而我是来说，谢谢你谢谢你从未止步谢谢你从未放弃谢谢你从未退缩谢谢你因为你打破了我们的界限谢谢你因为你根除了阻碍谢谢你给了我们希望谢谢你 Michael谢谢你 Michael谢谢你 Michael So, some came today, Mrs. Jackson, to say goodbye to Michael. I came to say, thank you. Thank you because you never stopped, thank you because you never gave up, thank you because you never gave out, thank you because you tore down our divisions. Thank you because you eradicated barriers. Thank you because you gave us hope. Thank you Michael. Thank you Michael. Thank you Michael! Al sharpton牧师是2004年美国民主党总统的候选人，可以到维基百科查到他，他也是MJ多年的挚友I want his 3 children to know, What not strange about your father, it is strange with your father have to deal with语法不必拘泥，因为美国本地人说的话与我们的教科书不同。
请各位英语高手支招帮我写一篇有关迈克尔杰克逊的英语演讲稿
Memorial SpeechIt is with the deepest grief that we pay great respects to the memory of Michael Jackson, who died a sudden death from coma at home.Michael Jackson was born on August 28, 1958, in Indiana, USA. He is praised as the King of Pop, the most infective musician following Elvis Presley, the King of Cat. MJ was a versatile person in music, who had a feather in his cap in the fields of writing words, composing, singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments and so on. The group of Michael and the King of Cat and the group of The Beatles have become immortal symbols in the pop history. MJ has stared the modern MTV and advance the pop music towards an apex.In mourning Michael Jackson, we should learn from his noble quality of the contribution of music to the people all over the world. MJ has forever left us. We should turn our grief into strength and keep him within our hearts.May you rest in peace, Michael Jackson!Eternal glory to Michael Jackson! 这一篇悼念词前些天在找体现迈的博爱的可多都是生平简下面这篇还可以吧Michael Jackson is the King of Pop. This is not a title thathe gave himself. It was given to him by his millions of fans around the world and by his peers, among whom he has no equal. How did he get the title, you ask? He came by it the old fashioned way. He earned it! No other performer in history has generated the massive sales that he has. No other performer in history has received as many awards and accolades as he has. No other performer in history draws the kind of excitement and mass hysteria that he does. And no other performer in history has done so much in the way of humanitarian efforts than he has. There has never been one like him before, and there will never be one like him again. He is in a class all by himself. Michael became a superstar at an age when most other children are learning things like the alphabet and how to count to 20. Born on August 29, 1958 he was the seventh child in a family of nine. Michael and his older brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon) were thrust into the spotlight when their father, Joseph Jackson, a steel mill worker in Gary, Indiana, formed a singing group out of his sons and called them The Jackson 5. Even though Michael was the youngest, it became immediately obvious that he had something special. Armed with a magical voice mature beyond its tender years and a crowd-charming charisma that rivaled any seasoned entertainer, little Michael lead his brothers from winning local talent contests to a recording contract with Motown Records in the late 1960's. The group quickly began turning out hit after hit for their new record label and remained a hit-making machine throughout the '70's. During their time at Motown, Michael also began a successful solo recording career that would run parallel to his work with his brothers. In 1976, the Jacksons left Motown and signed with Epic Records where they continued to crank out one hit after another. In 1978 Michael ventured into film when he starred opposite Diana Ross in The Wiz, an African-American remake of the Wizard of Oz. The film itself was unexceptional but it did put Michael on a collision course with destiny because it introduced him to legendary producer Quincy Jones who arranged the film's score. Michael and Quincy collaborated on his next solo project, 'Off The Wall.' And with that album Michael was immediately transformed from a cute little kid act into an adult superstar. The album was released in 1979 to critical praise for its crossover blending of soul and rock and its non-stop boogie grove. With the help of number one hits Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough and Rock With You, the album sold 10 million copies and went multiplatinum. It's hard to believe that any artist could top a success like that. But in 1982, that's just what Michael did with the release of a monster of an album called 'Thriller.' 'Thriller' broke all kinds of records. To date, it has sold more than 108 million copies worldwide (that's more than any other album before it or since). The album spawned a record six top ten singles and spent a record breaking 37 weeks at number one. It remains the best selling album of all time. That year Michael also won an unprecedented eight Grammy Awards - 7 for 'Thriller' and 1 for 'E.T.-The Storybook Album.' Much of Thriller's success was due, in part, to a new thing called music videos. Hits like Billie Jean, Beat It, and Thriller came alive before our very eyes when paired with a cool story line and Michael's amazing dancing ability. Michael's short films not only helped pioneer the video medium but also broke MTV's color barrier in the process. 'Thriller' made Michael Jackson an American pop icon. So, what do you do after recording the number one best-selling album in history? You record the number two best-selling album in history, of course! 'Bad,' Michael's next solo project released in 1987, sold over 25 million copies worldwide and included the hit singles I Just Can't Stop Loving You, The Way You Make Me Feel, and Man In The Mirror. Accompanied by his first ever solo world tour (the biggest concert tour in history), the Bad album generated 5 consecutive number one hits (a feat unequalled since). In 1991, with his next album, 'Dangerous,' Michael continued the astronomical sales figures with 23 million copies sold worldwide. With Dangerous came more state of the art videos and another amazing concert tour in 1992. In 1993 Michael made TV history when the notoriously private superstar sat down for a 90-minute live interview with talk show host extraordinaire, Oprah Winfrey. The interview was conducted from Michael's home, Neverland Valley Ranch in Santa Ynez, California and was the most watched program of 1993 attracting nearly 100 million viewers around the world. Also in 1993 Michael became the first major recording artist to perform the Super Bowl halftime show, giving the Super Bowl it's largest television audience to date. In 1995, Michael released his most ambitious project yet. 'HIStory Past, Present and Future Book I' was a massive double album containing 15 of Michael's greatest hits from his previous four albums and 15 brand new songs. 'HIStory' saw Michael turning a corner creatively as the 15 new songs were some of the most personal songs he has ever recorded. By January of 1996, 'HIStory' had been certified six times platinum in the United States alone and it is still the most successful double album of all time. In May of 1997 Michael released 'Blood On The Dance floor: HIStory In The Mix.' The album contained 5 new songs (some of the best work he's ever done, according to many critics), and 8 remixes from 'HIStory.' Some saw this remix CD as a brilliant idea because it brought a two-year-old album back to the forefront. Also in the spring of 1997, Michael and his brothers (the Jackson 5) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. In December of 1997 Michael's most ambitious video ever was released. The video, or short film, was 'Ghosts' and it included one song from the 'HIStory' album and two songs from the 'Blood On The Dancefloor' album. The video contained a really cool storyline in which Michael played several of the main characters himself. 1997 also saw the beginning of a whole new world for Michael on a personal level. In February of that year his wife Debbie, whom he had married in November of 1996, gave birth to their first child, a son named Prince Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. A daughter, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, followed in April of 1998. Michael has said that fatherhood is his greatest dream come true. 2001 was another big year for Michael. First, in the spring of that year, Michael was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the second time; this time as a solo artist. Then, in celebration of his 30th Anniversary as a solo artist, Michael attended two tribute concerts on the 7th and 10th of September. During these concerts many of Michael's famous friends, and some of the biggest names in the music industry, paid tribute to him by performing his songs. The real treat for fans however, came toward the end of the concerts when the King took to the stage himself; performing first with his brothers and then with such stars as N'Sync, Brittney Spears and Usher. In October of 2001 Michael finally released his long awaited new album, 'Invincible.' Overall, 'Invincible' had a nice, smooth R&B vibe going on; very reminiscent of his 'Off The Wall' days. Unfortunately, disputes between artist and label prevented 'Invincible' from receiving the promotion that it deserved, resulting in low record sales. (Keep in mind that when talking about Michael, the phrase low record sales is relative because his sales figures are always astronomical. Therefore, low for him is, in fact, quite well for most other artists). In 2002 Michael became a father again when his third child was born; a son named Prince Michael II, known affectionately as 'Blanket.' In November of 2003, Michael released a Greatest Hits compilation called 'Number 1's.' This album included 16 previously released tracks spanning his career from 'Off The Wall' through 'Invincible;' plus the new single, One More Chance. It also included a live version of his #1 hit Ben on the US pressing and Blood On The Dance Floor on the European pressing. 2004 was yet another busy year. March saw the release of the DVD 'Michael Jackson-The One.' The DVD featured 44 minutes taken from a CBS special, footage from the HIStory Tour and behind-the-scenes footage. In April Michael was presented with a Golden Elephant for his work fighting AIDS in Africa by the AASA (African Ambassadors' Spouses Association). In November the eagerly awaited 'Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection' finally arrived. This 5 disc anthology is packed with songs that span the entire extraordinary career of the King of Pop (from 1969-2004). It also includes early demos of some favorite hits plus several rare gems never released before. Also in November, Michael was inducted into the UK's first Hall Of Fame for Music. Back in 1993, Michael had faced false accusations of child molestation. Formal charges were never brought against him and the case was settled out of court. Unfortunately, Thomas Sneddon, the District Attorney for Santa Barbara County, began a decade long vendetta. With the truth being wildly debated, the news media around the world became an unwitting accomplice in this plot to bring down the world's biggest superstar. The world press painted a target on Michael Jackson's back and it was only a matter of time before someone took aim. Forever trusting, and eager to lend a hand to those in need, Michael opened his heart and his home to another family who, in turn, took advantage of his kindness. At this same time, he also opened his life up to a tabloid videographer. What followed were cruel and hurtful accusations, criminal charges and a lengthy court trial that proved physically and mentally exhausting for Michael, his family, and his fans around the world. However, on June 13 2005, after ten days of deliberations, Michael was aquitted when the jury in the case against him came back with a verdict of NOT GUILTY on all counts. After five months of testimony the celebrity trial of the century had finally come to an end and Michael Jackson was a free man. In 2006 Sony-BMG Europe released 20 of Michael's greatest hits on the new CD\\\/DVD format. The box set was called 'Visionary: The Video Singles.' The singles were released over a five month period and the new dual disc format features the single on one side with the video on the other. Also, on Christmas Day in 2006 the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, passed away. James was one of the greatest influences on Michael's performance style. Speaking at the funeral Michael said, James Brown was my greatest inspiration. He went on to recall that, as a child, his mother would call him to the TV and even wake him up if James Brown was on. When I saw him move, I was mesmerized. I'd never seen a performer perform like James Brown, and right then and there, I knew that was exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. 2007 saw much preparation for the 25th Anniversary of the biggest selling album of all time. In celebration of 'Thriller,' 25 years later, Michael appeared on the cover of several magazines around the world; among them Ebony (USA), L'Umo Vogue (Italy) and Rolling Stone (Japan). In January of 2008, as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration, Michael allowed the song Thriller be used in an ad campaign for Sobe Life Water. The commercial, which featured cute little lizards (the logo for Sobe) doing the Thriller dance with supermodel Naomi Campbell, aired during the Super Bowl and was voted as one of the favorites of the evening. The album, 'Thriller 25,' was released worldwide in early February 2008. This new release featured the original album plus 7 new bonus tracks, 6 of them previously unreleased. Some of the new bonus tracks featured remixes by Akon, will.i.am, Kanye West, and Fergie. 'Thriller' has definately stood the test of time because this 25 year old album has held on to the number one or number two position on album charts around the world for the first three weeks of it's release, proving once again that Michael Jackson truly is, and will always remain, the one and only King of Pop!
用英文简要介绍Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, born 18 July 1918, served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first South-African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the African National Congress's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. The South African courts convicted him on charges of sabotage, as well as other crimes committed while he led the movement against apartheid. In accordance with his conviction's sentence, Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela supported reconciliation and negotiation, and helped lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa.Since the end of apartheid, many have frequently praised Mandela, including former opponents. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades, most notably the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly announced that Mandela's birthday, 18 July, is to be known as 'Mandela Day' to mark his contribution to world freedom.
