• We often moan and grumble on our hard life and hardships: weather, homework and school, low salary, bad government and so on.

• But now you are going to get some information about people who don’t moan but overcome their real hardships.

• Moreover they’ve become famous and important because they proved that

NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLEAnd after you have watched this presentation think

about one question:

What helped these people?

Aleksei Maresiev

Aleksei Petrovich Maresiev -Russian Soviet pilot, major,the Hero of the Soviet Union

He was born 7 May 1916 in Kamishin, Volgogradskii regionWorked as a turner, took part in constructing Komsomolsk-on-Amur.He joined the Soviet army in 1937, graduated the Bataisk flying school in 1940.In the Great Patriotic War he was a flight commander in the fighter group . At the beginning of the war he shot 4 enemy aircrafts down.

In March 1942 his aircraft was shot down. He managed to land, but at the enemy territory.As his feet and legs were badly injured, he had to crawl along the forest to the front line for 18 days. People from the village Plav found him.In the Moscow hospital professor Terebinskii had to amputate his legs below the knee to safe his life.

In the hospital Maresiev read a story about a Russian pilot of the World War I Prokofiev-Severski, who had his one leg amputated but managed to start driving a plane again.So as soon as Maresiev got his artificial limbs , he started his hard training-aircrafts were much driven by pedals. In 1943 he joined the fighters regiments.

20 July 1943 he saved lives of two pilots and shot down 2 German aircrafts.During the War Maresiev made 86 fighting flights and shot down 11 fascist aircrafts.In 1943 he was awarded with the Hero of the Soviet Union.

The Maresiev’s exploit became a book of Boris Polevoi “Story of a real Man”.

And then appeared a film, an opera, a medal, a planet was named after him, and also flying clubs, youth clubs, etc.

Italian tenor, singer and songwriter

Bocelli was born in 1958 in a small village of La Sterza, Tuscany.

Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.

As a young boy, Bocelli showed a great passion for music. His mother said that music was the

only thing that would comfort him. At the age of six, he started piano lessons, and later also

learned to play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar and drums.

Then, when his nanny Oriana gave him the first record of Franco Corelli, he realized that pursuing

the career of a tenor was his destiny.

In 1992, Italian rock star Zucchero chose Bocelli to make a demo tape of the song Miserere for his new album and sent the tape to the Italian tenor Luciano

Pavarotti who was impressed by his voice.In 1993 Pavarotti invited the young singer to take part in a concert programme

in his native town Moden.

Bocelli won on the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994,recorded 14 solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, 3 greatest

hits albums, and 9 complete operas, selling over 80 million records worldwide.

The album's first single, "Time to Say Goodbye", topped charts all across Europe, went on to sell over 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling

singles of all time.Widely regarded as both the most popular Italian and classical singer in the world, Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian

Republic in 2006.

Valentin Dikul

He was born in Kaunas, Lituania. He lost his parents when he was a kid and spent much time in different orphan houses since he was 7.

At the age of 9 he got interested in circus. He went into gymnastics, wrestling, power lifting. He invented different tricks and started going to the circus club.

The injury

At the age of 15 when making a stunt he fell from 13 meter height. He got a serious spinal injury…

Rehabilitation When in hospital, he started

doing exercises for his active and non-active muscles.

In 8 months he left the hospital as the 1st group disabled.

He became the head of an amateur circus club. In 5 years his spine began to recover and he managed to walk with 2 sticks.

Medical Centres In 1988 Dikul opened “Russian Rehabilitation Centre for Spinal Injury and Infantile Cerebral Palsy” and since then has helped many people with spinal problems.

Aimee Mullins

• She was born in 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania,

USA, with serious bone problems in her legs, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was one year old.

• But she never thought about herself as a cripple: she went to a general school and she took up sports and acting at an early stage as a normal child.

• She graduated Parkland High School in Allentown and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

• While at the university, she won a place on the Foreign Affairs internship program, working at The Pentagon(the US Department of Defense).

• Mullins competed in the Paralympics in 1996 in Atlanta, in which she ran the 100-meter sprint in 12.88 seconds and jumped 5.14 meters in the class long-jump. Before retiring from competitive track and field in 1998, she had set World Records in the 100m, 200m and the long jump.

• She started modeling for Alexander McQueen's 1999 London show.

• She starred in 9 films(Cremaster 3, Marvelous,etc.)• She is in demand around the world to make appearances as a

speaker on topics of body, identity, design, and innovation.

• Her TED(Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference talks are amongst the most-viewed of all time and have been translated into 41 languages.

A model

An actress

An athlete

Atlanta Paralympics, 1996

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

32nd President of the United States (1933–1945)

• Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York in the family of businessman James Roosevelt and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt sailing

with half-niece Helen and father James, 1899

Problem In August 1921 being on

holiday with his family in Canada, he got Poliomyelitis which resulted in paralysis of his legs.

For the rest of his life Roosevelt didn‘t want to accept that he was paralyzed.

In private, he used a wheelchair, but he was careful never to be seen in it in public.

Rahabilitation Roosevelt wanted to run for

public office again. So he did much exercise fitting his hips and legs with iron braces. He taught himself to walk a short distance with a help of a stick.

He tried different treatments (including hydrotherapy) and in 1926 he bought a resort at Warm Springs, Georgia, where he founded a hydrotherapy center for polio patients which still operates as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.

•He became the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), for 12 years and four terms until his death in 1945, and the only American president elected to more than two terms• He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war

• Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference in 1945

Stevie Wander

Some facts

American musician, singer, pianist, drum and harmonica player , songwriter, record producer, an activist for political causes.

Early years • Stevie (the birth name is Stevland Hardaway Judkins) was born on the 13 of May 1950 , in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.

• He was born six weeks before the right date of birth, so he was put in hospital incubator. The doctors made him oxygen therapy and damaged his eyes. So he got blind.

• When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved to Detroit with her children. There he began playing musical instruments: piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir.

The start• His musical career started in Motown. Berry Gordy , the record producer, said about Stevie :

"we can't keep calling him the eighth wonder of the world". So Stevie became Stevie Wonder.

His songs• Wonder's songs

are quite difficult to sing.

He has a very developed sense of harmony and uses many extended chords in his compositions.

Politics

• In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.

Achievements• Wonder recorded

more than 30 U.S. top ten hits

• -received 22 Grammy Awards(the most ever awarded to a male solo artist)

Paralympic Games

• Paralympic Games are international sport competitions for people with disabilities . The Games are held traditionally after the respective Olympic Games . Summer Paralympics have been held since 1960, Winter Paralympics since 1976.

IDEA Many people think that the man who started the

Paralympics was Ludwig Guttman , an English neurologist. He wanted to create elite Olympics for people with disabilities. In 1948 he made a sports competition for World War II veterans with spinal injuries.

He proved that sport helps people with disabilities to be successful, strong and active, and live a full and happy life.

The Beginning of Paralympics• In 1976 in Sweden the first

Paralympics for people with different disabilities took place: there were blind and visual impairment people, people with leg or arm amputee, and other categories. Before that only people on wheelchairs took part in these competitions.

• In the same 1976 Tokio Paralympics became famous for the greatest number participants: 1600 sportsmen from 40 countries.

Summer kinds of sport• Wheelchair

Basketball ;• Cycling;• Goal ball;• Judo;• Athletics;• Table tennis;• Sailing;• Swimming;• Shooting;• Wheel chair rugby;• Volleyball;• Archery;• Wheelchair tennis;• Power lifting;• Fencing;• Football

Winter kinds of sport

• Alpine skiing

• Wheelchair curling.

• Cross country skiing;

• Biathlon;• Ice Sledge

hockey.

Winter Paralympics in Vancouver

• 31 Russian sportsmen and sportswomen took part in Winter Paralympics in Vancouver• the Russian sportsmen won the

biggest number of medals

Medal Count

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 Germany 13 5 6 24

2 Russia 12 16 10 38

3 Canada 10 5 4 19

4 Slovakia 6 2 3 11

5 Ukraine 5 8 6 19

6 United States 4 5 4 13

7 Austria 3 4 4 11

8 Japan 3 3 5 11

9 Belarus 2 0 7 9

10 France 1 4 1 6

These people can really be proud of themselves!