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Teacher: Mara Soledad Fernndez Hdez.

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Michelle Obama
Field: She is a lawyer and a writer.
Famous as: She is the current First Lady, wife of the 44
th

President of the United States Barack Obama.
Biography facts:
Born: January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Family: She is married with to Barack Obama with two
children, Malia Ann Obama (b.1998) and Natasha Obama
(b.2001)




Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III, a city
water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian (ne Shields), a secretary at Spiegel's
catalog store. Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school. The Robinson and
Shields families can trace their roots to pre-Civil War African Americans in the American South. Specifically, she
is descended from the Gullah people of South Carolina's Lowcountry region. Her paternal great-great
grandfather, Jim Robinson, was an American slave on Friendfield Plantation in the state of South
Carolina,where some of her paternal family still reside. Her grandfather Fraser Robinson had built his own
house in South Carolina, and he and his wife LaVaughn (ne Johnson) returned to the Low Country after
retirement.
Among her maternal ancestors was her great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, a slave on Henry
Walls Shields' 200-acre farm in Clayton County, Georgia; he and his children would have worked along with
the slaves.
Education: She attended Whitney Young High School, Chicago's first magnet high school. Michelle Robinson
was on the honor roll for four years, took advanced placement classes, was a member of the National Honor
Society, and served as student council treasurer. She graduated in 1981 as the salutatorian of her class.
Michelle was inspired to follow her brother to Princeton University. At Princeton, she challenged the teaching
methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements
for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community. Meanwhile,
she got involved with the Third World Center (now known as the Carl A. Fields Center), an academic and
cultural group that supported minority students, running their day care center, which also included after school
tutoring. Robinson majored in sociology and minored in African American studies; she graduated cum laude
with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.



Life and career:
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Works and Achievements: Following law school, she was an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm
Sidley Austin, where she first met her future husband. At the firm, she worked on marketing and intellectual
property.
In 1991, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor, and as
Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago
office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit
groups and government agencies. She worked there nearly four years and set fundraising records for the
organization that still stood 12 years after she left.
In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she
developed the University's Community Service Center. In 2002, she began working for the University of
Chicago Hospitals, first as executive director for community affairs and, beginning May 2005, as Vice President
for Community and External Affairs. She continued to hold the University of Chicago Hospitals position during
the primary campaign, but cut back to part-time in order to spend time with her daughters as well as work for
her husband's election; she subsequently took a leave of absence from her job.
Notable awards & honors: She is the First Lady of the United States
The Let's Move Program was created by Michelle Obama with the aim of improving: "The
physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our
nation is at stake."


First Lady Michelle Obama at the Lets Move! launch on February 9, 2010
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Resources
http://www.biography.com/people/michelle-obama307592#awesm=~oHHwmawdTl1Eah
http://www.letsmove.gov/learn-facts/epidemic-childhood-obesity

Michelle and husband, President Obama


U.S. President Barack Obama walks to church with his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters
Sasha, left, and Malia, right in 2011.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/02/politics/gallery/meet-the-obamas/index.html





Jaime Cayuela Hidalgo, English, 4ESO 2014
Teacher: Mara Soledad Fernndez Hdez.


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Rachel Carson
Field: Marine biology, conservationism and environment.
Famous as:
She advanced the global environmental movement in
books like Silent Spring or the 1951 bestseller The Sea
Around Us (U.S. National Book Award).
Biography facts
Born: May 27, 1907
Died: April 14, 1964
Family: She was the daughter of Maria Frazier (McLean)
and Robert Warden Carson, an insurance salesman.



Education: High school in nearby Parnassus, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania College for Women and
John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland).
Carson attended Springdale's small school through tenth grade, then completed high school in
nearby Parnassus, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1925 at the top of her class of forty-five students.
At the Pennsylvania College for Women (today known as Chatham University), as in high school,
Carson was somewhat of a loner. She originally studied English, but switched her major to biology in
January 1928, though she continued contributing to the school's student newspaper and literary
supplement. Though admitted to graduate standing at Johns Hopkins University in 1928, she was
forced to remain at the Pennsylvania College for Women for her senior year due to financial
difficulties; she graduated magna cum laude in 1929. After a summer course at the Marine
Biological Laboratory, she continued her studies in zoology and genetics at Johns Hopkins in the fall
of 1929.
After her first year of graduate school, Carson became a part-time student, taking an assistantship in
Raymond Pearl's laboratory, where she worked with rats and Drosophila, to earn money for tuition.
After false starts with pit vipers and squirrels, she completed a dissertation project on the embryonic
development of the pronephros in fish. She earned a master's degree in zoology in June 1932. She
had intended to continue for a doctorate, but in 1934 Carson was forced to leave Johns Hopkins to
search for a full-time teaching position to help support her family.

Life and career: At the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, Carson's main responsibilities were to analyze
and report field data on fish populations, and to write brochures and other literature for the public.
Using her research and consultations with marine biologists as starting points, she also wrote a
steady stream of articles for The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers. However, her family
responsibilities further increased in January 1937 when her older sister died, leaving Carson as the
sole breadwinner for her mother and two nieces.
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In July 1937, the Atlantic Monthly accepted a revised version of an essay, "The World of Waters",
that she had originally written for her first fisheries bureau brochure; her supervisor had deemed it
too good for that purpose. The essay, published as "Undersea", was a vivid narrative of a journey
along the ocean floor. It marked a major turning point in Carson's writing career. Publishing house
Simon & Schuster, impressed by "Undersea", contacted Carson and suggested that she expand it
into book form. Several years of writing resulted in Under the Sea Wind (1941), which received
excellent reviews but sold poorly. In the meantime, Carson's article-writing success continuedher
features appeared in Sun Magazine, Nature, and Collier's.
Carson attempted to leave the Bureau (by then transformed into the Fish and Wildlife Service) in
1945, but few jobs for naturalists were available as most money for science was focused on
technical fields in the wake of the Manhattan Project. In mid-1945, Carson first encountered the
subject of DDT, a revolutionary new pesticide (lauded as the "insect bomb" after the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) that was only beginning to undergo tests for safety and
ecological effects. DDT was but one of Carson's many writing interests at the time, and editors
found the subject unappealing; she published nothing on DDT until 1962


Sources:
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http://rachelcarson.org/Slides.aspx#.U6YFtbHm4Vg (images and quotes)
http://rachelcarson.org/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/04/13/THE-NEXT-PAGE-Rachel-Carsons-silence/stories/201404130058
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
http://rachelcarson.org/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

RECENT NEWS
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From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change
By NANCY F. KOEHN
Published: October 27, 2012
SHE was a slight, soft-spoken woman who preferred walking
the Maine shoreline to stalking the corridors of power. And yet
Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, played a central
role in starting the environmental movement, by forcing
government and business to confront the dangers of
pesticides.

Read more

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/business/rachel-carsons-lessons-50-
years-after-silent-spring.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Rachel Carson's silence
Biographer Linda Lear says the outspoken
environmentalist was heroic partly for what
she didn't talk about
April 13, 2014 12:00 AM
Keep reading:
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-
Ed/214/4/13/!"E-#E$!-%&'E-(achel-)arsons-
silence/stories/2144135*




Read the whole article:
http://rachelcarson.org/&+o,t-inda.asp./.06125+"m43g



More pictures and quotes

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