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Drugs like anabolic steroids are some of the most common performance enhancing drugs used by athletes. Victor Conte, the founder and president of BALCO, a sports nutrition center in California, has been involved in several performance enhancing drug usage cases because of his company’s involvement in the making of performance enhancing drugs. After the notable suspension of Giants’ star Melky Cabrera for having high levels of testosterone

school through college. Jackie’s favorite sport while he was younger was track and field. His brother actually did very well in track too. While he went to Pasadena junior college, he did not play any sports, but as soon he went to the University of California, Los Angeles

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… all I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” This is a very true statement that Jackie Robinson said. The first man to challenge the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson’s upbringing led to him being one of the most well-known baseball players in history. Despite adversities, he fought for what was right. Before Jackie Robinson became the most famous African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues. He signed with

On February 26, 1932, a legend of country music was born. Johnny Cash, also known as J.R. Cash, was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, and was one of seven children to Ray and Carrie Rivers Cash. At the age of three Johnny and his family moved to Dyess, Arkansas for his father to take on a job at the New Deal farming programs initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt ("Johnny Cash Biography"). The next fifteen years of J.R.’s life was spent farming over twenty acres of cotton fields and other seasonal

school through college. Jackie’s favorite sport when he was younger was track and field. His brother actually did very well in track too. When he went to Pasadena Junior College, he did not play any sports, but as soon he went to the University of California, Los Angeles

Looking back to pin up dolls and fascination of Farah Faucet, Raquel Welch, and Marylyn Monroe days you had an image of what was perceived as a classic beauty. Today’s culture is only changing and progressing at a rapid rate of what is considered to be acceptable. I do feel society as a culture has become more open to people choices of style, lifestyle and mannerisms that tracking back to the 1900s would not even tolerate us. In recent news we have an article of Kim Kardashian on PAPER Magazine

DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Angelina had a troubled childhood, the result of growing up with an estranged and famous father and a mother who, despite her laissez-faire parenting style, used her daughter as a vehicle through which to live out her own dreams of stardom. For the first year or so of Jolie’s life, she was kept in a white office five floors above her mother's apartment

that. Other white people frowned upon them because of their love for Jackie. According to Rubie Obias, a writer for a magazine, “Jackie” Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Georgia” (2012). But later his family would end up moving to California. He had four siblings, Edgar, Frank, Matthew “Mack,” and Willa Mae Robinson (Obias, 2012). He later married his wife, who he met while he was in college. He would have three kids, Jackie Jr., Sharron, and David Robinson (Obias, 2012). Jackie was

On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Everyone has heard of this story, but what most people don’t know is that Lieutenant Jack “Jackie” Robinson also made the same action, 11 years earlier (“Robinson Refuses to Move to the Back of the Bus”). On July 6th, 1944, Robinson was riding a military bus at Camp Hood in Waco, Texas during World War 2. Robinson was asked to move to the back of the bus by white men. He argued and fought until he arrived

successfully written several serious compositions, but it was during this year in particular that his most famous opera, Porgy and Bess, was performed. This opera received mixed reviews and led Gershwin to pursue an interest for films. Gershwin moved to California and wrote several film scores. In 1937, Gershwin became seriously ill. He began experiencing headaches, dizzy spells, and blackouts. Several examinations of his illness ended with negative results. His headaches increased in frequency